Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. Unfortunately, their love also results in bringing about the end of the universe. William 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.Įven though Nika and William are separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles, they will fall in love. Nika is busy researching a species of strange plant-based life forms on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space.Īnother part of Trillium is set in the year 1921 and centers around war-scarred explorer William Pike. Part of Trillium takes place in the year 3797 and centers around botanist Nika Temsmith. Trillium is actually set in two different time zones. So, I combined these two interests along with my ongoing fascination with in World War 1, and turn of the century exploration, and the results are Trillium." It seemed like just the kind of challenge Mark was pushing me to undertake. Preacher and Blankets come to mind as recent successes, but in my mind, it's still a difficult and rather unexplored genre in the comics medium. There have been so few love stories done really well in comics. I've also always wanted to do a really powerful, human love story. I experimented a bit with it last year when I did the Ultra The Multi-Alien short story for Vertigo's Strange Adventures anthology and enjoyed that project so much that I was eager to do more. Sci-Fi is something I've wanted to tackle for a while. Finally he pushed me to leave my comfort zone, and get away from the genres and themes that I'd become known for. I pitched a number of ideas to editor Mark Doyle that I wasn't totally happy with. Lemire said, "As Sweet Tooth moved towards its conclusion earlier this year, I started to look ahead to what my next creator-owned project for DC/Vertigo could be. Trillium is both written and illustrated by Jeff Lemire. A new limited series called Trillium will be launched by Vertigo in 2013.
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