Overall, this story has so much intertwined within it; its hard to believe its only been two issues. Packed with intrigue, deception, heartbreaking and shocking moments, horrific events, and a lot of action. Sheridan and team leaned heavily into this Future State story, and youve got to applaud them for the stupendous result! Read Full Review

Future State: Shazam caps off its two issues by revealing who is controlling Shazam and what will happen if he says his famous catchphrase one more time. Read Full Review

Sheridan crafts some interesting plot twists and some big payoffs to his setup, but it feels like a major cheat that this story wont get resolved until Future State Black Adam. My big takeaway is DC should revisit this version of the Justice League with Sheridan and Pansica in the immediate future. Read Full Review

This is a decent horror comic, but it's still not a very good Shazam comic. Read Full Review

The story was entertaining in its own right, though its final pages surely deliver a letdown. Read Full Review

The Rock of Eternity is hell and while I thought we would get further information about this or how Shazam! led from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse story from Future State: Teen Titans into the dark nature he presents here, it seems to have little connection and everything we got out of this story is somehow separate. Ultimately, there isn't enough information given to understand the time we were thrown into and this leads to a lackluster story that just tries to use the idea of a bad Captain Marvel to wow you, but I don't think that concept would enthrall any fan. Thankfully though, the art was great throughout. Read Full Review

Earth's Mightiest Mortal may also be its grandest fool as the golden age hero falls to a disappointing modern conspiracy. Read Full Review

There's been a good deal of pessimistic times presented in 'Future State,' but many of those have at least seen heroes taking a stand to try and better the world from getting any worse. Future State: Shazam #2 however, is resigned to the bleakness of the situation " even the body language of the characters reads as cold and at a remove from one another " and that dissonance between the chosen tone and what you'd expect for a Shazam story is a factor which the creative team proves unable to reconcile. Read Full Review

7.5!

" So it was. Take your prize,loyal servant. But first all bow to your new queen."
- RAVEN

I actually had to go back and skim over the first issue b.c I had no idea what was going on. That says more about issue 1 than anything, but all in all, I didn't mind this story. I liked the idea of separating Billy from Shazam (or the Captain?) and showing what it is that Billy adds to the equation. It was an interesting concept, albeit poorly executed.

This was fine, I guess. It really seems like Tim Sheridan was *doing something* with his Future State titles. Interconnecting all of them into... A big convoluted mess. I wish I could say his vision was worth reading all these subpar comics, but it wasn't. Maybe the last chapter of Black Adam can turn it all around. I doubt it.

I can't say I cared a lot about this comic after reading the #1... and If I got to be honest, I still don't. I probably care less about this story than before, since the main mystery ended up being pretty hollow, and cameos from established characters uninspiring and pointless. After all, what did Spectre accomplish by showing up here, other than providing some much needed exposition for us?

I could probably compare this short to Endless Winter event - something that may not necesarily be horrible, but I have absolutely no interest in exploring it.

Yep. This book is bad. A story that completely disregards characterization for the sake of telling a bleak and depressing but mostly boring tale. Shazam is supposed to be a story about a hopefull young boy. What this story does to Billy and Shazam, with this in mind, just feels wrong.

Once again, we have another television screen writer who is writing DC Comics for characters that they clearly know nothing about. Tim Sheridan does what he thinks is his job, and he makes it grim for the whole "Future State dystopia" vibe.

But anyone who believes Captain Marvel (aka Shazam) could kill The Spectre simply has no understand of the characters whatsoever. None.