About Heroes

Writer: Judd Winick

Artist: Mauro Cascioli

 

It's a great feeling when a book gets back on track isn't it?  All Star Batman is coming out regularly, and so is Trials of Shazam, our story of Freddie Freeman gaining the powers of the gods to become the next Captain Marvel.  Mauro Cascioli returns as artist, as he will for the remainder of the series, and does a fantastic job.  Howard Porter did a great job starting the book, and I'm glad DC found another digital painter to bring it in for the home stretch.  Sabrina still has half of the powers of the Gods and is racing Freddie to see Mercury, the god of speed, to gain his powers.  The only problem is, Mercury is hiding, after what happened to Atlas when Sabrina came to collect, and won't even give his powers to Freddie.  We see Tawky Tawny, that wierd talking tiger, who is actually pretty cool in this issue.  My only concern is that Freddie getting the rest of the ablilites from Sabrina will take up the issues left in this series, leaving little time to establish him as the new Captain Marvel and his role in the Tenth Age of Magic in the DCU.  Hopefully, Winick has this all in mind, and I won't be dissapointed.  I'm pretty happy with this series so far, and would recommend that anyone who missed out on it to go get the first trade of this book and catch up, it's one of the better books DC's been putting out, whenever it did come out...  B