So how good is Trinity?

[Predator]

I've stayed away from story spoilers since this came out. I enjoyed 52 very much but didn't bother with Countdown. How does Trinity stack up compared to the two?

I would think with Busiek and Bagley it would be pretty good, but I thought better to ask.

[Thok]

It's better than Countdown and worse then 52. Unfortunately, that describes something like 90% of all comics.

The main problem is that the story is really slow paced. It probably reads better in trade, but one could argue that a weekly series shouldn't be written for the trade.

Much of the plot involves interpreting the DCU in terms of Tarot. That may give you some feel for if you'd like the series or not.

[super_brandon25]

Well, honestly I've never read Countdown or 52 yet and started reading Trinity when it came out. I had to stop around issue 13 because the writing is just horrendous. The art is great but the writing is just all over the place. Nothing in the story kept me wanting more.

Some people like it and some don't. I happen to be in the latter. Trinity would have been okay in like a limited series with 1-10 issues IMO.

I expected more from Busiek since he wrote Superman: Up, Up and Away and Secret Identity, which I enjoyed. But I recommend you buy from your LCS or borrow an issue or two from a friend and see if you like it. Let us know what you think about it afterwards.

[AbsurdistEmergence]

I would like to see the three return soon, but I enjoy the series.

[SeritoNiN]

Horrible series. Absolutely horrible. I think after countdown and trinity, DC needs to axe the weekly comic idea, 52 was a fluke.

[Karl O'Neill]

I have been really enjoying trinity, still reading it and following it, i can understand if someone does;t like it because it has lots of easter eggs in it for long term dc fans, much like 52 had, so dc fans might love it, while new readers might not care for it,

can't think of it as horrible though, i mean, countdown was horrible because it was badly written and excecuted.

Trinity is consistently very good. and the art is cool too.

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

I made it up to issue 13 or so and then gave up. I liked the one issue featuring one of the Joker's thugs from the classic O'Neil/Adams "Joker's Five Way Revenge." But man, unless you're a real DC comics fanatic, you'd never get or appreciate it!

I don't recommend it. The weekly series thing was great with 52 but there's really no compelling reason for a weekly series anymore.

[Elitehaxxor]

I have read all issues of Trinity so far and I have to say it has not been that great. Like most people have said it has been fairly slow going, the trinity have not been involved very much so for me (a relatively new DC reader) it has not been as interesting, and the story is kind of goofy (the whole tarot card thing, not a huge fan).

[NeoStar9X]

Does Trinity move in real time?

From what I recall the benefit of the 52 series was that each issue represented an actual week in the year it was coming out. It made sense and you could see things progress in real time. I regret not getting it when it came out. Reading it now while it might be a good story I think a lot of it's impact and originality is missed. Reading a story that progresses in real time week after week is something I wish I could experience.

Unless you are actually going to do that same thing again in another weekly series I don't see the point in doing it. Did Countdown do that? Is Trinity doing it?

If not then it's just a huge play (with them laughing) for your money without what made 52 special and interesting. It's just a insanely decompressed story then.

[2-4-5_Trioxin]

Horrible series. Absolutely horrible. I think after countdown and trinity, DC needs to axe the weekly comic idea, 52 was a fluke.


52 wasnt a fluke. They had a group of great writers all working on it vs like countdown and 52 where they just had 1 or 2 mediocre writers trying to stretch a idea and story out every week for a year. They just put more into than the other ones. Like trinity has 2 writers and like 8 artists or something which leads inconsistant art and hell countdown only had 1 writer thats mediocre.

If DC put as much effort into trinity and countdown as they did 52 then it would have been better quality but it was a obvious money grab so they just threw some stuff together to try and get on the train of weekly sales since 52 did well.

[Redchief]

I picked up the first 4-5 issues and it lost me. Over christmas I read the scans up the 30 and got hooked on the story and have been purchasing each issue since.

On thing DC should do is release the TPBs asap. Trinity is hard to start reading from the middle and the TPBs will help people get into it faster.

[Trey]

The next weekly has to be shorter. I'd go with 21 issues. Tell a great story. collect it in 3 trades, wait 6 months and do another weekly, 21 issues. rinse. repeat.

You can experiment with it too. Do the New Gods. Then a DC Robots weekly featuring All of DC's Robotic/technology characters. Then Doom Patrol. Then the greatest Aquaman undersea adventure ever. Each weekly will have top writers and artists, with enough issues in the can to avoid delays.

Trinity was completely overshadowed by DC's other books.

[Pixie_Solanas]

Horrible series. Absolutely horrible. I think after countdown and trinity, DC needs to axe the weekly comic idea, 52 was a fluke.

52 was carefully planned and executed by 4 of the greatest writers in comics today.

That's why it succeeded.

Countdown was filller garbage and Trinity is just boring claptrap. The idea should have been shuttered after 52.

[SeritoNiN]

52 was carefully planned and executed by 4 of the greatest writers in comics today.

That's why it succeeded.

Countdown was filller garbage and Trinity is just boring claptrap. The idea should have been shuttered after 52.

That's what I mean by fluke. No other weekly series has gotten 1st rate treatment like 52 did, and no other series probably every will. It was a fluke.

[comicstar100]

52 was carefully planned and executed by 4 of the greatest writers in comics today.

That's why it succeeded.

Countdown was filller garbage and Trinity is just boring claptrap. The idea should have been shuttered after 52. Countdown ended up as a decent weekly. The ending was sort of anti climatic though, we guard the guardians yet no book has mentioned the challengers since.

[CBikle]

I think the idea of a weekly comic can still work, but it needs to be somewhat in continuity, even if it doesn't interact much (or at all) with other DC titles.

I still think a History of Earth 2 (from last summer's JSA annual) series would be fun and a big seller as a weekly series and wouldn't have to tie into other DC books at all.

Of course, you have to get the right people for something like this; they can't just assign the same tired, cynical and boring hacks to produce it.

[Seraku]

pretty meh imho

it's peak was the AMU arc in the first 4th of the series

[JCAll]

Countdown's problem was that it had to tie into another series without actually knowing the plot of that series. That's why is has sortof the same plotpoints as Final Crisis, but the details are all wrong. To fill the space it just sort of miandered about. It was still readable until the title changed and it lost all sense of direction. After that characters just started standing around issue after issue repeating themselves. It doesn't help that the series it was counting down to was a stinker as well.

Trinity at least seems to be going somewhere, even if it is starting to repeat itself as well. It needs to drop the alternate reality story and focus entirely on bringing back the Trinity as soon as possible.

[Flâneur]

Does Wonder Woman do much in Trinity??

Speak much? Beat up anyone notable? Get any decent characterisation?