Trinity of Sin: Pandora #1

[superfangirl1]

I thought since Trinity War begins tomorrow. It would be great to learn more about Pandora.







The seven deadly sins then proceeds to ravage and kills everyone in her village.



Present time.

Comments

[tpsreports]

I think they're off by about 2000 years.

[lissa_quon]

Eh - I think the Pandora opening the box and causing everyone's troubles works better when she's actually told NOT to open the box.

It seems sort of odd that even like all seeing omniscent councils would punish her so severely for opening this thing she'd never heard of.

Also where did she get the fabric for that long flowy cloak when even her sick brother's blanket is made up of patches. Seems like that cloak could have been used to make clothes that weren't falling off or other uses.

[silverhammerman]

It definitely works better when Pandora actually does something she's not supposed to.

Here she doesn't even actually open the skull/box! She literally just looks at it and apparently that's enough to condemn her to an eternity of suffering.

[nyadnar17]

Pretty much. Is ever single Edler Being/Council a bag of dicks?

[icon_uk]

The Council of Elders, the Starfleet Admirals of their day,

[q99]

There was the *old* version of the Guardians of the Universe, back in the day.

[blunderbuss]

Yeah, especially a PURPLE robe, which was used only for royalty for a reason.

[lissa_quon]

Maybe her real sin wasn't in fact picking up a stupid glowy skull box but instead being a greedy hoarder of fancy clothes while everyone else is wearing furs and rags.

[icon_uk]

Well, we don't know what rank she held in the village, plius this being about 8000 BC wouldn't it predate most instances of the "society where purple is for royalty"?

[blunderbuss]

Sorry, what I meant was that purple was reserved only for royalty because purple dye was very hard to make and ridiculously expensive because it could only be made from a certain kind of sea snail. There's no way that such a primitave tribe would bother with something that labor-intensive just for dye.

[icon_uk]

I actually knew that (Thank you Primary School history lessons! :) ) but they might have another means of doing so... lots of blackcurrants/blueberries perhaps, or maybe this is why the Macedonian Violet Sheep became extinct?

[shadowpsykie]

the Macedonian Violet Sheep became extinct?

eh it's comics. i'd buy that lol

[sharky_chan]

Or perhaps a Norwegian blue? Beautiful plumage.

[speedingtortoise]

Moral of the story: don't ever touch anything that you're unfamiliar with or everyone you know and love will die horribly.

[nezchan]

To be fair, that's pretty much the moral of all the Greek myths: stay the fuck away from gods and weird stuff.

[cainofdreaming]

Pandora could hardly do that, though. She was the weird stuff of gods. She was created alongside the box as a gift. She was literally created to open it.

Guess the old saying about Greeks bearing gifts goes only doubly so for Greek gods.

[polly1788]

so theres a 6000 years gap between this and judas/phantom stranger sin, and have they explained who the question is?

[chrisdv]

have they explained who the question is?

I don't know that, but I do know that the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets'.

Their true purpose is sinister.

[polly1788]

they are the true evil

[rainspirit]

But were they magically forged by Illuminati mystics to prevent us from learning the truth!?

[akodo_rokku]

A
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Don't forget it!

[icon_uk]

I think we know a song about that, don't we? :)

[akodo_rokku]

I thought I did, but it seems to have slipped my mind.

[superfangirl1]

The Question trinity of sin comic origin is coming out soon.

[silverhammerman]

I keep expecting/hoping that this ends with Pandora opening the box again and letting hope out into the DCU. Then in an ideal world, DC would stop making so many of their books boring and grimdark.

[qalchemist]

The box is opened! HOPE is released, defeating the Trinity of Sins...

...and with the next issue of each comic, DCnu is no more, and DCold returns.

[zabilac]

Sure the DCnU has its flaws, but it's done SOME good. Right?...Anyone?

[magusfool]

Not. One. Damned. Thing.

Seriously, every story I've enjoyed in the DCnU could have just as easily been told preboot.

[theflames]

Yeah it has, its not all bad really.

[silvercatmon]

In some of the interpretation, hope is another evil.
Don't forget that there was serious issues with DCold.

