by John Layman and Rob Guillory; Image Comics
This review will contain *SPOILERS*. For a clean review go here.
Chew
is a comic about a detective who gets psychic impressions from everything he
eats in a crazy universe that involves a poultry ban, a cannibal vampire, a
cyborg game cock, and extraterrestrial Armageddons. It's a comic that is
gloriously weird, but still compelling and accessible comics. Chew: Family
Recipes brings the lens of the series back on Tony as he realises that his dead
twin sister Toni had managed to leave him an amputated toe filled with
important information. Tony's sister was cibovoyant, able to predict the future
of any living thing she ingests. Sensing her own demise, she took steps to
leave a fleshy clue for her cibopathic brother so she could equip him with
important knowledge about his future from beyond the grave. Of course, this is
Chew, so complications and hijinks ensue that are ridiculous and awesome. It's
really business as usual for Chew and it's great. Which is actually pretty
diverse business. I frequently see my favourite comics spaces try to mathematically
quantify how diverse a particular comic is, to figure out whether a particular
comic panders to a default audience or tries to represent a more realistic view
of society. And Chew is actually pretty great about this: the protagonist
of Chew is of Asian decent, his partner is a bisexual cyborg, and a significant
portion of key characters are a demographically plausible mix of genders, sexual
orientations, and ethnicities. So, I guess, come for the mad fun, stay for the thoughtful representation.
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