Trees #11

Warren Ellis and Jason Howard's Trees continues its unsettling meditation on humanity's place in an alien-altered world. Jason Howard's cover is a quietly haunting image — a lone silhouetted figure digging amid standing stones at dusk, a warm glow of disturbed earth beneath the shovel, while the massive dark forms of the Trees themselves extend deep below the ground like roots of something far larger and stranger. It's the kind of cover that earns a second look, with its split above-and-below composition suggesting that whatever is buried may be just as significant as what looms overhead.