Comments on: 10/30 – Curious Cat Asks…

By: Endless Mike

Endless Mike — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:29:51 +0000

Hoppy the Marvel Bunny

By: Comic Reader Man

Comic Reader Man — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:10:59 +0000

Three letters…CM3? WTF?

Mary is SO much cooler than Junior… fer gawsh sakes, he can’t even say his own name without depowering! And just because Elvis stole his hairdo, he thinks he’s big stuff…Mary was Hot in the 40S and she’s Hot today! I can’t wait until big whiner writer Winnick gets through with this worthless new series and after the sales tank, we’ll get real Marvel Family back!

By: Rebis

Rebis — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:30:58 +0000

They’re BOTH laaaame.

But Black Adam and Isis rock.

By: Fortress Keeper

Fortress Keeper — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:24:01 +0000

Mary Marvel – she was a Supergirl before Kara Zor-El was even a glimmer in Mort Weisinger’s imagination.

By: Dennis Sinclair

Dennis Sinclair — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:11:30 +0000

Actually the “Jr.” has nothing to do with his changing back and forth. Where Capt. Marvel says “Shazam” to change, Jr. says “Captain Marvel”. So he could say anything he wanted as long as he didn’t use “Captain” & “Marvel” together, in that order.

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:01:39 +0000

Hey, does Jr. lose his powers when he says “CAPTAIN MARVEL” or does he have to add the “JR” for that power-loss?

If THAT were the case, he could just bypass the “JR” part, or truncate the name into “MARVEL JR” or “CAPTAIN MARVEL – the Lesser” OR just say it in a different order like “JR CAPT. MARVEL”.

Right?

I honestly don’t know, since I don’t have FAWCETT/DC CAPT. MARVEL knowledge.

~P~
P-TOR

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:17:37 +0000

My only Mary Marvel experience is from The Mist one-shot and the two recentt JL mini’s – but I still give it to her, she cracked me up in both of them.

Capt. Marvel gets points for electrocuting a worm in a mini-electric chair, but Mary goes hyperactive when she drinks coffee.

By: del gorky

del gorky — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:18:08 +0000

It is so Mary “No Panties” Marvel, the original Shazam Party Babe! As compared to some cripple named Junior, think straight true believers!

By: none

none — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:46:37 +0000

Captain Marvel, Jr.
He’s always seemed cooler than Mary to me.

By: Adam Jones

Adam Jones — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:06:39 +0000

Dude can’t say his own name without becoming totally weak. Mary Marvel in a landslide.

By: Ryan Dunlavey

Ryan Dunlavey — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:02:12 +0000

I like Junior better just for the fact that if he speaks his own (superhero) name, he loses his powers. That’s pretty cool.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:36:57 +0000

Gotta go with the Mary Marvel consensus here, as, like many others, I don’t see CM, Jr. as being distinct from the Big Red Cheese in the way Mary Marvel is.

However, I can see an argument that Freddy Freeman is in some ways a purer distillation of one facet of the Shazam! vharacters — the idealized self/real self division. Billy Batson, though an orphan, is a kid newscaster with a talking tiger pal who turns into an idealized grown-up hero. Both bits of his life are wish-fulfillment fantasies.

Freddy? He’s a crippled newsboy who lost his grandfather to the Nazis,and who turns into an idealized version of himself as a superhero…but can’t speak his own codename without losing it. It’s a bit more poignant, and the divide is a bit sharper.

I can just about see why WInick wants to use him as the new CM. Pity the execution is horrible and the new concept for CM’s mission misses the point entirely.

By: Paperghost

Paperghost — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:01:19 +0000

Mary, every time. The other guy is just a total nonentity.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:43:34 +0000

I prefer Hoppy or Uncle Marvel, myself.

And hey, Elvis stole his look from Freddie, man.

By: Ken Raining

Ken Raining — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:32:28 +0000

Dammit, I was gonna say Kid Miracleman!

By: jbrandt

jbrandt — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:59:25 +0000

Kid Miracleman. Heh heh heh.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:46:32 +0000

I’m a-goin’ with Jr. for one simple reason: Mac Raboy.

Some of the best art I’ve EVER seen in comics! I’m so glad there’s an archive edition out.

By: Jer

Jer — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:45:51 +0000

Mary Marvel – easily. In the older Captain Marvel stuff, Freddie just comes across as “kid sidekick”, while in the more recent Ordway revamp, Freddie is just plain whiny. Mary is a bit “sidekick” in the older Captain Marvel stuff too, but less so, and in the more recent Jerry Ordway revamp she kicks ass – she’s about the only one in the whole “Marvel Family” who isn’t a mopey brat about their powers. So either way, Mary wins.

By: moose n squirrel

moose n squirrel — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:35:05 +0000

I hope ToS! is gleefully ignored by Jeff Smith.

As far as I know, Jeff Smith’s series is out of continuity. All the better, says I.

By: moose n squirrel

moose n squirrel — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:33:01 +0000

Mary. She’s more essential to the Marvel Family conceit. You have the wizard Shazam as the father figure and Mary as the kid sister. Captain Marvel Jr. is kind of redundant. Even Tawky Tawny, as much as he gets sneered at today, adds something richer and to the mix than Junior.

I haven’t been reading Trials of Shazam, so I don’t know about this toolish coma business; I’ve been reading Captain Marvel’s appearances in Justice (pretty good so far) and I’m still waiting for the how-could-it-possibly-not-be-wonderful Jeff Smith series.