Trinity War Re-Speculation

Trinity War came to an end last week in the pages of Justice League #23 and, on the whole, I happen to think it was pretty good. The big reveal of the Crime Syndicate at the end was done well, although I had to chuckle at Madame Xanadu's line "...it was the number... the true number of evil. Three. Earth-Three!" You have to wonder how, in the New 52 when clearly no-one's met the Crime Syndicate before that she knows Earth-Three is the home of evil - heck, they could be from Earth-Two for all she knows.

Silly things like that aside, it was enjoyable as I said.

It did also make me revisit my post from last year when I speculated about Trinity War following the reveal of the Free Comic Book Day teaser. There were something things I had wrong (thinking it was Black Adam, not Shazam; thinking Simon Baz was John Stewart in a new costume) though I was pleased that I included the line

"we may be looking at a new Earth 3 which, at a push, could link up with the trinity aspect."

and then in the comments

"My gut's saying an Earth 3/Crime Syndicate story and they'll time it for JLoA #21/#22 to hark back to the first JLA/JSA crossover."

Not too far off the mark, then?

Going back to last week's Justice League #23, we're left with one more mystery: the identity of Superwoman's prisoner.

I'm going to go for the obvious and suggest that it's Earth-Three's Alexander Luthor or possibly his son Alexander Luthor, Jr seeing as Geoff Johns killed the latter at the end of Infinite Crisis; it wouldn't be too far of a stretch for him to want to redeem the character he besmirched. Plus, that would possibly tie in to Forever Evil where Luthor is seen fighting this Earth's bad guys; could the Earth-Three Luthor get free, take his duplicate's place and then fight for the good guys?

I guess we wait and see.

DC's July Solicitations

The big news from DC's July solicitations was the reveal of Trinity War not as a standalone mini-series as most events have been, but as a story running across the various Justice League titles. Justice League, JL Dark and JL of America will host the main story with, at the very least, Trinity of Sin: Pandora and Trinity of Sin: Phantom Stranger feeling the effects at the same time.

I wouldn't discount a number of one-shots tying in with it either.

DC's June Solicitations

TRINITY OF SIN: PANDORA #1 - sort of tempted by this but, I have to admit, more from the point of it's a multiversal title, something that feeds into the forthcoming Trinity War and so I'm more interested in how it fits in rather than the character herself. Maybe I'll pick it up, maybe not.

DC's October Solicits

JUSTICE LEAGUE #13
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by TONY S. DANIEL and RICHARD FRIEND
Backup story art by GARY FRANK
On sale OCTOBER 17 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
GEOFF JOHNS is joined by TONY DANIEL for a two-part chapter in the Justice League saga marching toward TRINITY WAR.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #12 will have the world debating its shocking conclusion – and where it will lead from here!
The League takes on a villain destined to be one of the greatest threats to the DC Universe in the year ahead – the mysterious Cheetah! But who is she? What is her connection to Wonder Woman? And how will this fundamentally change the relationships within the team?

So Trinity War gets a mention; I really thought it would be longer before anything started happening with that. And the line about "how will this fundamentally change the relationships within the team?"

Who knows? Maybe they'll start acting like a team?

Trinity War Speculation

DC's unveiled a big picture of the four page gatefold in the Free Comic Book Day issue (which I didn't get - need to speak to my comic book guy)

and Newsarama has a link to an absolutely massive version of it.

Not wanting to miss out on the speculation about Trinity War, I thought I'd have a quick look and see what we've got: