Sweet Tooth: The Return #5

The final pages of this issue offer up a wonderful backward glance at the story's trajectory. Father's patience and cold contemplation is a shocking revelation to Gus's longest defender. Gus and Earl are the unwitting participants in a Trojan horse scheme. Their pursuit of a way out from the underground caverns has become a danger to them and everyone around them. Gus is afraid of the danger he might pose because of Father's experiments. But his limited understanding of Father's nefarious plan could make him complicit to the end of the topside world. Read Full Review

A climactic issue that sets up this miniseries' endgame and sets the emotional stakes for our main cast is a way that will prove to be either uplifting - or heartbreaking. Read Full Review

All that said, Sweet Tooth: The Return #5 is that issue in a comic run"it exists for the exposition that will propel the plot forward. It's necessary, sure " but it does take away a bit from the stellar setup introduced last issue. Read Full Review

C.V.R. The Bard

Mar 10, 2021

Lemire still knocking it out the box this late in the series. That page where the reunion occurs is filled with so much emotion that just spills off the page that it couldn't have been delievered by another person than the man writing it. Seeing the antagonist pruning those plants just oozed levels of creepiness that are hard to calculate and watching our protagonists escape felt like a triumph that translated to where I wanted to celebrate from where I was reading, but with the panels dedicated to that clock , (symbolizing both the end of the series and the release of the virus Gus is carrying ) , synonymous to the girl's reunion with her father only to find him on a death bed - this 5th issue is a testament that everything that gliters certainly is not golden. - Audiomack.com/cvrthebard more