This is from the comics?
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Its a bit of a paraphrase, but it is the jist of what was in The Power of Shazam.  I seem to remember that there was something about how the kids viewed their ideal selves or ideal hero they wanted to be.  (its been a while since i read it.) For Billy, he wanted to be like the dad he remembered (normal childhood idolization).  So CM ended up being a spitting image of his pop.

In Billy's situation of being an orphan on his own, being an adult would have helped him out, so he became an adult with powers. Freddy wanted to be able to walk like other kids his age, so, when he said his magic words, he no longer needed the crutch, and he got the powers. Mary was happy as she was, so she didn't change appearances and only got the powers.
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Ohhhhh -- don't even get me started on that one! Talk about missing the point!

Having enjoyed real porn, all I can say is I have yet to see anything resembling it in a Marvel or DC comic.  I might suggest going to your local adult book store and comparing pornography to your LCS.  If you still think Marvel and DC is putting out pseudo-porn, I suggest giving up comics and picking up the first season of the Electric Company that has recently been released on DVD so that you may watch it over and over again and never have to be afraid of being subjected to something that you may find titalating.

Yes, the titillating part.

See, you just confirmed what i was talking about:

I, as a grown adult, and all that's attached to it, do not consider anything i mentioned in Comics, "titillating". I consider it sad, sorry, pittiful, and right down annoying for a grown up, who, interestingly enough, happens live in a country and continent where full frontal nudity can be seen both on the street and in prime time television.

I don't want this content out of Comics because it's "titillating", i am going to have to profusely apologise but still, say that i find adult people who find such content "titillating", extremely sad, sorry. I want that content out of Comic Books, because it's annoying, juvenile, immature, and of completely no use to a full grown adult.

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I hate to say this, but if YOU don't find it titilating, then how do you know anyone else does?  I don't like "real life" or "politics" in my comics but "sexual maturity" has been at least a part of them sense Superman and Lois Lane expressed an interest in each other.

Apperence wise I simply like to look at attracitve characters and I imagine it helps sell.  Baron Zemo from Marvel Comics face usually gets a pretty disgusted reaction whenever he shows up on panel, unmasked and scarred.

I like it when a marriage happens in comics for two reasons.  As I've said I like it when I can read about happy characters and two I hate reading about unsolvable problems.  As long as a character displays an interest in the opposite sex there is a problem.  THey can date indefinately but then you might as well marry them off, or you can simply not cover that facet of a character.

Something that struck me, when the reaction to DARK KNIGHT/YEAR ONE and MAN OF STEEL are compared, is that Batman fans -- at least the vocal ones -- knew far less about their character than Superman fans knew of theirs. They seemed not to be aware that...

•The bat motif did not enter Bruce's life until he was an adult, after he had completed his training

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I'd always thought it helped inspire his training.

•Alfred was not the old family retainer, having joined the series after Dick became Robin. It was his father, Jarvis Pennyworth, who served the senior Waynes when Bruce was a boy.

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What's the current status on this

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•Selena was not a hooker

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I never knew she'd been turned into one.

•Gordon was a close contemporary of Bruce's father, not of Bruce

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That only makes sense.  He's always been Comissioner Gordon to Batman.

She looks like a real little kid to me there.  I'd be as uncomfortable with her superheroing as the original idea of Robin as a nine or ten year old.  I guess I'm more comfortable with the idea of older teens in a position to get themselves killed since they can do it easier anyway.