NEW YORK COMIC CON: VERTIGO ANNOUNCEMENTS

DC Comics announced new Vertigo projects involving Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder at New York Comic Con on Friday.

Lemire is writing and drawing Trillium.

"As Sweet Tooth moved towards its conclusion earlier this year, I started to look ahead to what my next creator-owned project for DC/Vertigo could be,' Lemire said. "I pitched a number of ideas to editor Mark Doyle that I wasn't totally happy with. Finally he pushed me to leave my comfort zone, and get away from the genres and themes that I'd become known for.

"Sci-Fi is something I've wanted to tackle for a while. I experimented a bit with it last year when I did the Ultra The Multi-Alien short story for Vertigo's Strange Adventures anthology and enjoyed that project so much that I was eager to do more. I've also always wanted to do a really powerful, human love story. There have been so few love stories done really well in comics. Preacher and Blankets come to mind as recent successes, but in my mind, it's still a difficult and rather unexplored genre in the comics medium. It seemed like just the kind of challenge Mark was pushing me to undertake. So, I combined these two interests along with my ongoing fascination with in World War 1, and turn of the century exploration, and the results are Trilllium."

Here's how DC describes the book:

"It's the year 3797 and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a species of strange plant-based life forms on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space.

It's the year 1921, and war-scarred explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled 'Lost Temple of The Incas,' an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties.

"Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn't just a love story, it's the last love story ever told."

The Wake is a new series by Snyder and artist Sean Murphy.

Here's how DC describes the book:

"Beneath the surface, set amidst the claustrophobic yet beautiful and sweeping ocean-scapes, a discovery is made that will reveal a secret mythology. Full of suspense and horror, THE WAKE is an underwater sci-fi epic like none other."

"This is a story Sean and I have actually been developing together for more than a year, a big, twisted, sprawling science fiction and horror epic, all of which begins with a single, terrifying discovery at the bottom of the ocean," Snyder said. "It's one of the most ambitious stories I've ever done, and there's no one I'd rather be creating it with than Sean Murphy.

"Sean's a great friend and we had a blast together on American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest; luckily, he's also one of the industry's brightest new stars, someone with unrivaled abilities as a world-builder -- every scene he draws is so fully realized, so richly imagined, it's hugely inspiring working with him, and I'm grateful to him for signing on to be my partner at the end of the world, here."