Family Tree #5

Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur's cover for this fifth issue says everything without saying a word: a young woman's face is split down the middle, one half human and anxious, the other half consumed by gnarled bark, root-like tissue, and blooming branches erupting from her skull — all set against a pale sky crowded with skeletal trees. Jeff Lemire's series continues to blur the line between the organic and the horrific in deeply unsettling fashion. If body-horror rooted in family drama is your thing, Family Tree is delivering it with quiet dread and real craft.