Scans: Trinity #11
This week was kind of meh for me personally--the plot's rolling along fine, but the characterization hit me on a few raw spots, so I'm mostly just going to summarize this week.
The action is taking place on Earth-3, which is a mirror world in which good cannot ever truly triumph and the baser side of human nature inevitably wins out. The JLA has met the Earth-3 JLA in "Syndicate Rules" (written, not coincidentally, by Kurt Buisiek) and fought them to a standstill. As long as they're in Earth-3, our JLA can't win. The world's physics simply lead toward entropy and evil winning.
One of the interesting things about Earth-3 is that no one is merely an evil twin. Wonder Woman's dark double, for example, wields a golden lasso (that removes inhibitions rather than forcing people to tell the truth), is called Superwoman and is actually Lois Lane. Batman's doppelganger is Owlman, who's actually Thomas Wayne, Bruce's brother. Bruce and his mother died in Crime Alley and Tommy has been fighting to impose his iron will on the city ever since. And Ultraman is Clark Kent, an astronaut born in Kansas who came across the Kryptonians and was experimented on and twisted into an evil superbeing.
For a wonderful take on Earth-3, by the way, I highly recommend
arch_schatten 's Jaevel Av En Tango (A Devil of a Tango), which basically posits an AU of Earth-3 in which something close to our Bruce and Kal exist alongside the Crime Syndicate. It's dark and complicated and everyone's just off enough to be cool and just in-character enough to be fair.
A brief introduction to the CSA:
Superwoman, by the way, is officially with Ultraman but has Owlman as her lover.
This dimension is apparently a concentration camp for refugees from many different dimensions, all of whom recognize the JLA and especially the Trinity as avatars of beings from their own worlds.
Note: I would love to see fic about the Shazamazon.
I repeat: SHAZAMAZON!
The rest of the interactions are basically a continuation of the personality breakdowns between them as they swap characteristics around. In brief: Batman becomes a caring, concerned individual, Superman becomes crazed with rage and apparently stupidity and runs off to challenge the entire CSA to a fight, and Diana stays about the same as always although she says she's "feeling unbalanced."
Good to know that when they swap personalities around Batman improves and Superman becomes a maniac. *rolls eyes*
The art in this one is actually particularly pretty here and there. Superman looks really lovely here:
And I like Batman in this panel a lot, although I could do without the ass-cheeks:
The action is taking place on Earth-3, which is a mirror world in which good cannot ever truly triumph and the baser side of human nature inevitably wins out. The JLA has met the Earth-3 JLA in "Syndicate Rules" (written, not coincidentally, by Kurt Buisiek) and fought them to a standstill. As long as they're in Earth-3, our JLA can't win. The world's physics simply lead toward entropy and evil winning.
One of the interesting things about Earth-3 is that no one is merely an evil twin. Wonder Woman's dark double, for example, wields a golden lasso (that removes inhibitions rather than forcing people to tell the truth), is called Superwoman and is actually Lois Lane. Batman's doppelganger is Owlman, who's actually Thomas Wayne, Bruce's brother. Bruce and his mother died in Crime Alley and Tommy has been fighting to impose his iron will on the city ever since. And Ultraman is Clark Kent, an astronaut born in Kansas who came across the Kryptonians and was experimented on and twisted into an evil superbeing.
For a wonderful take on Earth-3, by the way, I highly recommend
arch_schatten 's Jaevel Av En Tango (A Devil of a Tango), which basically posits an AU of Earth-3 in which something close to our Bruce and Kal exist alongside the Crime Syndicate. It's dark and complicated and everyone's just off enough to be cool and just in-character enough to be fair.
A brief introduction to the CSA:
Superwoman, by the way, is officially with Ultraman but has Owlman as her lover.
This dimension is apparently a concentration camp for refugees from many different dimensions, all of whom recognize the JLA and especially the Trinity as avatars of beings from their own worlds.
Note: I would love to see fic about the Shazamazon.
I repeat: SHAZAMAZON!
The rest of the interactions are basically a continuation of the personality breakdowns between them as they swap characteristics around. In brief: Batman becomes a caring, concerned individual, Superman becomes crazed with rage and apparently stupidity and runs off to challenge the entire CSA to a fight, and Diana stays about the same as always although she says she's "feeling unbalanced."
Good to know that when they swap personalities around Batman improves and Superman becomes a maniac. *rolls eyes*
The art in this one is actually particularly pretty here and there. Superman looks really lovely here:
And I like Batman in this panel a lot, although I could do without the ass-cheeks: