Thursday, November 6, 2014

Trillium #1 (Vertigo)

writer/artist: Jeff Lemire
via DC Wikia
Trillium is one of those series I should have been reading, should have been done reading by now, along with Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy's The Wake.  They're both mini-series that concluded earlier this year and I took forever to have a look at, and I feel bad, because I knew they were worth looking at and just didn't get around to it.

Being a guy who's got to pick and choose what he reads (although I found out it's very bad to read a lot of comics on a limited budget) means I can't just read everything that looks interesting.  Sometimes that means I miss out on something that I would probably like a great deal.

I've been meaning to check out more of Jeff Lemire's work, besides.  His first notable work was the indie comic Essex County, and then Sweet Tooth at Vertigo.  It was clear even without having read either one that he had a unique style.  Trillium looks to have been his most ambitious work to date.

The debut issue, from late last year, is a flipbook, following two separate individuals as they come to the same discovery.  One of them is a scientist from the future and the other a soldier from the past.  Both are troubled and surrounded by people who are not exactly making their lives easier.  They're uniquely situated to handle an incredible discovery, but how incredible?  Like the characters themselves, it's one that comes packaged in the past and future.

And I immediately kick myself, because I should have been reading this all along.  So I have to make a vow that at the very least, next time Lemire launches a new project I will definitely be there.  And I will have to read the complete Trillium.

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