Comments on: Annotations for Trinity issue #2

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:57:30 +0000

Batman’s “No” on page 8 immediately reminded me of the scene in the original Justice League of America #18 when the JLA is transported to Starzl and Batman orders the other JLA members not to say that he can’t bend the bars of a cage imprisoning Superman, Wonder Woman and GL, although the other more powerful JLA members have failed after being told they could not force them. He figured out that on that world, whatever someone was told was believed to be true.

By: Tom Bondurant

Tom Bondurant — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:24:10 +0000

Funny you mention Enigma’s mask, because I think it kinda looks like a question mark.

And about the additional “login” … basically, although this post is linked from the main site, here at Blog@ we’re using a different box of crayons. JK talked about it here (you may need to scroll down). Sorry for any inconvenience.

By: HNutz

HNutz — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:47:09 +0000

Don’t know why I had to log in after already logging in… and that’s on top of not being able to quote, edit, etc.

Anywho, it looks like I was wrong last week regarding Enigma. He doesn’t look particularly scarred under his mask this time, although his half mask still reminds me of Two-Face.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:05:34 +0000

Wonder Woman’s philosophy here is similar to the Greek notion of Arete. Essentially, everyone, regardless of their specific vocation, were expected to live up to their potential for human greatness. A soldier would strive to be the greatest at warfare, a philosopher the greatest at philosophy and an artist the greatest at art. Under this philosophy, striving for excellence was a virtue and mediocrity was unacceptable.

In this case, Wonder Woman strives to be the best Wonder Woman she could possibly be. I like that as a character trait for her.

By: Tom Bondurant

Tom Bondurant — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:26:33 +0000

You know, after further review, I’m not sure that anything really happened to Pluto beyond it being used as Brainiac 13′s base during “Our Worlds At War.” In Superman #171 (August 2001), it seems like Brainiac makes Superman think Pluto’s been a) transformed into a new Warworld and b) destroyed. In Green Lantern: Our Worlds At War #1, Superman then sends Kyle out to build a new Pluto (oh, the indignity!), but again, Brainiac just lets Kyle think he’s done so. The real Pluto is still there, just cloaked by Brainiac.

So there you go.

By: JackKnife

JackKnife — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:02:30 +0000

Actually before Our Worlds at War hadn’t Pluto already been replaced by War World which (maybe) got destroyed during that storyline.

By: Tom Bondurant

Tom Bondurant — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:04:18 +0000

Good catch, Johnny Zito! Pluto gets no love.

By: super nintendo chalmers

super nintendo chalmers — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:51:59 +0000

maybe enigma is the gobbly goocker

By: Tom Bondurant

Tom Bondurant — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:36:03 +0000

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if that really is Krona and Trinity incorporates some follow-up with the cosmic egg. Seems like Busiek lately has had his regular-series work interrupted for one reason or another, and it’d be nice if he got to close these plotlines out.

Besides, maybe the residue from JLA/Avengers would make Enigma some Multiversal iteration of Paste-Pot Pete, and I think that’d be fabulous.

By: johnny zito

johnny zito — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:22:01 +0000

It should be noted that Pluto isn’t the original Pluto in the New Earth’s universe.

It was destroyed by an Imperiex Done at the start of Our Worlds at War and I think it was Superman or Kyle Rayner who put a new one together with debris from the kuiper belt.

By: Julius Brown

Julius Brown — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:27:24 +0000

I thought Bagley’s art improved this issue and he seems to be getting a handle on things. I did not like the continued ham-fisted Superman=sci-fi, Batman=dark gothic, Wonder Woman=I likes fightin’. Superman still seems to be getting the top billing and best of each issue which is kind of odd.

Tom’s references to Krona scare me because if that’s where this is all headed I’ll just drop it now. Graak and Konvikt continue to be annoying. I also hope we won’t get to see The Trinity of Heroes make a tour of the DCU Heroes and show why they are better than the rest. Look, Green Lantern couldn’t handle Graak & Konvikt, but I bet Supes, Bats & WW could.

I am ready to see Etrigan pop up and am interested in Bagley’s interpretation. Two issues and Superman hasn’t cried yet, but it’s still a long way to issue #52. Oddly, enough this series just seems to need Lobo to break up the stifling earnestness that seems to linger in the title. Maybe a Lobo and Etrigan appearance together since they really don’t like each other.

Thanks, Tom for your thoughts even if they did include Krona.

By: TheToileteer

TheToileteer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:53:24 +0000

Testing 1,2,3…

By: tangata manu

tangata manu — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:58:27 +0000

eldar, would you remind me of how batman did that please? i can´t recall the tower of babel arc and i no longer have it with me.

and these articles are very interesting in deed. and completely ad-hoc with a very interesting series (at least so far)

By: TimCallahan

TimCallahan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:29:22 +0000

Hey, I’m a Berkshire County resident too!

By: theoncomingstorm

theoncomingstorm — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:25:59 +0000

Armored Spiders…sounds interesting!…and not only that but that sounds very similar to the most evil of creatures from the Doctor Who Universe…The Daleks…mutated blobs with multiple appendages (spiderish-like IMO) in “bonded polycarbide armor”

By: arkaell

arkaell — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:54:16 +0000

John’s comments about ‘being sentimental, Pluto was still a planet’ to him was funny. Even the GLC don’t use the term plutoid.

By: eldar

eldar — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:44:01 +0000

Batman partially exploited the flaw in Tower of Babel for his takedown plans of the JLA.

By: psychkid12

psychkid12 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:29:52 +0000

ok, so as a life long resident of Berkshire County….yes, it is a really place, scary as that may be…and if it really is Houstonic….there are some people that really look like the huge monster and his little friend….I found myself stopping and having to look at it all over again…can anyone answer this question for me…why, why, why would anyone choose the setting to be Berkshier County. I feel like Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza may have lost their minds….and olny after two issues…..

By: AnalSurprise

AnalSurprise — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:18:34 +0000

Just finished reading this book, ironically. I actually preferred it to issue #1. Kurt establishes who Wonder Woman is rather succinctly here, and this Marvel Zombie appreciates the effort. He’s clearly setting things up so that WW’s obsession with doing things better and more efficiently will backfire at some point. I like how she’s a cross between the polar opposites that are Supes and Bats. Minor gripe, it would’ve seemed more apropos to me to put her on the cover of this one instead of Bats (and slightly more PC than putting the two men first, and the woman last, in this first trinity of covers). Another minor gripe is how young Bagley’s Superman looks. There are a couple of panels where he flat-out looks like the old Superboy. This is the elder statesman of superheroes, who’s seen and done it all. Drawing him this young gives me a weird Brand New Day vibe.

Those are my only two decidedly minor gripes, though. Everything else about this book works for me, and I’m not much of a DC fan to begin with. Even Fabian’s parts work, especially in #2. I’m sure this backup-story-but-not-quite concept has been done before, but I’ve never seen it done quite this way. I like. Kudos to everyone involved.

By: Allen Passalaqua

Allen Passalaqua — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:40:32 +0000

These are great… glad to seem them, oh and thanks for listing the colorist! I worked hard on my pages and the covers!

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