I feel like I bought a lot of this series on the cheap, solely on the strength of the covers. But seems like every issue had at least two, so who knows how many I've bought? From 2017, Trinity #5, "Better Together, part 5: Deliver Your Children" Story and art by Francis Manapul. Variant cover by Bill Sienkiewicz!
This was the penultimate chapter of the book's first storyline, as Mongul confronts the Trinity, from the dream space of the black mercy. With his 'child,' White Mercy; his plot to escape has nearly come to fruition, thanks to his unknowing partner, Poison Ivy! In the barn at the Kent farm, Ivy has Clark, Bruce, and Diana in a mess of vines: she doesn't know why they're on that farm, but one of them is a solar battery that can be used to free her 'daughter,' the White Mercy, who contacted her through the Green. I don't know why Ivy took so quickly to the child; since it looks like a baby Mongul with a giant ax that looks like it was from the He-Man collection. Lois Lane and young Jon Kent are there too, but I kinda doubt she's going to be able to talk Ivy down.
I was really confused looking at this cover: it was very obviously a Sienkiewicz, but only had "Manapul" over the UPC box. I didn't know much about him, or that he did everything on this one other than the variant! There were 22 issues of this series, and I was going to say Sienkiewicz did eight variants, but he might've done more than that: he did one for the Warlord guest-starring issue that wasn't in the GCD now.
He's primarily an artist but also does writes comics as well, as he's the doing a run as the main writer & artist on The Flash right now.
ReplyDeleteUsing Poison Ivy in a Black Mercy story is definitely pretty damn creative I have to say. Lots of story potential there with her using it or or her own version of whatever.