Jason Howard (artist)
Image Comics
A survivor of the
Blindhail Event looks for signs of imminent global disaster among the
megaliths and relics of Orkney, while the new mayor of New York plans to
extract his revenge for the awful thing that happened the day the Tree
landed on Manhattan.The first volume of Trees was a multinational sort of beast slipping between Europe, China, the Arctic Circle, Africa, and New York as we are introduced to some of the players and the idea of a world where giant, inscrutable alien monoliths have planted themselves in the Earth and then proceeded to not do much of anything except occasionally leak toxic waste.
Volume 2 is considerably less frenetic and for much of it's time tells of only 2 characters; sleazy New York mayor-elect and his attempts to clean house and Dr. Jo Creasy the sole survivor of the whatever it was at Svalbard in the previous volume.
The mayor's story plays out as a more straightforward action piece of political sci-fi filled with camouflage cloth and drone strikes. The Dr. Creasy story on the other hand rings all manner of Wyrd Britain bells as she is packed off to the Orkney Islands to look for black flowers where she meets an archaeologist and things get very 'Quatermass Conclusion' which to my mind is always a good thing.
As much as I enjoyed the first book it was a little hyperactive for my sedate tastes but this is much more settled set that really opened out the storyworld in all manner of interesting ways and was an absolute joy to read.
Buy it here - UK / US
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