Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley’s forthcoming weekly series, Trinity, has been in the works for a long while. The first mention of it came in late 2006, as a “secret project” that was the reason Busiek was leaving Aquaman; Busiek’s original plan was to write an ongoing weekly series featuring Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman that would have a seven-page installment of the main story, feature additional pages promoting what DC was publishing the next week and retail for a dollar, far less than the usual $2.99 DC cover price.

The “secret project” changed its name a few times, was delayed for a year when DC decided to make Countdown its weekly follow-up to 52 and eventually assumed its final form: another 52-issue limited series, with two chapters in each full-length, full-price issue. The 10-page backup stories will be written by Busiek with Fabian Nicieza and drawn by rotating artists, including Tom Derenick and Scott McDaniel; the 12-page lead story, written by Busiek and starring the Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman team, will be drawn by Mark Bagley, who recently completed his 110-issue run on Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man with Brian Michael Bendis.

Dave is a poor vampire, working the night shift at the 24-hour convenience store run by his vampire master, Lord Radu Arisztidescu, who thinks Dave is pretty much a wuss as a bloodsucker. Truth is, Dave would rather steal his nutrition from a blood bank than kill the innocent. But this choice leaves him weak and vulnerable to more predatory types like alpha-vampire surfer dude Wes, who's making a move on Rosa, the Latina gothic babe Dave has his eye on. There's plenty of humor with Dave's friend Jerome acting as a Clerks-like foil, coming over to Dave's work at night when the black-eyeliner crowd comes by ("the Running of the Goths"). Life Sucks also gets a good deal of mileage out of the ironic distance between the romantic visions that Rosa and her mortal crowd have of the vampire lifestyle and the grimy reality of Dave's life as an eternal wage slave. Even if it doesn't pan out satisfactorily (the conclusion seems particularly truncated), Abel and Soria's light approach, combined with Pleece's bright, Technicolor art, gives the book an entertaining Joss Whedon gloss to its Gen-Y bloodsucking melodrama. (Feb.)

Following their Ignatz-nominated series Action Philosophers, the creative team of writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey are ready to bring their style of edifying humor to a much more familiar subject. In their new series, Comic Books Comics, Van Lente and Dunlavey embark on an attempt to tell the complete history of the comic book industry in the comics medium itself.

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