Sweet Tooth: volume 3: Animal Armies

by Jeff Lemire, 143 pages

Dr. Singh searches for the truth behind the plague, desperately hopeful that Gus is the key. Meanwhile, Jepperd and the others set out to launch a possibly suicidal rescue mission.

*shudder*

There are some whacked out, unpleasant, and yet momentarily useful (at least until they decide you're not useful) people out there. Everybody's so wounded! Even some of the horrible-seeming characters have sympathetic motives. Some are still just plain bad, though, and you can't help but breathe a sigh of temporary relief when they're out of the picture.

Sweet Tooth: Volume 2: In Captivity

by Jeff Lemire, 140 pages

Gus meets some other kids in the same boat and sees more of the horror the outside world is willing to inflict on its own kind in the name of self-preservation. Meanwhile, we see Jepperd's backstory and learn what was so important about the contents of that duffle bag that he'd sell Gus away for it.

Sympathy, violence, fear, and despising fill these pages. I think I'm going to have to start following each volume of this series with an immediate chaser of sunshine and bunnies.