Chew

The action takes place in a world where chicken is officially banned due to the bird flu epidemic that killed 23 million Americans. The protagonist, Tony Zhui, works for the Food and Drug Administration and helps solve crimes with his unusual ability. Tony Zhui - a cybopath ( English cibopath ), he learns the past of what he eats. At his work, he often has to consume parts of the bodies of corpses in order to find killers.

Taster's Choice (1-5)

Tony Zhui is a police detective who is a cybopath - he learns the past of what he eats. Tony becomes vice-policeman in PD, and on one of the tasks for finding smugglers, he and his partner, John, enter the restaurant. When Zhui begins to eat chicken soup, he receives a vision from the past about how a cook from a restaurant kills people and adds parts of their body to the soup. Zhui and his partner find this cook in a restaurant, but he throws the cleaver in the face of Zhuya's partner. While the partner is bleeding, Tony catches up with a psycho chef and asks him to give the names of all his victims. After the cook refuses and cuts his throat, Zhui begins to eat him to find out the names of the victims. After this incident, he was dismissed from PD, but the same cybopath, Mason Savoy, suddenly hired him at UPNK (Food and Drug Administration).

The first investigation sent to Tony and Savoy is the unexpected loss of health inspector Evan Pepper. A few days after his loss in a fast food restaurant, find his finger in a hamburger. During the investigation, Tony found out that a business man named Ray Jack Montero was to blame for his disappearance. Ultimately, Tony realizes that Evan Pepper was killed, and he was killed by his partner, Mason Savoy. Tony decides to arrest him, but he beats Tony, bites off his ear and says that he will return soon. Savoy is hiding to find out what caused the chicken epidemic.

International Flavor / Cosmopolitan Flavor (6-10)

Tony's former partner, John, is back with a built-in mechanical plate on his half face, and is being appointed as his new partner Zhuya. On the first day of collaboration, they are sent for another investigation - to investigate a certain plant called Gallsbury, which tastes one-on-one like chicken. In search of the plant, Tony flies to the island of Yamapalu with his brother. There, Zhui meets a USDA agent, who tells Tony that she will tell everything she knows about Gallsbury, but she is unexpectedly killed. Tony is considered guilty and briefly put in jail with two prisoners. Tony says that he is from the UPDA and, when they are going to release him, he starts a fight with prisoners; one of them’s blood accidentally enters Tony’s mouth and a vision comes to him that another murder was committed, and a rooster named Poyo, the cock-fighting champion, was somehow involved in this. After the cock is confiscated, Tony goes to the morgue to learn more about Gullsbury. At this time, the police chief quietly steals Poyo. Tony tastes Gallsbury and realizes that this is a plant from space. Tony makes his way to the base where Gallsbury is grown, evacuates several people who are in custody, and in the end he sees that the entire Gullsbury crop is on fire. It turns out that Ray Jack Montero burns plants to remove competition, with the help of some residents of Yamapalu who are rioting over the capture of Poyo. Before the eyes of Tony Montero kills a real vampire, who is also a sibopath.

Just Desserts / He who does not work does not eat (11-15)

Tony meets Amelia, she is a saboskivner, that is, she can describe the taste in such a vivid and detailed way that people really begin to feel it. Tony finds out that Poyo was transported to America. It was found that Ray Jack Montero modified the frog’s DNA to create a creature called Frinkens, making it taste more like chicken and inventing a fictitious name - Chicken Free. Mason Savoy was surrounded by the UPDA when he inspected one of the buildings. Savoy beats John and hides. Amelia finds her toe in Tony's refrigerator. Savoy eats Tony's long-torn ear and learns a lot about him, in particular, that Tony has a daughter named Olivia. Tony comes to his family with Amelia and John on Thanksgiving. He is met by a twin sister named Antonella (Tony). During a meal, an incomprehensible noise occurs on the street, and going out onto the street Tony sees a long strange phenomenon in the sky.

