Some thoughts about Shazam #7

Can Shazam face Black Adam once again?

Space Dinosaurs have arrived to Khandaq's territory and their leader is not going to allow that. Now Billy will be forced to fight someone as powerful as him while at the same time trying to figure out what this aliens want.

This seems more like a filler issue weirdly enough.

Mark Waid offers a new installment where the main focus are the Space Dinosaurs and yes, while the premise itself might seem fun at first, it makes you realize that the story itself is kinda barebones. I have mentioned before that I do enjoy the classic comic wackiness that Waid is injecting into this book and the alien dinos do have entertaining moments while offering a few teases about where the story is going but aside from that this is mostly an issue dedicated to mindless fights with barely any relevance with the ongoing story and mostly seems like a set-up for what's about to come.

Not to mention that I don't think Black Adam is quite in character here. By now is pretty clear that while Adam can still be violent when needed, he prefers to reason before going straight into battle and that's not really how Waid portrayed him here. In fact, Adam is rather quick to throw a punch even against people who have nothing to do with his conflict, it seems like Waid forced a fight just to fill up pages.

Goran Sudzuka's artwork is solid, expressive with a clean style and follows the script appropriately.

I hope the next one offers more content and more on-point characterization.