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As much as I would like to go into something about how this is the time of year where we as Americans who are over the age of 18 and have not been convicted of a Felony get together and vote in a new President. I don't think that my editor would approve of that for her comics magazine, so I'm going to put that aside for my blog for another day.
Instead, this month I want to give you my opinion on the weekly series that DC Comics is doing called Trinity. Trinity follows on the footsteps of DC's two past weekly limited series called 52 (in 2006-2007) and Countdown (in 2007-2008). When I read the solicitation in Previews I was all hopped up and ready to give it a try. It's Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman in one weekly series. I really liked those three when I was younger (I really wanted to marry an Amazon Princess like Wonder Woman) and I guess I wanted to recapture the glory days. I liked 52 and Countdown so this should have been a no brainer. I read the first issue and it was off to a good start. I did not like the back up story in the first issue, but one bad back-up story does not turn me off to a good comic.
As I picked up the rest of the first seven issues I came to a realization that maybe I did not like Trinity. I think that the main thing that turned me off of it was that by the time you got anywhere in the main part of the issue they left it in a cliffhanger and went on to the back-up story. The first back-up story was okay and introduced us to the bad guys that would be harassing the big three in later issues. It was an okay start, but just seemed to lack the pizzazz that a book like this should have. The back-up story in subsequent issues got better, but the writer spent a little bit too much time on the Tarot back-up story, and not giving us stuff that was prevalent to what we needed to know to move the plot along. When I left on issue seven some kind of intergalactic egg had hatched and something BIG was going to go down.
The back-up stories were good at giving us some characterization for other characters that would be helping the Trinity along the way. I liked the way they handled the new Firestorm being on the team, his learning new things about his fellow super heroes and how to handle his new super powers. This is an extension of his character from the Justice League of America comic that is out now, and it's good to see a little crossover action like that.
I think that the main thing that hurts Trinity is that there is nothing going on around it that makes it universe shattering like 52 and Countdown. 52 led up to Countdown and Countdown led up to the big events in Final Crisis.
The art is not that bad. There have been some drawings of Wonder Woman that would make a great poster. This is just going by the first seven issues; I have nine through twelve sitting in a bag from the comic book store that I picked up today and have to go through the back issues to get issue eight, and then get caught up with the rest like I have been doing with some of the other books I have been collecting.
For next month I'm going to dig up an old copy of the Watchmen graphic novel and do an analysis of it. If you have any comment's about anything that I have said above, or want to throw in your two cents on Watchmen, let me know at the e-mail address above. Just be sure to change the dot in between my first and last name to an underscore and it'll get to me.
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