Now this is the real reason I combined Peter Parker and Ted Kord for yesterday’s Amalgam. While those two ultimately fit together very well, putting their legacies together fits even more perfectly. Jaime Reyes’ Blue Beetle and Miles Morales’ Spider-Man are incredibly similar characters. Both young men who stumble on their bug-related-powers by accident, both bilingual, who use their love for anime to make big awesome swords. 

While this is a Miles and Jaime Amalgamation first, I do also want to take some parts of Peter Parker’s Spider-Man mythology and mix that into the history of the Blue Spider-Scarab. Mainly I want to take the whole Ezekiel Sims character and kind of turn him into this universe’s Dan Garrett (The Original – Original Blue Beetle). Here’s the mythical history of the Blue Spider-Scarab; Years prior to the first boom of meta-humans, an interstellar race of super-engineers created the Spider as a weapon – a suit that functions both for the Offensive side of combat as it does the Defensive. But when a battle sends the weapon hurdling towards earth, a man finds it and gains the powers of a spider. Battling lowlife thugs and gangsters in the shadows of his city, The Blue-Spider tries to do his best in his battle against evil, but in an age without supervillains, this first Blue-Spider’s career does not go on for long, going down in myth after removing the Spider-Scarab from his body. Yet, the myth is enough to inspire people years down the line; A group of scientists try to recreate the Spider using a synthetic formula injected into a real life spider. But when the Spider escapes and ends up biting a young Ted Parker, Ted reignites the Blue-Spider moniker and dons his very own blue suit.

Years down the line, Ted, now a mega successful inventor who runs Parker Industries to fund his superhero career, is visited by the original Blue-Spider, who tells him all about the original Spider. But Ted’s investigation is cut short when the Spider-Scarab is stolen from his office. 

Cut to; Jaime Morales’ cousin gives him a strange, blue, glowing Spider “Paperweight” for his 15th birthday. Jaime’s cousin, Alfonso, works at Parker Industries as a technical consultant and being a little fed up with the job, took Ted’s Spider right from his desk, assuming it’s just some rich guy’s piece of junk. But that night, the spider grants Miles powers beyond his wildest imagination. Now, alongside Ted Parker, Jaime becomes the Blue-Spider!

The design was pretty easy. Miles’ suit is really quite simple, with the chest Spider and Webbing being the only two things that make it a “spider” suit. Taking into account the alien-origin of the suit I decided it’d be best to use Jaime’s suit as the base and put those aforementioned elements from Miles’ suit on top of it. I changed the thick scarab on Jaime’s chest into a spider, as well as the back scarab and had the legs wrap around his body from both sides. I enlarged the beetle eyes into something more akin to the big classic Spider-Man goggles and then added a webshooter to the suit. 

While the idea and design were pretty easy, getting the final piece out was a struggle. I could not settle on a pose or style. I had him hanging, jumping, fighting and sticking to walls but all of those poses meant I had to sacrifice necessary details of the suit. That’s why I ended up with quite the boring pose at the end. 

Thank you for reading all of this – it’s the longest character biography I’ve given these drawings thus far – and I hope you check out tomorrow’s post as well.