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Sweet Tooth #6
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 6: Wild Game
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Graphic Novels & Comics (2013)Dr. Singh arrives in Alaska and uncovers the origins of Gus and the hybrid children and the cause of the plague that decimated the world. And as Gus and Jepperd finally arrive in Alaska and come face to face with the truth, the militia continues to bear down on them. Their deadliest battle is still ahead.
Collecting: Sweet Tooth 33-40
Collecting: Sweet Tooth 33-40
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 2013
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Jeff Lemire
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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June 4, 2021
I liked this.
I wasn't particularly disappointed by this last volume but that may be because I wasn't enamored with this story. I did like it! But this one just didn't hit me in the feels and become a favorite like it did some of the people I know.
However, I can see why some folks felt, if not upset, then let down by this last volume.
Some friends and I were talking and it really seems as though this felt incredibly rushed. I mean technically everything is here for a proper ending, but it needed to be expanded upon. I would have personally liked to have seen this last volume as 3 volumes.
But that's it. The way it ended was (for me) very good. There was a complete story arc for Gus and you can see how the world will progress from there.
Regardless of how it all was crammed in, I still was happy that Lemire didn't shit the bed and fuck Gus or his fans over in Wild Game. It was (to me) a proper send-off to a character that a lot of people loved.
Recommended.
I wasn't particularly disappointed by this last volume but that may be because I wasn't enamored with this story. I did like it! But this one just didn't hit me in the feels and become a favorite like it did some of the people I know.
However, I can see why some folks felt, if not upset, then let down by this last volume.
Some friends and I were talking and it really seems as though this felt incredibly rushed. I mean technically everything is here for a proper ending, but it needed to be expanded upon. I would have personally liked to have seen this last volume as 3 volumes.
But that's it. The way it ended was (for me) very good. There was a complete story arc for Gus and you can see how the world will progress from there.
Regardless of how it all was crammed in, I still was happy that Lemire didn't shit the bed and fuck Gus or his fans over in Wild Game. It was (to me) a proper send-off to a character that a lot of people loved.
Recommended.
September 23, 2015
That was literal perfection. What an amazing ending to an amazing series!
September 11, 2016
Now THAT is how you end a comic series. What a wonderful conclusion! One of my all-time favorites for sure.
July 19, 2021
The dramatic conclusion to a great, five-star series, pretty amazing, with post-apocalyptic horror and sweetness combined. I like how the publisher says it is like a cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road; it fits! It's horror, where you come to really care about the characters, especially Gus (Sweet Tooth) and Jepperd. Jeff Lemire again and again writes father-son stories, but there are actually several father-son stories evident in this affecting conclusion, where we get to Alaska and find out the origins of the plague. . . . in a lab in Wuhan, Chi.. . no, that's another plague! In a bat cave? No, that's another one!
Finally, we go generations ahead to see what the future has in store for mankind/hybrids. Powerful and original story with lots of violence but also lots of feels to read before you see the Netflix series. One of Lemire's all-time great series, no question. I liked it even better this time than I originally did.
Finally, we go generations ahead to see what the future has in store for mankind/hybrids. Powerful and original story with lots of violence but also lots of feels to read before you see the Netflix series. One of Lemire's all-time great series, no question. I liked it even better this time than I originally did.
July 30, 2013
Gus, Jepperd, and co. leave Evergreen for good and head to Alaska where they find out the cause of the Plague that wiped out humanity. The Militia catch up with them and a desperate final battle takes place.
That's about it for this book. The big reveal behind what caused the Plague which we found out about in Book 5 isn't built upon in this book so there's no larger mystery unearthed for readers in this book. That disappointing explanation in Book 5 is it. Jeff Lemire even has Jepperd tell Gus something like "it's not about what happened, but about what happens now". So he's saying not to worry about the past and how things got to this point - even though that's been the motivation for these characters for so long!! It's such a cop out.
Most of the book is Jepperd (who's essentially Frank Castle, that's how original his character is) and a few other dudes preparing their final stand against the insane militia hunting them down. Lots of fighting ensues with the end as predictable as ever - what do you think, do the bad guys win or lose? Exactly. And let's talk about these militia: they're looking for a cure to the plague and they're doing this by exterminating every hybrid they come across. How do these two goals correlate in any way? Nonsense.
