Trillium: The Deluxe Edition

Product Description Award-winning and fan-favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed lovers through space and time in TRILLIUM! 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. 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. Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn't just a love story, it's the LAST love story ever told. This special Deluxe edition collects TRILLIUM #1-8 and features pages and pages of bonus contents including scripts and preliminary artwork by creator Jeff Lemire. Review -When you get to the last page of TRILLIUM, you can't help but think -wow.- This is an exciting and original work that deserves your attention and your dollars. Buy TRILLIUM.- --IGN -Lovely and terribly enjoyable.- --COMIC BOOK RESOURCES -This is sci fi at its finest, an amalgam of everything we love - time travel, space, alien races and of course the most important element of how humans process these stirring events.- --AIN'T IT COOL NEWS -Once again Lemire shows why he's a master storyteller. TRILLIUM is exciting, visceral and cerebral at the same time.- --Cravenonline About the Author Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire is the creator of the acclaimed monthly comic book series SWEET TOOTH published by DC/Vertigo and the award-winning graphic novel ESSEX COUNTY published by Top Shelf. He also writes ANIMAL MAN, FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. and SUPERBOY for DC Comics. In 2008 Jeff won the Shuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist, and The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. He also won the American Library Association's prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. In 2010 Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. In 2013 Lemire published the graphic novel THE UNDERWATER WELDER (Top Shelf). He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.