Sweet Tooth Comic Review

 

Comic: Sweet Tooth
Author: Jeff Lemire
Pages: 920
Hard Core Scale: 4/4
Normal Scale:10/10
Publish Date: 2017 (2009)
About: The boy Gus is told by his father to never leave the woods of his home. There are bad men, sinners, and plague out there. The boy too has unique features, deer antlers. However, one day he breaks this cardinal taboo and his world changes forever.


Review: I had meant to read this a very long time ago, when it first came out. I got caught up reading Saga, and this got lost in the shuffle. I moved and it slipped away out of mind since I was away from a comic shop for some time. Then the show came out and was like OH CRAP everyone is going to talk about it! And took forever to find a copy and read it before it was all ruined. What a masterpiece. Lemire is a fantastic writer. I enjoyed his other stuff. Love their art style. He does reach a trippy point, but it is always respected, the edge of visionary and madness that always finds its way to loop back into reality. Their art thrives on it. The human as “other” is usually weak and trite when it is done archetypally. Here, the treatment of myth saves that plot vein. The connection of legacy is very important in the tale formula and myth form and stops this entire thing from falling flat on its face and boosts it sky high. Sweet Tooth is myth. Lemire did his homework, and it shimmers like the work of a bard. Every last darn ounce of art and word COUNTS!  A little bit of old fashion madness, sadness, happiness, life reflection at its worst to see our best, and a shovel heap of mythspace in great form is what is under the tin and it was worth every penny. It has been done and done well! Sorry, folks it ain’t nothing like the show. Also it comes to pass that I am far more kinder on comics than I am on books… pretty pictures.  

P.S the new cover for book one based off the show is the type of obsifucating crap that really hurts to behold.  Alas, the market that can’t leave art along in the name of money. 

Sweet Tooth cover, 2009 Copyright Jeff Lemire, DC. 



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