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A carregar... Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evilpor Jeff Smith
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Re-read - still love it! ( ) I liked this, but I wanted to love it; I got interested in reading more modern takes on Captain Marvel after enjoying the character's appearances in The Multiversity and Convergence: Infinite Earths. I don't think The Monster Society of Evil quite hits the notes of joy or childlike wonder that those stories do; Smith's take on Captain Marvel is a little too... bogged down. It's nowhere near grim and gritty, but it feels bound in a way that those other stories don't. Still: Smith's artwork is delightful and the story does a great job playing with a lot of classic Captain Marvel concepts but updating them for the 2000s. I can always go for a talking tiger. Summary: Billy Batson is a homeless orphan who is also a “host” for Captain Marvel. Billy's bad behavior almost causes mass destruction of the human race at the hands of Mr. Mind and the Monster Society of Evil. Dr. Sivana represents politics and he loves to collect money. Billy also invents a network called “SNN” to help him expose Dr. Sivana. Billy is abused from adults in a abandoned building while his sister Mary lives with a mean foster parent. Personal Reaction: Im not a big comic book reader myself but if it helps children love to read and develop a good vocabulary, then it is a good book. Extension Ideas: I would have my students write their own comic strip. I would have the children create a class comic and each group create one box of the strip. An interesting take on Shazam. I'm glad I read the introduction, or I'd have been spending time saying "But that's not how it goes!" It's set in more-or-less now (some retro aspects, some futuristic ones), with both Billy and Mary a good deal younger than the classic story (5? 6? Young enough to still have round faces). All the classic elements are here - even Sivana's 'big red cheese' - but the backgrounds and explanations differ in several important places. It's not something I'll particularly seek out, but I'll happily read more if I happen to come across it. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"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! 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!"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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