IDW Comics releases a supernatural comic that took place in an old forest in Japan more of a mythological tale in Ghost Tree the graphic novel.
Here’s an interesting fact, there are a lot of supernatural tales about vampires and ghosts, but what about a ghost tree? We should all probably know that traveling in the forest at night can be dangerous and can easily attract predators for food. But no, the story is different from what you’ve read from the children’s book called “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein, a cursed one. The story is written by Bobby Curnow and drawn by Simon Gane. It’s a mysterious way to tell a story about a tree that is haunted. Furthermore, it was a Japanese elderly man who had influenced with the tree can be an illusion, but the boy felt like he’s seeing things. Hopefully, it’s not drugs or anything because this can get weird.
The front of the cover shows a monochrome background of the forest, however, there was someone is standing beside the tree as it’s about to triumph. Is it the grim reaper in green? Or Robin Hood with a gaping hole on his face? Somehow, this character is standing through the tree as if he’s looking for someone. The first thing that I get to know about this book is that the story focuses on a series of fragments of the pasts and previews of their own death as if the story follows that our main characters have some communication and connection between the spirits of the forest. Ghost Tree is one of the spiritual Japanese folklore stories that actually be told in future generations, like Totoro. The story follows a boy named Brandt who spent his childhood with his grandfather, only that he found out that he has a connection with the spirits from the forest. Even so, there are a lot of serene moments when Brandt is a grown man and experience some of the things that his grandfather has seen. Afterward, when he’s about to go to sleep, a woman named Arami came out of nowhere, even though he remembers Arami right from his childhood. Talking to a ghost is more than talking to a real human being, but most of the people in the forest are spirits, and who knows how long this story lasts to the end.
The story is quite magical, but instead of having a ghost story around, it has a focus and a plot to make it as Japanese folklore about spirits. There are a lot of things to be told, about the ghost tree, the forests, ghosts, it’s quite amazing. But anyway, Ghost Tree has a meaningful story that relies on a Japanese tradition, as for that it shows a circle of small characters and the world which was created by spirits. Brandt’s past is the most ideal thing that he has to go soul searching in the first place. It has some unique imagery and pacing. The story is great that it’s possible to have as a children’s book in a teenage version. The art is great too, the character designs and the background can give a lot of life, even the creatures seemed too real to have something as a concept. The whole idea is that the story is too dramatic, it brings out a little spice of horror which suppose to have a haunted forest somewhere in Japan. There’s something about this graphic novel is that it shows a sight of your childhood memories, but whenever you visit a place that you grew up, it resembles the way you spent your childhood years ago, and that’s where this story drops the bomb. If you rather want to read a story that you will make to reminisce about your past about it, then this is for you.
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