Kurt Busiek Handling DC’s Trinity In Next Weekly Series
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CBR has an interview with Kurt Busiek about DC’s FINALLY revealed next weekly series, titled Trinity. As the title implies, the series will focus on DC’s holy trinity of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Busiek will be the main writer for the series, with Fabian Nicieza handling partial cowriting and Mark Bagley handling art.
“The most obvious is that it is about Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. But the term ‘trinity’ means more than that there are three of them. Why are they a trinity? What’s important about them being a trinity? The word ‘trinity’ and the concept of ‘the trinity’ are central to the story we are telling. It’s not just a fancy way of saying ‘three guys.’ There is more to it than that.”
Rumors have been circling for months that Jim Starlin’s “Death of the New Gods” mini-series was possibly making way for DC’s holy trinity to make the leap themselves to a god-like status in DCU, but Busiek said drawing a religious parallel to the book’s title may be a bit of a stretch.
“Clearly, Superman is the father, Wonder Woman is son and Batman is the Holy Ghost,” laughed Busiek. “Yes, first we will start with the ‘Song of Solomon’ but it will be the ‘Sound of Solomon Grundy.’
“No, ‘Death of the New Gods’ is one of the series that is leading into ‘Final Crisis.’ ‘Trinity’ is not ‘Final Crisis’ related. It is a relatively self-contained story that follows its own track. It’s part of the DC Universe, but it’s not one thread in the giant plot structure that is a big event. It is its own story. It has a beginning, a middle and an ending. There will be repercussions, yes. It has new characters that are introduced that I sure hope will spin off into their own mini-series or series or things like that, but it’s not leading to ‘Final Crisis 2: This Time It’s Personal.”
So speaketh the Busiek.
To read the entire interview, check out CBR’s article.
Perhaps I should know better after Countdown, but I’m kind of excited about this series. The beginning of Batman and Superman was excellent, the creative team on this series is top-level, and they’re avoiding my main problem with Countdown by making this series self-contained, all very good signs.
Regardless, it appears that we have about four months before we find out if DC’s learned their lesson or this whole weekly concept has run its course.
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It could be interesting to see what Marvel would do as a weekly, but I think the closest we’ll get from them is Amazing being thrice-monthly and crossovers like Messiah Complex having a chapter come out each week. I can’t really see them doing 52 weekly issues of a series like DC’s been doing.
Of course, I couldn’t really see DC doing it, either.
I guess this is going to be a regular thing now that DC knows it sells and that they can actually do it. It’ll really take something unbelievably awesome for me justify buying an issue every week.
I wish Marvel would merge the two Avengers titles and run that one weekly. Would be pretty interesting and a great guide for the rest of the Marvel Universe to follow.
You’re almost buying a comic weekly now with Amazing, though. I don;t know that I’d get into a weekly comic melding Mighty and New Avengers, though - it would probably depend on the characters.
I had an idea for a weekly Marvel series once that would basicly be a different story each week (though sometimes there could be multi-issue stories or ongoing arcs) about smaller events going on in the Marvel U. It would be a way to use obscure and under used characters without giving them their own title or miniseries.
It could be basicly a free-format book, changing from week to week, different writers and artists, ect.
(If this gets announced by Marvel in a month or two, you’re all testifying for me)
Oh definitely. One of the things I liked most about 52 was its use of B and C list characters in awesome ways.
I hope it hasn’t run it’s course. Not until Marvel gives it a shot at least, as DC titles rarely motivate me enough to pick them up.