So with the big battle over and done with and the cause of the plague revealed (several issues ago in the last volume but whatever, we get a redux in this book), all of which takes up the bulk of the book, what happens next? Think the end of Return of the Jedi. Yeah. The story jumps ahead a couple decades as we catch up with Gus and what happens for the hybrids and humanity next. The upshot of it that made no sense to me was that with humanity alive, there will always be pain, suffering, war, etc. Which kind of makes sense because the hybrids in this series have been gentle, kind, and hunted unjustly. Except Lemire drops the ball again by making the hybrids as bad as the humans. And then when the humans are gone and it's just the hybrids, war, hatred, all that bad stuff is magically gone. WTF?! Kumbaya...
And what about Dr Singh, the Dr Mengele of the series? His experiments on hybrids, his long-term religious insanity, is all forgiven in the blink of an eye and he suddenly becomes one of the most valued members of Gus' group. Whaaaaaaaaaat? So all that evil stuff he got up to is forgotten? His insanity is suddenly cured? Gee, that's awfully convenient!
The ending itself, which I won't spoil here, ties everything up in a nice, tidy bow. It's too neat, too pat. It's the equivalent of "and they all lived happily ever after...". BARF! And as if to further underline the overly-sentimental tone of the story, Lemire resorts to repetition in the script. The last chapter has Lemire repeat "This is (fill in the blank)" over and over, eg. "This is a story about a man and a boy", "This is a story about survivors", "This is a story about forgiveness", until the last pages which repeats "This is a story" over and over and over again. It's so badly written, it reads like a high school kid writing what he thinks is "deep" poetry!
But if the writing is lacklustre and uninspired, the art more than makes up for it. Lemire draws nearly the entire book in his wonderful signature style that's fitting for the final book in his series. The excellent Nate Powell joins him to draw a few pages of Doug, the militia leader's, history, adding his brilliant art style to the mix - it makes me wish he'd drawn the Matt Kindt-illustrated sequence in the last book. The art is the best part of the book but unfortunately can't save it.
Sweet Tooth started off quite well back with the first couple of volumes but it's been increasingly shaky these last few books until the wheels fell off the bus with Volume 5 and the wreck crashed with Volume 6. Maybe it's Lemire's workload that's caused this series to lose its vitality and spark of originality? After all, when he started in 2009, he wasn't that well known to those who don't read indie comics. Today, he's been the writer of Animal Man, Frankenstein, Constantine, Justice League Dark, Trinity War and a whole slew of other projects for DC, all of varying quality. With so much going on, it's understandable that his other projects would suffer, like Sweet Tooth did.
Maybe it's because he originally planned the series to be 20-30 issues and it wound up being 40, that the series has had so many ups and downs as Lemire stretches a far shorter story into a longer one?
Whatever the reason for the dip in quality these last couple of books, the series went from promising and original to downright miserable and boring. The "tragic" angle of the story became almost a parody of what tragedy is as every single page became a tribute to the dark side of human nature in an almost unrelenting tattoo of depression. Gus and Jepperd's journey became disjointed and then dull, culminating in a predictable and forced conclusion that wasn't convincing. Riddled with clichés, little or no original characterisation, and poorly written, the series has been disappointing and unsatisfying. Lemire's best work remains Essex County, the book he wrote/drew before he got involved with Vertigo/DC.
That's about it for this book. The big reveal behind what caused the Plague which we found out about in Book 5 isn't built upon in this book so there's no larger mystery unearthed for readers in this book. That disappointing explanation in Book 5 is it. Jeff Lemire even has Jepperd tell Gus something like "it's not about what happened, but about what happens now". So he's saying not to worry about the past and how things got to this point - even though that's been the motivation for these characters for so long!! It's such a cop out.
Most of the book is Jepperd (who's essentially Frank Castle, that's how original his character is) and a few other dudes preparing their final stand against the insane militia hunting them down. Lots of fighting ensues with the end as predictable as ever - what do you think, do the bad guys win or lose? Exactly. And let's talk about these militia: they're looking for a cure to the plague and they're doing this by exterminating every hybrid they come across. How do these two goals correlate in any way? Nonsense.
