Sweet Tooth Vol. 6: Wild Game
*Starred Review* Fans of comics will attest that creator-owned stories are the cream of the crop, and it doesn’t get any sweeter than Lemire’s Sweet Tooth series. The concluding volume in the series, Wild Game brings to a close 40 issues and nearly four years of work by Lemire (Underwater Welder, 2012), and longtime fans of the series will be relieved by the satisfying ending to what has been an emotional ride. The series takes place in a postapocalyptic world where an ancient sickness dwindled humanity’s numbers and created a forgotten race of human-animal hybrids. The story follows a young antlered Gus, the alleged first hybrid, and Jepperd, a man scarred by loss and determined to protect the boy, as they search for the Alaskan lab housing the answers to the recent destruction of humanity. Lemire comes as a package deal, both writing and drawing the story, and in that synergy, his words and art live harmoniously on the page, from expression to action, allowing his deceptively simplistic drawing style to shine. Complete with a tear-jerking epilogue, Wild Game drives home its themes of fate and friendship until the very last image. --Ben Spanner