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| Guy Ricketts |
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This one starts in June.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12937
I think DC is going to the "weekly-well" too much, and I am not thrilled that Kurt Busiek is writing it. I will give it a try, I could be pleasantly surprised... |
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| Guy Ricketts |
| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:08 am |
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Trinity discussion part one - Kurt Busiek:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=147727
I have not been too thrilled with Busiek's writing on recent Superman, and one would think that bad writing that is at a weekly pace would be even worse...but I have hopes... |
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| George Mutch |
| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:35 pm |
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I'm probably still going to buy it, but as you said, once to often to the weekly well.
at least 52 and Countdown were linked, we'll have to see how they're going to connect Trinity to the aftermath of Final Crisis |
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| Guy Ricketts |
| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:04 pm |
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issue one
"Boys and Their Games ..."
Writers: Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza
Artist: Mark Bagley
Inker: Art Thibert
This weekly go-round begins with some mysterious being falling through space screaming "Let me out!".
Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, and Diana Prince meet at the Keystone Coffee Pier to discuss a disturbing dream they all seem to have shared. From Clark's perspective, he saw a cosmic alien being who is quite angry and distorting reality. From Diana's perspective she saw an angry ancient god chained to a rock. To Bruce, he saw a captured criminal in the shadows trying to escape.
Then Clark's super-hearing picks up a radio broadcast about a metahuman robbery in progress in Keystone. The Flash and his two children are battling Clayface. Bruce explains the reason he suggested they meet in Keystone was to check with the Flash whether he'd had a similar dream as they already checked with all the other JLA members. Wally and his kids defeat Clayface. Wally tells the gathered trio he hasn't had any similar dream.
Later, as the three heroes patrol their respective cities, they suddenly experience screams in their head of "Let me out". The batplane fills with a mystical smoke, Wonder Woman is attacked from above, and Superman hears the overpowering shouting in his head. Superman looks up and a building explodes above him...
"In the Morrows to Come"
Written by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza
Art by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens
Inks by Allen Passalaqua
Set in the mystical remains of the Castle Branek, Morgaine Le Fey meets a mysterious yet familiar villain, whose face is semi-covered by a mask resembling a question mark. This mystery man tells Le Fey he is an expert in technology just as she is an expert in the magical arts. The pair have been having dreams of absolute power that seem to center on Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
Le Fey peers into the future where she sees a tarot card reader dealing the cards for the Devil, Strength, and Justice. The images on the cards change to the superheroes - Batman is the Devil card, Wonder Woman is the Strength card, and Superman is the Justice card. Then she looks a second time into the future. In Gotham, Green Arrow and Speedy are summoned by the Arrow Signal but they are faced by the Ragman and his sidekick who claim Gotham is under their jurisdiction.
Le Fey and the mystery man land in a mysterious cavern where a brutish being known as Konvikt demands the voices in his head to appear. Konvikt's sidekick, a demon called Graak, can see Le Fey and the mystery man. They depart and return to the present. Looking once more at future fate, they come face-to-face with a mountain of stone carved out like armored versions of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. The villains realize they will need a third villain to steal the essential might of the heroic trio. The mystery man - who tells Le Fey to call him "Enigma" -
suggests Konvikt. Le Fey suggests instead Despero. The villains head off to bring their plans to fruition as, behind them, fate shows a cosmic being literally ripping the Earth apart...
Both stories are interesting and hold promise, but it wouldn't be the first time if this promise goes crashing down in flames. But I hope for the best. |
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| George Mutch |
| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:25 pm |
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Do you think Enigma is just a ruse?
Is it actually the riddler or are we being set up for a big reveal round about issue 51? |
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| Guy Ricketts |
| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:33 pm |
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| My gut reaction was that his half-hidden face also represented perhaps Two-Face, that there may be an amalgam of Bat-villains at work here. I think you and I have become very accustomed to twists and turns and seeing our initial perceptions of a character become reversed at the end, so anything is possible. |
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| Guy Ricketts |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:40 pm |
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issues two thru six
  
This series, much like Countdown to Final Crisis, makes me feel like crying. It held such promise at the very beginning, but has since slid into a goofy morass. What a waste of material!
Essentially over the last few issues, our Trinity have acted out of character while facing lame foes like Konvikt and Graaf and being observed by Morgan LeFaye and Enigma. Superman is knocked out with one punch by Konvikt (yeah, right), Wonder Woman is placed in a passive role time and again, and Batman runs around openly in broad daylight. Kurt Busiek, after his abyssmal run on Superman, wasn't happy with wasting his Kryptonian material, now he wishes to screw with Diana and Bruce as well. What happened to him? I thought this book existed to honor and appreciate these three heroes and their place in the DC Universe, but this title almost seems to mock them. Very sad.
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| How much longer is this drivel going on for? |
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| Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 2:03 pm |
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| The year is up sometime this month - thank God! |
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| kenjeffrey |
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| I am seriously beginning to lose faith in these weekly efforts. |
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kenjeffrey wrote: I am seriously beginning to lose faith in these weekly efforts.
It does seem like they latch onto a gimmick and drain it for all it's worth, getting progressively worse and worse. Their first one, 52, was excellent. Countdown was at best lousy. And Trinity? Sucked. Here's hoping Wednesday Comics lives up to the hype... |
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| kenjeffrey |
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52 was good in as much as nobody believed they could do it all in 52 weeks.
I was pleased that they stuck to it although I didn't enjoy it that much.
Countdown should have been called Letdownand Trinity....... |
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kenjeffrey wrote: Countdown should have been called Letdown and Trinity.......
There are no words bad enough to describe that piece of...yep. |
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OK - so last night I read Trinity #52
A warm fuzzy feeling came over me at the end. There was no next... or to be continued. Just "The End"
Very glad it's finished but if I'd have known what it was going to be like I wouldn't have bothered with the first 51 issues but the last one was really good. |
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So what was your problem with it?
I liked the first issue or two, but then I started losing interest in it. Besides the fact I could not discern just where in continuity it was supposed to take place, there was just too much "abstract storytelling" in it and I quickly grew bored.
I would read some reviews of it here and there, some of it admittedly sounded intriguing, but overall it just sounded like a mess to me. It's a shame, since Busiek is a fine writer, and he had Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (plus others) to play with here. How could it go wrong? |
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| kenjeffrey |
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It started off good. Then it became 'bitty'. The back up stories started to be almost half the issue and I was not really sure where they were supposed to fit in with the story. Most of the time I had no real idea of what was supposed to be happening or where.
I don't feel that the story needed a year to tell it. |
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