Trinity: a little underwhelming
June 19th, 2008
One of the comic book series that I was really looking forward to was DC’s Trinity series which promised to focus on the DC big three: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
How could one go wrong with these heavy hitters?
I don’t read any Superman titles and whilst I’ve been tempted to take a look at it I’ve just never been overly impressed with Wonder Woman. I suppose for Wonder Woman it always feels like something complicated is going on and they’re right in the middle of it and it would be hard to pick up the title.
Superman I don’t get because there are so many titles already and Superman has a whole bunch of different series (at least it seems like that). I may one day pick up an All Star Superman trade paperback.
So when I saw the ads for Trinity I thought that will be cool to have three icons in the same comic without having to make room for the rest of the JLA.
As you can probably tell by the title of the post I can’t say that I’ve been overly impressed with the first three issues. The covers are cool and most of the art is cool if I had to conjure up an art complaint it might be that Wonder Woman comes up a little shabby occasionally and Superman a little generic but overall it is pleasing enough.
I noticed that they’ve already gathered the first three issues together and put them in a trade paperback and from a story point of view it makes sense, because as a three part comic series it hasn’t. I found myself having to go back to the previous issues to work out what the hell was going on and I still am not convinced, though with the third I have a better idea.
I just don’t think the story is showcasing the best of the DC characters very well. Maybe the storyline and the confusing out of the blue events are for effect… I’ll tell you what the effect is, it’s pissing me off. Well it’s not really but I really wanted to use that line to keep the movie geeks awake whilst I write about comic book geek stuff.
I have a general idea of what they are doing and they are pointing to the epic grandness of the three characters but I think the Batman Superman series has worked a little more effectively. I will point out that it’s not Wonder Woman’s fault either.
I won’t give the series up straight away, it can have at least four or so episodes to bring me around but I’ve already got a increasingly heavy schedule of comics and can’t hang on to the dead wood.
No I will not be buying the new Crisis series.
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The only DC books I read these days are the ones by Morrison, I’ve just lost interest in the company and the direction they’ve pushed most of the characters in. There was a time when I might have been excited by a book like Trinity, but the best thing about it in my eyes is that Mark Bagley’s drawing it… which means he ISN’T drawing Ultimate Spider-Man anymore… which means Ultimate Spider-Man is now better than ever.
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it sounds like yet ánother put-together of superheroes.
I guess the villains have already worked together too for dozens of times?
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