Monday 7 May 2007

Increase Your Word Power



Since there’s a Black Adam mini-series due in August, we can be reasonably sure that the magic word Captain Marvel chose on the grounds that Teth-Adam would “never guess” it was not, as might have been sensible, a random string of syllables that makes up no proper name or word in any language, but, rather, something that Marvel thought was ironic. Like “Bialya”, perhaps, after the nation that Black Adam slaughtered.

Or, alternatively …



Panels
52 “World War III” by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid (writers), Keith Giffen (art breakdowns), Justiniano (pencils), Walden Wong (inks), Alex Sinclair (colours), Ken Lopez (letters, except as doctored), Michael Siglain (editor), 52 issue 50, DC Comics, April 18, 2007

1 comment:

Sean Kleefeld said...

On a curious side note, Captain Marvel's magic word has been changed to "Hazam!" since Solomon evidently took his wisdom back. :)