Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #3: Try and Try Again

Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #3 picks up with the oldest of the three Trinitys going on her adventure to save a Damien Wayne Corgi from within the multiverse. This chapter sees the daughter of Wonder Woman arrive in the midst of a battle between Wonder Woman and Cerberus during the early days of the George Perez Wonder Woman run dubbed ‘Gods and Monsters.’ While the other adventures went awry due to varying factors and teamups, this one falls apart due to Lizzie’s inability to save both the Corgi and her distracted past-mother from Cerberus at the same time. The result is a time travel filled romp that continues the humorous and heartfelt journey of Lizzie’s cross generational attempt to connect with her deceased father.

Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman is a book that continues to excel in the way that it pairs together a hilarious and heartfelt journey, making the story a blast to read through and through. This issue in particular pokes a lot of fun at the idea of time travel and how easy it would be for a time traveler to keep trying over and over again to correct an issue. Ironically, the answer to the problem is not even the one that Lizzie goes with, which would have been going far enough back in time to grab the corgi before it distracted Wonder Woman enough to be eaten by Cerberus. This is never explicitly stated in the issue, but it seems like the lack of going for the more obvious solution was a result of Lizzie’s other motive, seeing her father.

Steve Trevor’s involvement in this series serves as the book’s emotional core, with this entire journey started by the desire of the youngest version of Lizzie wanting to meet her father. By the end of the issue the message is clear, Lizzie is as much her mother as she is her father, in both attitude and practicality. This is very poignant because like Damien and Jon, Lizzie is often only looked at as the daughter of a great hero, not the other half of her lineage. Looking back on Tom Taylor’s work with Jon Kent, that also is a huge factor in his story, with many characters reminding him that he may be expected to live up to Superman, but he also has to live up to Lois Lane. This series feels like it ties that story together in a way that helps identify another reason why Lizzie bonds so well with the Super Sons.

A lot can be said about how great Belen Ortega’s art here is, but you really have to read the issue to see for yourself. Much of this issue is repeating the same circumstance over and over again, giving Ortega the ability to draw it from new perspectives, and drawing Lizzie going down the path of insanity as she repeatedly fails and has to restart. This art could have been very basic and one note, but Ortega instead elevates it by making the same setting feel unique and interesting every time Lizzie goes back.