Would it be too much to hope for a Kurt/Fabian Hawkman series?

…Well, probably, but a guy can hope.

I think “LifePet”

if your not stroking…. a cat then your petting it?… man did I go there? sorry

The throwing of Sun Chained was sort of dealing with the problems at hand the best they could at the time. Even oracal was kinda of like “…err ok guys do what you got to but is that a good idea?”

So we may see some repercussions there (I don’t know that either)

last thing:

I think this story is a blast… I think when all the other huppla is over in the rest of the DC universe people will be scrambling to catch up on Trinity.

it’s a damn good read and pretty solid all around (and I do say so myself)!

Love the Lifeblood name – and since it’s Deathstroke the Terminator how about Lifeblood the Protector? It’s a nice twist on his name and explains what his raison d’etre is likely to be…

And want to give props to the great covers we’ve had on Trinity – they’re just beautiful!

Beats me. I haven’t got any questions in a while.

I assume it’s a holdup on the Newsarama end; maybe it’ll get straightened out and things will resume.

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Korvac: The Libra astrological symbol would go along with “justice” (i.e., the scales thereof), so that’s not surprising.

Libra, huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(astrology)

I’m not saying anything about anything. Who knows what’s coming?

Cheers.

– Here’s a wacky thought: could John Stewart somehow have merged with an Omegadrome battlesuit? The Omegadrome suit first appeared in New Titans #114 (September 1994) in a story written by Marv Wolfman and pencilled by Rick Mays. The suit seemed to have been unique, but John’s condition looks fairly similar to me.”

Actually it reminds me of the Weaponeer 500 armor that Kyle wore when they battled The Key early on in the Morrison/Porter/Jimenez JLA series that preceded the current one.

I wouldn’t think so. On the one hand, “Lifestroke” doesn’t mean anything. And on the other, the other anti-matter Earth characters don’t have “reverse names.” They’re morally-inverted versions of the characters, but their names don’t try to take the positive-matter names and invert them, too.

He could be called “Lifeblood” or “Lifeline” or something, though.

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…well, okay, not quite, but it’s the first comic series I’ve ever decided to follow.

And I have to admit, I’m loving it! My familiarity with the characters is only Justice League Unlimited-deep, but that’s been more than enough. Anything I haven’t known your annotations have filled in. Beyond that, it’s been great for my budget. I don’t have a lot of money to spend, so Trinity has been great in giving me a taste of the DCU. Each week I get two great stories, and each one leaves me hungry for me. Nicieza’s supplements, especially, have given me a taste of Nightwing, The Outsiders, Robin, Hawkman, and other great books I really want to pick up. Busiek’s lead, though, has been a better Justice League story than the current title.

I’m loving it!

Whoops, meant to say “plastic flowers.”

But to each his own, of course.

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It’s not just Trinity that I’m down on either. Morrison’s Batman run has been a major disappointment to me (a shame, because I like All-Star Supes and much of Morrison’s past work), the Chris Kent continuity fiasco has left me cold on Superman, and DC’s general editorial mandate on reviving the Silver Age just isn’t where I’m at. Oh well, hopefully someone will reboot or explain away all of that eventually.

I don’t mind a few guest stars here and there, I like Bags’ art, and I really enjoyed the first few issues, but (as I said before) I went into this really just wanting an exciting book with some mystery, but one that focused squarely on The Big Three. Yet after the first few issues, they sure weren’t doing a whole helluva lot. Maybe that’s the curse of having to plot a 52 issue story arc? I dunno. I haven’t read the book in over a month now, but this week’s annotations barely even make mention of Bats, Supes and Wondy. It sure mentions of boatload of other characters though. Some I know, some I don’t.

Busiek has every right to make references back to old stories he’s written, but since I haven’t read them they just serve to confuse me. I’m not sure where it’s all going or what it all means. I just know that I’m getting the fill of the characters I wanted, and I couldn’t justify paying $3 a week for another 40+ weeks for something I wasn’t understanding or even enjoying anymore.

I don’t mean to pick on Kurt at all. I enjoyed his Superman run a lot (it was just unfortunate that the book was plagued with delays, just like many DC titles the past couple of years). Hopefully others are enjoying Trinity more than I did.

Nah. Or at least not alphabetically-named ones. Based on their appearances, I named them Armadillo Guy, Lizardboi and Y-head, and then trimmed.

>> The first Barracuda appeared in Freedom Fighters #7-9 (March-April 1977 to July-August 1977) as the Namor-analogue in the Crusaders, a group which parodied Marvel’s Invaders.>>

And while I’ve never gotten this confirmed, I have assumed that he’s the reason Grant selected “Barracuda” as the name for the Aquaman-analogue on the anti-matter Earth. And it was Grant, not me — Ron Garney and I may have showed him on panel for the first time, but the name came from Grant.

>> Not to be outdone, The Invaders had its own parody of the Freedom Fighters, also called the Crusaders.>>

…who debuted the same month as the DC Crusaders, just as the Squadron Supreme and the Justifiers of Angor debuted the same month. It was a planned stunt, back before crossovers were so common.

>>In the absence of any official codename, I’m calling the guy in panel 3 “Whitestroke.”>>

That works. He probably has some lameass name like “Coup de Grace” or something, but I never went that far. Thinking of the opposite to someone named Deathstroke the Terminator always headed me down the path of “Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Terminator; Michael Biehn is the Germinator” jokes…

>> I suppose the line “every lost race hidden out of fear” would explain Barracuda’s absence from the Crime Syndicate.>>

That was actually about the Feitherans. The CSA’s habit of killing off the competition explains Barracuda not joining. Besides, he’s the warlike ruler of his own undersea country; he doesn’t join, he conquers.

>> Of course it’s convenient that this JLA squad includes two Real Smart guys, an android, and two heroes who can literally think things into existence, but I still love how they use their brains and Science! to solve the problem at hand.>>

Thanks! Though I’ll point out that it wasn’t merely “convenient” — it was the plan. It’s the reason Batman sent those particular guys, including telling GL that they needed his specific abilities.

>>I mean, it’s not like there’s a lot of Trinity Talk in Justice League, Superman/Batman, or any other team-up title. >>

No, but they do talk about their own series concepts — why the League is the League, compare and contrast Superman and Batman, that sort of thing.

>>Given the particular ethical tendencies of the Anti-Matter Earth, I’d expect our heroes to start turning evil if it were trying to work its mojo on them.>>

Or the anti-matter Earth to change its nature is it got a different Trinity?

>>Over the course of Infinite Crisis, World War III, and “The Sinestro Corps War,” I grew tired of the “dogpile on [bad guy]” school of fight choreography.>>

Hey, Geoff Johns can’t hog it all! It’s our turn, dammit!

:: innocently fails to mention use of same strategy in JLA/Avengers, Avengers Forever and other books. contemplates pointing at Fabian and running ::

>> I think the obvious implication is that the others were busy with the rest of the Dreambound >>

Yep.

>> I’ll be honest — this issue marked the first time I thought I had to justify the existence of these annotations.>>

They’re a lot of fun. That’s all the justification they need, I’d say.

And we’re going to give you plenty to annotate as the series rolls on…

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