Trees #01
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Jason Howard
Publisher: Image
I decided to pick this one up after thoroughly enjoying Ellis’s take on Moon Knight (I highly recommend the current run, by the way), and have to admit immediately that I continue to be entranced by Ellis’s writing.
In this first issue, we are dropped in media res, in a world in which the eponymous Trees have already spread throughout the world – by whichever means through which they initially came. We can tell then the already radical extent to which Earth has been altered by their appearance, with military efforts, social climates, scientific endeavors, and politics all having been restructured to in some way/shape/form act in response to the Trees.
Although more of a mystery in my eyes, if someone wanted to deem this a “horror comic” I can completely understand, but the beauty here is that the true horror of the “Trees” is much more subtle and “Lovecraftian” in nature. From even this introduction we can tell that for whatever the Trees may be on Earth for, it most likely has very little to do with us, or at least is outside of any realm of traditional logic we as humans could hope to understand (just yet). This comics has already established itself a compelling mystery as well as plot to expand on and hopefully to offer more clarity with coming issues. That is to say, I plan to pick up this (limited) run in its entirety.
Artist: Jason Howard
Publisher: Image
I decided to pick this one up after thoroughly enjoying Ellis’s take on Moon Knight (I highly recommend the current run, by the way), and have to admit immediately that I continue to be entranced by Ellis’s writing.
In this first issue, we are dropped in media res, in a world in which the eponymous Trees have already spread throughout the world – by whichever means through which they initially came. We can tell then the already radical extent to which Earth has been altered by their appearance, with military efforts, social climates, scientific endeavors, and politics all having been restructured to in some way/shape/form act in response to the Trees.
Although more of a mystery in my eyes, if someone wanted to deem this a “horror comic” I can completely understand, but the beauty here is that the true horror of the “Trees” is much more subtle and “Lovecraftian” in nature. From even this introduction we can tell that for whatever the Trees may be on Earth for, it most likely has very little to do with us, or at least is outside of any realm of traditional logic we as humans could hope to understand (just yet). This comics has already established itself a compelling mystery as well as plot to expand on and hopefully to offer more clarity with coming issues. That is to say, I plan to pick up this (limited) run in its entirety.
A Look Inside
