Tony Chu isn't the typical criminal investigator. Speaking with the particular dietary life style that I choose personally, I'm pretty sure I would just quit the business altogether if I had his sense of erm... intuition. See, Tony is a Cibopath (please don't hurt your head trying to look this up - it isn't real - it's a device for use in the plot... oh internet.) - he's able to get psychic impressions from everything he eats. He uses this ability to solve cases - murder cases. One can get a pretty easy jumping off point for what exactly it is he has to eat at times in order to get a clue...
Resultantly, Tony is so disenfranchised with consumption, even on his own personal time, that he only eats beets. Beets as it turns out, are the only thing he can eat without knowing where they came from...
Set in a post chicken world where its restricted in every form, there are now dirty operations selling pollo in mass quantities and making a high profit - chicken is the new drug trade. Unfortunately the case gets personal for Chu when he finds that his brother, a former celebrity chef is buying the birds in large amount...
The plot thickens from there.
Chew is an ongoing series on indie Image Comics (and one of its few diamonds in the rough amidst a stable composed largely of bunk fare) and has been quite successful so far.
Issue #6 releases tomorrow setting up a new story arc while the previous five issue story arc has been collected into trade and will be released tomorrow in correlation. (I'm actually going to give it a read now...)
If the guys over at the Big Two aren't doing it for you and you still haven't warmed up to the certain pleasures offered by Dark Horse (purveyors of fine Buffy comics everywhere), give this smartly written and highly entertaining series a shot! (Please be advised that this series is for mature readers due to swears and occasional adult situations).
Order Volume 1 of Chew here.
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