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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (11 children)

What the hell is the dialogue trying to say?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

I’m only vaguely familiar with Shazam aka Captain Marvel. Essentially, Billy and his foster siblings get powers from a wizard. This wizard gives them powers of these old gods/deities. Conveniently the sex of those deities match the sex of the power bearers. I’m guessing the powers in this comic don’t see sex, so they gave Billy the female deities power and Mary the male deities power. I don’t know what “boy ong” means though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Unless there's some other meaning for it, ong is some kind of slang, it's short for "on god". I think it's used in places where one might otherwise say "I swear to god" instead. Of course like that other person said it could also be a weird typo, but it seems deliberate to me.

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