Sweet Tooth immediately sucks you into its flannel textured art and the intriguing blend of the post-apocalyptic blame game and neo-Western aesthetics. But most of all it's its lovable main protagonist, Gus, who is just as clueless about the overall mystery as we are. Only that he is so much more naive.

After the opening beats the plot quickly finds direction in the form of a promise. We gather that there was some sort of plague and that in the aftermath children (all children?) were born with animalistic mutations. They are hunted down and no one can be trusted, as Gus's further drums into him, before he too died of the sickness. Yet rumor has it that there is a safe haven where hybrid children may live in peace, the Preserve. One Mister Jepperd, every bit the survivor kind of guy, is determined to bring him there.

If you've played Last of Us (or watched the amazing TV adaptation), visually and plot-wise much of the first volume will have a familiar vibe. But I'm sure it's mostly build-up for something very different, as the (admittedly predictable) ending suggests. What amazed me already was how the art occasionally takes focus and makes the faces and other features look, well, plain different.

Anyway, there is already much to love about this page-turner, and I'm sure there are some emotional punches coming.

Rating: 3.5/5