I love love love Chew. This is the most twisted, hilarious, messed up shit you'll read. It's rare you'll find a graphic novel where the art complements the writing and vice versa as much as it does with this series. I'm not even going to try and summarize the plot of this, as I'm sure others will and no one will do it justice.

Just go and pick up the first volume and enjoy yourself. It's crazy good. ( )

There are a lot of things I could say about Chew. The series centers around the adventures of Tony Chu, a cibopath. Cibopathy means he has the unenviable ability to draw psychic impressions from whatever he eats. He eats an apple, he can tell you where it was grown, who harvested it, what pesticides were used... He eats veal, and gets a rather different and darker impression. Naturally, you can see where this leads.

This book sees Tony's daughter kidnapped and in training under Savoy. Tony kidnapped, Colby assigned to a rather ornery lion in the USDA, and a number of other, far stranger things. Tony is kidnapped for sex - in particular, to eat the remains of the baseball greats to share the lurid details of their sex lives. And that's probably the most normal plotline we've encountered so far. New powers, new conspiracies, and incoming vampires? Yeah, that's Chew.

This series, honestly, just keeps getting better. I'm laughing, I'm on the edge of my seat, and I'm spending far too much time looking into the background details and realizing, again and again, just how lucky I am I picked up these books. So, thank you Karen, and I hope you pick these up soon Alligator. You won't regret it. ( )

My blog post about this book is at this link. ( )

Continuing to be a pretty good read! Olive has become a more central character, which is interesting! And I'm a big baseball fan, though not quite in this way... Can't wait to read the next volume! Hope there's more POYO!!! ( )

Tony has been demoted although he seems to enjoy his current job a little more, until he is kidnapped and force fed baseball players. But this book is really Olive (his daughter's book). She begins to run with his former partner.

Was glad that Amelia saved the day in this one, although the dead baseball players was probably the grossest thing ever.
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