From four-year-old Lizzie Prince tormenting babysitters Damian Wayne andJon Kent to an adult Trinity finally taking her place as her mother’s successoralongside her generation’s Batman and Superman, it’s a saga that spansdecades—and light years—in adventures that set the stage for Trinity’supcoming series! Collecting stories from Wonder Woman #800, #3-6, #8-13,Trinity Special #1, and World’s Finest Special #1
Maybe it's the parent in me but I LOVED this. I was cracking up almost the entire time. The banter and back and forth was brilliant. The art was great! I was sad when it ended and now I am very excited for the new series to start.
Once upon a time Damien Wayne and Jon Kent were young, best friends, and, well, Super Sons. And then an editorial decision was made to age Jon up a bit, and essentially, their youthful adventures together ended. And it was sad and that was that. Right? Well, not quite. Because eventually…they meet Lizzie. And they have met their match.
Most of these are backup tales from Tom King’s Wonder Woman, which revealed a whole new side to King and, well, how much juice was truly left in the tank between Jon & Damien, and with apologies to Pete Tomasi, just how great they can be together. United in exasperation. That’s the summary of most of these stories. Young Lizzie, as we never really got to meet Jon or Damien…precocious, to say the least.
Damien was the first of them to show up, of course, and sometime later, Jon showed up from an alternate universe, and we don’t talk about Bruno, and then King had the idea, let’s tackle Wonder Woman having a daughter again. These stories are his way of having his cake and eating it, too, since he’s got a huge grand destiny for her. This all follows the last effort to introduce The Next Wonder Woman (Yara Flor, who’s also in King’s stories), of course. In King’s future timeline (which handily follows Grant Morrison’s design for Damien’s), the story was set from the beginning (the reprint from Wonder Woman #800 also included), and while in the two years of the subsequent series we’ve seen Lizzie’s birth, we’re not any closer to that future than we were at the start.
So we’ve got these stories. Lizzie absolutely completes the dynamic (trio). She gives them a context and rounds out the next generation concept in all the ways previously denied Wonder Woman (at least in this current version; I’m certainly aware Cassie Sandsmark was a member of both Young Justice and the Teen Titans). King’s been plugging away at his epic, giving her a big dramatic story, and parallel to that…these silly romps. Reprinted here from the second collection of the series is a backup where Damien gives his version of a team-up with Wonder Woman (the orthodox take is…somewhat different). Since he’s the oldest character, and until Lizzie the best defined personality of Generation S, it’s certainly a fun way to preview, if that’s the right way to put it, what’s to come.
Lizzie does grow up. She becomes a real force of nature. Jon’s future as Superman has already been explored, and that’s a very different matter entirely. Damien’s arc has never really evolved. Lizzie’s? King knew from the beginning exactly what he wanted to see. I thought, when I first read that particular story, that he had taken a giant leap into true mythic proportions for superheroes. It’s one thing to have adventures, archenemies. Another to know what it was the Greeks were doing, bothering with all those tasks (such as the labors of Heracles).
Anyway, this is a secret origin such as you’ve never seen before.
I'm just going to say it, I'm not a fan of Trinity because I hate her dad. The whole Wonder Woman/Steve Trevor relationship is the worst piece of insta-love I've read in comics. The man was LITERALLY the first dude that you saw Diana. The first dude. You don't know who else was out there!!
I dunno, Steve Trevor is just like unseasoned BOILED chicken breast.
I prefer Diana with Batman a la the Justice League cartoon. (Diana with Superman? Gross and boring).
Anyway, I'm a big fan of the dynamic between Damian Wayne and Jonathan Kent. (I loved the Super Sons series - until they went to space ...) The bickering is always fun. Throwing Trinity in the mix is like "Bleh, why?" Because you have to have a kid from Wonder Woman to make it complete?
Anyway despite there being a corgi story, the best issue in this trade is when the trio travels 73 days in space to go fight Mongul.
Collecting all of Trinity's appearances from the back-ups in Wonder Woman, plus some of the special bits and pieces in one place, this collection is...odd?
Like, I like the idea of Trinity. I like what we're doing with her in theory. But without the context of who she is and where she comes from, it feels weird. Most of the stories here are told from Damian Wayne and Jon Kent's perspective while Trinity herself makes trouble, so we don't really get to know much about her herself. They're fun, but they feel like they lack substance overall.
Maybe this'll be better once the stuff from Wonder Woman that introduces her properly is collected, but on its own, I'm not sure this one has the punch it should have.
Trinity: Generation S packages the backup issues from Tom King's main Wonder Woman series that show Trinity growing up, cared for by older "brothers," Damian Wayne and Jon Kent. Honestly, these are delectable little shorts, hilarious and clever and wise. They serve dual purposes:
1. They serve as a fast, fun counterpoint to the often dour, long-winded, importantWonder Woman series.
2. They show Trinity and the boys growing into themselves and their places in the DC pantheon.
Highly recommended, even if you're not reading King's Wonder Woman series.
I’m a huge fan of Trinity. I’ve read most of this material before. It’s a collection of the Tom King backup stories of Trinity growing up through the years with her brothers Jonathan Kent and Damien Wayne.
I’d had a rough week and just revisiting these put a smile on my face. They are all really funny and sweet.
I absolutely LOVED this. I found it hilarious, love Trinity, and really generally enjoyed the read. The art by Belén Ortega is absolutely gorgeous, too. Can't wait for a next volume if there is one!