Trillium #6 – Review

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

The Story: Never trust a parent who says, “Everything will be all right.”  Especially in space.

The Review: In almost any time-traveling/reality-altering story, there comes a moment when the universe goes topsy-turvy for a while.  History changes, lives take different courses, things that shouldn’t be gleefully are.  Never to fear, however; in pretty much every case at least one person knows that something isn’t right and will push themselves to make it so again.  It’s a necessary fictional convention that unfortunately makes these kinds of stories a little formulaic.

On the plus side, even when things go back relatively to normal, scars remain.  For the world of Trillium, there’s a lot of opportunity for things to remain awry, even if Nika and William by some freak chance manage to return to their proper timelines.  The one that sticks out to me is the fact that William now has all this advanced technical knowledge in his brain, which even memories of his past life can’t completely crowd out.  That sort of leaves only two options for William, doesn’t it?  Either he loses that knowledge (and potentially his memories of all that’s happened in the last five issues) or else he gets to stay in the future.