CyberGrim

June 5, 2008 7:50 pm

Yeah I really liked the first issue of Trinity. I think the story was well written if a little slow, but getting 4 books in  month instead of one I suppose the story can burn a little slower per issue. The only criticism I would make is that I'm not sure that Mark Bagley suits this type of book. I'm not saying the art's bad or anything I just think Bagley's cartoony style of pencils fits more into Spider-Man, where the protagonist is a teenager, than any of the big three.

Overall I thought it was very good, I just hope the team doesn't get tired too soon and let the story slip.

June 5, 2008 4:57 pm

According to the DC website the rest are 32 pages, don't know how much of that is story and how much is ad's though.

@SteveM You're comic shop charges £2.99 for a $2.99 book?! That's insane! Unless you love your guy I'd change shops. Everywhere I've seen so far a $2.99 book translates to £1.80 and a $3.99 book translates to £2.50.

June 4, 2008 12:37 pm

Firefly always makes me sad, it was one of the most original concepts I've seen in TV in recent years, where all we seem to get is rehashes of previous shows, and on then I always remember that there's nothing more than just 14 episodes and film. These comic remedy that to a certain extent, but all there's really been is a 3 issue mini-series in 2005 and this 3 issue mini-series. As a fan I still think that that's not enough.

Angel has an ongoing series (Angel: After the Fall - IDW), so has Buffy (Buffy: Season 08 - Dark Horse), where's the ongoing series giving us a monthly dose of Mal and his miscreant crew, I can only hope it's somewhere in the pipeline. On a lighter note Joss said that there's going to be a 3 issue mini-series sometime in the near future highlighting some of Sheperd Book's past. So if you enjoy the Serenity books, keep an eye out for that one.

June 3, 2008 10:06 pm

Ok, ignore me, it's 3am here in the UK. I'm obviously in a state of such sleep deprivation that I can't read the fact that this is a 40 page book. I retract my last comment, furthermore I WILL be picking this book up and will review it on Thursday night (comics get to the UK on Thursday not Wednesday).

 

God I feel like such a dumbass /sigh

June 3, 2008 9:43 pm

I didn't mean to give the impression that any section of this book 'doesn't matter' I was just giving my opinion that $2.99 seems a bit steep for a weekly, 22 page book. Per month that's 88 pages and $11.96 making it 14 cents per page/per month. A normal monthy book being an average of 32 pages and £2.99 (for the majority) makes it 9 cents per page/per month. If Trinity was $1.99 a week that would be $7.96 a month, with still the 88 pages, would make that too 9 cents per page/per month.

 

I know full well that that's not how the industry works, I was just crunching numbers and found it interesting. Sorry if I gave anyone the wrong impression about my '12 page' comment.

June 2, 2008 5:07 pm Yeah it's weekly, not sure how I feel about the $2.99 price tag for 12 pages of a continuing storyline but I might pick it up.