GENRE: COMIC BOOKS
PUBLISHER: TOP COW
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 12, 2008
Nutshell Version:
Top Cow’s Broken Trinity #3 is gonna knock your socks off. It’s a knockdown, drag out slugfest between the Top Cow Universe’s heaviest hitters. This mini-series is everything we’ve come to expect from Top Cow and it’s writers and artists. From the unexpected plot twists to the unexpected death that will certainly rock many out of their seats, Broken Trinity #3 is a creative triumph.
Full Version:
Top Cow’s Broken Trinity #3 is gonna knock your socks off. It’s a knockdown, drag out slugfest between the Top Cow Universe’s heaviest hitters—The Witchblade, The Darkness, and the Angelus. Add to that equation two new adversaries drawn into battle by their opposite natures—The Ember Stone and the Glacier Stone—and this particular storyline promises to shake-up the Top Cow Universe for years to come. If you thought the first two issues were amazing—you haven’t seen anything yet.
I won’t belabor what has transpired in the first two issues. If you haven’t read them, read them. Period.
As Broken Trinity #3 opens we find everything hitting the proverbial fan as all the players are on the board. The melding of Stjepan Sejic’s digital art and Phil Hester’s pencils are superb, especially on the two-page spread early on that depicts the epic battle coming to a head.
Without going into specifics, some crazy stuff goes down. As most of you likely know, Jackie Estacado and The Darkness are divorced from one another, so he is left vulnerable to anyone who has a beef with him. No one has more of a problem with the now powerless Estacado than The Angelus, who utilizes his vulnerability to her advantage by attacking him. But, while Jackie is powerless, he is still streetwise and ruthless—and he has friends, like Detective Sara Penzzini, better known as the wielder of the Witchblade. Of course, while this epic battle is unfolding, the new wielders of the Ember Stone and the Glacier Stone are locked in their own battle—neither exactly sure why they feel compelled to fight one another. Still, fight they do.
In the fray, heroes rise, heroes fall, and one of the coolest deaths in the Top Cow franchise to date takes place.
Where as a lot of dialogue and story unfolds in the first two issues, Broken Trinity #3 seems more concerned with high octane action and a few final revelations that set the stage for what’s to come in the future for these characters. This mini-series is everything we’ve come to expect from Top Cow and it’s writers and artists. From the unexpected plot twists to the unexpected death that will certainly rock many out of their seats, Broken Trinity #3 is a creative triumph.
The question that looms large now is what the long term and short term effects of this series will have for the main characters. Will new titles spring from this to accommodate the Ember Stone and Glacier Stone angle? Or will they continue to be bit players in the ongoing Darkness/Witchblade/Angelus story? Top Cow promised that this would change things forever. I guess we’re going to have to wait around and see what happens. I know I’m hooked.