Flambe / Flambe (16-20)

A week later, the UPDA records in the sky for priority over the chicken ban. Tony teams up with longtime partner Mason Caesar to look for a former UPDA agent named Migdalo Daniel, but when they meet they accidentally kill him. An imitation of a restaurant called Friend Klucker resumes the sale of chicken. Tony and John begin to investigate the food fight, in which several students kill each other in high school. It turned out that the explosion at the space station was due to a vampire servant who was hiding with some computer files and Gellsbury. During a U.S. Department of Agriculture mission in North Korea, Tony and John find out that the UPDA uses Poyo as a secret weapon. Tony collaborates with his sister at NASA throughout the day. They go to Area 51, find parts of the space station, including the body of the astronaut. Tony notices the bites on the astronaut’s neck and realizes that a vampire was involved. Mason drinks Migdalo's blood, and Caesar says that there is a connection between the abilities of super-people and the phenomenon in the sky. Then Caesar informs Mason that the phenomenon disappeared 4 days ago. Tony and John set off to investigate the egg worship cult that predicted the appearance of the sky. They secretly enter the church, and when they try to steal their holy books, church members begin to drink the poisoned Cool-Aid to take off their sins and eat chicken. Tony with John fired from UPDA. Tony transferred to the municipal traffic department. His new boss seems very happy that he was transferred. Tony helps arrest a gang of bank robbers.

Paperback:

• Chew, Volume 1: Taster's Choice (includes Chew # 1-5, 128 pages, November 2009, ISBN 1-60706-159-7 )
• Chew, Volume 2: International Flavor (includes Chew # 6-10, 128 pages, April 2010, ISBN 1-60706-260-7 )
• Chew, Volume 3: Just Desserts (includes Chew # 11-15, 128 pages, November 2010, ISBN 1-60706-335-2 )
• Chew, Volume 4: Flambé (includes Chew # 16-20, 128 pages, September 2011, ISBN 978-1607063988 )

Hardcover:

• Chew Omnivore Edition, Volume 1 (includes Chew # 1-10, 264 pages, August 2010, ISBN 1607062933 )
• Chew Omnivore Edition, Volume 2 (includes Chew # 11-20, 264 pages, December 2011, ISBN 160706426X )

The Chew universe is filled with various characters who have supernatural powers associated with food.

The cybopath ( Eng. Cibopath ) can bite off something and get a psychic sensation of what happened to this object. The only thing it does not work on is beets. Tony Zhui, Antonella (Tony) Zhui, Olivia Zhui, Mason Savoy and the vampire are cybopaths.

Saboscrivner can write about food so precisely that people will feel a sense of taste when they read about food. Amelia Mintz is a sub-screener.

The Cibolocuter can communicate through food, and can also translate written works, plays, poems, and operas into food. Fantanyuros is a sounder.

Voresoph ( English Voresoph ) becomes smarter when he eats. Daniel Migdalo is a wresof.

The first three issues were released in several editions, all copies of which were completely sold out; the first issue had four circulations and was also completely reprinted in black and white in The Walking Dead # 63. ^{[1] [2]} , another Image Comics comic book series . The first issue was so popular that Image included it in its lineup of the most successful comic book series, after which it was reprinted in the Image First series ^[3] .

Chew Vol. 1: Taster's Choice ^[4] and Chew Vol. 2: International Flavor ^{[5] were} both on the New York Times bestseller list.

Chew was named the best independent comic book of 2009 according to IGN ^[6] and the best new comic book of 2009 according to MTV Splashpage ^[7] . Chew also finished 4th in the list of 100 best comics of 2009 at ComicBookResources.com ^[8] .

On July 23, 2010, Chew received the Eisner Award ^[9] for Best New Comic Book Series. The comic also won two Harvey Award nominations ^[10] and was nominated in two Eagle Award nominations ^[11] , but did not win a single one.

In July 2010, it was announced that the company Circle of Confusion, responsible for the production of the television series The Walking Dead , plans to film a Chew ^[12] . In March 2011, it was announced that Showtime was in the process of creating a television series based on a screenplay authored by Terry Hugh Burton and Ron Milbauer. ^[13] However, in February 2013, John Layman announced on Twitter that the television series would not be released by Showtime. ^[14]

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