The Trials of Shazam

[mathhater]

I'm just chiming in to say how jaw-droppingly beautiful that last page was in #11.

...and that Corp's sig is awesome.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Hahaha, I think that's supposed to mean that Freddy's more heroic, not a *****.

<---villain at heart

Unless we get a new dreadlocks-wearing Captain marvel instead. We haven't actually seen post-Trials Freddy in any comics yet, have we?

This is true

 

[TheCorpulent1]

...and that Corp's sig is awesome.

 

[BrianWilly]

Holy cats, that's the best quote ever. How did this epic battle come to be?

Unless we get a new dreadlocks-wearing Captain marvel instead. We haven't actually seen post-Trials Freddy in any comics yet, have we?

He was shown flying in the Black Adam miniseries, so he at least has Mercury's power again, which of course throws continuity in the rape machine 'cause how can Freddy still be at his trials when Black Adam gives Mary his powers if Freddy already got them long before Black Adam went to Gotham? But that's Countdown continuity for you.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe Billy dyed his hair that day.

 

[BrianWilly]

They called him Freddy. And Billy is a fatass.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He is?

 

[BrianWilly]

He sits at his crib all day watching Veronica Mars reruns and drinking chocolate egg creams. Duh he's a fatass.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But... he's magic?

 

[sethcohen]

easy there joe quesada

 

[Varient]

............................

How exactly do you take a gods child hostage?







SERIOUSLY.

 

[sethcohen]

its a new age of magic. many gods are living as humans, children and all. as such, if you should know the human identity of a particular god, then you could say, hold his children hostage.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

^Pretty much

 

[Anubis]

Makes sense to me.

 

[BrianWilly]

Which is odd, because when Apollo accepted his lot as a god of magic, his mortal children where Mephistoed away as if they never existed in the first place...yet Mercury's children seem to be in no such peril.

But hey magic so whatever.

 

[sethcohen]

i thought apollo was "mephisto-ed" out of existance but his family still exists?

 

[Anubis]

Which is odd, because when Apollo accepted his lot as a god of magic, his mortal children where Mephistoed away as if they never existed in the first place...yet Mercury's children seem to be in no such peril.

But hey magic so whatever.

Well, Apollo wasn't even one of the Gods of magic. When he took over for Atlas, and was basically, you know, gonna be plugged into the world 24/7 from then on out, he had to give them up. Fleet feet didn't have such crap to deal with. He was already doing his job, and living like a regular mortal.

 

[BrianWilly]

In other words,

MAGIC!!

 

[sethcohen]

god i hate JQ for that... anyone read erik larsens take on that whole thing? his ideas were 10 times better on how to reset the status quo without p*ssing all over continuity and the fans

 

[BrianWilly]

Oh, hey, someone somewhere else came up with a pretty darn interesting prediction that seems so right that it probably counts as a spoiler...

Spoiler

Zareb is Zeus.

It does seem so obvious in retrospect, I'm shocked I didn't catch it. Oh, right, I was probably blinded by that crippling scorn.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, I got a cream that could take care of that.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm not reading this so I obviously don't know for certain, but you guys make this comic sound like the biggest steaming pile of crap ever.

 

[BrianWilly]

It's actually not. It's more average than outright bad; DC has, of course, instructed us all quite soundly in the ways of "outright bad" this past year, and this isn't it.

Every issue is like a Russian roulette crapshoot; maybe it'll be an irritating waste of everyone's time, maybe it won't. Maybe it'll have some interesting ideas and executions (I still thought Tawky Tawny was badass), maybe it won't.

 

[Anubis]

I think it's awesome. The art alone is worth it. Personally, I think a lot of the gripes people are having is mostly just petty stuff. Then again, i was never that big a fan of the Big Red Cheese to begin with. I am now. Heh.

 

[sethcohen]

if this series was 6-8 issues instead of 12 it would have been much better... the pacing is too slow... though it had some of the most ridiculously awesome artwork ive ever seen issue 11 was almost a complete waste of paper, barely advancing the plot (as a few other issues in this mini have done...) this shouldve been cut short instead of black adam... that was a hell of a lot of fun and it had 2 issues shaved off... lame