Trees

In the near future, massive alien Trees have rooted across Earth, standing silent and inscrutable—but their presence has remade geopolitics, culture, and daily life. This 2020 series from Cross Cult, written and illustrated by a team that includes Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, explores a world struggling to adapt to an alien invasion that never actually attacked, focusing on human stories from New York to a Chinese oil town to an Arctic research station. Across its three issues, Trees builds a tense, thoughtful science fiction mosaic about waiting, paranoia, and the strange quiet of an incomprehensible other.