Trinity # 1 - Boys And Their Games...; In The Morrows To Come

There is a lot of hype surrounding Trinity. At least from what I've been able to see. I'm not sure if Countdown had this much hype; maybe 52 did. I know Identity Crisis and Final Crisis may come close. I'm not sure I want my Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to be so elitist, but I guess we all live with some sort of pecking order or cliques in our lives. I pretty much had to make myself scarce when my older sister and brothers were with their friends. I know that my friends have other friends, I'm just not sure if I'm Ollie Queen or "Snapper" Carr.

I was definitely not going to pick up Trinity because I was so letdown and disappointed by the whole weekly comic book. I remember Action Comics Weekly. I remember 52. One day I may sit down and read 52 straight through again to see if it's the same as the first time. After 52 I decided against Countdown. Not only am I evented out, I'm tapped out. The well is dry.

So, the question for me is, if you're not going to make a weekly comic book affordable, or cheaper in price than a monthly - it had better be pretty compelling for me to part with the $2.99. Should I jump on the bandwagon, or should I just wait for the trade and read it all in one sitting?

I think dropping names like Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley might do the trick. If you're going to do a weekly comic book, and make it worth the cover price, that might work. Having Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in a book written by Busiek and drawn by Bagley might be the right combination.

Trinity covers familiar ground. All the way back to Kingdom Come, their own Trinity mini-series and not too long ago in forming the latest line-up of the Justice League. Yeah, it's interesting to see how these characters tick and how they will end up functioning together and interacting with other characters. But still there's that questions - is this worth the cover price and my time to follow it?

After Infinite Crisis, I'm not sure I'm really interested in a cosmic, universe-spanning adventure. Superman is the only character that can carry that one off. Batman and Wonder Woman are more grounded. Batman has a better senes and grasp of "reality", and Wonder Woman more to legends and mythology. Maybe a story more rooted in legend, myth or magic would have served better, I don't know, I'm just sayin'. Maybe something a little more from the original mini-series, or spun out of New Frontier might have worked?

The back-up feature was okay. The art was different. I'm wondering where this thing with Morgain Le Fey, Enigma and Despero is gonna go. Really, your counterparts for Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are these three? Really? That's what you've come up with? Is it because everybody else is tied up or overdone? 

I'm not sure I want to know what the deal is with Green Arrow and the new Speedy and Ragman and his new sidekick is gonna go. I might pick up the second and third issue just to see where it might be heading, but then, who knows?       

I'm torn on the writing. On the one hand, there were some awesome parts: Bruce Wayne flirting with Diana Prince, Clark Kent doing his humble boyish thing, Wally telling Bruce that his wife thinks that the Bats has the "sexiest phone voice ever," etc. There is also discussion over the trio's secret identities and how Diana puts less effort into hers than the two dudes do. Which is exactly what I was hoping for, frankly. I mean, sure, butt-kicking is cool, so is saving the world, and having Batman be a smartass, but I can get those things from JLA. What I really wanted from Trinity is an examination of their relationships. How Bruce relates with Clark, how Clark relates with Diana, and, in particular, how Diana relates with Bruce. 

 I like the cover emblem. The overlapping symbols, not too bad of an idea. The cover itself, well, I guess now i can see why they did this, but when it was just the first issue, it made me wonder why only one of them was on the front. Rather a boring been there done that image. However it seems that been there done that was exactly what they were after, considering what goes on inside.
  Why the hell is this an introduction book. These are the three most recognised heroes in all of comicdom. Only Spiderman or the Hulk could possibly come close.  This book could have started off running, instead it was a slow trot while they had tea.
 This was made worse by the fact that the main characters lost page time, for an equally boring back up story. Not a good first issue at all.

Yeah a prophcied dream links the three together.c'mon what the hell does that even mean.
Look i love the Justice League,when its good of course but this isnt fufiling any of my dream s,no punt intended.
The writer needs to take a cabo vacation perhaps lay on the beach writing some cool ideas.
Sure comics have some far fetched ideas that oftentimes are the dumbest concepts,however if you approach it in a certain way you just may convince the audiance.