Major Spoilers Podcast #824: Shazam and the Monster Society of Evil

Published: April 10, 2019, 3:57 a.m.

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SHAZAM! Also, Faithless #1 and Go Go Power Rangers #19 from BOOM! Studios, Calamity Kate #2 from Dark Horse Comics, and we ask the question, "Invisibility, or flying?"

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REVIEWS

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STEPHEN\\n
FAITHLESS #1\\n
Writer: Brian Azzarello\\n
Artist: Maria Llovet\\n
Publisher: BOOM! Studios\\n
Price: $3.99\\n
Release Date: April 10, 2019

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Faith. Sex. The Devil.

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Faith likes to dabble with magic. Her friends think it\\u2019s cute\\u2014and not just a little off-putting, but it\\u2019s part of her charm and her warped search for purpose in a world that makes too much sense. But she\\u2019s a true believer and knows there is a power within her reach. She\\u2019s right, of course. It just took a while for that magic, that temptation, that unknowable thing to find her . . .

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In short\\u2014Faith is bored as hell. And Hell has noticed.

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New York Times bestselling writer Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned) and artist Maria Llovet (Loud) with Eisner Award-winning artist Paul Pope on covers coalesce in a story of self-exploration, eroticism, and maybe even love.\\n
[rating:3/5]

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MATTHEW\\n
GO GO POWER RANGERS #19\\n
Writer: Ryan Parrott\\n
Artist: Eleonora Carlini\\n
Publisher: BOOM! Studios\\n
Cover Price: $3.99\\n
Release Date: April 10, 2019

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Rita Repulsa must go to war to obtain the Green Power coin. But there\'s just one problem - there\'s one magic user who may be more powerful than her. And it\'s her MOTHER.\\n
[rating:3/5]\\n
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CALAMITY KATE #2\\n
Writer: Magdalene Visaggio\\n
Artist: Corin Howell \\n
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics\\n
Cover Price: $3.99\\n
Release Date: April 17, 2019\\n
From the Eisner and GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer of the breakout hit Kim & Kim and DC Comics\' Eternity Girl with Gerard Way and artist on IDW\'s Ghostbusters and X-Files comes this modern day adventure of heroes and monsters. After the mysterious Javelin starts sniping Kate\'s monster kills, Kate can\'t seem to get her out of her head. As the one-sided rivalry continues, Kate can\'t help but feel that there\'s some connection between Javelin and her ex-wife Sandra, which is throwing her whole process into chaos.\\n
[rating: 4/5]\\n
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DISCUSSION

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SHAZAM AND THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL\\n
By Jeff Smith\\n
Publisher: DC Comics\\n
Release Date:October 2007\\n
Young orphan Billy Batson finds himself wielding truly amazing magic powers - just in time to face an invasion of alien and earthly monsters! All he has to do is say the magic word. Shazam!

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When Billy Batson follows a mysterious stranger onto the subway, he never imagines he\'s entering a strange world of powerful wizards, talking tigers, kid eating monsters, political intrigue and mysterious villains. But Billy encounters all that and more when the wizard gives him a magic word that transforms him into the world\'s mightiest mortal. Now, he must use his extraordinary new abilities to face an incoming invasion of alien creatures and to stop mad scientist Dr. Sivana and his Monster Society of Evil from taking over the world!\\n
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