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She has a food-based superpower like her family (as seen in the previous Chew series) — absorbing information by sharing meals with people — and uses it for shenanigans instead of the public good. Chu #6 Cover Credit: Image Comics While they wait on her senile grandfather to give up the goods on an epic haul, they plan[...]

Chu, the Chew sequel by John Layman and Dan Boultwood published by Image Comics saw its fifth issue published in November 2020 – and nothing since But Chu will return in July, part of Image Comics' July 2021 solicitations. The comic stars Saffron Chu, sister to Chew-star FBI investigator Tony, and is a criminal A cibopars,[...]

What started out as an interesting idea for a Chew prequel that struggled to find its own voice in the debut issue has, ever since the stellar Chu #2, delivered killer issue after killer issue Does this first arc finale continue this series' trend of getting better every time? Chu #5 cover Credit: Image Comics Longtime fans of[...]

Chu #4 continues John Layman and Dan Boultwood's excellent prequel to Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew. For three issues, the series has alluded to events in Chew while creating its own crime caper of a story, pitting Saffron unwillingly against Tony. Chu #4 cover Credit: Image Comics Chu continues to be one of the best reads every month, with a story that will[...]

John Layman and Dan Boultwood are back with another issue of the Better Call Saul to Chew's Breaking Bad: the wildly entertaining Chu. Chu #3 picks up after the genuinely worrisome cliffhanger of the previous issue, resolving it in an appropriately bloody fashion. Chu #3 cover Credit: Image Comics Chu #3 continues this series streak of getting better with each issue[...]

This gives her a kind of Doctor Aphra-vibe as she stumbles through the mayhem and malfeasance which is comedic in its presentation, despite the clearly noirish elements herein. John Layman maintains the tone of the prequel/sequel series Chew with his scripting here, maintaining a snappy pacing and equally snappy wordplay Dan Boultwood's artwork brilliantly captures the mischief[...]

John Layman was one of the writers who changed what it means to have an Image Comics series in the 2010s with Chew Now, he has teamed up with Dan Boultwood for a spinoff series, Chu, which focuses on Saffron Chu, sister of the original series' lead, Tony The first issue was a fun and thrilling gross-out that[...]

The madcap crime caper serving as a funhouse mirror for the series Chew doesn't let up on its second issue There's a gorgeous cold open (like a really effective introduction of an antagonist) leading to a fantastic transition with an awkward family scene From there, the tension builds as the consequences of the last issue's[...]

John Layman's Chew was a standout creator-owned comic in a time that will be remembered and defined by incredible creator-owned comics It was funny and subversive, light yet emotional, action-packed and twisty, relatable, and yet gloriously weird Now, with Chew complete and artist and co-creator Rob Guillory moving onto his own written and drawn Farmhand, Layman sought a[...]

Okay, the "urp" part could have been a little more clearly developed. Do you need to read Chew to have an understanding of Chew? Not necessarily, but there's no denying that it will help — for example, what happens with Mr Baker and Mr Cooke is less obvious if you don't already have a grounding in the[...]

The video went very viral, picked up by news websites, A Late Show With Stephen Colbert with the phrase 'everything is cake' going mainstream incredibly fast. This week saw the pandemic-delayed publication of Chu #1 by John Layman and Dan Boultwood from Image Comics, a parallel sequel to Layman's hit series with Rob Guillory, Chew And[...]

Launching in November of 2018 from Skybound, John Layman's next big title after Chew was Outer Darkness, a strange mix of humor, sci-fi, and horror with Afu Chan on art The series ran for 12 issues, collected in two trades, before launching into the Outer Darkness / Chew miniseries that ran 3 issues.  However, the[...]

Bleeding Cool teased that John Layman was about to announce a new chapter in the world of gourmet law enforcers Chew – or the Chewniverse But that it wouldn't be a new Tony Chu story, Instead it's a new Saffron Chu story, Tony Chu's sister, and drawn by Bleeding Cool favourite Dan Boultwood – and[...]

Image Comics has an unusual bevvy of second printings too. Mercy #1 by Mirka Andolfo is going back for a second printing for April 1st. Same with On The Stump #1 by Chuck Brown and Prenzy, And Outer Darkness/Chew #1 by John Layman, Afu Chan, Rob Guillory And finally Tartarus #1 by Johnnie Christmas and Jack Cole. No covers[...]

