Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring #2

The unsettling charm of Patrick Horvath's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees continues with this 2025 IDW series' second installment of "Rite of Spring." The cover tells its own quiet, creepy story: a small bear in a flannel shirt and jeans stands at the edge of a tree-lined curb, shovel in hand, gazing out over the sprawling parking lot of a big-box store called "Big Deal." There's something deeply off about the juxtaposition — the familiar, almost cozy woodland creature framed against the mundane sprawl of suburban commerce — and Horvath and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou carry that unease with assured, understated craft.