Trinity #12 - DC

I kind of get the feeling that our evil trinity . . Morgan Le Fe, Enigma and Despero . . have sent our holy trinity . . Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman . . to the Crime Syndicate's world to test their spells on them. I know . . they went there to rescue the people that have been being abducted, but the evil trinity . . I'll start calling them ET . . were right on top of it. It seemed like they just got there when ET started monitoring their situation and gauging the effectiveness of the spell they've used to muddy their individual traits in the trinity. Each of the three seem to be feeling the other 2's feelings and motivation. Which is putting them way out of sync in the way they act and their effectiveness. There's a scene where Superman comes across real 'matter-of-fact', or curt. Batman asks Wonder Woman, "Well, that was annoying. And what do you usually do when I act like that?" To which Wonder Woman replies, "Mostly we follow along behind you . . and do whatever we can to help." We also see the effects that the trinity, and messing with them, has on others. Some other members of the JLA have also come along to help, however without their mentor's guidance and leadership, they really seem to be having a problem working as a team, or getting coordinated. ET decides that maybe they should take over this world instead . . but Enigma gets very agitated at that prospect. I'm thinking that Enigma is the Crime Syndicate's version of the Riddler / Scarface. But if so, wouldn't that make him a good guy . . since things seem to be reversed there? So, what's he really up to? In the back-up story, our Riddler is trying to make some sense out of all of the museum robberies. But from all of his contacts, I'm getting the sense that they're all blaming him . . even though their not saying it. I think he'll get to the bottom of it before our trinity does. In my opinion, this book is getting pretty intense. We seem to be past the 'set-up' stages and our full-fledged into our mystery here. I really like the pace that Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley have given everything. I think it's flowing along quite nicely. I also appreciate how the back-up stories are being used to fill-in between the lines. Kurt and Fabian Nicieza are doing a fantastic job. This weeks artist was Mike Norton. It appears that ASM has borrowed from their book of tricks. This week they also introduce a back-up story. I think the 3 times a month is starting to wreak havoc with the artists schedules. This book, however, seems to be flowing along quite nicely.