That Audio Has Been Stuck In My Head So I Decided To Do Something About It!

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

The Archivist vs the Old Ass Man

(s02e20 / s02e08)

it’s very interesting to me that even in billys peak years mingling in teams during postcrisis he doesn’t necessarily have much strong reoccurring bonds with characters outside fawcett. like aside from the trinity who do crop up once in a while - not often bruce and diana even less - I think a lot of writing back then unconsciously or consciously wrote him out to be The Outlier in whatever team he’d be in. jla was that culmination of him being team friendly, where everybody listened to him but only because he brought things to the table that were clearly different from what others were experiencing. and jsa was a step deeper and further at the same time bc of courtney and adam’s role in the team. he was the one set aside there too, something clearly temporary like a bodyguard/limited time role, and even the courtney arc didn’t ground him like how that normally would for a char. jli, like the og jli, he was … well if we took that spot for him seriously he also wasn’t ever fully dissolved into that team either, seemingly of his own rejection of assimilating.

cap marvel was in every event and crisis. everybody knows him, likes him. he’s been on nearly every team. it’s just very noticeable and telling to me that after all this, ALL of it, there’s no ties that bind him to really any dc char as strongly as many established characters have with each other a la teen titans or trinity or even just basic “x hero is known to be best friends/relies on with y hero for a period in their comic history”. I don’t think i can name even one outstanding, consistent relationship like that? and obvs aside from clark bc dc’s inevitable comparison games w them complicates how organic their bond can get to me. just. ok. even if cap marvel has his family freddy for most of his appearances in postcrisis was actively establishing his own existence as an individual hero in other teams and outside of their own comics you never saw mary and billy teaming up during many crises. in this case and maybe all of it is a writing gap at best.

but altogether the full read is just. cap marvel/billy is meant to be unable to really connect fully with other people on this plane, possibly because he’s been relegated to this “bridge between worlds” role which also means he’s 50% here and 50% gone, which notoriously is a bad sign for fully integrating into a single world. rmr in kingdom come when supes said “More than anyone who ever existed, you know what it’s like to live in both worlds.” @ billy? i feel that comes at the cost of being able to connect with anyone fully and wholly then, in either of his forms. which hurts im sure, since connections are all he ever wants. he’ll just never get it the way he imagines.

Soo

It's been a long time since I published something here.

Have to be back sometime

Here is a drawing of my OC Elizabeth from Are you with me? (A fanfic of DuckTales I have been working on a while ago.) It's her everyday outfit.

I hope you all liked it.

SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods Special: Shazamily Matters #1 - “The Big Game” (2023)

written by D.J. Cotrona & Tim Seeley art by Jorge Corona & Sarah Stern

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

I’m cringing soo much right now. This promo is soo beautiful and I’m soo exited!

IT’S BEEN OVER A YEAR SINCE WE’VE SEEN HIM. 

(WATCH PROMO)

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

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

The fanfics are coming. The fanfics are coming. 

And the fanarts too. 

I can feel it.