Pass on the Soup
So our main character, Tony Chu, is a very special guy. He can eat any kind of food and know it's entire history. Well, except when he eats beets. It's a very odd twist to what I must say was an odd first few pages.
So our main character, Tony Chu, is a very special guy. He can eat any kind of food and know it's entire history. Well, except when he eats beets. It's a very odd twist to what I must say was an odd first few pages.
I like the art. A little bit Sam Keith, a little bit Humberto Ramos. Not as good as Keith, but a lot better than Ramos in my opinion. Both the style and the layouts are pretty decent. There were a couple of spots that I had to examine for awhile before I could tell what was going on, but this Rob Guillory guy is new and given time, I'm sure his storytelling skills will improve.Now to the writing. John Layman is a veteran, so I'm going to be more critical in evaluating his work on this. I like th...
(see the original at http://cobyscomics.blogspot.com/2013/12/chew.html) Yesterday, I read Chew #1 on my phone while waiting at the doctor's office. I've been thinking about it ever since. I couldn't agree more with squares's review on ComicVine: it is the most perfectest #1 issue to a comicbook I have ever read. Period. I had heard of Chew before, mostly because of the hubbub it caused when it was possibly being made into a TV show on Showtime, until it wasn't, and then it was going to be a mov...