Chew: Just Desserts

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Chew:
Just Desserts
Chew.jpg
Cover to Chew #15 by Rob Guillory.
Date
  • June 9, 2010 (Part 1)
  • July 14, 2010 (Part 2)
  • August 18, 2010 (Part 3)
  • September 29, 2010 (Part 4)
  • November 10, 2010 (Part 5)
No. of issues5
Main characters
  • Tony Chu
  • John Colby
  • Amelia Mintz
  • Mason Savoy
Page count128 pages
Publisher Image Comics
Creative team
Writers John Layman [1]
Artists Rob Guillory [2] [3] [4]
Creators John Layman
Rob Guillory
Original publication
Published in Chew
ISBN 978-1-6070-6335-3
Chronology
Preceded by International Flavor
Followed by Flambé

Chew: Just Desserts is a graphic novel, written by John Layman and illustrated by Rob Guillory that was released in five parts throughout 2010 by Image Comics, as the third volume of the comic book series Chew , set in the Image Universe, and following Tony Chu, a Cibopathic Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agent who solves crimes by receiving psychic impressions from whatever he eats. Chapter One was released June 9, 2010, Chapter Two was released July 14, 2010, Chapter Three was released August 18, 2010, Chapter Four was released September 29, 2010, and Chapter Five was released November 10, 2010. Preceded by International Flavor , it is followed by the story arc Flambé .

Contents

The series received a universally positive critical reception. [5]

Premise

Chapter One

Things are looking up for Tony Chu! He's got a girlfriend, a partner he trusts, and even seems to be getting along with his jerk boss. Only when he discovers an exclusive diner's club of the rich who commit crimes in order to procure the meat of the rare, exotic and extinct, having stolen a frozen intact mastodon to eat, he must infiltrate their annual dinner and stop them. Guess who's coming to dinner to stop them? [6] [7] [8] The cast of Office Space make cameo appearances. [9]

Chapter Two

As Tony goes undercover, the killer cockerel Poyo returns! [10] [11]

Chapter Three

As Mason Savoy returns, a double agent is revealed. [12] [13]

Reporters Peter Parker and Jimmy Olsen make cameo appearances. [9]

Chapter Four

Tony and Mason must face off against one another in a "Cibopath Showdown". [14] [15] [16]

Chapter Five

Tony takes Amelia to meet his family at Thanksgiving, including his twin sister Toni, and daughter Olive, as the skies of Earth are left permanently alit with a strange fiery message written in an alien language into the atmosphere itself, changing the world forever. [17] [18] [17]

Reception

Issue #Publication dateCritic ratingCritic reviewsRef.
1June 20109.1/104 [19]
2July 20109.0/102 [20]
3August 20109.0/105 [21]
4September 20108.2/104 [22]
5November 20108.0/106 [23]
Overall8.7/1046 [24]

Collected editions

TitleMaterial collectedPublished dateISBN
Chew: Just Desserts Chew (vol. 1) #11–15November 24, 2010 [25] ISBN   978-1607063353
Chew: The Omnivore Edition: Volume Two Chew (vol. 1) #11–20 (Just Desserts and Flambé )December 21, 2011 ISBN   978-1607064268
Chew: The Smorgasbord Edition: Volume One Chew (vol. 1) #1–20 ( Chew: Taster's Choice , International Flavor , Just Desserts, and Flambé)November 14, 2013 [26] ISBN   978-1607068051

The special-length Chew #15 was published with a tri-fold poster cover, repeating the positioning of The Last Supper . [27] [28]

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