Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing
on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the wo
rld, as if there were no-one here and nothing under foot. Ten years since we lea
rned that there is intelligent life in the universe, but that they did not recog
nize us as intelligent or alive. Trees, a new science fiction graphic novel by W
arren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Red) and Jason Howard (Super Dinoasaur, Astoundi
ng Wolf-Man) looks at a near-future world where life goes on in the shadows of t
he Trees: in China, where a young painter arrives in the "special cultural zone"
of a city under a Tree; in Italy, where a young woman under the menacing protec
tion of a fascist gang meets an old man who wants to teach her terrible skills;
and in Svalbard, where a research team is discovering, by accident, that the Tre
es may not be dormant after all, and the awful threat they truly represent.
