A dedicated nurse named Evie Pierce awakens to an unfamiliar world alongside two doppelgangers--one, a young and snarky superhero; the other, a hardened rebel military commander of a post-apocalyptic world.When a mysterious figure begins to hunt them down, the three women must work together to survive and discover why they were assembled.This volume collects issues #1-#5 of the glorious, multiverse sci-fi epic, Triage, written and illustrated by revered comics veteran Phillip Sevy (The Freeze, The House, Tomb Raider).
A sci-fi one-shot - oh the ending’s left open but it’s fooling nobody - which doesn’t totally satisfy either on the story level (why is any of this happening?) or the human emotion level (lot of self analysis going on but the story intrudes before it really goes anywhere).
And where we do get answers they are sometimes, well, stupid ones. One of the three alternate universe selves of the protagonist has been fighting in a post apocalyptic wasteland for 30 years against a flying city that abducts her friends, only to discover that said friends are alive and well and the city is in fact rescuing them from the dying world - though none of the rescued people seem to have thought to bother telling anybody this. “Perhaps there was another way…” thinks our heroine. Yeah, no shit.
Still, I am something of a sucker for alternate self stories and even a bad one has entertainment value. There’s stuff to admire about Triage’s style - from its confident pace to its queer and poly representation presented as no big deal - even if the substance is tissue thin.
A nurse meets up with her doppelgangers from other dimensions while someone is trying to murder them. They are given a way to hop between dimensions when this person arrives on the Earth they are on. The story is short enough that is doesn't go into why this is happening. That is left up to the reader. There's solid sci-fi here exploring love and what if's. The art was pretty good as well.