Black Adam's New 52 Origin

[lordultimus]

Comments

[silverhammerman]

What really strikes me about this is that it's utterly symptomatic of the way that DC has spent actual decades unable to figure out that Captain Marvel is a children's character (to a greater extent than most superheroes) and ought to be written as such.

Additionally this really doesn't do much beyond add a layer of convolution to Black Adam's origin: Instead of simply being a proto-Captain Marvel who went bad, he's all bound up in the concept of the Marvel Family, and that instant conceptual hook gets diluted. Not to mention that taking away the idea that the Wizard straight up made a mistake in choosing his original champion is a small thing that nonetheless removes nuance and makes the Wizard even more two dimensional.

And since this reminds me, how the hell did we come out of Convergence without that Jeff Parker/Doc Shaner Shazam being made into an ongoing?

[janegray]

I'm confused. So, what, Adam killed his nephew? Just like that? It's really difficult for me to believe that he'd just off the only family he has left, his sister's child whom he went to great lengths to find and rescue, without evn trying to just defeat him without killing him first.

[long_silence]

So did they ever follow up on who the other members of that council were and what happened to them and their magic in modern times?