Lightning strikes twice: The Pulse talks to Jeff Smith about the end of Bone, and the long-promised Shazam/Monster Society of Evil miniseries (which I've so been looking forward to for quite a while):

"Billy Batson is the most important character of the Captain Marvel saga. That's the character that has GOT to be nailed. I think it's true for all the superhero characters with secret identities. Bruce Wayne saw his parents murdered in front of him. Clark Kent is the goofy guy who can't get the girl's attention in the office, but if only she could see him when he rips his shirt off, she'd know what's what. Billy to me is someone small, a defenseless kid who needs help protecting himself against a grown up world.

"In my version he's a little younger than what you might be used to, because I wanted to play up the difference between him and Captain Marvel."