Sweet Tooth, you’re certainly not alone. After all, neither did one of the series
two showrunners.
Green Arrow,” admits
Arrow’s showrunner for the CW series’ last few seasons. “
Sweet Tooth wasn t on my radar at all until I saw Jim s beautiful pilot, and then I was hooked. So, I saw the pilot first, and then read the comics, which is probably unusual. Though, hopefully, it won t be so unusual after the show comes out.”
Initially published through DC’s Vertigo imprint,
Sweet Tooth made its debut in 2009, hitting the stands with a striking first-issue cover that featured the book’s humble protagonist, a young half-human, half-deer hybrid gazing openly at you while eating chocolate and wearing a distinctive flannel shirt. Told from the innocent point of view of that hybrid child, Gus, that first chapter launched a forty-issue series that saw the simple boy befriend a grizzled, violent drifter named Tommy Jepperd. Together, they make their way across a desolate
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Given the past 18 months or so, you’d forgive audiences for tiring of grim apocalyptic stories about deadly viruses ravaging the globe and changing our way of life forever. And on that basis, the arrival of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth – which follows a world 10 years after “The Sick” wiped out swathes of humanity and regressed society to a more primitive state, with survivors taking temperature checks and wearing personalised face-masks – could be a less than appealing prospect.
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But Sweet Tooth tells a different – and much odder – story than first appears, taken from Jeff Lemire’s popular DC comic of the same name. You see, around the same time that the disease started ravaging the world, strange “hybrids” were born to humanity, babies crossed with animals that seemed to have resistance to the disease but were blamed for its arrival.