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CBR Reviews Sweet Tooth #2
October 12, 2009
The logo on the cover doesn't just say "Sweet Tooth," it says "Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire," a sign that, like most other comics produced by a single person, this is a book that requires a little extra care in noticing how the words and pictures interact since they were crafted by the same person. The relationship between the two in "Sweet Tooth" is very close and, as a result, it requires that you slow down since the drawings carry more story weight than most comics.
Anyone who is a writer-oriented reader places more emphasis on the story as told through words than through pictures, but Lemire places his emphasis more on the pictures to communicate things like mood and character elements. The words are sparse and mostly act to simply move the plot along, which is no small chore, just secondary to the function carried out by the art. Lemire passes that test that is sometimes applied to artists when discussing 'storytelling' where you ignore the words and see if you can follow along and, in this issue, you most certainly can.