So with the big battle over and done with and the cause of the plague revealed (several issues ago in the last volume but whatever, we get a redux in this book), all of which takes up the bulk of the book, what happens next? Think the end of Return of the Jedi. Yeah. The story jumps ahead a couple decades as we catch up with Gus and what happens for the hybrids and humanity next. The upshot of it that made no sense to me was that with humanity alive, there will always be pain, suffering, war, etc. Which kind of makes sense because the hybrids in this series have been gentle, kind, and hunted unjustly. Except Lemire drops the ball again by making the hybrids as bad as the humans. And then when the humans are gone and it's just the hybrids, war, hatred, all that bad stuff is magically gone. WTF?! Kumbaya...
And what about Dr Singh, the Dr Mengele of the series? His experiments on hybrids, his long-term religious insanity, is all forgiven in the blink of an eye and he suddenly becomes one of the most valued members of Gus' group. Whaaaaaaaaaat? So all that evil stuff he got up to is forgotten? His insanity is suddenly cured? Gee, that's awfully convenient!
The ending itself, which I won't spoil here, ties everything up in a nice, tidy bow. It's too neat, too pat. It's the equivalent of "and they all lived happily ever after...". BARF! And as if to further underline the overly-sentimental tone of the story, Lemire resorts to repetition in the script. The last chapter has Lemire repeat "This is (fill in the blank)" over and over, eg. "This is a story about a man and a boy", "This is a story about survivors", "This is a story about forgiveness", until the last pages which repeats "This is a story" over and over and over again. It's so badly written, it reads like a high school kid writing what he thinks is "deep" poetry!
But if the writing is lacklustre and uninspired, the art more than makes up for it. Lemire draws nearly the entire book in his wonderful signature style that's fitting for the final book in his series. The excellent Nate Powell joins him to draw a few pages of Doug, the militia leader's, history, adding his brilliant art style to the mix - it makes me wish he'd drawn the Matt Kindt-illustrated sequence in the last book. The art is the best part of the book but unfortunately can't save it.
Sweet Tooth started off quite well back with the first couple of volumes but it's been increasingly shaky these last few books until the wheels fell off the bus with Volume 5 and the wreck crashed with Volume 6. Maybe it's Lemire's workload that's caused this series to lose its vitality and spark of originality? After all, when he started in 2009, he wasn't that well known to those who don't read indie comics. Today, he's been the writer of Animal Man, Frankenstein, Constantine, Justice League Dark, Trinity War and a whole slew of other projects for DC, all of varying quality. With so much going on, it's understandable that his other projects would suffer, like Sweet Tooth did.
Maybe it's because he originally planned the series to be 20-30 issues and it wound up being 40, that the series has had so many ups and downs as Lemire stretches a far shorter story into a longer one?
Whatever the reason for the dip in quality these last couple of books, the series went from promising and original to downright miserable and boring. The "tragic" angle of the story became almost a parody of what tragedy is as every single page became a tribute to the dark side of human nature in an almost unrelenting tattoo of depression. Gus and Jepperd's journey became disjointed and then dull, culminating in a predictable and forced conclusion that wasn't convincing. Riddled with clichés, little or no original characterisation, and poorly written, the series has been disappointing and unsatisfying. Lemire's best work remains Essex County, the book he wrote/drew before he got involved with Vertigo/DC.
June 20, 2021
Those who are wanting an expansion of the origin of the plague are going to be disappointed. We only get a rehash of The Taxidermist explanation with some science tropes thrown in. That being said we do get a final confrontation between Abbott and Jeppard. We see Abbott's backstory and that he's always been a bastard. Then there's the epilogue which I wholeheartedly enjoyed. It could have been its own trade in itself. (Who knows, maybe that's what Sweet Tooth: The Return is.)
Overall I really enjoyed this series. Gus and his optimism and innocence really did it for me. Even as he's awoke from his sheltered life and exposed to the awfulness of man, he maintains that optimism even when he's forced to harm others to defend himself. The father / son bond between Jeppard and Sweet Tooth is the heart of the series in this bleak, awful future.
Overall I really enjoyed this series. Gus and his optimism and innocence really did it for me. Even as he's awoke from his sheltered life and exposed to the awfulness of man, he maintains that optimism even when he's forced to harm others to defend himself. The father / son bond between Jeppard and Sweet Tooth is the heart of the series in this bleak, awful future.
August 11, 2025
PT Sinto que há algo inquietante aqui, embora não consiga identificar exatamente o quê.
