Family Tree Volume 1: Sapling

Bestselling, award-winning JEFF LEMIRE(ROYAL CITY, DESCENDER, Sweet Tooth) and PHIL HESTER (Shipwreck,Green Arrow) come together for FAMILY TREE.When an eight-year-old girl literally begins totransform into a tree, her single Mom, troubled brother and possibly insaneGrandfather embark on a bizarre, and heart-wrenching odyssey across the backroads of America desperately searching for a way to cure her horrifyingtransformation before it's too late.But the further they get from home, and the closer thegirl gets to completely losing her humanity, the more external forces threatento tear the family apart as fanatical cults, mercenaries and tabloid Paparazziclose in. determined to destroy the girl or use her forthemselves. A new genre-defying ongoing series FAMILY TREEwill combine mystery, action and Cronenbergian body horror into an epicstory about the lengths a mother will go to keep her children safe in the faceof an increasingly unstable world and unspeakable horrors. The first collection of the hit new series bysuperstar creators JEFF LEMIRE and PHIL HESTER beginshere!Collects issues 1 through4