REVIEW: Family Tree #1 speaks to many of Jeff Lemire’s long-time storytelling interests
By Zack Quaintance — Family Tree is the best type of genre-bending comic, in that it doesn’t feel like it’s setting out to be a genre-bending comic. And look, I know that sounds goofy, but I really couldn’t get to a better way of phrasing it. This is a comic that has family drama, body horror, and a foreshadowed apocalypse. There’s a lot going on within the 20-some pages of this debut issue, and yet it doesn’t feel at all like the creators felt obligated to include any of the places this story goes for marketability or shock value or standing out, or whatever other reason contrived narrative bits find end up in comics.
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