Trinity #29 - DC

The pieces are all starting to come together, but . . things are a little vague right now. This group that Alfred has put together are following the Harbor Folk. Last issue they witnessed a thief in their midst, but then they also witnessed their choice of punishment as argued by the priests of their trinity of gods. It was in these priests, and their arguments, that they seemed to catch a glimpse of the people that Alfred is attempting to search for. Now, I know they're not on another world, so I have to assume that this is just one of the many 'convulsions' that the Earth is going through. So that would mean that these are actually humans. We're just not seeing them as such right now. Anyways, because of the obvious mistrust in these two tribes, there's almost a was that breaks out. However, unlike their current personalities, this group of people step up and perform a few heroic acts thereby stemming the tide of violence. They've barely caught a glimpse of the Trinity, and already they're affecting their given character and nature. They know it to. Both tribes are on a pilgrimage to their gods . . . Atman, Kellel and Dinanna . . so the group decides to tag along. We also see that Tarot and Charity are having their own crisis of faith. As we've learned, Tarot is actually the Worldsoul. Obviously, she's in terrible shape because of everything that is happened to the world right now. However, Charity has seen that the Dreambound are coming to get Tarot for Le Fey. She doesn't know why, just that's what's going to happen. Tarot however decides to let the fate's occur. She's not going to fight it, or try to hide. She's made the observation that Charity has only seen her abduction. She hasn't seen her fate after she goes with the group. So, I think, she has a glimmer of hope that she may be of more help to the Earth up close and personal to her captors than trying to hide away from them. However, Charity doesn't see the wisdom in this choice of action. In the end though, she is taken and her fate is kind of up in the air. Meanwhile, the JSI is chasing these outbreaks of creation energy all over the globe. But then there's also super-human skirmishes everywhere too. Apparently TVM is absorbing the creation energy around all of these rifts that are popping up. And the skirmishes are distractions to keep the JSI busy and away from the Dreambound's actual plans. Luthor, though, has figured out what they are doing, they just haven't figured out why. And with their forces already spread so thin, because of the skirmishes, the knowledge of what's going on doesn't actually help them because there's nothing they can do about it anyways. You can just feel the frustration on these characters permeating off of the pages. Their whole world right now seems to be frustrated and apprehensive. But . . we're making progress. Although it's hard to believe. But, it's always darkest before the light. I think Kurt Busiek has choreographed a spectacular tale here. I think his pacing is perfect. It's giving us time to see all the intricacies of these various characters and their evolution. I'm also thrilled with Mark Bagley's art on this series, and Fabian Nicieza's co-scripting of the back-up tales. These back-up tales have really become an essential part of this series as they're the stories that really fill in the holes on some of these characters. And of course Tom Derenick does a bang-up job of doing the art for them. With only 20 issues to go, the rides only going to get bumpier as were near the end.