Talking at CBR, Kurt Busiek puts minds to rest about Trinity:
‘Trinity’ is not ‘Final Crisis’ related. It is a relatively self-contained story that follows its own track. It’s part of the DC Universe, but it’s not one thread in the giant plot structure that is a big event. It is its own story. It has a beginning, a middle and an ending. There will be repercussions, yes. It has new characters that are introduced that I sure hope will spin off into their own mini-series or series or things like that, but it’s not leading to ‘Final Crisis 2: This Time It’s Personal.’ …Each time DC does a weekly, they want to do it differently. ‘52’ was about a world without the heroes, ‘Countdown to Final Crisis’ is building up to an event about the heroes and ‘Trinity’ is about the heroes. Front and center.
But it’s not leading up to, spinning out of something. This is its own event. It does draw on things that have been established in the DC Universe over the years but not anything that has the drums beat for it and said, ‘Look here, building up to or counting down to.’ It’s just the way I use history and continuity threads to explore the rich possibilities of the DC Universe.
Someone, somewhere, is preparing to say that Kurt is lying and that all DC books are part of a massive crossover, even if their creators don’t think so, I can tell.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Kurt Busiek has said on 473 separate occasions that Trinity will tie into every other book made by DC. He has said on another 529 occasions that all trade paperbacks being published by both DC and Vertigo will have extra pages added so that stories told in the 40s and beyond will retroactively be Trinity tie-ins, too. Thus, Kurt Busiek is big, fat, lying liar who lies.
How’s that?
February 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Rjected Titles for Final Crisis 2: This Time It’s Personal:
-Final Crisis 2: The Search for Curly’s Gold
-I Still Know What You Did Last Final Crisis
-Son of Final Crisis
-Penultimate Crisis: The Fandom Menace (Sucky Prequel with heavily racist caricatures)
-Final Crisises
February 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Finaler crisis
February 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Can’t say I blame the skeptics – wasn’t that DiDio’s party line concerning the Infintie Crisis tie-ins?
February 11th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Was it? I don’t remember that. Do you have a link, Diana?
February 11th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
It will be interesting to see if DC’s remaining audience, after being trained for years to expect everything to be tied into everything else, will go for a book that’s intended to be self-contained.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:21 am
I don’t remember it being promised, but it’s pretty hard to read Infinite Crisis without the Villains United special.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Pirates of the Crisis: Final Man’s Chest
2 Final 2 Crisis
Live Final Or Crisis
The Crisis Refinalized
Indiana Jones And The Final Crisis
F2: The Mighty Crisis