(6) Paco's got a love/hate with a ne'er-do-well brother.
And no one ever seemed to notice or care? I can't help but think that even in a world as power-full as the old DCU that teenaged brothers with the ability to cause earthquakes would go wholly unnoticed. Was he bitten by a radioactive tuning fork? Only later, after he was dead did we 'discover' that one of his brothers (Reverb) had the same power. The fact that Vibe had powers in the old DCU was just. Paco was a normal kid in a real-world city drawn into the bizarre world of DCU superheroes by virtue of his powers, and nothing symbolized that better than grounding him America's arguably least glamorous city. It's not special to me at all, it's not my hometown. I don't think of it as some wonderful, under-appreciated urban gem or faded star of industrial past. Look, I've got no big love for Detroit in fact, I don't know anyone who does. Certainly not the boneheads at Newsarama, who could never even manage to remember that Paco's family was Puerto Rican, not Mexican. I almost fell over when I read Andrew call him "Cisco Ramone", since, of course, his name would actually be 'Francisco', but almost nobody not familiar with Spanish names would know that. (3) " Paco" is not actually a name, it's a nickname. You should never underestimate just how stupidly and off-model a character can be 're-imagined'. After all, making Vibe a non-Hispanic would be like, I dunno, making Aquaman into a sword'n'sorcery title or the Martian Manhunter into a sane person or Green Arrow into a television series. As does all of DC and its fans, Andrew! DC's first Latino superhero was, on the whole, a well conceived character but not one well handled. Fortunately, writer Andrew Kreisberg is more voluble about it, and there is much that he immediately gets right in his approach to Vibe. Newsarama is, wisely, opined little on the development, having already ruined their own credibility to with their puerile and ignorant comments on Vibe before.
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