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* InscrutableAliens: The Trees.

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* InscrutableAliens: The Trees. The AppropriatedAppellation that named them is a comparison between trying to make FirstContact with them and "talking to a tree and asking it to talk back".

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''Trees'' is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but the first two arcs were numbered as a single ongoing series.

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''Trees'' is was written by Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of three limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but the series. The first two arcs were a world-spanning story connected to each other and numbered as sequentially. The third, Three Fates, is a single ongoing series.
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* SpeciesTitle: SubvertedTrope. Not actually about the plants. It's just what the humans call the huge alien towers that landed on Earth.
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''Trees'' is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but numbered as a single ongoing series.

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''Trees'' is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but the first two arcs were numbered as a single ongoing series.
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* WritingForTheTrade: More so than most Creator/WarrenEllis comics, as each issue leads directly into the next one. There are no chapter headings in the trade paperbacks.

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* WritingForTheTrade: More so than most Creator/WarrenEllis comics, as each issue leads directly into the next one. There are no chapter headings in the trade paperbacks.paperbacks.
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* LoyalToThePosition: British civil servant Ridley Calderwood, ‘Permanent Undersecretary of State to the Home Secretary’. He even describes himself as “politically immortal”. He might be right.
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* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:Since the Trees don’t seem to care about human actions, Somalia’s president Rahim decides to use the Puntland Tree as a gun tower, landing artillery on top of it for a better field of fire.]]

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* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:Since the Trees don’t seem to care about human actions, Somalia’s president Rahim decides to use the Puntland Tree as a gun tower, landing placing artillery on top of it for a better field of fire.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler; Dr Jo Creasy]] is the only person to get out of the [[spoiler:Blindhail]] incident alive.

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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler; Dr Jo [[spoiler:Dr Creasy]] is the only person to get out of the [[spoiler:Blindhail]] incident alive.
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* AliensInCardiff: In Spitsbergen, Cefalu and Mogadishu - but also in New York.

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* AliensInCardiff: In Spitsbergen, Cefalu and Mogadishu Puntland - but also in New York.


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* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:Since the Trees don’t seem to care about human actions, Somalia’s president Rahim decides to use the Puntland Tree as a gun tower, landing artillery on top of it for a better field of fire.]]
*SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler; Dr Jo Creasy]] is the only person to get out of the [[spoiler:Blindhail]] incident alive.
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* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Eligia kills ex-spy Professor Bongiorno once he’s finished teaching her, because “nobody can know”. An ending which he expects - and accepts.]]
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* AliensInCardiff: In Spitsbergen, Cefalu and Mogadishu - but also in New York.
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* WritingForTheTrade: Unlike most Creator/WarrenEllis comic, each issue leads directly into the next one. There are no chapter headings in the trade paperbacks.

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* WritingForTheTrade: Unlike More so than most Creator/WarrenEllis comic, comics, as each issue leads directly into the next one. There are no chapter headings in the trade paperbacks.
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* CorruptPolitician: Vince
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* AttackDrone: Used by several police forces and governments.
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They haven’t attempted to communicate with humans. Apart from some defensive measures and the occasional toxic waste dump, they haven’t actively done anything.

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They haven’t attempted to communicate with humans. Apart from some defensive measures and the occasional toxic waste dump, they haven’t actively overtly done anything.


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* AnyoneCanDie: Don’t get too attached to some of the main characters.
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* FoulFlower: The black Blindhail poppies.
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* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: Possibly the Trees. Except that we have no idea whether they’re actually the aliens, their robot servants/probes, or their ships.

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* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: Possibly the The Trees. Except that we have no idea whether they’re actually the aliens, their robot servants/probes, or their ships.
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!! [Trees] contains examples of:

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!! [Trees] ''Trees'' contains examples of:
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* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: Possibly the Trees. Except that we have no idea whether they’re actually the aliens, their robot servants/probes, or their ships.
* InscrutableAliens: The Trees.
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''Trees'' is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but numbered as a single ongoing series.

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''Trees'' is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but numbered as a single ongoing series.series.

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* WritingForTheTrade: Unlike most Creator/WarrenEllis comic, each issue leads directly into the next one. There are no chapter headings in the trade paperbacks.
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''Trees'' is written by creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but numbered as a single ongoing series.

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''Trees'' is written by creator/WarrenEllis Creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but numbered as a single ongoing series.
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Ten years ago alien life arrived on earth. The ‘Trees’ - huge, silent towers - fell from orbit and embedded themselves in the world.

They haven’t attempted to communicate with humans. Apart from some defensive measures and the occasional toxic waste dump, they haven’t actively done anything.

But their mere presence has destabilised the world. And one day, they might just decide to act and break it completely...

''Trees'' is written by creator/WarrenEllis and illustrated by Jason Howard. As per Ellis, it’s structured as a set of limited series, with long breaks in publication between each one, but numbered as a single ongoing series.

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