Comments on: Annotations for Trinity issue #27

By: Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment » Annotations for Trinity issue #39

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:26:58 +0000

[...] – The Parasite is making his Trinity debut. The Queen Bee and Shrapnel had cameos in issue #27. [...]

By: Tom Bondurant

Tom Bondurant — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:11:13 +0000

Thanks loads, Brian! I’m back from my trip and just read the new issue. I was wondering about Sky-Knight myself….

Regarding a Charity/Whisper connection: Whisper’s last name is actually spelled “A’Daire,” so I kinda doubt it.

And I thought the pale-skinned, pointy-eared dude in the Cuban prison was going to be a vampire from a one-off issue of Superman: The Man Of Steel — but then he turned out to be Eclipso without a hat. So see, these things aren’t necessarily that involved.

I’ll have to look up Mr. Goatee, though. Greg Rucka…?

By: rwe1138

rwe1138 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:24:07 +0000

“… Iâ€™m drawing a blank on the guy with the goatee.”

I’m thinking Dr. Psycho.

By: jedifish

jedifish — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:41:20 +0000

Looking at the 3 extra villains on the last page – The female could be either Queen Bee or Livewire (althought the coloring makes me think Queen Bee), one is Shrapnel, and I’m drawing a blank on the guy with the goatee.

By: rwe1138

rwe1138 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:49:04 +0000

Two more things:

1) I searched for Sky-Knight and came up with nothing? New character, Kurt? Or just a different version of someone we already know.

2) Off topic, but I loved the first issue of Marvels: Eye of the Camera. Can’t wait for the rest.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:38:09 +0000

I think SCII is the Tatooed Man, who’s simply using the same powerset as SCI I, who is now dead.

And not that it’d stop comics writers, but it wasn’t Whisper O‘Dare, it was Whisper A’Daire.

By: rwe1138

rwe1138 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:33:53 +0000

So, wait. Is Sun-Chained-In-Ink actually the Tattooed Man? Or did SCII just take over Mark’s body?

By: Thad

Thad — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:10:15 +0000

“since this is comics, where similar hairstyles can be used to create familial connections”

And any two lesbians in Gotham City must turn out to be ex-lovers, and any two African superheroes in the Marvel Universe must just happen to have been childhood friends…

By: Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:04:36 +0000

If Whisper O’Dare is related to the O’Dares of Opal City, then Charity would be related by marriage. Or at least in this world — all we know in regular continuity is that she and Mason O’Dare were engaged.

Given that it’s comics, I’d expect there’s some connection between Whisper O’Dare and the Opal City O’Dare’s. And if there isn’t, since this is comics, where similar hairstyles can be used to create familial connections, there eventually will be.

kdb

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:04:37 +0000

Just curious if anyone knows – is Charity O’Dare related to Whisper O’Dare?

By: Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:51:52 +0000

>> Good material if you guys are ever short on ideas for the backups, at any rateâ€¦>>

No worries about that. This book is pretty packed all the way to the end…

kdb

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:24:27 +0000

“Sheâ€™s not really there, either. She was covered up by the caption but they didnâ€™t have time to digitally remove her from the art.”

Given the… rather odd… nature of her appearances and disappearances, that’s easy enough to explain away anyway. Good material if you guys are ever short on ideas for the backups, at any rate….

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:36:12 +0000

Aha!

That makes sense, because I was thinking Crimson Avenger, as well, and it was odd!

By: Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:11:09 +0000

She’s not really there, either. She was covered up by the caption but they didn’t have time to digitally remove her from the art.

kdb

By: PyroTwilight

PyroTwilight — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:42:46 +0000

One of the characters on the last page is the current Crimson Avenger as made obvious by her guns and red bloody looking bullet hole. Oddly unlike the others she’s not really a villain.

By: Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:00:39 +0000

>> The bad guys remind me of the Millenium Giants, but they are probably just nameless extra-dimensional bad guys.>>

They’re the Skully Horse Gods of Joom!

>> Anyone know who Sky-Knight is?>>

I do. Fabes does. Bags does. Mike Norton does…

>> The Thanagar outfit that Gangbuster gives Carter here – where is it from?>>

It’s not Thanagarian. As Gangbuster says, it’s Hawkman’s old costume, spruced up and refurbished. So it’s a new design.

>> Here we see the others use Richards to bring back Hemi Kiwara, also introduced in #8, who was transformed in #10 to Sun-Chained-In-Ink, thus completing the four Dreambound members.>>

They’ve transformed Richards into SCII, not really brought back Hemi…

>> Tom, come back, Tom! This is hard!! >>

It sure is! You didn’t annotate the reference to Reverb (though you mentioned him in Vibe’s description) and you misspelled Konvikt! Would Tom fall down on the job like that, eh? Would he?

Thanks for stepping in, though!

kdb

By: Stephane Savoie

Stephane Savoie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:22:39 +0000

A good annotation with some useful refs. Could do a bit less with recapping the plot of the very issue it’s annotating, though.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:03:01 +0000

Considering that, oddly, Space Ranger spends the entire issue using telepathy-style thought-bubbles to communicate, and given the xenophobia of the JSI, I suspect he’s a very different DC character in disguise….