Just You Wait!

Shazam! #12 - "Moving Day" (2024)

written by Josie Campbell art by Mike Norton, Emanuela Lupacchino, & Trish Mulvihill

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Della calling Penny “honey” 💖💖💖

I think "no child labor laws for the chosen one"/"forced to grow up too fast" readings of Captain Marvel/Shazam come from retconning Captain Marvel to be 100% Billy. Older readings have him as a separate but overlapping consciousness, almost like an imaginary friend.

OG Billy Batson, street kid, was for kids growing up through the Great Depression and WWII. At that point you've already grown up too fast. The power fantasy feels more about having an adult who could never leave you, never hurt you, never restrict your freedom or tell you what to do, but would always come when you called to protect you. Maybe I'm rambling but I feel like it's not really "what if a kid had to fix the world's problems" it's more "what if a kid had access to a Magic Word that meant adults and Gods HAD to help them fix the world when they asked. and also the kid got to go to space and meet aliens and wizards and cool things like that"

That audio has been stuck in my head so I decided to do something about it!

this is fantastic now children in Puerto Rico wont be able to receive the education they deserve thanks to their messed up government

Those panels are the ones that make me love the Billy Batson/Captain Marvel character. 🥹⚡️💖

BILLY BATSON + THE BURDEN OF CHOICES

Future State: Shazam! (2021) / Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón / Underworld Unleashed (1995) / 10cc, “The Things We Do For Love” / Legends (1986) / Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury / Kingdom Come (1996) / Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

She is soo beautiful ✨

her ;w;

So beautiful 😍

It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the yeaaar ~ 🎶🦇🍂

Chapter 2!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25836256/chapters/64133140#workskin