Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #4 // Review
Damian Wayne was running through Wayne Manor on the day of Bruce Wayne’s wedding. This is a bit strange given the fact that Bruce hadn’t become Damian’s father until after he had gotten married. And then there’s the fact that he’s defecating all over the place and breaking things. That’s a bit weird. But it’s not the only thing weird going on in Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #4. Writer Tom King continues an enjoyable rush through history with artist Belén Ortega. Color comes to the page courtesy of Alejandro Sánchez. Once again--King and company delicately craft an offbeat comedy that manages some clever bits of characterization in a touching coming-of-age drama.
Damian is not in the body of a corgi dressed as Robin. Naturally it’s going to want to run around Wayne Manor and explore. Bruce is getting married. Normally he’d be very calm about everything, but this is a very important point in his life and things seem to be falling apart. He’s already trodden into the feces of the dog form of his time-travelling future son. Things are only going to get worse as it rushes around a place that has clearly NOT been corgi-proofed.
King manages some really clever bits of characterization that deliver a surprisingly sophisticated image of a young woman who had come-of-age through encountering some of the more memorable characters from throughout the history of DC. Trinity’s time hanging out with Alfred and Catwoman informs a bit more on who it is that she’s going to be and some of the mistakes that she might end-up making as one of her older incarnations. Having the entire story narrated by Alfred is a clever decision that delivers a bit more personality to one of the more interesting supporting characters in the DC universe.
So the entire thing is set in Wayne Manor. And it's just one dog, dressed as Robin and running around. All of the rest of it, heartwarming, comic drama stuff. This might not come across as being all that visually appealing. However, Ortega is particularly good at delivering a very strong personality to the wonder tot who will grow-up to be Trinity. She's charming. She's fun. King makes her very precocious and sharp. It would be all too easy to make that look kind of annoying on the page with her posture and her facial features. However, Ortega does a really good job of making sure that it's all very charming. Sánchez lands, a charming warmth to Wayne Manor that amplifies the poshness of the place without making it seem cold and stately.
There are a lot of angles on the background of Trinity that are being exported in the pages of the series. It's not often that a character is given this much background with respect to their childhood. King has been delicately rendering the whole background on this character for quite some time. And now it really does begin to look like she has the kind of complexity that's not often given to just any next generation legacy superhero. What King is doing here is something very special. And it's very charming to see it come together.
