Trials of Shazam #1

Spinning out of Brave New World, this opening chapter of Judd Winick and Howard Porter's 12-part series arrives with real ambition — and the cover makes the stakes immediately clear. Porter's art depicts a powerfully built figure in the red-and-gold Shazam costume, fist raised skyward as brilliant lightning crackles all around him, while a massive serpentine creature coils menacingly at his feet — a striking image that sets a grittier, more mythic tone for the hero. The cover's tagline says it all: "The Wizard is dead… long live Shazam!" — promising a story about transformation, burden, and what it truly means to carry that thunder.