Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Writer(s): Damon Gentry and Troy Nixey Artist: Troy Nixey Colourist: Michelle Madsen Release Date: 21st March 2018 Vinegar Teeth is, as the title suggests, a strange combination of things that you wouldn’t usually put together. If you mixed a standard police procedural and 1950s science-fiction B-movie, you would have the basic mixture for this strange concoction, which revolves around the pairing of Detective Artie Buckle, a damn fine detective and a damn awful human being, with an extra-terrestrial creature, the titular Vinegar Teeth, as the pair fight crime both on the streets and across the stars. The comic practically pulses in its punchy pacing; Vinegar Teeth is discovered by Buckle during the opening frames of the first issue, during a sting operation in which Vinegar Teeth proceeds to eat the suspect, ruining Buckle’s long-term undercover work. The creature is subsequently made a police officer and, to Buckle’s dismay, Buckle’s new partner. Grabbing the reader with its tentacles from the outset, the story whisks us through the dirty, dystopian underworld of Brick City. The fact that the comic was penned by Troy Nixey, along with Damon Gentry, means that Nixey’s design of the repulsive characters, the throbbing, [...]