Trinity

Starting the first Wednesday of June will be DC's new ongoing weekly Trinity. The year-long series will focus on DC's big three, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, and will feature the same creative team of writer Kurt Busiek and artist Mark Bagley for the whole 52 issue run. Learning from Countdown's mistakes, Trinity will work as a stand alone series and will not directly tie into DC's big summer event Final Crisis. However, DC's executive editor Dan DiDio explains in Comic Shop News, "What happens in this series will have ramifications within the DCU as a total. This is a story that tells the importance of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in the DCU."

Trinity will be the first major work at DC for artist Bagley. Coming from a record breaking run with Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man, Bagley explains his choice to move to DC, "The opportunity to make my DC debut with a project of this magnitude using their biggest characters, was too much for any artist to pass up."

I can't help but think this series is an absolutely genius move on DC part. Putting out a weekly comic featuring their three most popular characters, if not the three most recognizable super-heroes in comic history, looks to be a gold-mine. Seriously, what comic with Batman in it isn't popular?

Trinity is shaping up to be a new-reader friendly book, unlike an event like Final Crisis, and will be a perfect jumping on point for DC's top 3 characters. For more on Trinity, check out this interview with Dan DiDio.

-Jon