Ten years after they landed All over the world & they did nothing standing on the surface of the Earth like trees exerting their silent pressure on the world as if there were no-one here & nothing under foot Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe but that they did not recognize us as intelligent or alive Trees a new science fiction graphic novel by Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan Red) & Jason Howard (Super Dinoasaur Astounding Wolf-Man) looks at a near-future world where life goes on in the shadows of the Trees in China where a young painter arrives in the "special cultural zone" of a city under a Tree; in Italy where a young woman under the menacing protection of a fascist gang meets an old man who wants to teach her terrible skills; & in Svalbard where a research team is discovering by accident that the Trees may not be dormant after all & the awful threat they truly represent