This is the first of a 12 issue series. First let me say that they brought in a first rate creative team for this. Judd Winick is the scribe and Howard Porter is doing the art. And I do mean art. They do this in the painted style, and it is really incredible. We find out the when the Rock of Eternity blew up, the wizard was killed. Shazam, or rather Billy, is now in control of that power. At first it starts to drive him mad, as we witnessed in "52" when Black Adam first comes across him. Now he seems to have that part of it under control, but now much else. We start out with Billy coming across a group abducting young children, boys and girls, for some unknown purpose. Of course it magical, and has to do with sacrifices and demons. Billy fight them and takes them down, but in the process inadvertently empowers one of them with some of Shazam's magic. We'll have to wait until next issue to find out what happens there. We also see Shazam helping out Zatanna who is using all her magical knowledge and power to fight a giant Lizard/Gargoyle type thing in NYC. She doesn't seem to be making much headway until Shazam comes along to help her. He informs her that in order to defeat it, it has to be wet. She says the words and it's done. He trys to explain to her what it was, but it's all a bit complicated and confusing. Suffice it to say, "The world has changed. What you once knew has now become refashioned. The books of Magic have been . . . . .rewritten. It's a new world. And I have a new place in it." Kind of cryptic, I know, but I'm sure it'll all be explained as the series moves on. Like I said, great story, fantastic art, and you'll definitely want to pick this up. If you can.
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