Maybe Trillium is the last love story ever told.

Trillium expands on those science fiction roots and details an unusual love story that exists in two very different time periods: the future, found in the year 3797 and the past, found in post World War I-era 1921. At its heart, Sweet Tooth was a very human tale. For over three years, he wrote and drew the fan-favourite Sweet Tooth series for the imprint, a sci-fi saga about animal-human hybrid creatures struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Jeff Lemire is not new to Vertigo Comics. Pick it up if you haven’t yet – it’s excellent. Already last week, this column highlighted the amazing first issue of the theoretical physics-inspired, Collider. “Defy” is Vertigo’s new (old) mantra and with an exciting bevy of fresh comic book titles by both new and mainstay creators finding their way to store shelves in the coming months, the company looks to live up to that very word. Somewhat languishing since its halcyon heights during the 1990’s and early 2000’s when it regularly released award-winning titles such as Sandman, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Man, Lucifer and Fables, the mature and sophisticated publishing imprint of DC Comics has recently regained a raison d’etra. Vertigo Comics finds itself amidst a renaissance these days. It’s affixed to drama and emotions in which we can all relate.Īnd Trillium, under the pen and pencil and brush of acclaimed writer/artist Jeff Lemire, promises a story that will measure up to the best that the science fiction genre offers. But the best science fiction is rooted in the human spirit. A statement such as that must be science fiction, right? Well, of course it is.

That’s the tag-line for Trillium, the most recent Vertigo Comics foray into creator-owned comic books.

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