Chegámos ao fim desta série, que talvez tenha um dos títulos mais enganadores de sempre. Nada me fazia prever que, no fundo, esta história seria uma espécie de "The Walking Dead" sem zombies. Claro que esta é uma descrição bastante superficial, mas, ainda assim, é melhor do que "Sweet Tooth". *risos*
No final, os híbridos acabam por parecer melhores do que os humanos, mas pergunto-me se, a longo prazo, não acabarão por se tornar exatamente iguais a nós. Diria que essa será uma história para outro momento.
Seja como for, sem dúvida, mais uma obra de qualidade de Jeff Lemire.
--
EN I feel there is something unsettling here, although I can’t quite pinpoint what it is.
We have reached the end of this series, which perhaps has one of the most misleading titles ever. Nothing prepared me to realize that, deep down, this story is a kind of "The Walking Dead" without zombies. Of course, this is quite a superficial description, but still better than "Sweet Tooth". *laughs*
In the end, the hybrids seem to be better than humans, but I wonder if, in the long run, they won’t just become exactly like us. I’d say that’s a story for another time.
Either way, without a doubt, another quality work from Jeff Lemire.
Chegámos ao fim desta série, que talvez tenha um dos títulos mais enganadores de sempre. Nada me fazia prever que, no fundo, esta história seria uma espécie de "The Walking Dead" sem zombies. Claro que esta é uma descrição bastante superficial, mas, ainda assim, é melhor do que "Sweet Tooth". *risos*
No final, os híbridos acabam por parecer melhores do que os humanos, mas pergunto-me se, a longo prazo, não acabarão por se tornar exatamente iguais a nós. Diria que essa será uma história para outro momento.
Seja como for, sem dúvida, mais uma obra de qualidade de Jeff Lemire.
--
EN I feel there is something unsettling here, although I can’t quite pinpoint what it is.
We have reached the end of this series, which perhaps has one of the most misleading titles ever. Nothing prepared me to realize that, deep down, this story is a kind of "The Walking Dead" without zombies. Of course, this is quite a superficial description, but still better than "Sweet Tooth". *laughs*
In the end, the hybrids seem to be better than humans, but I wonder if, in the long run, they won’t just become exactly like us. I’d say that’s a story for another time.
Either way, without a doubt, another quality work from Jeff Lemire.
September 22, 2016
Here is my full series review for volumes 1-6.
The big "reveal" for the series came in volume 5 and it was supremely not what I expected. Volume 6 continues down that path of "not what I expected" EXCEPT that it fully delivered on the one thing I knew would happen and that would promptly destroy my heart.
Throughout the whole series there is the background push of finding out just what happened and where the hybrids come from. The characters and the relationships often outshone that for me. I was more interested in them than finding any one thing out, which I why I super appreciated one moment in this volume where a "what matters now is what happens next" idea was expressed. We don't see that enough in literature. It kind of reminds me of LotR, throwing the ring in Mount Doom and then discovering your village is oppressed. Sometimes you reach a destination only to find that life goes on and more choices are to be made and not everything is fixed after you reach a milestone. That was this story.
I really enjoyed this series as a whole. I've struggled with graphic novels in the past and I think this is the first thing I've felt compelled to just quickly finish from beginning to end. I'll definitely count it amongst my favorites.
March 21, 2021
This series could've been so much more if it hadn't ended on such a rushed note. While some elements of the final act were inevitable, it would've been much more appealing if writer Jeff Lemire had something unexpected, original, and clever to offer in regards to the core mystery of this story.
The epilogue chapter was as fine as it could've been but clearly flashed through so much potential story-telling material that you can only appreciate it on a superficial level.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/
The epilogue chapter was as fine as it could've been but clearly flashed through so much potential story-telling material that you can only appreciate it on a superficial level.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/
July 16, 2017
What an amazing series with the perfect ending. I bought the entire TP collection over 1 year ago and it was on my bookshelf all that time collecting dust with allot of other series I Yet have to read. Am I glad I finaly started this. I read all 6 in the span of 3 days. It will go down as one of my favorite comic series of all time. This is the kind of story you want everyone to read. I am definitily going to read more stories from Jeff Lemire now.
November 19, 2016
I'm in love with this comics ❤️'
June 16, 2021
This is a story
It is very difficult to keep the standard of a series great throughout its course and more so to end it on a high note, but Sweet Tooth manages to achieve them both.
