Trees

Warren Ellis and Jason Howard launched Trees at Image Comics in 2014. Ten years after enormous tree-like alien objects landed around the world, people live in their shadows without knowing whether the visitors notice them at all.

The series follows lives in different countries shaped by the structures' presence. The aliens' silence becomes a condition of politics, research, and everyday planning.

The comic gives alien contact an unusually unsettling form: no declaration, no negotiation, and no clear enemy. Humanity must keep living amid evidence that its place in the universe may be small.

Its global structure shows that one event can have very different local consequences. The Trees are shared, but the societies beneath them are not the same.

The visitors' apparent indifference resists human-centered interpretation. Their presence changes environments without supplying motives that people can verify.

This uncertainty becomes the real speculative pressure. Institutions still have to make decisions even when the most important actor offers no explanation.

Howard's towering forms make the alien presence impossible to ignore. Human streets and landscapes appear altered by sheer scale.

The repetition of vertical silhouettes across different locations ties the separate stories together while emphasizing their varied settings.