Trillium #5 – Review

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

The Story: Looks like someone got up in the wrong timeline this morning.

The Review: You got to give credit to Lemire; the man does not let the grass grow under his feet.  On the face of it, a time-travel romance sounds like it should be a slow burn of a read, but Lemire has taken the complete opposite tack.  Not only has Nika and William’s relationship deepened in an incredibly short amount of time, but the series has really sped through its plot points, causing more cataclysmic changes in just five issues than some titles do in twenty-five.

Certainly you didn’t expect that by issue five the whole fabric of the Trillium universe would be rewritten, switching the places of our two protagonists and amending the time-space continuum to accommodate the change.  It’s an unexpected development, but it’s also important for what it means for the story.  It means the temple Commander Pohl foolishly tried to destroy last month can do much more than send people back and forth to predetermined points in time, a purely passive ability of a man-made object.  The breadth and completeness of the reality change indicates some higher, thinking power at work.