A post apocalyptic mutant western. Weird in all of the best ways with a rough art style that fits its gritty and violent tone perfectly.

Post-apocalyptic mutant animal-hybrid children being hunted down? I'm in.

This was too damn sad! Loved the damn artwork though. Probably read the next damn book. Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

Gus or "Sweet Tooth", as he's nicknamed, is a young boy who lives in the woods with his father. Some sort of freak accident has mutated Sweet Tooth so that he has antlers on his head. When his father dies, he ventures out of the woods where he is ambushed by hunters and is saved by a mysterious, extremely tough man called Jepperd. With no choice but to follow his guardian, Sweet Tooth embarks on a journey out of the deep woods and into the wide world with Jepperd. But who is this man and why is

To be honest, I saw the flannel shirt on the front, thought it was another of Lemire's slice of life stories, and ran away. And I remember looking it up and seeing these black and white drawings, which just kind of solidified the idea that it was another Essex County.Also, I really don't like Lemire as an artist. I've yet to see anything remotely pleasing to the eye that he's drawn. Sweet Tooth is no exception.But it's not bad enough to make me want to stop reading the story, so there's that.Alr...

5.0 StarsThis is an incredibly engrossing post apocalyptic graphic novel. The character development is fantastic. Within a short number of pages, I became so emotionally invested in Gus. I only wish I had started reading this series sooner. Now I am dying to get my hands on volume two!

BAM!That’s how you do it, Jeff Lemire coming in hot from the cheap seats to post a very entertaining and thought provoking post-apocalyptic collection of his popular (and for good reason) series about a young boy, a hybrid human / deer following a calamitous pandemic that killed most of humanity.Lemire leaves plenty to guess at as we are introduced to Gus and his father, who is very ill and not long for this world living in the woods. Gus’s dad has warned Gus about not leaving the woods and of t...

Re-read! 06.18.19What the heck, I was under the impression that the first volume was the weakest (I read up until volume 5 in 2016 and never finished the story because I wasn't ready to say goodbye), but with this re-read I have to change my original rating. Up to 4 stars now. It was so good! Maybe it was because I was happy to be back with Gus and Jepperd. Well, happy-sad because this story has always affected me. And I might have picked this one up because I'm feeling a bit melancholic as well...

Bullet Review:That was a pleasant surprise. Weird, but interesting and gritty too. I have no clue how it's possible for these half-human, half-animal kids to exist, but hopefully it's explained in later books.

Post-apocalyptic fiction, a comics series, Volume 1, bearing some resemblance to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, in that it is in a dark future time where resources are thin and people have become more violent in competing for those resources. So it's grim in places. And features a generation of children who, like the boy nicknamed Sweet Tooth, is born with hybrid human/animal features, for not yet clear reasons. Times seem desperate, frightening.But Sweet Tooth is also, like other Lemire stories, a...

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3.5 StarsThere was nothing explicitly wrong with this, it just reads very much like an intro to the world and a set-up for later graphic novels. Nothing really massive happened; it reads kind of like a prequel. I should pick up volume 2 while it's fresh in my mind, but knowing me, that probably won't happen lol.I think something significant about this book is that it's written in a southern dialect and I'm typically someone who hates that, but I didn't mind it in this book. So kudos. Not my favo...

"Nebraska...the good life." Damn. Why did I wait so long to read this? Drop all your shitty books and read this right now. I'll give you the very short version. This is a post-apocalyptic Southern gothic. Sparse storytelling like Robert Kirkman's Outcast. Down to earth tragic characters. Yet somehow tender in their compassion. And in Gus aka Sweet Tooth's case, his innocence. Mr. Jepperd is a great fatherly yet mysterious figure whom I want to know more about. And sweet jesus, Gus is one naive b...

A decade ago the Affliction raged like a forest fire, killing billions, and the only children born since are a new breed of humun/ animal hybrid. Gus is one of these endangered children, a boy with a sweet soul, a sweeter tooth—and the features of a deer. But kids like Gus have a price on their heads. When vicious hunters descend on his isolated forest home, a mysterious and violent man called Jepperd rescues Gus.I liked Jepperd when he showed up, he kind of reminded me of Mike Ehrmantraut

This comic was sitting on my desk, and my seven-year-old saw it sitting there."Dad. That's a weird-looking comic," he said.And it was only then I realized how right he was. The cover does look weird, and, quite frankly, like nothing I'd pick up out of curiosity in the comic shop. If I hadn't known the author and liked his work, I never would have picked it up.Luckily, I'm a fan of Jeff Lemire's work. So I didn't let the cover scare me off.Don't let it scare you off, either. It's good stuff.(You'...

I just saw the trailer for the upcoming Netflix series, which looks great, and they said, "Based on the beloved comics series!" And since I had never heard of the "beloved comics" I thought I would give it a try.The story is good, but it's not unlike a lot of post apocalyptic stories, the difference being that there are animal human hybrids, and that Sweet Tooth may have been the first of them. What's keeping me from being excited to read more volumes is that I find the art to be aggressively ug...

Hmm. I'm not sure what I think yet but I have the second volume ready to go because I know from experience that comic volumes are just too little story for me to get invested with only the first one.I don't really enjoy the art style, although it's very fitting for this story/world.I wish I knew more about anything. This volume contained 5 individual comic issues that make up one full story arc, but it didn't feel like a complete arc to me. More world building could have been done. As of right n...

He’s adorable! “There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us.Number four: if I ever see anyone other than my dad, I run, and keep running.Number three: always say my prayers, so as God don't get mad at me and decide to come make me sick too.Numer two: never forget to pray for my momma, 'cause she was the best and prettiest lady G...

Gus and his father have lived in the woods alone all of Gus's life. When his father passes away, he's left to fend for himself. His father has warned him to never leave the woods. See Gus is a hybrid. He's human with antlers and deer ears. One day he meets Jeppard when Jeppard saves him from two hunters. There's a plague that's killed off most people and hybrids are the only new children being born. Those who are left are on the lookout for hybrids as their are bounties out for them. Gus is also...

Will I ever stop complaining about how certain graphic novels are too short, more like idea starters rather than full bodied works. While there are questions to be answered in the "Sweet Tooth" volumes that follow, THIS time it was okay to do without explanations (about the apocalypse, about the animal-human fledglings...)--because the journey is to begin, our character leaves home with a tough, companion. Already a bunch of The Hero's Journey has been described--I absolutely want the second vol...