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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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06.30.09
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created by John Layman & Rob Guillory
What a great twisted idea for a comic series! You see, cop Tony Chu is Cibopathic. This means he can eat a peanut and get a feeling of where it grew, what pesticides were used on the crop and when it was harvested. Or he could eat meat and flash onto something horrible. So he's always hungry and doesn't eat much. However, there is one food he can eat that doesn't affect him--beets. So he eats lots and lots of beets.
The story begins with him and his partner on a stakeout in Philadelphia--and they find out that Tony's brother is carrying contraband--twenty pounds of chicken. The government has banned eating chicken, because of the spread of bird flu and it's illegal to buy or eat it. They go undercover into a "chicken speakeasy" and Tony gets the chicken soup--which someone had accidently bled into. He gets flashes of murders and that the person had eaten them. He and his partner chase the serial killer cook into the alley and the partner is killed. The guy refuses to tell Tony the names of the other girls he has killed--so Tony starts chomping on him to get that info.
Because of this his days on the police force are numbered--but then a guy from the FDA shows up and tells Tony he works for them now....
CHEW is funny, entertaining and sick. I will definitely be reading more.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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