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Trillium #8 (of 8)
DC/Vertigo, $2.99, 32 pages
Story Grade: C
Issue Score: 59.75
RECOMMENDED FOR COMPLETISTS ONLY
Well, that’s that I guess, everything wrapped up in a nice, neat black hole bow. I did miss last issue, but was able to get up to speed okay, apart from seeing how William and Nika reconnected and realized they had somehow switched lives. That’s probably because this series was an idea stretched over too many issues. I believe the whole thing would have worked much better as a 10 page story in one of the giant anthologies that Vertigo occasionally puts out to protect old DC title trademarks.
The early issues of this series covered a lot of the same ground over and over again as it established the connection in flipbook style between William and Nika. However, the series ending leaves us hanging regarding the connection of the alien temple, the alien blue race and even the titular trillium plant, unless all of that happened last issue. William and Nika simply end their lives by fiving into a back hole and I suppose we’re left to assume that their atoms merge together completing their connection and somehow circling back to their parallel lives. I dunno. It was a pretty unsatisfying end. Honestly, it’s like Jeff Lemire went through a black hole himself, travelled into the future to watch the series finale of How I Met Your Mother, then came back and said, “Let’s see, how can I write a comic book version of failing to deliver on a promise like that?”
I give the art a higher grade than it probably deserved just because I find it to be so wonderfully quirky which still successfully telling the story, such as it is.
[COVER: 7.0 — PLOT: 6.0 — SCRIPT: 7.25 — LAYOUT: 7.50 — ARTWORK: 7.25 — EDITING: 4.50 — COLORS/PRODUCTION: 8.0 — DOLLAR VALUE: 4.75 — COLLECTIBILITY: 2.50 —GOSH-WOW FACTOR: 5.0]
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