Friday, April 15, 2022

Chew Volume 7 - Bad Apples, Volume 8 - Family Recipes, Volume 9 - Chicken Tenders, Volume 10 - Blood Puddin'


 In this volume, we see the aftermath of Chu's sister's viscous death, the reinstatement of Chu and Colby to the FDA (and the reasons for this), innumerable characters with food-related powers (this is seemingly endless and, at times, a bit goofy), further info on the Ova cult and their terrorist activities as well as the "vampire" and his machinations, and ending with Chu's sister's Toni's way of helping him from beyond the grave.


Here in Volume 8 we find out more about Chu's twin sister, Toni's, plans from beyond the grave for helping Tony catch her killer by literally leaving him a piece of herself. She stays with him, off'n'on, throughout this volume, helping him get through a number of wild escapades. We learn more about various siblings and considerably more about Chu's daughter, Olive. Of course, all of the other characters are represented as well, along with an incredible assortment of further food-related powered people and even alien worlds! 


For Volume 9 we get not one but two weddings, lots of Chu-ish wacky adventures, considerably more tales of Poyo (with a surprise ending), Olive's growth into a badass agent with mounting powers, trained by Savoy, even further background on the "vampire" and a team's near-fatal encounter with him, along with other tangents.


The consequences of the team's fairly one-sided fight with the vampire runs through Volume 10, we meet Chu's new partner (as he refuses to team with Colby after he took Olive to be beaten by the vampire), still more people with food-related powers (that continue to move into the extreme and extremely goofy), Savoy and Olive do a fine job of dismantling the vamp's operations and operatives, and Chu and the vampire's final rendezvous.