Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman

Members of the Super-and-Bat-Families have suffered through a multitude of transformations for various reasons over the years.  This time, Superman and his son Jon, and Batman and his son Damien have all been transformed into corgis because Trinity (age 12) wanted to cheer up Trinity (age 6) by showing a bit of Trinity’s (age 18) future.  Normally this would be fixed by futzing with the timestream some more, but all of the corgis managed to escape to different points in the timeline of the DCU.  So it’s down to Trinity (age 6) to offer Pirana – I mean, Pariah some comfort during the Crisis on Infinite earths, Trinity (age 12) to work with Jason Todd as Robin, and Trinity (age 18) to come between her mother, Steve Trevor, and a cerberus.  Which is bittersweet in its own way as Steve never got to meet his daughter while he was alive.  Whether or not that’ll always be the case, well…

Humor is not alien to Tom King’s works as he’s given us plenty of funny stuff in his DC work, laughing both with and at all of the oddball parts of its history.  As to whether or not he can do an entirely comedic superhero miniseries, however, the jury is still out after what he delivers here.  Much of the humor here will hinge on how amusing you find three different versions of Trinity interacting with each other and the parts of the DCU they find themselves in.  Sometimes it’s pretty clever as King has Trinity (age 6) crash the pre-nuptuals of Batman and Catwoman.  Other times it’s eye-rolling as Trinity (age 12) loses it after seeing Robin in his pixie shorts.

While I don’t regret reading this, I can’t say that the results made me want to see another miniseries featuring all three iterations of Trinity together.  This is in spite of generally excellent art from Belen Ortega who really does their best to sell the comedy, and even the dramatic bits that creep in at the end.  You might be able to make the argument that this miniseries is even relevant to King’s ongoing “Wonder Woman” run as it foreshadows a potential resurrection, but I have a feeling that anyone will still be able to enjoy that (much better) title even if they decide to skip this one.