By Jacob Cordas — Family Tree still can’t seem to figure out how to pay off its narrative mysteries. The previous issue suffered harshly from its over reliance on obfuscating the puzzles at play. Family Tree #8 does nothing to fix that problem outside of not leaning so hard on the convention as the last issue did. This issue thankfully only has one occurrence of a character claiming that everything is about to be explained (spoiler - it isn’t).