First things first...this gets 2.5 stars.Second things second...I wanted to like Trinity. I have a fondness for Kurt Busiek, whose run on the Avengers is my favorite for that title. KB doesn't play favorites and is good at showcasing his characters' strengths, giving them all something to do and making sure they all have a moment. This is very important in good team books (unless you stick your company's franchise characters on the team, in which case you can do pretty much whatever you want).So...

Like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole:This is one of those concept stories you find so often in the comic book publishing industry, where the actual story and narrative are beaten, stuffed and shoehorned to fit around the concept handed down from higher up the corporate ladder. If I remember correctly, this was DC's follow up to 52, their successful weekly series following second tier characters after whatever crisis-crossover occured that year. However, this series focuses on the bi...

A great start to this series. I've always loved the relationship between the Trinity so it was nice to have a series dedicated to them and their importance to the DCU. While the story had a big cast of characters, the Trinity was always the focus. The plot has me intrigued so far so I hope the second part of the story will be as good as the first part!

I've been trying to figure out what to say about this book. It is only half (one-third?) of the story. Volume 2 is due out in August, I believe.The story has a slow, jumpy start that lasts through half of this volume and is presented primarily through fight scene after fight scene. The characters have little to no spark. The dialogue for the most part doesn't rise above the merely serviceable. When the dialogue does manage to sparkle, the issue usually has been scripted by Fabian Nicieza. Niciez...

Holy Watchmen, Batman! This thing is long! I have the other two volumes, and I kinda wanna finish them...and yet, I kinda don't care.I'll give it this, toward the ending the pace picks up enough that it is pretty fun to read. The beginning and the middle...eh, not so much. I can see why several of the other reviewers didn't finish it. I must have picked this up and then put it down about a hundred times. It's never a good thing when you get a sense of accomplishment just because you managed to f...

Yeah, this just isn't going to happen. Not enough story development in the part that I read, and not enough interest for me to soldier onward. I'd honestly rather attempt Countdown to Final Crisis again. Maybe DC just needs to step away from the 52 format (weekly issues with multiple storylines) for awhile.

An interesting venture into mythbuilding focused on DC’s Big Three (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) that can’t help but feel a little meta. Not in a negative way, though. The first of three collected books does a good job setting up the mystery at their core and ratcheting up the tension as it goes along, culminating with a rather explosive finale. The way there can feel a little needlessly long-winded and meandering, however.I also love Bagley’s overall style, even if all of his women kind of l...

I was so disappointed by this book. I really love the idea of it, but the book was too convoluted and it ended up being a chore to read. The multiple story lines were just confusing, not interesting. As is always the case, the one I was most interested in had not enough attention though I think it was a new character designed for this storyline (Tarot). I am only passingly familiar with the minor DC characters and it was very confusing to change artists between issues so each character didn't ha...

I wanted to rate this higher than I did, but it just didn't pass the bar. I liked it, but I didn't *really* like it. Trinity was, I believe, the third year-long weekly series after the groundbreaking 52 and the abominable Countown to Final Crisis. So far, its highs are not as high as 52's highs and its lows are nowhere near as low as Countdown's lows. (Or Countdown's highs, for that matter. Countdown was total shit.) I would rate the first volume of Trinity as flawed, but showing promise.Honestl...

I'm not sure what people are liking from this story other than the art by Mark Bagley. Seventeen issues in to this year long story and its beyond tedious. There are a handful of plot holes but the biggest problem with this is how boring the plot is. Literally everything gets thrown at the wall and nothing sticks. This was not an enjoyable read.

Artwork:AverageStory: Average. It was not great but not terrible. Even with another artist, it would have been the same. Note: The alien story at the end had potential.

Three Things About Trinity1) there is only one 52. i understand that success at a particular thing will often make a company want to do more of that particular thing. the weekly spectacular called 52 was a brilliant concept that was brilliantly enacted (well at least in those issues dominated by Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, and Greg Rucka; Geoff Johns: ugh, hack). but perhaps DC should have laid the 52-issue mini-series idea to rest after 52 because various follow-ups have been uninspiring. and lo...

Trinity addresses the concept of arguably the three most famous superheroes of all time as archetypes for a trinity. I happen to really like Kurt Busiek's work on anything he has written to this point and that hasn't changed after reading Trinity. Trinity possessed everything I like in a graphic novel: fine artwork, a compulsive and adrenalin filled storyline and finally the characters that I love. As for what the storyline is: well it follows a mystic plot by three lesser known DC villains to a...

I'd be hard pressed to characterize this as anything other than a colossal mess of a story that is long on promise, short on the goods. Who wouldn't love a tale of the symbolic significance of the titular trio being turned against them by their evil counterparts? And with magic and wacky pseudoscience to boot! Sounds awesome, right? Remaking the multiverse in the image of a corrupted superhero triumivirate? Sign me up! Too bad this mostly sucks. For one, volume one write large could easily be ha...

I ordinarily enjoy Busiek's work, but I found this a little lacking. It may be because it is only the first third of the story, or because the comic was written in a weekly format, which kind of dragged out the plot. I'm going to read the next two to see where this goes before making a final judgement.

I do not know how I feel about this, overall. I liked some of it; it was an interesting premise, I guess, to have DC’s “Big Three” tied together like they are in this series, to have the series focus specifically on them like it does. The artwork was very hit-and-miss for me (which makes sense, since there was an issue being released every week, so they would need to rotate the work among different artists in order to keep up). This first volume felt slow; the story felt dragged out and the narr...

It's easy to think of Ted Kord as DC's Franz Ferdinand, but their universe had a surprising amount of resilience to terrible stories back then, able to snap back to a default of shiny superheroics - something which in part is what this series wants to examine. Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman are DC's keystones, so Busiek makes that mystically true in-universe, too - and then has three villains scheming to supplant them. Some of the occult justification for this is a bit shaky - are fire, air a...

While the book is epic in scale, it just felt too long. Its meandering first and second acts could have used some tightening. The finale was amazing, especially the last battle, and the reveal of Enigma being an alternate version of The Riddler was something I didn’t see coming.The symbolism of the Trinity was great. I especially loved the way they explored various symbols of the three together and how they complement each other. The alternate Trinity, meanwhile, wasn’t as cool.

InterestingIt was good but felt a little bit too longWill read volume 2 and see if gets better

In this three part series (originally published as 52 weekly installments), Kurt Busiek, [author Mark Bagley], and a group of other writers and illustrators created a story arc in which Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are torn from the reality of the DC Universe. What I really love about the series is how it explores the symbolic role of superheroes. This is really the best element of superhero comics. Superhero's project ideals and fears as they explore in bombastic ways what it means to be