Etta Candy is a well established character from Wonder Woman mythos. Back in the day, Etta Candy started off as the overweight, very zealous cheerleader/sidekick from the Holliday Girls. She was famous for her “wooh wooh” exclamations at various points in the Golden Age WW stories.

Sometime in the Silver Age, Etta Candy morphed into a (slightly) slimmer military professional, along with Diana Prince, until the end of the Wonder Woman vol. 1 series right before Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In the 80s Perez led revival of Wonder Woman (vol. 2), Etta Candy was an officer in the military, serving alongside Steve Trevor. While still portly, she was a more assertive and proactive character than her Silver Age counterpart but less so than her Golden Age-self. During the course of this book, Etta and Steve profess their love for one another and eventually marry.

In the most recent revival of Wonder Woman (vol. 3), Etta Candy is brought back into Wonder Woman’s life at the Department of Metahuman Affairs to find out Diana Prince’s secret. Etta Candy’s double dealing as she knows that Diana is Wonder Woman AND doing her best to protect her “private identity” from the prying eyes of Sarge Steele. This interpretation of Etta is far more sassier and assertive (since Gail Simone brought her back into the book), a good blend of the Golden Age spirit with the Silver Age military status.

And she’s still married to Steve Trevor.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1, in 1960, for starters.

That’s his first appearance, and he bags them all in that story. They eventually escape, and find out that Snapper Carr has defeated Despero in their absence.

But Despero doesn’t bring that part of it up much.

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I didn’t understand Clark’s “horn blows at midnight” statement to Lois. Some kind of code? For what?

Actually, Supes’ line at the top of the page: “But why is it the people who are scared who feel… WRONG to me?” made no sense to me either? Am I missing something here? I’m not sure it even makes grammatical sense. It reads awkward, at the very least.

Where I’m really lost, however, is everything with Morgaine, Enigma, and Despero. I’m not terribly familiar with Morgaine (in terms of the DCU) or Despero to begin with, but then you throw in this cosmic egg — whatever the hell that is — and all this talk about “worldsoul” (again, whatever the hell that is), along with the Tarot cards, and all these various “trinities” cropping up.

Now we have a tattooed freak, a talking ape, and a heroin addict. Not to mention one very confused reader who’s not getting what he’d hoped for. I’m not sure what I was expecting out of this series, but this wasn’t it. I guess I thought Trinity would be a more coherent mystery/adventure that really focused hard on The Big Three. Without bringing in a cast of (seemingly) thousands.

I was with this book (thanks in part to Tom’s wonderful annotations here) for the first seven issues, but now I’m not so sure. It’s gotten too unweildy for my tastes. Having seen The Dark Knight movie twice, I’m reminded how much more I enjoy Batman as a loner, and a character of the streets. Not so much when he’s involved in cosmic storylines.

I generally liked Busiek’s run on Superman (even though it took forever to complete “Camelot Falls”), so I had high hopes for Trinity. I think I’ll give it two or three more issues, and then if I’m not enjoying it more I’m dropping it.