REVIEW: Family Tree #8 is another solid, mysterious issue

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By Jacob Cordas — Family Tree still can’t seem to figure out how to pay off its narrative mysteries. The previous issue suffered harshly from its over reliance on obfuscating the puzzles at play. Family Tree #8 does nothing to fix that problem outside of not leaning so hard on the convention as the last issue did. This issue thankfully only has one occurrence of a character claiming that everything is about to be explained (spoiler - it isn’t).

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REVIEW: Family Tree #7 deepens the mystery

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By Benjamin Morin — Once again, the creative team behind Family Tree knocks it out of the park. With Family Tree #7, writer Jeff Lemire begins to tie all the various narrative threads together from previous entries. The three main threads of Grampa Judd’s escape, Meg’s concurrent transformation, and Josh’s future struggle are woven together through Josh’s unique perspective. This is an action-packed issue that grabs readers from page one and does not let go.

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REVIEW: Family Tree #6, this book is growing strong

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By Jacob Cordas — If you had told me that there’d be a mini movement of amazing plant-centric comics, I’d have told you that was an incredibly specific and confusing prediction. But here we are halfway through 2020 and we have several excellent, plant-centric comics, including Farmhand, No One’s Rose, and basically the entire X-Men line. But no comic is better able to mine this imagery for horror than Family Tree.

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REVIEW: Family Tree #3 deepens the mystery of this intriguing series

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By Nick Couture — Family Tree #3 — from Jeff Lemire, Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Ryan Cody, Steve Wands, and Will Dennis — continues the journey of a young girl who is literally turning into a tree. This issue adds new threads, villians, and mystery to a book already stacked with intrigue. The warm hug of a Jeff Lemire book feels nice (as always), and this is another solid entry to the beginning of a new book, but part of me wishes that a few more risks were being taken.

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