Telltale: Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth
I've been with Telltale since I picked up TOMI late and then BTTF, PA, and WD. I have been thinking about the next game Telltale could make to use the engine from the Walking Dead game. I honestly think a game set in the universe of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth would be amazing. The engine might need some modifying since the Sweet Tooth comic book obviously has a very distinct style from the Walking Dead comic but I think Telltale could make it work.
For those who don't know what Sweet Tooth is, it is an amazing creator owned, Vertigo published monthly comic series post-apocolypse. All children born after the apocolypse have animal qualities, with some being more animal than human. You know these children are innocent but it still gives you a feeling of creepiness almost to look at some of them which in turn makes you feel guilty. It really is an amazing series, but unfortunately, the final issue, #40, is coming out early 2013 (jan, i think). It's one of my favourite creator owned books coming out right now (right next to Kirkman's other stuff, Saga, and a few others that are also great). The story features prominent themes of religion, trust, love and innocence.
I think Telltale could totally choose whether to just copy paste the story almost directly, create a sequel to the series (unlikely since I don't think Lemire would go for that, and it wouldn't make much money either) or create a game set in the universe of Sweet Tooth (probably would be the best option; provides Telltale with a blank slate with simple rules like the WD game, only difference is that in Sweet Tooth they actually know the cause, and it is a major focus, but I think Telltale could completely ignore the cause and just do a story in that world).
I have no clue if Jeff Lemire would go for this (I've read his blog but I don't know if this would be something he would like) but I would love to be able to explore the world of Gus and Jeppard. If anyone has read the series and would like to talk about it or has any ideas for the game (I'd say limit the Sweet Tooth spoilers to the first 3 issues), I'd love to read about it below.
Last edited by EverydayNormalGuy; 12/31/2012 at 06:17 pm.
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