Trillium #2 Review

After an absolutely stunning debut, Trillium picks up right where it left off with Nika (the astronaut/botanist from the future) and William (the explorer/Englishman from 1921) meeting for the first time. They can’t understand one another, and we are treated to that classic game of “I don’t know what you’re saying but let me try and communicate by drawing a picture in the dirt with this stick.” It’s actually quite sweet, and also informative, so the story progresses a tad while we get to see the first spark between these two time-crossed lovers.

Jeff Lemire writes and draws this comic all by himself. His art has always fascinated me because -- and I don’t mean this negatively -- he has a loose, sketchy style with little polish and lots of unrefined lines. It’s not anatomically accurate, yet it’s all his own. In those rough lines and oblong faces, he pulls out expressive characters and engrossing settings unlike you’ve ever seen. Best of all, he is a master of pacing and uses ingenious layouts to perfectly sparse out his imaginative story.

I could see some people being unsatisfied with the lack of plot progression, but I would say that witnessing this first interaction is just what we needed. Watching these two characters fail to communicate and try other methods and then finally come up with a universal language and a single, special word that they both understand is something out of a classic romance.

With the added elements of war-induced PTSD and the coming of the apocalyptic Caul, Lemire looks poised to deliver a love story unlike we’ve ever heard before.

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