Trinity (DC Comics weekly series)

[Mr Light]

I just finished the third and final trade of the weekly year long DC comic series TRINITY by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley.

I must say that in the final analysis I didn't really care for this series. The first volume was promising, not amazing, but promising. Mainly for seeing Bags drawing the DCU for the first time ever. But the second trade was just awful. It takes place in a made up alternate reality where the Big Three never existed and it was just one big case of "who cares?". Even worse, Big Three supporting characters (who don't know who they are) travel to an alternate-alternate Earth populated by alien savages where the Big Three became gods. Jeez.

I was hoping the third trade would see them come back to their normal selves to save the day. But no! They remain the silly all powerful gods for the rest of the series! I just wasn't into it. Two thirds of this entire series didn't even take place in the "real" world, and basically everything reset to the way it was at the beginning of the story. So basically this story didn't even happen.

As for the story itself, again it wasn't terribly interesting. I don't find Morgana Le Fey to be an A list villain, nor Krona. And the whole story is just one vast sequel to Busiek's "Syndicate Rules" storyline in JLA, which again I didn't care for very much.

What did the rest of you think?

 

[ToddKent]

i've got all 52 issues in a big stack in my office. I haven't gotten around to reading any of them yet. I was afraid it would be pretty much how you described.

 

[shivkala]

I didn't even try it. Kurt Busiek's run on Superman started promising, but I found the issues after the "Camelot Falls" arc to be fairly poorly written. Just my opinion, of course, but I found Busiek's writing better suited Marvel characters, as I'd enjoyed his Marvel stuff, but by and large, not his DC stuff.

 

[coolghoul]

I had requested the library to purchase this one - primarily cos I wanted to see how Mark Bagley is doing since he moved out of Ultimate Spider-Man.

I saw some scans of this on scans_daily but never quite understood what was going on.

Btw, just to keep it confusing there is another Trinity which has kinda old-world art on it's cover. I think that was a nice one too...

 

[Mr Light]

I enjoyed Busiek's run on Avengers (1998 - ?) a lot, but I don't think I've read anything of his from DC that was that great.

 

[Icemizer]

thanks for the review and saving me the cash for the trades.