It is very difficult to keep the standard of a series great throughout its course and more so to end it on a high note, but Sweet Tooth manages to achieve them both.
January 18, 2018
I feel like it took an embarrassing amount of time for me to finish this series. That being said, I thought this concluded very well and I liked the story telling aspect at the end.
Wasn't expecting this to be so religious heavy though, but I guess I should have seen it coming since so much relies on the "bible" that Gus's father had.
Really enjoyed this and was a solid graphic novel series.
Wasn't expecting this to be so religious heavy though, but I guess I should have seen it coming since so much relies on the "bible" that Gus's father had.
Really enjoyed this and was a solid graphic novel series.
January 29, 2018
My heart!! 😭😭 That’s how you end an amazing series. I’m not sure what I was expecting in the end, but this sadness wasn’t it.
I’m not crying..... not at all.... I just splashed some water on my face.....
I’m not crying..... not at all.... I just splashed some water on my face.....
March 4, 2017
Ooouuuu Sweet Tooth got buff!
This was just beautiful. Review to come.
This was just beautiful. Review to come.
July 8, 2017
I am not crying. You are. 😭
February 9, 2021
This is a story.
March 25, 2018
All the stars to this series. It has come to its conclusion with Vol. 6 and I'm so sad. This book had me feeling so hard for these characters. From the start of the series, my heart felt such a heaviness while reading it. I couldn't shake off the fear that something bad was about to happen to Gus and Jepperd and all their friends. I wanted so badly to protect Gus and mend Jepperd's heart. Every volume had me wanting to cry even before reading it just because the characters were so real to me and had me falling in love with them almost immediately. I was sad to have this series end.
***MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD***
***MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD***
March 4, 2017
3.5 stars.
As a whole, this was kind of all over the place. There were some moments I felt weren't earned and there was a Harry Potter Epilogue type ending. That being said, the last three pages were better than the ending to another post-apocalyptic series I loved, Y: the Last Man.
Okay, so, I hated the interlude in which Lemire explained how the hybrids were originally gods. I know, it was meant to explain the plague but, similar to the Walking Dead (the show anyway) and Y: the Last Man, the truth doesn't feel worth it. The god angle is kind of unbelievable but I guess we had to explain the plague somehow. Poor Gus. He couldn't have done anything to stop it.
The hockey guy that joined them was barely introduced and here he is sacrificing himself for a bunch of strangers. He couldn't have known them for longer than a few days. That did not feel earned. I mean, I liked the guy and he went out in a blaze of glory but c'mon. We needed a few more issues before he could matter to us.
The guy, Abbott didn't seem like a formidable foe. The call back to Jepperd's son still seemed like. A cheap soap opera ploy. It was an element we didn't need. I guess Lemire wanted the conflict of Jepperd having to choose between his blood son and surrogate son.
Jeoperd's death got to me. Sometime between the last book and this one, he redeemed himself. It's clear how much he cared about Gus and I hated to see him go out like that. It was heartbreaking.
The new Hybrids showing up to take down Abbott's men was a deus ex machina. Thank goodness Gus met them moments before or they really would've been screwed.
The ending was so Harry Potter in that we got to see the rest of Gus' life and he had some kids, got married and settled down. I love Gus but endings like this bug the hell out of me. Everything worked out and everyone's fucking happy. Yay!
Gus as the hybrid savior and Buddy as the unforgiving member of his community was... fine. I guess. I couldn't get attached to that or the idea of them as brothers because it's a concept that was shoved at us in the last few moments of the series. Sorry, Jep, I feel ya but I don't give a fuck about your kid. I thought he was dead and when it was revealed that he lived, I knew some fuckery was going to happen to get him away from Abbott and I dreaded that.
The true ending, where Jepperd takes him into the afterlife made me tear up. It was such a beautiful ending and I loved that he continued to tell the tale of "The Big Man" and how he saved the hybrid children.
Overall, 3 stars. The last three pages, 5 stars.
As a whole, this was kind of all over the place. There were some moments I felt weren't earned and there was a Harry Potter Epilogue type ending. That being said, the last three pages were better than the ending to another post-apocalyptic series I loved, Y: the Last Man.
