Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1 // Review
The city street is a mess as powerful people do what powerful people do in the sky. Wonder Robin is chasing after Super Corgi somewhere on the street elow when she runs into someone who speaks of seeing the destruction of countless Earths. He’s in severe anguish. But Wonde Robin just wants to find Super Corgi, so she’s going to ask him about that instead. She’s going to get more adventure than she’s expecting in Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1. Writer Tom King opens a whole new series for the character that he’s been slowly introducing in back-up features in Wonder Woman. The action comes to the page courtesy of artist Belen Ortega and colorist Alejandro Sanchez.
The individual speaking of the destruction of worlds is a guy named Pariah. He’s been though quite a lot on the comics page since he was first introduced at the end of the worlds back in the 1980s. He’s clearly quite sad and so little Wonder Robin wants to help him out by telling him the story of how she got to be there...in the future. See: she ran into two other versions of herself from the future and well...it’s better if she tells the story, really...
It was several decades ago when someone had the rather clever idea to team-up a girl version of Wonder Woman with a teen version of her AND the standard adult version. Though it was a clever idea, the writing never really lived-up to the potential of the situation. Decades later, Tom King moves one soolid step closer to giving the premise over to its true potential in a deeply enjoyable time travel story that has distinctly different personalities rendered for each ot the three versions of Wonder Woman’s daughter AND solidly expressive and cleverly-rendered dialogue for each of them.
Ortega has a hell of a balancing act to try to manage with the visuals for the first issue of the new series. There’s very serious drama going on here that plays out in several different layers. Some of it is crushingly sad and depressing, but there IS a great deal going on in the foreground that is fun. lighthearted and appealingly weird. All of this is handled with clever emotional intricacy and a very sharp sense of humor by an aritist who also proves to be breathtakingly good with the superhero action.
King finds a respectably bewildering opening to a new series featuring a daughter of Wonder Woman who is quite solidly her own person. It’s also a clever study in character development that manages some very deft narrative maneuvers involving someone who has casually stumbled through time travel at various stages in her life. It’s all quite well-executed o nmore levels than it has any right to be. King really has something here, but it’s going to be kind fo weird to see how it is that he’s going to be able to resolve it all in the end.
