Trinity covered in Daily Republic

An article on Trinity was published in the Friday June 13th, Daily Republic. I think it is cool that comics are starting to gain mainstram coverage in newspapers and such withiout using the tired Bam Pow Smash headlines.

From the Daily Republic:


DC Comics looks at its ‘Big Three’ in latest weekly series

BY ANDREW A. SMITH
SCRIPPS HOWARD SERVICE


Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are three of the most important characters in comics for a variety of reasons. Veteran comics scribe Kurt Busiek (“Marvels,” “JLA/Avengers”) is
going to spend a year exploring a few of them.

“Trinity,” which launched June 4, is a 52-issue, weekly comic-book series that stars the “Big
Three” of DC Comics -- the only three superheroes to be continually published in their own titles since the early 1940s. That makes them some of the bestknown, best-selling fictional characters worldwide. But, says Busiek, it’s not just the sales that give their relationship -- and the comic
book -- its name. “

‘Trinity’ has a deeper, more metaphysical meaning,” he said. “Otherwise, if
we just wanted to say, ‘Hey, three characters,’ we could have called the book ‘Trio.’ ”

It’s not just about their importance or popularity in the fictional DC Universe, where they are mainstays of the Justice League and known worldwide.

“Batman’s not exactly warm and cuddly,” Busiek said with a laugh.

In the DC Universe, they are certainly central characters, the superheroes other superheroes admire and emulate -- plus, they seem interconnected. But how? As sun, moon and Earth? Apollo, Hades and Artemis?

“You compared Batman to Hades, and it’s not like a lot of ancient Greeks identified
with him,” Busiek said. “But he was important to the way that cosmology
worked, and Batman’s clearly very important to how the DCU’s cosmology
works.

“So there’s something to what you say about mythological underpinnings,” he
continued. The Trinity link to sun, moon and Earth “in that Superman’s powered
by the sun, Batman’s a creature of the moonlit night and Wonder Woman’s literally made of earth, of magic clay. They’re also a man of tomorrow, a man of the technological present and a woman of ancient mysticism; a science-fiction hero, a street-level hero and a mythic hero; a savior, an avenger and a warrior; and many more such comparisons.

Busiek will follow that story each week in 12-page increments, illustrated by Mark Bagley (“Ultimate Spider-Man,” “Thunderbolts”).

Each issue will feature a “secondary chapter,” as Busiek phrases it, written by him and Fabian Nicieza, and illustrated by various artists. “It’s all one story, and the backup chapters” aren’t separate, Busiek said.