Books by Jeff Lemire
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review 1: This is the final installment of Jeff Lemire's "Sweet Tooth," a post-apocalyptic quest to discover the origin of the disease that ended humanity. The previous 5 installments left many questions unanswered, so I was happy that Lemire spent time addressing the central story lines r...
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review 1: This is a brilliant take on the invisible man story and using Griffin, our mysterious bandaged stranger, Lemire alters the perception and focus to reflect the insecurities and fears of the population of a small town rather than focusing on the main character (despite his being ab...
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review 1: I agree with the reviewer who said that they enjoyed the novel but that it left them feeling empty. I appreciate the mood created for the underwater environment - it is such a unique, other wordly feeling to be that far down. However, I think felt that the symbolism was very surf...
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review 1: Choosing Jeff Lemire to write Animal Man was inspired, and it pays off in this volume even more than it did in the first. Although this book focuses more on setting the stage for a larger conflict, it also fleshes out the mythology really well, even reinterpreting Animal Man's or...
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review 1: As much as we bandy around the term "post-apocalyptic," this volume sees Lemire really starting to play with the overtly religious themes that he introduced in the previous two collections. Even though its twisted Christian eschatology (as well as the increasing prevalence of pro...
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review 1: This one was a bit slower, more back story than action, but we're finally getting down to the meat and bones of the mystery of the plague, hybrid kids, and Gus's origins. I didn't really care for the illustration and typography style they used for "The Taxidermist," but it was a ...
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review 1: Essex County is an absolute masterpiece. Visually stunning, engaging, and deeply, deeply moving. This is a story of love and loss through generations which weave themselves against a harsh landscape that comes to consume and define them.I live in Canada but am not much of a fan ...
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review 1: I totally devoured this. The art is great and the sci-fi storyline just worked with me. There's no inundation with extra information, even though I'm quite curious about the humans of the 3700s. I didn't feel like it was a love story as much as it was a sci-fi story with characte...
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review 1: I enjoyed the character of Gus and the idea of following the coming of age of a boy raised with a religious upbringing in isolation. This volume is a good start, but much of Sweet Tooth send reminiscent to me of other post-apocalyptic works, and both the art and storytelling were...
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review 1: The second volume of this slightly, but wonderfully strange series is every bit as intriguing, visceral, and beautiful as the first. Our protagonist Gus (the young hybrid deer/human boy) has been taken to The Preserve by the mysterious fellow known as Jeppard. Will it be the safe...
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review 1: Animal Man is something of a B-list superhero, trying to make ends meet with a wife and two children. He was recently in an independent film, but isn't sure it'll make him much money, and his ability to summon any animal skill (charging with the strength of a rhino, switching to ...
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review 1: It's fine. This is Lemire's take on The Invisible Man science fiction story and it imagines the man in a small town. There is some hinted-at depth of character among the townsfolk but nothing that gets developed. There is the inevitable point where odd things start happening and ...
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review 1: A strange and tragic tale from the point of view of a not so whiny sixteen year old girl. A man comes into town with his face and hands bandaged and he wears goggles. He barely eats. He doesn’t socialize. Who is he and how did he end up the way he is? That is her innocent curi...
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review 1: This book was a blast to read. Jeff Lemire hits it out of the park with a great mix of darkly humorous characters, insane opponents, and over the top gadgets and situations. It's snarky, silly, goofy, and fun. Frankenstein is for the most part the straight man, though he does m...
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review 1: This is when Jeff Lemire takes over writing for Justice League Dark, also known as when I really start getting invested in the story. I really enjoyed the transition from hearing about Necro's relationship with Zatanna and Constantine to his involvement with the search for the Bo...
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review 1: Alright, so this is not Hellblazer. It is still very,very good. The art is still fantastic, the moral choices are still devastating, and the stakes are eternally high. The full integration of John Constantine into the wider DCU is also full of promise. One of the best things abou...
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review 1: There are some well-used themes I'm a sucker for and one of them is ghosts, not the ghosts that trip down stairs to find themselves perpetually shacked up in some run-down death trap, taking selfies in foggy mirrors and whispering sweet nothings to new home owners, but the ghosts...
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review 1: Another great entry. The story is grand without being ridiculous. It's amazing because the story over all is pretty simple. A plague hits, hybrid children are born, a boy and a man are on a quest for answers and redemption.Jepperd is an archetype of the old warrior. He's seen som...
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review 1: Another solid volume in this great run!I was very surprised when I found myself really enjoying this series when I started volume 1. The story was well written and art, although it took some getting use to, has it's own unique feel. This book further builds the story of the battl...
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review 1: Volume 3 shows better art than the previous volumes but it seems like the story is starting to stretch itself a little thin. Connections between certain characters are starting to come out of nowhere in an effort to beef up the story but I'm just not sure it's necessary for what ...
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review 1: There was a reason I fell in love with the work of Jeff Lemire, and was super excited to see that he was a big player in the New 52.... what was it...? Oh Yeah! This book.this book is so depressing and bleak, I need a sitcom to watch afterwards just to shake off the feeling. I do...
