Sweet Tooth #20

by Jeff Lemire

Endangered Species, a new arc, starts off with this issue, although it mostly just follows up on the prelude issue of last month.  The female members of Gus and Jeppard's group have not returned to camp, so our two heroes head into the woods to look for them.  This gives Lemire a chance to explore the new strained relationship between these two principals.

The girls, meanwhile, are sprung from the trap they were caught in by a seemingly kind, crippled man.  He takes them back to his home, which is a pretty impressive place, reminiscent of the operation Brian Wood has running in Central Park in DMZ.  I'm pleased to see that Lemire is starting to show us how people who aren't in an animal cult or militia have survived the plague that has hit the world.

Also of interest in this issue is the discussion between Johnny and Dr. Singh about Bobby, the groundhog-hybrid boy, and the likelihood of his coming hibernation.  Sweet Tooth is always an interesting comic, and it doesn't look like that is going to change.