A review by myqz
Family Tree, Volume 2 by Jeff Lemire

4.0

I keep waiting for a Lemire story that doesn’t hit with me. Occasionally there’s an arc or two with diminishing returns, but the run he’s on reminds me of Carpenter in the eighties: he knows his lane, and he’s just opening the engine up as he flies down it. He’s working with familiar themes here: broken families, redemption through self sacrifice, working family-driven flashbacks into current action, body horror, the environment; but he’s so damn good with them that by the time I’m asking “hasn’t he kind of already done this?,” I’m already fighting back a tear.