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. 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.
Jeff Lemire also earns my respect for his high concept sci-fi, which mixes portals through time and space with a star-crossed (literally?) lovers story. This book represents a challenge to other creators: the bar for creativity in comics continues to be raised.Trillium is a creator-owned comic published by Vertigo. Those with the patience to reread and decode Lemire's alien messages both literal and figurative will be rewarded.
The script isn't quite as tight, and refers to grandiose concepts in vague language throughout. 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. Lemire tells two stories at once by turning the panels upside down, disorienting the reader as much as his heroes. But it's the layouts that take the book to new heights of creativity. In his first solo project in years, Lemire's art excels, combining his trademark sketchiness with gorgeous watercolors.
When they each discover a hidden temple, they form a mental connection destined to rewrite space and time. 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. Writer/artist Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County) turns his gaze to the stars in this mind- and reality-bending science fiction graphic novel.
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