On his blog, Jeff Smith posts a couple of panels from Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil, along with the original C.C. Beck art that influenced them.
“When it came time to draw the famous statues, there was no question how they should look,” Smith writews. “I liked the strange Tiki god quality of the original Seven Deadly Enemies of Man and I drew them exactly the way artist C.C. Beck did. The only exception was that I added fangs and sharp ears to Hatred so we could differentiate him from Pride.”
Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil #1 goes on sale Feb. 7.
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:37 pm
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” The Seven Deadly Sins
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The real ones:
Pride, Envy, Greed, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust.
Shazam: Monster Society Of Evil
Pride, Envy, Greed, Hatred, Selfishness, Lazyness, Injustice.
Were Shazam’s Sins always called like that? I can’t remember. Freaking senility.
These may have been the Fawcett’s original Seven Sins (I guess they were really thinking some things were too much for kids) but there’s no need for that now.
Hatred and Lazyness are synonyms of Wrath and Sloth, respectively, and perhaps they’re easier for kids who don’t know how to use a dictionary but I still don’t see the need to change them. Selfishness instead of Gluttony? Injustice instead of Lust? Personally, I prefer to be a lustful glutton.”