Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my look back at becoming a fan of the original Captain Marvel: "SHAZAM! My Secret Origin As A Captain Marvel Fan."
Since this piece was first published in 2016, the original Captain Marvel made his feature film debut in Shazam! (2019), a picture which did nothing but disappoint me. I knew going in that it wouldn't be my Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest Mortal, and that the character wouldn't even be called "Captain Marvel," the folks at DC Comics having already conceded that rival Marvel Comics owns that name by now. I tried to adjust my expectations and enjoy the movie for its stated intent to be Big with superheroes. I was succeeding in that effort until a brutally violent scene with the evil Dr. Sivana created an ugly juxtaposition of dark-n-gritty clashing with what had been a lighthearted movie up until that point. Not fish, not fowl. After that scene, I couldn't regain my interest in the movie. I may try to watch it again, but the first viewing turned me off.
(And, for the record, I do like actress Brie Larson as Marvel's Captain Marvel, an entirely different character that shares only a name with our classic Cap. Not even the World's Mightiest Mortal can overcome the setback of a lapsed copyright, so I don't hold that against the Marvel movies. I just wish a Shazam! movie could capture my fancy; I'll try to give the forthcoming Black Adam and Shazam! Fury Of The Gods flicks a fair shot at righting the Shazam! franchise's wrongs.)
A near-future shared post will speak a little bit about what I would prefer to see in a new Captain Marvel adventure, whether on the page or on the screen. For now, my story of discovering the original Captain Marvel is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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