Trinity, Daughter of Wonder Woman #1 – Tom King, Writer; Belen Ortega, Artist; Alejandro Sanchez, Colorist
Ray – 9.5/10
Ray: Tom King is known for his deeply emotional, intense comic books, but his Wonder Woman run reminded me of one thing about him – he’s also very funny. His Trinity backups, which saw the young daughter of Wonder Woman (and Steve Trevor) being supervised and trained by an older Damian Wayne and Jon Kent, were some of the highlights of the first era of that run, particularly an issue where Jon and Damian were turned into super-corgis. When a solo title was announced, I wondered if this offbeat tone could truly be translated into an ongoing series. I shouldn’t have worried – this issue is just as frantic as the backups, but with a strong emotional core. When we pick up, pint-sized Trinity is bopping through the multiverse in search of Jon and Damian – who have once again been turned into Corgis for reasons unknown. She encounters a despairing Pariah, in the midst of the collapse of a world, and proceeds to confuse him further.
From there, we flash back to how all this chaos began. If I have one quibble with this series, it’s that Jon and Damian should probably be adults by the time Trinity is around five (Jon already is), but they acts like squabbling, immature teens here. But it’s very funny – and it leads them to not noticing that Trinity is very sad about not getting to meet her dad. Through a chaotic series of events, this leads to her meeting her teen self – and the two then go and track down their adult self, pulling her into an adventure to rescue Steve that has unintended consequences on the timeline. Corgi-shaped consequences. But the ending of this issue is a big surprise, playing on the events of another Tom King-penned backup and setting the stakes high for this series. Trinity is obviously a new character without many defining stories, but this issue was a strong start combining real pathos with some great Silver Age-style silliness.
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