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Trinity: Second Act

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First act has rather good breaking point, ritual is completed and we are left to wonder what actually happened. Second act ends with us finally seeing a version of Trinity again, but it is not as clear of a cut. From what I have seen one the main criticism for this series is that it is called Trinity but Trinity is gone for the most of the second third of the series. But lets look closer at that. When you take into account that this series was initially pitched more as a DC Universe than Trinity then Trinity's absence makes sense, but well, that is not what it ended up being called. And their faces were used on the covers to sell this series. An argument could be made that the point of this act was to show what their absence means to DC Universe so in a way it is actually about them, just not directly. So, what happens after first act is that Trinity are banished from this universe and reality gets rewritten. We see DC Universe where Trinity never existed. Things are different and

Multiversity: Multiplicity

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Over the years Tomasi has used many characters and concepts created, or revamped, by Morrison so no surprise that he had a crack at Multiversity as well. And what better opportunity to do it if not when he was the main writer of Superman? For me Tomasi has something like 50/50 hit ratio when it comes to using Morisson's toys and sadly this has to be one of the biggest duds that he has written. On paper this sounds like a good story. Some villain is kidnaping and draining Supermen from various Earths. We got our main guy and Justice Incarnate (now Justice League Incarnate I guess) involved and some other characters. So how does it fail? It reads like a filler. Villain is generic and bland, we don't get much of him in general. We never really learn why or how any of this is working asides of some vague hints about coming new threats. At the end he is captured by another villain hinting at other plots that are yet to come, but never really do. And maybe it is good thing that many