u/ChampionOfMagic

This series has some pretty awesome stuff, but it is unfortunately greatly overshadowed by all the other weird bullshit in the story and the bad pacing.

Some issues are flat out just filler, and yet again... They're doing this weird cuck plotline?

Like wtf?

If I had a nickel for everytime Billy got cucked by Freddy going for Cissie, I'd have two nickels. Which is weird that it's happened even once, but twice? And within like 5 years of each other? It's so weird to implement shit like that into the comic.

Billy feels like a third wheel in his own series, which sucks because he's third wheeling to characters I don't particularly care for!

For a comic called "the Magical Mysteries of Shazam," the only mystery is who the #@&% is this for!?

Again, there is some really cool stuff in here, but the negatives keep stacking and the positives stay stagnant. I hate to be such a negative Nancy about this series but I gotta rant about this.

I feel like Captain Marvel doesn't get a lot of engaging new villains. Don't get me wrong, his rogues gallery is wonderful, but he rarely gets new good villains, especially these days.

For me, I feel like the last good solely Captain Marvel villain was King Kid. An opposite to Billy Batson, a child who gets to stay a child forever who uses magic powers to take children to a child oriented oasis, only to punish the when they get too old. It's a neat juxtaposition to Captain Marvel and his mythos and gives me the vibe of Pleasure Island from Pinnochio.

That being stated, if you could create a new villain for Captain Marvel, what would you cook up? I'd like to see Billy face off against something equally powerful. I feel like Black Adam is the only villain he has that really tests his might.

Maybe like a boogeyman character that targets children who suffer, like orphans, victims of domestic violence, etc. A truly dark villain that is the embodiment of childhood trauma and what happens when the innocence of childhood is stripped away. This would create a villain for Billy moreso than Captain Marvel, but Billy gets to use his Champion persona to defeat it physically, but ultimately is defeats it in its entirety through the pure heart of Billy. Championing a child who can overcome great adversity through his spirit instead.

I'd obviously need to workshop it more, it's a very bare-bones idea as of now, but what do you think and what would you create?

I am beyond excited for this.

So we know Teth Adam was a slave child given power from, "the thing we found in that black hole," by the Brainiacs, but how did it get there? What is inside?

I think the Wizard Shazam and the Rock of Eternity were destroyed, and all of that raw power was placed in the motherbox by Absolute Darkseid. All of that raw, unfiltered, magical, divine energy is within that motherbox. Which is why it healed Absolute Superman and Sol told him to not let the motherbox touch him again because as we know, magic is a major vulnerability for Superman.

With Darkseid effectively acting as a supreme being akin to the presence in this universe, and motherboxes typically being tied to the source and New Genesis/Apokolips, I think we will see that King Shazam is vastly more powerful than his main universe counterpart.

That being stated, I think Adam is effectively acting as the "Wizard" of the Absolute Universe. I do not think he's going to be a villain in the traditional sense and will join forces with Absolute Superman and choose a new champion akin to himself. Another child who has been wronged by the world, Billy Batson.

What do you think?

I feel mostly indifferent about it.