Kody Chamberlain’s “Sweets”

I love reading comics, but there are only so many hours in each day so comic books are one of those things that suffers. I rarely hear of a comic before it’s set to launch, often miss out on the real buzz and excitement when a comic is rolling, and usually don’t catch up on anything until it’s such old news that even old women look at me as if I’m stupid when I say “Did you hear about . . . ?”

Well, that appears to be exactly what is happening with me again with Kody Chamberlain’s (blog, Twitter) Sweets. The Kickstarter project from last year says:

A spree killer terrorizes New Orleans days before Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. Detective Curt Delatte just buried his only daughter, he’s in no condition to work. But when the bodies pile up, he masks his grief and joins the hunt through the bowels of the Big Easy. It won’t be long until his city, and his evidence, gets washed away.

Sounds entertaining, and the Year in Review post at Chamberlain’s blog was a great way for me to get an idea of what has happened with the book. But it was the artwork that really caught my eye and is what has me planning to go out this weekend and try to find all five issues of the comic.

What’s annoying is I feel like I’ve heard of this book before and even feel like I wrote something about it here at battlegrip.com. But no, I can’t find any proof that I’ve heard of Sweets before today, so maybe more of my madness is escaping. Sorry about that.