In ‘Black Adam,’ a lightning-based champion can’t hold a charge
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 22, 2022
Black Adam is what happens when you build a movie from the outside in — when you start with the visuals and figure everything else will just fall into place.
More to the point: Black Adam doesn't work. To understand why, it helps to know where the character comes from.
In the early 2000s, writers Geoff Johns and David S. Goyer — with art by Stephen Sadowski and many others — introduced to the comics pages a new version of Black Adam. The character had been around since the 1940s as a supervillain who dogged . . .
