Trees

just finished reading it. Dig the concept, not sure how's it's going to play out.

well i think it's only set to be 8 issues as of now

I'm not sure were this ones going but I'll defiantly pick up the next issue. Warren Ellis is a fav so I'm sure as this story unfolds it will be amazing. :0)

I subscribe to Ellis' email list and he stated that they are going to continue with a second arc after 8.

Just caught up with #5 and #6. Really enjoying this. Nice to see a book relaying the atmosphere of it's protagonists for us to experience. We're getting so used to the Trees doing nothing and just being colossal and eery that when something does happen it'll break the enforced comfort we've found.

Digging the art too. Especially the perspective shots of the Trees.

My thoughts, exactly, and it gives me no pleasure whatsoever to say that.  I wanted it to be amazing when it started, and I still want nothing more than for it to reveal some genius grand-master-plan in the next two issues and blow my mind, but I just don't see it.  It's so scattered and slow; it feels like Ellis never got past the initial brainstorming phase.  "What if these giant alien columns came down all over the earth and didn't even recognize us as a lifeform worth communicating with; how would the world react!"  Great concept, now please, for the love of god, Warren, give us some fucking substance and momentum and energy and cohesive plot underneath that, i'm begging you.  I've never read a 6 issue stretch of any book that achieved less than the first 6 issues of Trees, and it's driving me nuts.  Have we even gone back to the politician from the first issue that was like, "You can't be in politics if you don't have a stance on Trees"?  Is there a fucking point, or any rhyme or reason or method to why all these little stories have been introduced to us, only to see most of them be abandoned, utterly?  The gangster's girlfriend and the weird sensei in the abandoned house?  "Oh no, the African Dictator is putting weapons on the top of the Trees, and the Chinese kid is discovering himself, sexually", WHY SHOULD I CARE IN THE SLIGHTEST.  The only thread that's even remotely interesting is the research base in the Arctic, and even that hasn't done anything that wasn't super-obviously going to happen from issue #1.  It's just killin' me, and not in a good way.

It's hard to believe that this is the same guy who gave us the frantic, incredibly-vital, brilliant, kinetic whirlwind that is Spider Jerusalem; more happened in the first 5 pages of Transmet than has happened in the first 6 fucking issues of this series, and it makes me want to cry.