REVIEW: Chu #2 continues a successor worthy of the original series

By Gabe Gonzalez — I’m just saying, the Chew Universe (the Chew-niverse) is the only comic book-verse where you can have bloody dismemberments, flying toupees, a man named Mr. Takoyaki, and an energy drink-powered assassin all in the same book… AND THAT’S JUST IN THE FIRST FIVE PAGES! If you know nothing about the Chu book, a quick rundown goes like this: Saffron Chu is a cibopars which means she can gather psychic information from those around her that she eats with, she also just happens to be criminal and her cibopathic brother Tony is a cop and a sibling cat-and-mouse game might just commence within this five installment humor mini-series containing culinary puns and food-featured fun.

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REVIEW: Chu #1, a triumphant return to the world of CHEW

By Gabe Gonzalez — On June 3, 2009, a 60-issue culinarily-enhanced detective noir was born from the minds of John Layman and Rob Guillory in the form of Chew. If you’re unfamiliar with the comic, the original Chew series was about an FDA agent named Tony Chu who had a special ability…he was a cibopath, meaning he could gather psychic impressions from the things he consumed.

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