Sweet Tooth #16

by Jeff Lemire

All of Lemire's different storylines of the last few months converge as Gus and his friends get captured by the militia they had escaped from, just as Abbot and Dr. Singh return to the compound, and as Jeppard and the religious cult army he's gathered show up at the gates.

A lot of mayhem ensues, but Lemire also finds some time to work in some nice character moments.  Jeppard more or less explains why he's coming back for Gus, and we learn a lot about the guy who runs the weirdo religious cult.

This is a great action issue, but it also reveals some interesting facts about Jeppard that I don't want to spoil by talking about here.

Lemire's beginning to get some serious attention.  He's writing Superboy at DC, as well as the Atom back-up in Adventure Comics that has been more or less canceled because of their new publishing strategy.  More importantly, his brilliant Essex County graphic novel has been named one of the finalists in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Canada Reads 2011 program - the first graphic novel to ever achieve that honour.  He's a very talented writer and artist, and I hope that all of this attention will help drive up sales for this excellent and unique comic.