Arc Reactor! Trinity War

Trinity War is usually the kind of event that I would cover in The Big Event, but the main story only ran 6 issues, so sticking to my own rule, we have an Arc Reactor! post instead. Not that there's any difference...

I have always been a more DC-inclined reader, mainly based on my love for Batman, but honestly, I am beginning to wonder how I keep falling for their nonsense. Last years Zero Month? GIMME! Rise of the Third Army? GIMME! Oh wait, you can have that back.

It has been coming for a good long while (ever since Flashpoint), having been hinted at in various titles of the New 52, and apparently we'll see major fallout from the event going forward, but unfortunately Trinity War ends up being another one of DC's events that are solely for the purpose of setting up the next one (in this case, Forever Evil, part of September's Villains Month). These events are becoming a bit of  regular thing, and  it's kind of like a Big Mac meal, in that you think it's going to be a bit of a treat, but it ultimately leaves you unsatisfied, and hungry for something else an hour later. It's not that Trinity War is bad. Far from it! It's actually cool seeing the three different Justice Leagues interact, and Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire together is a comic fan's dream team, but the whole thing was just a way to get rid of all of the heroes for a month so that DC can cash in on some gimmicky 3D covers, when they could just have taken a break from regular programming like they did with Zero Month last September. 

To be fair to DC, they could have stretched this out a lot longer, but they broke from the norm and kept this event short and fairly simple, and in setting up Forever Evil, it did it's job just fine. My opinion may also have been skewed by the fact that Marvel just started their big summer event Infinity, which, after only 3 issues, is kicking the ass of most of the stuff DC have released in the last 2 years.

I'm pretty much avoiding Villains Month, barring a couple of titles, but I will be covering Forever Evil in a future post, just to see where this all went.