Okay, so, I hated the interlude in which Lemire explained how the hybrids were originally gods. I know, it was meant to explain the plague but, similar to the Walking Dead (the show anyway) and Y: the Last Man, the truth doesn't feel worth it. The god angle is kind of unbelievable but I guess we had to explain the plague somehow. Poor Gus. He couldn't have done anything to stop it.
The hockey guy that joined them was barely introduced and here he is sacrificing himself for a bunch of strangers. He couldn't have known them for longer than a few days. That did not feel earned. I mean, I liked the guy and he went out in a blaze of glory but c'mon. We needed a few more issues before he could matter to us.
The guy, Abbott didn't seem like a formidable foe. The call back to Jepperd's son still seemed like. A cheap soap opera ploy. It was an element we didn't need. I guess Lemire wanted the conflict of Jepperd having to choose between his blood son and surrogate son.
Jeoperd's death got to me. Sometime between the last book and this one, he redeemed himself. It's clear how much he cared about Gus and I hated to see him go out like that. It was heartbreaking.
The new Hybrids showing up to take down Abbott's men was a deus ex machina. Thank goodness Gus met them moments before or they really would've been screwed.
The ending was so Harry Potter in that we got to see the rest of Gus' life and he had some kids, got married and settled down. I love Gus but endings like this bug the hell out of me. Everything worked out and everyone's fucking happy. Yay!
Gus as the hybrid savior and Buddy as the unforgiving member of his community was... fine. I guess. I couldn't get attached to that or the idea of them as brothers because it's a concept that was shoved at us in the last few moments of the series. Sorry, Jep, I feel ya but I don't give a fuck about your kid. I thought he was dead and when it was revealed that he lived, I knew some fuckery was going to happen to get him away from Abbott and I dreaded that.
The true ending, where Jepperd takes him into the afterlife made me tear up. It was such a beautiful ending and I loved that he continued to tell the tale of "The Big Man" and how he saved the hybrid children.
Overall, 3 stars. The last three pages, 5 stars.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 23, 2019
Oh no, I can't stop crying. The last issue was perfect. Perfect.
(I'll write something else later, now I just wanna enjoy the beauty of this story)
(I'll write something else later, now I just wanna enjoy the beauty of this story)
June 27, 2021
2.5 stars.
March 24, 2025
3.5 rounded up. I liked the ending but as others have said, there was a lot crammed into this volume after wasting a lot of time in volume 5.
July 1, 2019
4.0 Stars
This was a good conclusion to this story. It’s nice to read a graphic novel series with a concrete ending, since so many other ones seem to go over indefinitely.
This was a good conclusion to this story. It’s nice to read a graphic novel series with a concrete ending, since so many other ones seem to go over indefinitely.
July 31, 2013
A very good ending to a very good series.
Ending something people like is always tough. Ending shitty things is easy. You just stop. But when you have to end something that's good, there's pressure. Because if you eat a great meal and end it with soured ice cream, part of that last lingering taste is always going to color the experience.
Jeff Lemire did a great job with this one. The ending was satisfying. The way things ended for characters didn't have you shouting about how this or that was unfair or disappointing. I mean, yes, to some extent that means there aren't a lot of huge surprises. But honestly, I don't read to be surprised for the most part. Novelty just doesn't do much for me anymore, and so often I see something that shot for novelty as in Newness and ended up hitting novelty as in Cue the Circus Music. So it was a safe ending, and that would be the main criticism I could give. But honestly, I became attached to the characters, and an outrageous ending that denied who they were just wouldn't have made me happy.
Anyway, I don't ruin this by saying anything about it really. If you haven't read this series, it's a great, short series that is written and drawn by the same character, a situation that can sometimes result in a very pure vision. Sometimes that's good, sometimes bad. In this case, the art and writing work well together, and it's the kind of story that really springs from a consistent, centered source.
I somehow suspect the series might become somewhat forgotten. I don't think it changed the landscape of American comics. I think there was still some heart to Lemire's Essex County that didn't come through in Sweet Tooth 100%. However, if it is forgotten, I would say it was unfairly so.
So for fans of apocalyptic fiction, it's a must. Animal lovers too. Oh, and the other group I would suggest is anyone on the planet Earth who reads.
Ending something people like is always tough. Ending shitty things is easy. You just stop. But when you have to end something that's good, there's pressure. Because if you eat a great meal and end it with soured ice cream, part of that last lingering taste is always going to color the experience.
