I only bought two books last week, this and Batman #678. There’ve(?) been a fascinating array of comments placed under both titles. With Batman #678 tallying in at 100 and Trinity with 32 as I write this. I understand Batman may currently be holding the record for most comments yet. 

It’s good to see such participation. It makes me wonder why we haven’t speculated more on what’s coming in our favorite books? Hasn’t any recent title given us as much to speculate on as Batman #678? And, in and of itself, doesn’t that almost dictate #678 as a ‘good’ book? 

All we do is argue whether Trinity sucks or not in the Trinity forum. Maybe that dictates it as a ‘bad’ book? Maybe.. Depends on who you ask. One thing’s for sure, no one’s calling it a great book. A real shame considering Busiek has 47 issues left to work with and Morrison has only three. 

To me Trinity has the feeling of stumbling thru a bland game of D&D where Kurt Busiek is my Dungeon Master. This fight with Konvikt’s been one very long set of turn-based battle and I’m glad it’s over. The reason being, I don’t know why Konvikt’s an integral part of the story and at this point I could care less.

I don’t even know where to begin speculating when it comes to Trinity. I haven’t been offered anything with which to tie together: shared dreams, a big purple monster, tarot cards, Morgan Lefay and Gangbuster. Whereas some people are confused by Morrison’s pulp-stylistic writing, I find myself much more bewildered by an overtly pointless offering of mush from Kurt Busiek.

If only he had bothered to develop the story a bit more before this fight with Konvikt. Perhaps then he could’ve given us reason to care. How can they expect me to care more for the backstory than the front? It’s such a campy-affair. The dialogue between Clark and Diana’s absolutely inhumane.

I’m now also privy to the most campy Bat-moment since Superfriends as he arrives on scene with captive and exclaims, “SUPERMAN TOLD ME SOMETHING HAD ATTACKED WONDER WOMAN, BURNED HER. SO I LOOKED AROUND. I FOUND THIS… …AND ON HIM THIS.” 

Seriously, as I see Batman standing in that panel holding the glowing rock I want to bury my head in the ground. It’s the sort of scene that would make a non-reader think I was the dumb one. As if the big purple monster on the cover and the Jar Jar Binks dialect of Graak hasn’t dictated that enough already. Sigh.