Trillium

by Jeff Lemire

Overview

Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM!

It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space.

It's the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled "Lost Temple of the Incas," an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties.

Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn't just a love story, it's the LAST love story ever told.

Collects TRILLIUM #1-8.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401253660
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	08/12/2014
Sold by:	DC Comics
Format:	eBook
File size:	145 MB
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About the Author

Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire is the creator of the acclaimed monthly comic book series SWEET TOOTH published by DC/Vertigo and the award winning graphic novel ESSEX COUNTY published by Top Shelf. He also writes ANIMAL MAN, FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. and SUPERBOY for DC Comics. In 2008 Jeff won the Schuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist, and The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. He also won the American Library Association's prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. In 2010 Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. In 2013 Lemire published the graphic novel THE UNDERWATER WELDER (Top Shelf). He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

★ 08/18/2014
Writer/artist Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County) turns his gaze to the stars in this mind- and reality-bending science fiction graphic novel. Nika and William are thousands of years and millions of miles apart—she, a scientist in a dark future where humanity is on the run from a sentient disease; he, a haunted ex-soldier in early-20th-century Britain. When they each discover a hidden temple, they form a mental connection destined to rewrite space and time. In his first solo project in years, Lemire’s art excels, combining his trademark sketchiness with gorgeous watercolors. But it’s the layouts that take the book to new heights of creativity. Lemire tells two stories at once by turning the panels upside down, disorienting the reader as much as his heroes. It’s a technique that worked long ago in Dave Sim’s Cerebus, and it works even better here, with clever parallels between plot lines. The script isn’t quite as tight, and refers to grandiose concepts in vague language throughout. Those with the patience to reread and decode Lemire’s alien messages—both literal and figurative—will be rewarded. This book represents a challenge to other creators: the bar for creativity in comics continues to be raised. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

2014 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST LIMITED SERIES

"This book represents a challenge to other creators: the bar for creativity in comics continues to be raised."—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

“For writer/artist Jeff Lemire, his new Vertigo series TRILLIUM isn’t just an exercise in stretching his sci-fi muscles; it’s an exercise in stretching the boundaries of his creativity and artistic talent."—Nerdist

"When you get to the last page of TRILLIUM, you can't help but think "wow." This is an exciting and original work that deserves your attention and your dollars. Buy TRILLIUM."—IGN

“TRILLIUM is a confident, unique debut that exemplifies why Lemire has become one of DC’s top creators, but he remains at his best when he’s doing his own thing away from superheroes.”—A.V. Club/The Onion

"Once again Lemire shows why he's a master storyteller. Trillium is exciting, visceral and cerebral at the same time."—CraveOnline
 
“If Lemire has adopted the quicker pacing of his recent works, he still knows when to pan the camera back and let his layouts project the vivid imagination bustling inside of him. And that’s what makes TRILLIUM such a special work: this is a piece of an artist pulled from a deep place nobody’s ever seen before. And for Lemire to share that, all we can say is thank you.”—Paste Magazine
 
"Lovely and terribly enjoyable."—Comic Book Resources

"This is sci-fi at its finest, an amalgam of everything we love—time travel, space, alien races and of course the most important element of how humans process these stirring events."—Aint' It Cool News

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