Jeff Lemire did a great job with this one. The ending was satisfying. The way things ended for characters didn't have you shouting about how this or that was unfair or disappointing. I mean, yes, to some extent that means there aren't a lot of huge surprises. But honestly, I don't read to be surprised for the most part. Novelty just doesn't do much for me anymore, and so often I see something that shot for novelty as in Newness and ended up hitting novelty as in Cue the Circus Music. So it was a safe ending, and that would be the main criticism I could give. But honestly, I became attached to the characters, and an outrageous ending that denied who they were just wouldn't have made me happy.
Anyway, I don't ruin this by saying anything about it really. If you haven't read this series, it's a great, short series that is written and drawn by the same character, a situation that can sometimes result in a very pure vision. Sometimes that's good, sometimes bad. In this case, the art and writing work well together, and it's the kind of story that really springs from a consistent, centered source.
I somehow suspect the series might become somewhat forgotten. I don't think it changed the landscape of American comics. I think there was still some heart to Lemire's Essex County that didn't come through in Sweet Tooth 100%. However, if it is forgotten, I would say it was unfairly so.
So for fans of apocalyptic fiction, it's a must. Animal lovers too. Oh, and the other group I would suggest is anyone on the planet Earth who reads.
June 21, 2013
If you're expecting huge story revelations and big secrets unveiled in this final volume of Jeff Lemire's superb Sweet Tooth, you'll be disappointed, since the mystery of Gus' birth and his role in the plague was all but sorted out last volume.
Instead, we get a whistle stop tour of Alaska as all of our storylines come to a head for an emotional, heart wrenching finale to the series. The final issue is especially poignant, and doesn't feel like the series was cut short at all, even if Lemire had planned a 60 issue story.
His artwork is fitting for the story, though I doubt it would work very well outside of the Vertigo range of books.
Overall, Sweet Tooth had some highs and lows, but this final volume ensures that it ends very well indeed.
Instead, we get a whistle stop tour of Alaska as all of our storylines come to a head for an emotional, heart wrenching finale to the series. The final issue is especially poignant, and doesn't feel like the series was cut short at all, even if Lemire had planned a 60 issue story.
His artwork is fitting for the story, though I doubt it would work very well outside of the Vertigo range of books.
Overall, Sweet Tooth had some highs and lows, but this final volume ensures that it ends very well indeed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 12, 2015
Disappointing ending for an otherwise good series. I didn't like the reason behind the plague, nor did I enjoy the last chapter about what happened to everybody. Much too cheesy, unnatural and poorly thought through. Alas, instead of his own Scalped, Lemire wrote his own Y: The Last Man. A series that was good in premise but just couldn't handle its own weight by the end. Still, overall I don't regret reading this series. There were a lot of sweet and emotional moments. After all, it is what Lemire does best.
February 6, 2017
5/5stars
AGH
Okay so like, I loved this comic book series. It was an absolute adventure from page one, and I personally loved this ending. I heard some people weren't a big fan, but I personally liked how Jeff Lemire definitely could have gone in one direction but decided to go in a waY BETTER AND WAY MORE ORIGINAL DIRECTION WHICH WAS JUST GR8 OMG.
I really highly suggest this to an older audience who just want a really amazing story with great characters, great friendships, and that will probably tear your heart apart.
Loved it.
AGH
Okay so like, I loved this comic book series. It was an absolute adventure from page one, and I personally loved this ending. I heard some people weren't a big fan, but I personally liked how Jeff Lemire definitely could have gone in one direction but decided to go in a waY BETTER AND WAY MORE ORIGINAL DIRECTION WHICH WAS JUST GR8 OMG.
I really highly suggest this to an older audience who just want a really amazing story with great characters, great friendships, and that will probably tear your heart apart.
Loved it.
December 30, 2015
This was an excellent series, one of the best post-aopocalypse stories I've ever read. Things generally end well. Some characters die. Some survive. You might shed a tear or two. Although not all questions are answered, enough of them are that the end feels satisfying. Lemire's storytelling has been top notch throughout. All in all, Sweet Tooth has been a riveting series, and a fine example of the sorts of things of which comic books are capable.
April 2, 2016
That ending though ;-;
December 25, 2017
the ending was EVERYTHING. I’m not getting over this any time soon.
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