Tuesday, January 23, 2007

the Trials of Shazam! #4 - DC



I really don't feel that Howard Porter gets enough credit for his artwork. I loved him on his run on JLA. And I'm really digging his stuff on this series. Not to mention all the covers he's been doing. Freddie is on to his next trial. Now that he got the approval of Solomon, his next test is with Achilles. So he has to go to the middle east. Where Achilles is in his human guise as a marine. So Zareb and Freddie show up at his encampment. But Achilles can't mentor him right now, because someone is trying to set loose an hate empath in the region. Actually it's Sabina. She's like the female anti-Shazam. She also has this whole army of very large pig/demon soldiers. This issue ends with Achilles, Freddie and Zareb in the middle of a firefight, that is a distraction while Sabina lets loose the empath. We all know how good of a story Judd Winick can weave, and he really has the roller coaster going on this one. With any luck, this series will be the prelude to an ongoing one following it. We'll just have to wait to see what happens.

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