themaskedhero's Chew #1 - Taster's Choice, Part 1 of 5 review

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    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 Tony is also a police officer, due to the bird flu, chicken has been outlawed, so now I guess that means the police need to stake out and watch everyone's meat purchases. Soon Tony and his partner are ready to shut down a black market chicken operation when they're stopped by the FDA. So, their set back. Then Chu uses his special powers on a bowl of soup and discovers a deeper mystery.

    Cutting to the chase, Chu tries to get the bad guy, but it doesn't go so well. But that doesn't stop Chu from using his abilities on the dead corpse. Which causes a lot of problems and leads into the next issue. Enjoy.

    I like the twisted story, I like the art. It's a new world for me and I find it worth paging through. Not a whole lot to say due to the lack of pervious material to compare it to, but it's good opening issue.

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