A review by wesleystephen
Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity by Matt Wagner

3.0

I’m personally a fan of Matt Wagner’s art - it’s not my favorite but it gets a fun comic-y vibe, so that was a plus for me. I think he gets a lot right with this story; Clark and Diana feel well developed, and Bruce mostly is. Wagner’s is certainly a darker Batman, which is fine from time to time. Bizarro isn’t a character I’m overly familiar with but he felt true to other stories I’ve read, and empathetic here. Artemis, however, fell a little flat for me. She feels like a generic 90s punk teenager stereotype of some sort who was mostly shoehorned I’m so that a Wonder Woman foil could be present. My biggest problem with the story was how overtly rapey Ra’s al Ghul is. He muses on how he can use Diana for hours of entertainment at one point when she’s captured, and later speaks about how the Amazons would make “good breeding stock” to repopulate the earth. That doesn’t feel very Ra’s to me, but more importantly, that just feels like using rape for shock value, which isn’t okay. It’s a little older of a story now, so I can give it a bit of leeway in that regard, but I can only hope that comics steer away from sexual violence and trauma for shock value in years to come. (Without the rape threats, I would’ve given it a 4/5)