Trinity #2 Review

TRINITY #2
Written by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza
Art by Mark Bagley and Art Thibert, Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens, Tom Derenick and Wayne Faucher and Mike Norton and Jerry Ordway

Trinity #2 was a better outing than the first issue, but the series still lacks a driving force.

Yes, there's the whole Morgan and Enigma evil Trinity and the mysterious menace, but neither is at the forefront of the story nor have they interacted or really impacted our heroes in any tangible way.

There was a quick wrap up of the Trinity's magic based problem last issue that only really served to show off the different personalities and ways each character tackle similar problems, which has been done a million times before, but was entertaining enough as it is. I'm not sure why Morgan discounts Batman so easily, despite his complete rejection of the magical illusion with but a single word. For an ancient and supposedly intelligent magician, you'd think she'd consider his feat quite fearsome compared to how much difficulty Superman and Wonder Woman had with their trials.

The backup was actually more entertaining than the Busiek / Bagley intro. The second artist had a very similar style to Bagley and I'd almost reckon it looked better than Bags' work. That may have to do with it being a backup with lots of time to do his ten pages compared to Bagley's weekly schedule rushing him.

However, the similarity in art styles only made the disjointed feeling of the issues that much more apparent. Busiek's tale ended with Green Lantern defeated by Konvikt. Fabian's story goes back in time and shows us how he was defeated. With how similar the art looked, it would have been much better if they had spliced the two tales together into one cohesive story.

Konvikt did absolutely nothing for me and is one of the most generic and uninspired looking characters I have ever seen. As if Superman doesn't have enough dimwitted, musclebound Hulk knockoff villains to contend with, they couldn't find someone else to fill his role?

Verdict - Check It. It's not 52, but it's not Countdown either is about the best description of this series.

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