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The Official "Trinity" by Busiek and Bagley Thread

I may be heading that way, too. It started out pretty good, but just a few weeks in it's already losing steam. Do we really need to see them battle Konvikt and his little pet monkey for like 4 weeks? Just get on with it already. On the other hand, I think it'll pick up when we actually get to start seeing some revelations about the main plot.
 
Oh come on; I agree that this didn't have the drive it had at the beginning, but most of you guys stuck with bloody Countdown for months, Giles alone only knows why, and here you're dropping Trinity after weeks?
 
Well, I am quiting comics soon. Gotta get rid of it sometime.
 
I've been bored with most of the stuff i'm reading for the last two years. At this point i'm spending money out of habit. I gotta get out. I gotta get out now.....or maybe in a couple of months.
 
So why not just cut everything but the stuff you genuinely enjoy? Everyone accumulates series they're just sort of reading because they've been reading them. That's why you clean house every so often.
Oh come on; I agree that this didn't have the drive it had at the beginning, but most of you guys stuck with bloody Countdown for months, Giles alone only knows why, and here you're dropping Trinity after weeks?
I didn't say I'm dropping it. I said I may drop it. Probably after another month or two, if it doesn't pick up. That would be about the same time I gave Countdown.
 
Trinity #4 and 5
I'm satisfied. It no longer has the drive or oomph it had at the beginning, and could stand to be less decompressed, but I'm satisfied. Still, I'm getting a bit more and more disenfranchised with Busiek's portrayal of Diana; I swear to Xander, I love all her glibness and lack of pretense here, but on the other hand we're just getting more "hurr hurr I'm an AMAZON and Amazons love fightin' all the time, HURR!" to the point where I'm simply have no confidence that we're ever going to get anything else out of her here.

The problem here is that the whole half-issue story thing actually hurts the book more than I think anyone could have anticipated. Tarot is sort of interesting but not nearly enough to have her crowding up space in a book that's supposed to be about DC's three biggest headliners.

That being said, I think people are being far too critical of the momentum here, and of the fight with Konvict. If we consider the half-issue situation, what we have here isn't actually five issues of the story but rather two and a half issues of story within the span of a little more than a month. That's actually getting a lot of story in a very short amount of time. I agree that we could be compressing the timeframe here a bit, maybe even fast-forwarding the days like 52 did, instead of taking every...single...detail...of every hour in bit by bit by bit. But I don't think Busiek's pacing here is unrealistic at all, and I've enjoyed the story, art, and [most of the] characterization that we've gotten. Now if we're back here in another month and still screwing around with Konvict or whatever then yeah, I'd start getting a bit antsy.

(7.9 out of 10 for issue #4)
(8.3 out of 10 for issue #5)
 
It's been in continuity for DC since Busiek wrote it into a JLA Classified arc.
 
You'd be surprised how much continuity it takes for some people to accept something as continuity, sometimes. Or, well, maybe you wouldn't.

Even I don't take some "Classified" arcs as seriously as I take others.
 
Yeah, some of them are suspect. But usually, if a Classified arc features the big seven dealing with some larger-than-life threat, I file it away as being canon for some ambiguous time within the Morrison/Waid/Kelly era. I think it may be because I still wish that era never ended.
 
Preview of #8

B****es love the whole Wayne clan, apparently. Fun scene with the party. I almost didn't hate the fact that Bruce adopted Tim, for once.
 
CSA anyone?

No one else as stoked as me?!?!

And I'm starting to enjoy this new backup as well. It's great how each backup story eventually becomes integrated into the main storyline...so it's constantly changing and rotating.

I have no issue picking up Trinity every week.
 
Trinity #9, 10, and 11
Wow, this all of a sudden just got really damn good.

I dunno, I really think everything is rapidly falling into place here and the drive kicked up a whole lot. The characters and interactions continue to be more and more like the good DCU of longago and less like the...less good...DCU of notlongago. And Superman's reaction to the Crime Syndicate in #10 is kind of like the single best Superman scene I've read recently in this or any other book, even if it was because of some subtle personality alterations.

On the downside, it feels like everytime we get close to a really significant plot development in this series, we're immediately shunted off somewhere else, in another story direction, and it feels like a big distraction. It literally is a distraction in the story as well, as the character themselves have noted. We do a bunch of things with Konvikt and that seemed cool...and then it goes away and we do something else. There's big news about Krona and his Cosmic Egg opening...which is then put by the wayside. The symbolism and story involving the Tarot seemed to be heading on a bigass roll...but then wait, we have to do something else with the Crime Syndicate. If I have to list a fundamental flaw in this book, it would be that sort of jumpy story pacing.

Nonetheless, I'm really having a ball reading Niceaza's telling of the Bat Family's little sideplot tracking down the Dreambound. Niceaza's got a really good handle on these characters, it's fun and irreverent and yet adventurous as well.

(8.7 out of 10 for #9)
(8.4 out of 10 for #10)
(8 out of 10 for #11)
 
52 and Countdown were the first books I read each week. Trinity, not so much. I don't dislike it, it just doesn't scream "read me!"
 
I think I'll pick up the TPB.

Bagley drawing Batman sounds like something I'd like to see. Despite whatever story.
 
Yeah, like Countdown did. :dry:

The thing about Countdown, though, is that you had to read it first every week. If you didn't, it's plot points could get ruined by another book. I'm sure they set it up that way on purpose, but it was effective in getting me to read it first every week.
 
I guess it depends on how you look at it. I also read Final Crisis first for the same reasons.
 
It looks as meh-tastic as the rest of the series has been thus far. :o
 

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