Why do I love Captain Marvel aka Shazam so much (and what's the deal with that name anyway)? All that and more on this week's Giant Size as I make the hard sell to Moises Chiullan on the charm of the character and the 90's series The Power of Shazam and Kingdom Come. Forgive me, but not mentioned in this episode are three Shazam-related books that definitely deserve mentioning -- Shazam: Power of Hope by Alex Ross and Paul Dini, Superman/Shazam: First Thunder (a gorgeous book that reinvents the first meeting between those two heroes), and Shazam: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. We also talk to the minds behind Dark Horse's Buzzkill, writers Donny Cates and Mark Reznicek (of Toadies fame). It's about a superhero who doesn't get his powers from a magic word but a bottle of hooch.
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