User blog comment:Oodronesoo/Tired of Blue Beetle/@comment-3094698-20130207202520/@comment-3285234-20130208010651


 * Happy New Year, Blue in Gamma.
 * Tye, or Sam, or virgil, or Eduardo could easily have been the friend of one of the others. 

I agree, Wonder Girl could have been easily given those parts.

BUT, on the second one, it actually has purpose. They used his friendship with Tye to 'move' the plot in Runaways


 * The taking down of the Appelaxian golem with Superboy.

That was to introduce the scarab and to get some development before they put him at the spotlight.