The New Champion of Shazam by Josie Campbell picks up after the last series where Billy imprisoned himself in the Rock of Eternity to protect his family. This miniseries features Mary Marvel made champion by Billy to protect the world and their family in his absence. Mary has just started classes at a university and things are going well until she has these powers bestowed upon her and then she finds out that her foster parents are missing. They never came home after last seeing her when she boarded the train to the university.
This means she is now responsible for the rest of the family.
She left the dream university and came home to take care of her new responsibilities
and attend the local community college. Not only must she deal with all of
that, she must also find her foster parents as the cops have found nothing as
magic is involved making them pretty useless.
This miniseries collects only 4 issues plus a tie in to the
Lazarus Planet event. This is a fun action-packed series with plenty of
character drama. The art is really good and the artist is one of the best, in
my opinion, currently working in comics.
This is a Mary story. but her family is featured heavily
along with a new character that is a magical taking bunny. He is hilarious. I
have preferred Mary over Billy as a character since Billy has been made far more
immature with the current writers. It is nice to see Mary get the spotlight. One
just wishes this was a longer series. I highly recommend this read.
My reading copy came through the Hoopla App and the Dallas Public Library System. I just wish the Dallas system would take off the limit of only 15 Hoopla items per month. I can blow through that in less than a week.
Scott A. Tipple ©2023
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