The daughter of Wonder Woman is back! …And back? And back?!
In Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1, the beginning of a new limited series by Tom King and Belén Ortega, the precocious preschooler Trinity returns to star in a story with her two older selves. That’s right, true to her name, there are three versions of Trinity ready to save the day—or at least try to cause as little trouble as possible. Just like Trinity herself, this first issue is playful and plucky, with a promising future of adventure.
As the issue begins, Pariah—the harbinger of a world’s end since the original Crisis on Infinite Earths—laments the death of another Earth and disappears. He finds himself on another beleaguered world, which actually doesn’t seem all that bad because it has a Super-Corgi Puppy. That’s right! A Super…Corgi…PUPPY!! He has a little cape and everything. Young Trinity tries her best to catch the little scamp, but she runs into a morose Pariah instead and stops to comfort him. She then tells him a story to cheer him up: just how she got into this mess.
On Trinity’s Earth, she’s Lizzie Prince, the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Damian Wayne and Jon Kent often keep an eye on her while their super-parents are on duty, and the three consider themselves adoptive siblings. (Check out Trinity Special #1 for more details!) When Lizzie is feeling lonely one evening because she never got to meet her father, a future Trinity arrives to comfort her. Okay, maybe the preteen didn’t have permission to mess with time, but everything should be fine.
Preschooler Trinity and preteen Trinity decide to visit grownup Trinity for advice, and things in the timeline start to get out of hand from there. After their time-jumping and reality-meddling, somehow Jon and Damian are now corgis, and the Trinitys need to find them all across multiple Earths and timelines to get them back to normal. It’ll be easy, right?
Spoiler: It will not be easy.
Since her introduction in the pages of Wonder Woman, Trinity has been an intriguing character and fits into the sibling dynamic between Jon and Damian perfectly. It can’t be easy being the child of one of Earth’s greatest superheroes, so the three are kindred spirits who understand that challenge unlike anyone else can. Trinity has her mother’s inherent strength and determination, making her a force to be reckoned with—even at five years old. But the older Trinity gets, the more traits she seems to share with her father, including being a risk-taker and a bit of a troublemaker.
Additionally, the notion of Jon Kent and Damian Wayne as babysitters is just a delight in itself. They can handle the super-villains that plague Batman and Superman, but keeping an eye on a preschooler? Oof. Trinity shows a little bit of their influence as a teen and young adult, from her bravery to her tendency to speak her mind to her willingness to drop the occasional threat of physical violence. (That was definitely from Damian.)
Much about Trinity’s life still remains somewhat mysterious, but the series hints that readers will find out more soon as a pivotal figure from her past emerges. Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman promises to be a payoff of a story that’s been long in the telling, a compelling change of pace from most new superheroes’ fast-paced origin stories. King and Ortega have set the stage for an irreverent but emotional story in this first issue. And did I mention the corgis?
Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1 by Tom King, Belén Ortega and Alejandro Sánchez is now available in print and as a digital comic book.
Kelly Knox writes about all-ages comics and animation for DC.com, and is the author of several nonfiction books about some of your favorite film franchises. Follow her on X at @kelly_knox and Bluesky at @kelly-knox.com to talk superheroes, comics and pop culture.
NOTE: The views and opinions expressed in this feature are solely those of Kelly Knox and do not necessarily reflect those of DC or Warner Bros. Discovery, nor should they be read as confirmation or denial of future DC plans.
