Why thank you, I FEEL fabulous too!

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One page from preview of "Secret Six #16" currently visible here at Newsarama (But be warned that the preview pages are out of order)

And here we see the Phantom Stranger's new look, and he's never been happier



Okay, I'm fibbing, it's the return of Black Alice!

Comments

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As she was channelling Black Adams powers (and hence her more destructive outlook) it pretty much has to be based on his.

[kamino_neko]

I think wires are crossed again - it sounds like you're talking about Black Mary before the Darkseid connection. In which case, yes, Mary was totally based on Black Adam at that point.

But I was referring to Lori's Marvel costume, being based on the boys, not Mary - she seemed to be just channelling Shazam's power generically, rather than filtered through any of the specific champions, but her general costume design - pants, cape, what once might have been full sleeves - speaks to Billy or Freddy's design more than Mary's - although she shares colours with Adam, the cape suggests a lack of direct influence from him.

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I was going by her wikipedia entry which says "Black Canary and Huntress unite to tail Kyle in the hopes of rediscovering Lori, and instead find that Kyle is two-timing Lori with Dawn. Lori discovers the same thing shortly afterwards and prepares to destroy a shopping mall (having now manifested the powers of Black Adam) in her efforts to avenge herself on Kyle."

I presumed there was a reference to her using Adam within the story.

[kamino_neko]

I think whoever wrote that part of the article was just assuming based on the colours - aside from that nothing particularly suggests Adam, and the cape argues against it, as Adam doesn't wear a cape as part of his regular costume. (He may have pre-Crisis or in the 90s, but I'm not really familiar with him before his appearances in JSA, since which he's only worn a cape as part of his formal attire.) Adam's powers aren't really any different than Billy, Freddy, or Mary, and she's certainly no more aggressive than when she was leeching off of Nabu, earlier in the issue, and she's only marginally less aggressive using Zatanna's powers in between the two, so that really seems to be all Lori, not the power. So, barring Adam being shown losing his powers, but the regular Marvels still having theirs, the evidence leans towards drawing from Shazam, directly, and Billy/Freddy's costumes being the most direct influence on hers.