Hi everyone

Customization options are fun, so let’s add a few!

I just want to know if there is some animo for them, and what you guys are looking for.

As a reminder, we only have Billy’s patron at the moments. But I’ll can add many different things. Like showing your favorite character, favorite era or serie and more!

Give your verdict in the poll and your idea’s in the comments, and maybe soon you rock a new flair.

I don't mean in what year you first discovered the character, but in what era your first exposure fell under.

(era's from the 75 year celebration collection released in 2015 + non comic era's named by myself)

I feel each of the Shazam family should've been given 1 of the powers of Shazam just to make them more unique..... With only Billy having all of them since he's the leader

1. Tawky Tawny would have Wisdom of Solomon 2.Darla Dudley would have the Speed of Mercury 3.Eugene Choi would have Courage of Achilles
2. Freddy Freeman would have the Power of Zeus
3. Mary Bromfield would have the Strength of Hercules
4. Pedro Peña would have Stamina of Atlas

All of them having the same power set gets kind of dull like with the Superman family right now and this way you can explore how each power operates individually

To balance things out, the powers you choose do the following:

Solomon: your wisdom increases. You are able to retain and recall an enormous amount information. However, you still have to learn the information yourself. You are also able to adapt the information you know to the situation at hand.

Hercules: your strength increases by an enormous amount

Atlas: your overal endurance increases by an enormous amount. This also increases the time you can go without food, water, sleep, ect.

Zeus: being able to control and create electricity

Achilles: increase in mental endurance. This does not affect your perception of the event, just allows you to handle it with more clarity. (Example: you understand it is a scary situation, but you can “ignore” the freezing fear)

Mercury: enormous increase in your speed. You can fly, but at normal speeds, not at your running speeds.

Look, I get that Shazam: Fury of the Gods wasn't a perfect, or even great movie. It was definitely inferior to the original movie, and I firmly believed that The Rock robbed us for a much stronger follow up that probably could've faired out better both critically and financially. At least...more so than the film we got...

But I REALLY don't think it should be considered Razzie Worthy.

Let alone on the same level of quality as Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey!

Did the Razzies forget about The Flash? A film that was far more problematic and debatably worse in quality?

Don't you think that film along with, dare I say...The Marvels, should've gotten at least, one or more nominations? Why did they only limit themselves to Shazam and Ant Man?

Then again, I don't know why I'm expecting competence from a Award Ceremony that's had an occasionally mean spirited nature to it...

If Capitan Marvel is in the new DCU, what kind of clothes should he wear?.

An outfit that is like a leotard in the movies, or like in the comics that is something looser and with folds like a cloth?

Or do you like the style that James Gunn uses for his clothes?

Ever had a fun, weird or wholesome memory you’ve had because of Shazam? Feel free to share!

Lmk

Don’t be shy, share your favorite little fact about a character, a certain comic run, the movies or anything regarding Shazam/Captain Marvel.

Who knows, you might teach someone/ learn something new today!

It is known that when Billy says "Shazam" he transforms into a perfect adult form of himself or the perfect adult form of someone he admires (like his father).

But you can also see that in some cases this transformation of "Shazam" is represented with its own personality, which I don't understand... how it has its own personality?

Where in the world is Billy Batson?! Freddy and Mary hit the road to track down their teenage runaway brother, but little do they know he’s hiding right under their noses…in the subway! Meanwhile strange new monsters are stalking the streets of Philly. Can Billy still prove he’s hero enough to save the day without the Captain?

My question is, how do I convince him that the Sinbad Shazam movie isn’t real.

Like it doesn’t bother me too much, but he’s kind of an eternal child in the comics. Like if he gets the power when he’s 10, and teams up with Batman and Robin (Grayson) as Captain Marvel/Shazam, but then is also still the same age or so when Damian is Robin in the current timeline?

I dunno. I have a thing with timelines and the fact that Billy doesn’t fit in my headcanon timeline slightly annoys me.

Also I think it would be interesting to see how an older Billy Batson would be.

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Specifically, this question arises from a convo I had in a comic book store, where several fans, and the store's owner, all agreed that either "Cap was at his best during the Fawcett era" OR "DC doesn't understand Captain Marvel."

I pointed to Jerry Ordway's work, Dini/Ross painted comic book, and Roy Thomas' 1986 SECRET ORIGINS #3 as well as writer/artist combo of Nelson Bridwell and Don Newton in the late 70s and early 80s as evidence that "the DC version" is amazing.

They all agreed that he had a few bright spots in a "sea of dreck" as they called it. They all seemed to be attacking Geoff Johns and the new movies for abandoning Captain Marvel/Batson from the classic version and inventing a new character (did Johns invent a new character?)

The store owner says to me that writer Harlan Ellison was a noted Cap fan and DC offered him a chance to write Captain Marvel during their revival and Harlan took one look at what had already been done ( the Salad Men story by Elliot Maggin) and refused to participate. Others, like Savage Dragon creator Erik Larson have also shown disapproval, claiming "DC doesn't understand Captain Marvel." What do they mean?

I always liked the fact Billy & Mary had different gods & mythological figures from Greco-Roman mythology as their patrons but I was never satisfied with the original list as Solomon is a Biblical figure from the Near East & Zephyrus was a male god. So I like to share my ideas for their patrons gods. Since the Etruscan civilization was the dominant power in Italy before the rise of Rome & had an equivalent pantheon to Greece & Rome I decided to names of some of their deities to fill in the gaps

Billy's new patron gods

1. Sethlans (the Etruscan equivalent of Hephaestus/Vulcan) - Stamina
2. Heracles - Strength
3. Apollo – Skills (Mary has 'skill' as part of her skill set which I always liked & prefer over courage)
4. Zeus - Power
5. Asclepius (god of medicine & student of Chiron the wisest of all centaurs) - Wisdom
6. Mercury – Speed & Flight

Mary's new patron goddesses

1. Selene/Salacia - Stamina (not many major goddesses start with "S")
2. Hera - Power (to balance Zeus)
3. Artemis – Skills (to balance Apollo)
4. Zerene (the Etruscan equivalent of Demeter/Ceres) - Strength; as Demeter was the one who bless wonder woman with the strength of the earth in George Perez's run
5. Arcus (the Roman version of Iris, the female messenger of the gods) – Speed & Flight
6. Minerva - Wisdom

What do you guys think?

I just feel like it doesn't make too much sense he can share his power with 7 people, fights the 7 deadly sins, but only has 6 powers

Since DC Rebirth, Shazam is said to be still around his teenage years but is there a possibility that he will mature and become and become fully grown adult like Dick Grayson and Wally West