Daily (more or less) posts about Captain Marvel and/or the Marvel Family, no matter what they're actually called at the moment. Nomenclature sticklers need not apply.
Mary Marvel and Supergirl discuss nomenclature inJustice League Unlimited #20.
Shazam! and the Monster Society of Evil image by Jeff Smith
Georgia Sivana came out of the whole 52/New Earth thing pretty well, at least in that she no longer looks exactly like her father in drag. This is definitely more of an “awkward phase” Georgia we’re dealing with here. From 52: Week 26by Johns, Morrison, Rucka, and Waid, and drawn by Keith Giffen and Pat Olliffe (I suspect this was mostly Olliffe here).
Thunder, a.k.a. Cecebeck, the 90th century Marvel Family legacy holder from the planet Binderaan who magically traveled back and forth to the 30th century to join the Legion of Super-Heroes (and you thought your commute was bad), from the cover ofLegion of Super-Heroes#110, pencils by Alan Davis and inks by Mark Farmer.
I always thought Thunder was a fun character. I just wish they had done more with her in the Legion.
Dial HUSK becomes… Mary Marvel Girl! From the DC/Marvel Amalgam event book X-Patrol #1, written by Barbara and Karl Kesel, penciled by Roger Cruz, inked by Jon Holdredge.
Character designs for Cap and Mary by John Byrne from a proposed late 80s/early 90s revival. I read about this in an issue of TwoMorrows’Back Issue, and IIRC, it would have featured the Marvels as the light counterpoints to a grim & gritty Fawcett City. While I prefer the take we got in Jerry Ordway’sThe Power of Shazam!, this could’ve said some interesting things about the state of comics at the time.
Original artwork for the cover to Shazam! The New Beginning #1 by Tom Mandrake. While not my favorite iteration of the Captain, the book has its moments, and that first cover is eye-catching as hell.
Colored-and-titleless artwork from the cover of the gone-too-soon series Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! #19 by Mike Norton. Loved, loved, loved this look for the Marvels.
If Geoff Johns were to just admit the truth, from Chris Haley and Curt Franklin’s webstrip Let’s Be Friends Again.
I mean, seriously, everyone knows this is the reason. And that it’s not even DC’s fault since the character went unpublished for years (well, okay, *that* part is DC’s fault) and Marvel came in and scooped up the trademark (hell, they weren’t even the first to do that, since MF Enterprises had a Captain Marvel before Marvel did). It happens. We’ve had decades to get over it and accept it’s not going to change.
A quick Shazam-A-Day extra / editorial
I’m cautiously optimistic about the upcoming Geoff Johns / Gary Frank “The Curse of Shazam!” storyline beginning this month in Justice League #7. Of course, this image making the rounds today…
gives me pause. It’s not so much the costume design as all the apparent darkness and grimacing, which is very much not the sort of thing I look for when I want to read a Captain Marvel Shazam story. Given the general bent of this particular Tumblr, it’s probably no secret that I prefer this approach:
to Crouching Thunder up there. But at the same time, I didn’t think Johns was right for Aquaman, either, and he’s been knocking that out of the park. So I remain hopeful. And, honestly, after White-Haired Wizard Marvel, Captain Freddy, and Punk Rock Mary (especially Punk Rock Mary), most anything would be an improvement. I’m trying to keep an open mind, hoping against hope that the relationship between DC and Marvel Family fans gets a lot less abusive this go-round (while fearful we’ll end up spilling our dirty laundry on Maury before this is all said and done).
