It doesn’t help that this is volume two of the comic, so I had no back story to go on, but I almost gave up on this halfway through issue 1. I’m glad I didn’t because I gradually warmed to its lunacy.
Sweetie runs the candy store her father started and in a crime-infested New York she’s determined to make life lovely again (“NYC will once again be sweet”…
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