Future State: SHAZAM! #1

[lordultimus]

Comments

[dan_ingram]

I'm all for holding powerful heroes accountable, but you'd think that they'd be more careful about confronting a guy with all of Superman's powers, and none of his weaknesses

[sabertoothlotus]

I'm confused about something (okay, several things, but this one for now)... have they explained what's going on with his eyes? Why did Shazam need new ones? I haven't kept up so I don't know if this is something "in the future" or something we know now.

[mastermahan]

Sure, make a deal with the devil. The Wisdom of Solomon was really sleeping on the job with this one.

[sadoeuphemist]

Well, uh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon

[super_fly]

The guy is known for one thing an one thing only: suggesting infanticide as a solution to custody disputes. In my opinion his wisdom was kind of overrated.

[mastermahan]

There was also the time he banged the wife of one of his loyal soldiers while he was away at war, knocked her up, then basically assassinated her husband. So yeah, Shazam may not have chosen the best source of Wisdom.

[dan_ingram]

He needed someone who's name started with S. How many people were even literate back then?

[beoweasel]

That was David, not Solomon.

[mastermahan]

...Yes. Yes. it was.

>_<

Sorry, I've been ill, and brain no thinking good.

[agharta75]

And the woman David knocked up was Solomon's mother.

[blueprintstyles]

Happy to see the new powergirl back, it was bugging me the ended the Deathstroke series without rescuing her

[spider_man6]

Yeah, I don't recall that whole plot line ever being resolved. Then again, that kind of thing happens throughout comics so I wouldn't be surprised to see her show up in a few years having brushed it all off.

[zachbeacon]

So Tim Drake became the Question at some point in this timeline? I mean, it's an improvement over his other Post-Robin codenames and I think writers who make him Future Batman clearly don't understand the character. "The Question" is a fitting name for the actual world's greatest detective.