Trinity #33

I've been meaning to tackle a Trinity review for a while, and finally with this issue (because no one demanded it!) it's a review!

Trinity is a tough book to review as a single issue, because it's a weekly, always broken into two stories, and so directly related to everything that's come before. 

At this point in the year long tale we've reached a point where there's loads of stuff going on,

 Be it our displaced heroes, led by Alfred, following a tribe of purple faced people who are recapping their "legends" (which happens to be a slightly altered version of the history of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman),

 or The JSI struggling to keep the world together in a race against time style war where heroes have to reach rifts in order to connect themselves to the symbols of the Tarot.  It reminds me of the world spanning GI JOE adventures I used to watch.  Plus there's some clever stuff in there, the Flash being the chariot, Green Arrow being Justice, it's good fun!

It's in the quieter moments I find myself really enjoying this book.  Recently there was a great moment where Tomorrow Woman and Triumph were talking about what it was they were fighting for, and, while both of them knew they were fighting for a better world, they also knew they were fighting for a world in which they were dead, and too make matters worse, they couldn't bring themselves to tell each other.  In those few panels Busiek just rips your heart out, it's a really unique concept, and makes you realize how taxing true heroism can be. I can only hope that these characters find a way to live on when the status quo is returned, but it's probably more interesting if they don't.

In the back up this issue you realize how bad things have really gotten, as Morgaine Le Faye warps the world to her liking and we get a really disturbing story of a family simply torn apart, including, a horrifying moment where a father is forced to kill his own daughter.  It's the craziest thing I read this week and pushed this one over the top into Pick of the Week status.

The art continues to be strong, if a little workman-like at times, but that's to be expected in a weekly I suppose.  All things considered Bagley remains a phenom, and the back up artists continue to impress.

The book has had some ups and downs, but for my money it's been mostly ups and week after week, I look forward to this book and I'm excited to see what happens next.  We're getting close to the end now and I expect things to get real damn exciting.