At this weekend’s RRP meeting, DCU Executive Editor finally made it official: DC’s third weekly series, starting in June, will be called Trinity. Its lead story, starring Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman will be written by Kurt Busiek, with art by Mark Bagley.

The series will follow Countdown, but, as with Countdown and 52 which came before it, will be unrelated to the previous weekly series. That said, Trinity will be “apart,” that is, occurring in the DC Universe, but not tied to other events happening in the DCU.

Just prior to DC’s RRP meetings, we spoke with DCU Executive Editor Dan DiDio about the weekly.

Newsarama: Dan, let’s just start at the ground level – what is Trinity?

Dan DiDio: Much has been said about it, but now we can say it officially: the new weekly will start in the first week of June, and will feature as its leads, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, and its title will be Trinity.

The book will be 52 issues, and what’s different about this weekly compared to 52 and Countdown is that the creative team of Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley will be doing the first twelve pages of all the 22 page issues. So there will be two stories in each issue – a twelve page lead by Busiek and Bagley, and backups, both continuing and one shot by Kurt and Fabian Nicieza with art by people like Tom Derenick and Scott McDaniel along with other guest artists along the way.

Besides, Wonder Woman WITH Bats and Supes will probably sell more
books than her solo series alone.

Kurt Busiek says - ‘Trinity’ is not ‘Final Crisis’ related. It is a relatively self-contained story that follows its own track. It’s part of the DC Universe, but it’s not one thread in the giant plot structure that is a big event. It is its own story. It has a beginning, a middle and an ending. There will be repercussions, yes. It has new characters that are introduced that I sure hope will spin off into their own mini-series or series or things like that, but it’s not leading to ‘Final Crisis 2: This Time It’s Personal.’ …Each time DC does a weekly, they want to do it differently. ‘52’ was about a world without the heroes, ‘Countdown to Final Crisis’ is building up to an event about the heroes and ‘Trinity’ is about the heroes. Front and center.

But it’s not leading up to, spinning out of something. This is its own event. It does draw on things that have been established in the DC Universe over the years but not anything that has the drums beat for it and said, ‘Look here, building up to or counting down to.’ It’s just the way I use history and continuity threads to explore the rich possibilities of the DC Universe.

So in other words, it's a weekly just for the sake of having a weekly.

So what's the weekly that spins out of Final Crisis? Trinfinity Crisis?

I've enjoyed Countdown an awful lot as a "Who's Who In The DC Multiverse" series. The storyline itself doesn't interest me at all. Frankly I wish the series would just go on forever and show a different Earth every week, towards no conclusion. Honest!