Trees #4 feels like slightly dull filler, half of it is taken up with the Chinese story and within that there are two or three pages of dull and worthy transgender etiquette that completely fails the rule of showing rather than telling.
In the Antarctic we move the plot on a bit but the dialogue is full of melodrama that fails to illuminate the characters.
Jason Howard's art though is consistently great and its really his depictions of the different environments that is keeping the book flowing at the moment.