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Sweet Tooth: where to start reading
Adapts Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
Sci-fiFantasyDrama
3 seasons
on screen
6 books
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods.
follows the basic arc of the comic's opening but expands and softens it heavily.
Show and books diverge here
The first season takes Gus through roughly the same opening arc as the comic (his father's death, meeting Jepperd, the journey across a ruined America) but expands it with new characters and a warmer tone.
Start reading at Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods (the first collected volume)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods
Jeff Lemire · Volume 1 of 6
or borrow it: your library
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Sources disagree slightly on this one, so we used the earlier chapter. You may re-read a little rather than risk reading past yourself.
Where this comes from: slate.com · denofgeek.com · en.wikipedia.org. Spotted a mistake? The report link at the foot of this page comes straight to us.
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The whole comic would fit in roughly one TV season, so the show expands it across three, softening the grim tone, adding characters and subplots, and reworking the arcs rather than adapting them volume by volume.
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