Trillium #3 – Review

By: Jeff Lemire (story & art), José Villarrubia (colors)

The Story: Never screw around with a scientist and her research, especially if she has a ray gun.

The Review: Much as I enjoyed last month’s issue, it occurred to me afterward that once Nika arrived in the past and saw the bounty of trillium growing there, the whole point of the series had sort of been met, right?  If the whole purpose of Nika’s mission is to find and gather a whole mess of the white flowers to save the human race, then there doesn’t seem to be much left to do other than to grab as much as she can and start working on that cure.

Obviously, that can’t be the whole of Lemire’s story because that would just be anticlimactic, to say the least.  Some other obstacle has to get in the way between the humans and salvation, though at the moment, you don’t see very many.  The Atabithians have been very cooperative so far, and even in the face of impending genocide, they offer no resistance.  There is some bigger picture here that they see and we don’t, though where Nika, William, and the trillium fit into it remains unclear.