[bradygirl_12]

Wow, this is fair. Condemn this woman to eternal suffering for merely picking up that thing and looking at it. Overreaction, much?

[featheredserpent]

That's what she gets for being a woman in comics. She's lucky she's not in the fridge.

[icon_uk]

One suspects the only reason for that is that fridges hadn't been invented yet.

[espanolbot]

Being put into a cool wet sack doesn't have the same ring to it...

[bradygirl_12]

That's what she gets for being a woman in comics. She's lucky she's not in the fridge.

You're right! Darn that feminine snoopiness curiosity!

[sharky_chan]

I know this is a really silly gripe, but I can't get over the fact that they're all wearing furs and then suddenly she has this beautifully dyed (purple no less) cape that's apparently made out of fabric. I'm guessing this is to tie it in to her existing outfit or something, but I was just very confused why the story jumped forward several thousand years and humans had invented textiles...

[rainspirit]

And guns, don't forget the guns.

[featheredserpent]

CAVEMAN guns.

[sharky_chan]

I must have missed the guns (not in these scans?), but at least her later guns are from a legitimate jump forward in time! That said, I'm really glad I'm not the only one griping about her purple cloak.

I've heard it called the "giant lizard" phenomenon: I can accept without question that a lizard has become gigantic and is now rampaging through a major city, but if it's scales look wrong -- sorry! suspension of disbelief broken!

[big_daddy_d]

I actually rather enjoyed this. That Shazam Council are typical gods who are a bunch of overreacting dicks so feel little sympathy for them. Been most interested in Pandora's journey and do like that she's tied to the Seven Sins.

[thanekos]

My word, she's like some kind of.. Scarlet Revenger!

[theflames]

Wow, that's a nice cloak Cave-girl-Pandora. Seems like she's been holding out on the tribe. The things we do for fashion...

[thosefew]

Oh, I get it now, it's a shopping analogy. She was sent to get myrtus berries, and instead got all the world's sins.

The message is, 'Stick to your shopping list.'

[sharky_chan]

"If you pick up Cocoa Pebbles instead of Cheerios, everyone you know and love will die."

Sounds about in line with a traditional fairy tale's scope and ramifications actually!

[espanolbot]

Long ago, in a time when cavewoman were all attractive by modern standards and not caked in filth, there lived a woman who hoarded all of her tribe's purple cloth for herself while the rest wore furs!

[shadowpsykie]

huh.... so.... Pandora released the sins and HOPE was not released? i am guessing that it's hope that is the "great power" within the box....

also NOW they come say they are sorry????

[flash_fan]

I've decided The Question's sin was inventing Fnords. Which he has tattoo'd on his face. Which explains his appearance lol.

[reynard531]

I agree with the others, the Pandora story only really works when she is told not to open the box (or in this case, three-eyed skull). I recall that Pandora was made to be a trap anyway, a punishment to mankind. She was made with all these wonderful gifts, but also with curiosity, just so she would open the box.

And even when Pandora wasn't specifically made to be a trap, it still works better for her to know it's bad but do it anyway. Here, she IS totally innocent. She just saw something weird and picked it up.

This Shazam Council is not just "wrong" or had "poor judgement", this type of error makes them downright idiots. Ironically, for a Shazam Council, none of them appear to have the wisdom of Solomon to me. And what's worse is that it takes them thousands of years to realize they messed up.

My question is WHY was that box just sitting there in the woods. I mean it has the spirits of the seven deadly sins, the worst, most soul twisting sins around. Did the council know about it? Why didn't they get it for safekeeping? Did someone lose it? Why were "they" not punished?

And the DCnU isn't totally bad per say. There's a lot I really don't like, but at the same time there were ideas that were potentially interesting, but badly done. The Guardian's going mad? Good idea. The ending to the First Lantern thing? Not so good. Sinestro being a GL? Interesting. Destroying his home? Bad. And where was NATU?

Alternate universe Helena Wayne coming to Earth 1 with her best friend Powergirl? That's interesting to me. It would have been also interesting to see her react and interact with Batman, or how Batman would react to technically having a daughter.

It's just so filled with stupid bits and...waste.