OMG...the DEFINITIVE origin of Superman coming!!!

[ClayinCA]

And yet, isn't Dan Didio also responsible for Captain Marvel's drastic makeover--killing off the old wizard Shazam, turning Billy Batson into the white-costumed "Marvel" and promoting Freddy Freeman as a new superhero named "Shazam"? Sadly, DC boss Dan Didio wasn't thinking Silver Age in this case.

I hope the changes to Captain Marvel are not permanent, and that we'll see something more traditional like Jerry Ordway's The Power of Shazam! again someday.

Your mouth to God's ears, mate. I once swore never to pay a dime for anything that had that ridiculous "Shazam" version of Freddy Freeman in it, or the white-haired "Marvel" Billy has now become (which actually makes the whole trademark issue worse!). I want my Captain Marvel back (which is indeed ironic, as that's more or less the argument that people like Alex Ross made when it came to bringing back Hal Jordan).

Have you tried the Junior brand?

I read the first issue, it was pretty good considering it was designed for the 5-10 year old market.

I quite like it - it's not my ideal Captain Marvel, but it's certainly better than that awful version Judd Winick's mini-series left us with.

Frankly, the last time anybody got Captain Marvel right within an in-continuity DCU book was back in JSA, when Geoff Johns wrote the character. I'm hoping that means we'll get a Shazam: Rebirth series from him a little while down the line, when he's done bringing back Barry Allen and doing "Blackest Night."

 

[Captain Craig]

^^^
I rather liked the Power of Shazam book from the mid-late 90's that went for about 40 issues. It was in continuity but mostly kept to itself.

 

[CaptainCanada]

It's a bit baffling how they can take Black Adam and make him an integral part of the DCU but still stumble about with Captain Marvel.

Black Adam is a badass anti-hero/villain who kills people in gory/entertaining ways; basically made for complex comics.

The problem with Captain Marvel is that his most accepted version is a character it's really hard to do anything serious with on an extended basis (Johns succeeded); the comedy-heavy classic version, as Didio said recently, just doesn't have much of an audience (not that anything they've done since has worked better).

The Marvels (some of them, anyway) and the Black Marvels will be featured in Johns' final JSA arc, so we'll see what he does with them.

Hal Jordan redo anyone?
I was possessed! It really wasn't me.
Seems early to be going back to that Deus ExMachina already.

Team Dido=One Trick Pony?

Given the colossal disconnect betwee the story Morrison is trying to tell and the story the Countdown guys were telling, and the fact that all the villains in Final Crisis are possessed by Fifth World Gods, this was probably the plan all along, just horribly botched by the preceding writers.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Final Crisis One was written and locked 2 years ago.

Morrison said something like "No one do anything with the new Gods. I got something special planned. Yes, I know I'm asking y'all not to touch the new gods for the next two years till my comic goes to print, but trust me, it will be worth the wait, and if you do try to go against me, well your books will just look silly and elseworldsish."

I don't know if editorial was backing him up when he said that, but the boys in charge had read final crisis 1 before the first issue of countdown hit the stands, so they knew that this was a shit storm of discontiuity they were walking into, when they didn't support Morrison's request for a Moratorium.

 

[sidious618]

Final Crisis One was written and locked 2 years ago.

Morrison said something like "No one do anything with the new Gods. I got something special planned. Yes, I know I'm asking y'all not to touch the new gods for the next two years till my comic goes to print, but trust me, it will be worth the wait, and if you do try to go against me, well your books will just look silly and elseworldsish."

I don't know if editorial was backing him up when he said that, but the boys in charge had read final crisis 1 before the first issue of countdown hit the stands, so they knew that this was a shit storm of discontiuity they were walking into, when they didn't support Morrison's request for a Moratorium.

Yeah, I've no idea why they didn't listen to Morrison. The man is essentially running the DC Universe at the moment with Final Crisis which will soon impact all of the books.

 

[Guy Gardener]

On the flip side.

Morrison knew that he was being fucked over.

He did have two years to change his story so it made sense.

Obviously Morrison and TPTB were playing chicken.

Maybe they told him to rerwite crisis.

Maybe they didn't have the balls to tell him?

Maybe they shouldn't have had to tell if he'd read any of the comics they'd been sending him free on his comp list?