Is Geoff Johns Teasing A Shazam Project With Gary Frank?

Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, frequent collaborators who have drawn best-sellers like Superman: Secret Origin and Batman: Earth One together, may be working on Shazam again, if a cryptic Instagram message by Johns is anything to go by.

You can see it below:

In case you can't see the caption (it displays differently in different browsers), Johns included the image above with the message, "@1moregaryfrank and I should do more Shazam...."

Johns, the chief creative officer at DC, can generally write his own ticket, so when he says that he and Frank ought to work on something, it's hard to imagine he wouldn't have the opportunity.

That's particularly true since the recent revelation that Dwayne Johnson will play Black Adam in a Shazam feature film sets up the property as one that's in DC's best interest to develop in the comics.

DC have had a difficult time making Shazam work within the context of the DC Universe historically; the property was purchased from the defunct publishing house Fawcett, and the characters folded into the DC Multiverse. When the multiverse was wiped out to make way for one, unified continuity in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Shazam (nee Captain Marvel) and his family were brought there. A series by Jerry Ordway ran for 50 issues (48, plus an annual and a #1,000,000 tied in with the DC One Million event) beginning in 1995, but even that critically-acclaimed series always seemed to be on the cancellation bubble.

More recently, Johns and Frank reinvented the character for the New 52 as a backup in Justice League and, as pictured in Johns's Instagram tweet, a one-shot tied to the Zero Month event DC ran a year after the New 52 launched.