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Trillium by jeff lemire5/29/2023 ![]() The story of the Incan goddess, who is split in two and seeds the world with plants, weighs against Nika’s own surprising ingestion of the plant meant to save the human race. There’s no question in my mind Lemire succeeds on this count, as the first chapter is both intriguing and full of fascinating parallels that already beg for dissection. Not graced with the long form of Sweet Tooth - one of my personal favorite post-apocalyptic tales that ran forty issues - or the done-in-one bang of a graphic novel like last year’s exceptional Underwater Welder, the writer needs to come out of the gate running and hook us immediately into this brave new (or old, as the case may be) world. Lemire has a bold task ahead of him with Trillium to get readers involved and invested in what is planned as a finite eight-issue mini-series. ![]() Do you follow the man or do you follow the woman? Do you unceasingly search for the past or do you desperately rush to save the future? And at the center of it all is a single plant that could hold the key to illumination, salvation… even love. ![]() A story told in parallel, with one protagonist from the far future and one from nearly one hundred years hence, Trillium opens with a choice. ![]()
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