So DC has announced that for Wonder Woman #800 writer Tom King and artist Daniel Sampiere will jump us twenty years into the future to meet Trinity, who partners with Damien Wayne and Jonathan Kent, now grown-up as the new Batman and Superman (I gather). Together they form the new incarnation of the Wonder Woman/Batman/Superman “trinity,” though Trin’s battle name comes from carrying three lassos with different magical powers. Her real name is Elizabeth Marston Prince, a hat tip to WW-creator William Marston’s wife, who had a big influence on the series.
Even though I don’t like most of King’s writing he’s done well on Human Target and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow so who knows, maybe lightning will strike again. But this set up still bugs me, putting me in mind of Tim Hanley’s observation that no matter how much DC emphasizes Wonder Woman as the third leg of the trinity, she hasn’t had comparable comics success in a long time, nor has she had as many iconic stories as the two guys.
Years before Damien became part of the comics, he was conceived in the graphic novel Son of the Demon. Superman married Lois, then eventually they got a kid. Wonder Woman’s daughter, by contrast, comes out of nowhere, other than an appearance IIRC as an alt.universe character in the DC series Trinity some years back. We don’t know who her father is, we don’t see Diana as a parent; her father’s identity is a mystery the series will explore.
So perhaps what’s bugging me is that Diana’s never had the kind of stories that could lead smoothly into her 
having a kid. Or that because she’s the iconic female comics character, writers have had trouble writing her love life since the George Perez reboot. Think how much harder it would be writing her bringing up a kid, given all the sexist stereotypes to avoid, and all the flak a woman, even in fiction, can get for being a working mom.
By contrast, Lyta Trevor, daughter of the Earth-Two Wonder Woman, felt perfectly grounded when she appeared in Wonder Woman #300. The Earth-Two Diana had married Steve Trevor, they’d had a kid, no big. But she wasn’t the star of her own series.
None of which is a claim Trinity’s a bad character or that this is an inherently bad idea. But it still bugs me.
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