Black Adam Gets His Own Book
He’s been both a hero and a villain, befriending the ancestors to the Hawkman and Dr. Fate legacies, while battling the Marvel famiy for years. He’s taken his homeland back by force, literally squashing the previous dictator, building the country back up to to it’s former glory - and then completely eradicating a 
neighboring country - taking 2 million lives in the process - after tragedy took his family.
He’s one of the most complex characters in DCU - and if there’s anyone more deserving of having his own book, it’s Black Adam.
The anti-hero will get his own mini-series later this year, written by Peter Tomasi, a long-time editor at DC who oversaw such projects as Starman, Hitman, Seven Soldiers and Paul Dini’s run on Detective Comics.
This comes as tremendously exciting news, but I have to ask . . . given everything that has happened to him in 52 and everything that has happened to him in World War III, what can you do? But then I realize:
Black Adam has the luck of Peter Parker and the anger of the Hulk.
That’s plenty.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 am
Considering the… erm… for spoilers sake… “actions” of Black Adam in recent issues of 52 and especially in World War III - what kind of story could he possibly have left? I mean beyond life on Death Row? His actions alone SHOULD not only enrage the entire planet against him - but kick off a similar ‘Registration’ movement in the DC universe against all metas and prove to be way less divisive. C’mon. The Speedball incident killed 600-ish. Black Adam … um… sorry, trying not to be a spoiler.
When I was about 19 years old, I worked with a guy who was probably 40-ish - major total geek and a long time study of the silver and golden age of comics. He sorta got me back into comics by hipping me to titles going on at the time…. Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Cerebus, V For Vendetta… Anyway, he would often go on about the basic ‘tenets’ of comic books that he knew to be the absolute truth based on his reading of older comics. Chief among them - if you kill someone, you are going to die.
He would produce example after example of prior comic events that resulted in just that - the death of someone who has taken a life.
Of course, there are no hard and fast rules in comics anymore. But what Black Adam has done is mind-boggling in scale. It seems as if DC has shot their wad with Black Adam.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a fan of the Marvel family. My first comic was an oversized reprint of Whiz #1, so I’m quite protective of the character line. I have really enjoyed seeing one of them featured so prominently.
It should be interesting to see what premise they have for even a limited run starring a guy who did……. what Black Adam did.
Then again - I thought Planet Hulk would suck. What do I know.
(Oh, one more item. Following my reading of WWIII, and approaching tomorrow’s release of the last 52, I’m reminded that all of this supposedly took place prior to the first issues of each title immediately following the end of Infinite Crisis. Remember: it was “One Year Later”…. There certainly seems to be an utter lack of memory of Black Adam’s …. actions… nor any war worthy of earning the moniker WWIII. Just sayin’.)
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:00 am
Black Adam Gets His Own Book…
He’s been both a hero and a villain, befriending the ancestors to the Hawkman and Dr. Fate legacies, while battling the Marvel famiy for years….