antlers management
May 28, 2021
3 minutes
James Mottram
When Jim Mickle picked up a copy of Jeff Lemire’s DC/Vertigo comic book Sweet Tooth back in 2009, he was immediately struck by the cover image: a boy with antlers and deer ears in a red- and-black lumberjack shirt, munching on a chocolate bar. “I saw the cover and thought, ‘Man, what a cool character!’” he recalls. Yet to make his breakthrough with vampire movie Stake Land (2010) and crime yarn Cold In July (2014), Mickle put the idea of adapting Sweet Tooth on the backburner.
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