If Black Hammer lives up to its early promise, it will deserve a place on the shelf right next to the Watchmen series. TRILLIUM The amazing eight-issue miniseries by award-winning writer/artist Jeff Lemire is collected in this mind-blowing new collection Two souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. There’s an astonishing clarity to the characters and their motivations amid what could easily become a convoluted backstory filled with interstellar exploration, multiverse travelling, alien diplomacy, and quiet farm life. As the narrative unfolds, the haunting backstories add greater context and intrigue to the mysteries of the present. Each chapter, beautifully illustrated by Ormston (Lucifer) with eerie, stripped-down realism, explores each hero’s identity, origins, and path to ending up on the farm. It opens with six former superheroes who’ve been mysteriously trapped on a small farm for a decade. While reveling in the pulp fantasies of silver age superhero comics and EC’s lurid sci-fi/horror stories, this collection is as much a study of loneliness and isolation as it is a superhero deconstruction. Lemire’s best stories (the Essex County trilogy) are permeated with loss–his characters are always pining for something that once was and can never be again.
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