Outer Darkness/Chew #1 is out today from Image Comics, by John Layman, Rob Guillory and Afu Chan, creatively combining both universe courtesy of a little time travel scoop But this is only the beginning So while the cast of Chw get to catch up on both their past and future adventures by reading the very[...]

pic.twitter.com/qZKCz2MReT — LAYMAN (@themightylayman) March 2, 2020 Looks like the C from Chew But if you pull the image out of its tweet… …who's that fellow at the bottom? True story: It's NOT! — LAYMAN (@themightylayman) March 2, 2020 New month, new comic announcement coming. Here's a hint and a peek: My next book is a crime comic[...]

Looks like we now know exactly what the third tease John Layman posted on Twitter in November is all about. The three books I have in progress are:•A series of minis featuring a character you already know from CHEW.•A globe-trotting series featuring a new character set in same world.•A mini so fucking weird I can't describe[...]

Earlier this year, John Layman talked about the potential return of his five-year comic with Rob Guillory, Chew After first talking about the effect its publication had on him. After CHEW ended I was exhausted 64 issues (mostly) on time was grueling I took a year off Lost thirty pounds Traveled the world Sorta assumed I'd[...]

AMC/AMC Studios and Eisner-award winner Rob Guillory (Chew) are giving the phrase "organ harvesting" a much more literal meaning, teaming up to bring his best-selling Image Comics comic book series Farmhand to series Guillory will pen the pilot for the series, and will serve as executive producer along with LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead, Into[...]

Coming off a 64-issue run on Chew with John Layman, Rob Guillory announced his new series Farmhand at Image Comic Expo today Guillory will be writing and drawing the new series that he describes as a dark comedy. Farmhand focuses on Jebediah Jenkins, a farmhand who has blueprints downloaded directly into his brain on how to[...]

The internet, his fans, anyone who wanders into his line of fire. Take the last two issues of Chew Issue 54 had this happen Tony Chew's fellow cibopath Savoy Mason contemplating the taking a life to save, as he saw it, the world. That's Amelia in the photo, Tony Chu's fiance Who has her own way of looking at the[...]

But it appears that British shops will be out of the following comic books this week… Whether they get replacement copies at a later date? That is yet to be determined…. Strayer #2 Munchkin #14 Peanuts Vl 2 #31 Venus #3 Wilds End: The Enemy Within #6 Conan The Avenger #23 Death Head #6 Hellyboy & BPRD 1953 Beyond The Fences #1 Itty Bitty Hellboy:[...]

This is my 34th article of the day on the site and I am beginning to hallucinate.   Either that of I've taken a large whiff of Chonk, the genetic crossbreed between chicken, frog and psychedelic skunk from the hit comic Chew by Jon Layman and Rob Guillory and expertly cross promoted in the most recent issue[...]

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo were even able to mock the addition to their pages in Batman. Then Marvel had a go with their Deadpool covers... Well this week it's Chew's turn In which a story element… …launched a new commercially available project from Skelton Crew taking over a double page spread. A genetically engineered hybrid between chickens, frogs and[...]

Apparently that's what you do. John Layman and Rob Guillory's Poyo, from the comic book (and upcoming animated series) Chew A fury in feather form, a poultry psychopath, the beak of burden, the death cock, its Poyo! As created by Skelton Crew Studios! I must have one. He's 15 inches tall from comb to toe and will[...]

Well, we knew that something was coming. This is David Tennant, holding a plush Chog from the comic book series Chew by Jon Layman and Rob Guillory He is holding it because he is in a recording studio playing the role of Mason Savoy in the animated version of the comic book series. He took the role, after[...]

The comic book Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, which has an abandoned Showtime production and an in progress animation production to its name, is approaching its fiftieth issue. A comic ostensibly about a world with chcken prohibition after an apocalyptic avian flu, quickly segued into a population with people developing food-derived superpowers, and lead[...]

This is the San Diego Comic Con exclusive wraparound cover for Chew #50, by Jon Layman and Rob Guillory a truly tremendous achievement reaching the big five-oh, and out in time for the show… with a variant gold foil cover, it costs $10, is limited to 750 copies and, if past experience is anything[...]

While at the Phoenix Comic Con this last weekend I had the opportunity to sit down with writer John Layman to talk about the coming end for his and Rob Guillory's creator-owned series Chew With issue 50 due out next month for San Diego, the series will have just 10 issues to go… and the[...]

As well as Lady Action appearing on the Paul Gulacy cover of this year's Overstreet Guide. They are also running a second annual Captain Action Custom Figure Contest, with the winner to be announced at Comic-Con. Participants will be asked to customize their 1/6th scale Captain Action figures as villainous characters. And here's the standard and variant slipcase covers[...]