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review 1: Jeff Lemire certainly shows his love of his homeland (Canada) in his work. Just look at his current work in Justice League United, and then there was his first graphic novel that he ever wrote, I forget the name of it but it featured a kid and a washed up hockey player in Canada....
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review 1: A very bittersweet, yet perfect to a very thought-provoking and original series. I'm too lazy to review each volume by itself because I read through them all very quickly, but this last volume was the crowning glory in my opinion. I felt very protective of the protagonist Gus thr...
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review 1: Since this book was a crossover with both Swamp Thing and Animal Man I thought I would save time and just write a review for the story as a whole.To put it simply, I loved this story arc. It was dark, emotional, well scripted and full of action. Snyder's run of Swamp thing has ma...
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review 1: I was definitely sold on the unusualness of Sweet Tooth, a dark post-apocalyptic world where the population is being thinned out by an illness and children are being born with strange mutations...how more bizarre can you get? I wasn't as thrilled as I had expected to be, however ...
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review 1: Very good opening story for a VERY intriguing comic. While not all of the characters and plots feel completely original in this post-apocalyptic setting, Jeff Lemire does an excellent job of making you care about Gus and what will happen to him as his journey from home continues....
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review 1: Volume 2 of the Sweet Tooth series is not as immediately engaging and much slower-paced than the first volume. However, these minor faults are more than remedied by the increased focus on characterization, mood, world-building, and conflict. The character of Jeppard is expanded...
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review 1: I wasn't that impressed by the first volume but things pick up a lot here. World building out the way, interesting back-story to the fore. The set up pays off and we get to glimpse Gus's past with the implication that something fishy is going on. I found the contrasting pages ...
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review 1: Page one made me nervous that this book was going to be an animal rights propaganda piece. Luckily the story didn't get overly political in any way, in my opinion.I really enjoyed the story arc in this the first 6 issues. The explanation of the Red, Green, and the Rot was a great...
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review 1: Public library copy.Another New 52 fail for me. This effort pales to Grant Morrison's work, the art work did not appear to be up to the standards of polished professionalism. Like the New 52 Swamp Thing, the concept seems to have borrowed from Green Lantern whereas colors have a ...
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review 1: Yes, Jeff Lemire is a brilliant writer, but coming into his series as an old school Animal Man fan was… traumatizing. Some dark, gritty reboots work, and this one does, but I wasn’t prepared for the level of horror and … grossness encapsulated within these pages.Lemire’s Animal M...
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review 1: I've always liked the idea of the comic book writer who draws his own art. Admittedly I'm not too familiar with independent or "alternative" comics so I haven't read many works with this type of creator. A couple that come to mind are Guerillas by Brahms Ravel, Optic Nerve, early...
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review 1: Jeff Lemire's run on Green Arrow starts off fresh, previous volumes needn't be read. As the book begins we are at a point in time where Green Arrow is already a member of the JLA. I haven't read the volume where that happens yet so am not sure exactly where in time we are. This b...
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review 1: Jeff Lemire.... Frankenstein... over the top ridiculous, mad scientist ideas. You figured this would be a slam dunk... and yet it was hard to get through. I am not 100% sure what it was. Maybe the threat in this book seemed so generic that the heroes could have been fighting Tenn...
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review 1: This fourth volume of the Sweet Tooth comic book series feels much smaller in scale than the previous volume, but it still packs an emotional punch. The main characters are now a group of survivors much like you would see on The Walking Dead. However, the people in this ensembl...
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review 1: I'm getting more and more attached to the characters as the story goes on. It was a slow start for me, but now I'm hooked and I can't wait to find out what happens next. Is the guy in the dam a bad guy? Is Jeppard really evil? Is the scientist really evil? What's going to happen ...
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review 1: This series is just incredible, probably the best Vertigo series ever (and yes, that includes Sandman). At least in terms of artistry. Jeff Lemire´s artwork is dead on, but so is the experimentation when having other artists draw the reminiscence scenes. The combination of Lemire...
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review 1: Grant Morrison made me a big fan of Animal Man. Jeff Lemire is continuing on where Morrison started, making Animal Man a weird / horror / violent / mystical comic book experience. It's been a while since I read the first volume, but I remember liking it a little bit better than t...
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review 1: Since Rotworld, this series has reached a plateau. The horror element of this series still remains strong, and the artwork is consistently grotesque. But the world-building is a little weaker in this volume. It's cool to see Buddy Baker's actor side, but everything that is ha...
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review 1: Ugh. There's too much missing for this to stand on its own. At first its missing parts of trinity war, and then I guess its missing some trinity of sin? The worst part is that the editors have completely checked out, and they don't really tell you what you need to read to compete...
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review 1: I like a lot of Jeff Lemire's work, but this...not so much. I'm okay with the idea of reworking the Teen Titans, but the only thing that truly worked well for me was the portrayal of Starfire -- and while she's pivotal to the story, she's also barely in it. I was particularly thr...