A Little Bit on: Chew

Those looking for a new comic book to read that is tremendously offbeat, fresh, and super crazy entertaining, I highly suggest checking out Chew by writer John Layman and artist Rob Guillory.

The world of Chew is original, to say the absolute least. Chicken and bird meats are now illegal after an outbreak of bird flu that killed 23 million Americans, so most meats are now a blackmarket item. As if that weren’t crazy enough, the comic revolves around Tony Chu, a detective who is a “cibopath,” meaning he can take a bite out of anything and instantly get a psychic reading of where the object has been and what its life was like all the way to the point of Tony Chu’s initial bite. And this is not limited to just food. Chu gets hired by the FDA to help solve different investigations by using his cibopathic powers, in which he discovers secrets, lies, murders, and more, instantly by taking a chunk out of victim bodies.

The comic book debuted in mid-2009 and is an ongoing series published by Image Comics. If you haven’t been reading this killer title, definitely do yourself a favorite and pick up a couple of the series’ trades to catch up. The art is fantastic and the story is nothing you will be able to find in any other comic book series, guaranteed.

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Buy it: Chew Vol. 1 Taster's Choice

1 Comic You Should Be Reading in 2013

I’m not going to bullshit you here. I was originally planning on doing a numbered list on comics you should be reading in 2013. I was going to list a number of comics (people love reading list articles that aren’t listed in intervals of five or two nowadays, so it probably would’ve been 13 comics) I’m currently enjoying that I can wholeheartedly agree with recommending to complete strangers and friends alike, but I honestly can’t do that. To get the most bang out of your comic bucks from DC/Marvel, you’d need to subscribe or read alongside a handful of other titles to get the full effect of certain titles, and I can’t recommend reading certain comics that will take huge chunks out of your wallet at a time.

But I can recommend the fuck out of one thing for sure.People, listen closely. Read the shit out of Saga. It’s really fucking good.

This goes for anyone who isn’t into comic books, but would like to join in on reading a title. For those of you who regularly read comics and avoid this title, stop being a little shit and just buy the recent trade and catch up. For those skeptical, try it. You’ll like it. Honest.

This comic book was created by Brian K. Vaughan, the genius behind the Y: The Last Man series. Art and some co-ideas are handled by Fiona Staples, who beautifully draws each issue. And the entire thing is great so far. It’s described by Image comics as Star Wars action meets Game of Thrones drama, while I will simply claim it’s a new phenomenal title for the space-fantasy genre, and it demands to be read. Saga is epic, expansive, surreal, and fresh — it’s something brand new that comic books have been needing for a while now. 

Really though, the first six issues are out right now on store shelves and collected as one trade paperback book. If you’re looking for a jump into comic books, look for further. This is something you can ride with and look forward to through 2013.

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Buy it: Saga, Volume 1 [Paperback]

Daily Graffiti: Spawn & Batman

Crazysauce street art by Seter and Merlyn.

Did anybody ever read the Spawn/Batman crossover by Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane back in ‘94? It’s about them trying to find a dude who decapitates homeless people and uses their heads for robots. Crazy stuff. I dug it as a kid, but it definitely doesn’t hold up to a grown-up mind. Kind of worth checking out anyway, though. Just for the weirdness.

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Buy: Batman/Spawn One-Shot

Daily Graffiti: Spawn by Alek—art on deviantART.

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March Madness

Guillem March is currently killing it with his sleek and sexy artwork on Catwoman. This January, Image Comics is releasing Cover Girls, a hardcover volume of his covers and interior work. This one’s a must have for me since it also includes plenty of his work that hasn’t been published in the US.

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Chicken or the Egg?

Tony Chu, the hero of John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Chew, has the ability to receive psychic impressions from anything that he eats. He may have gotten more than he bargained for after taking a bite out of a Kentucky fried drumstick in this sketch by Tradd Moore.

[Comic Book Cover Of Radness] Viking: The Long Cold Fire.

This is the cover for Viking, Vol. 1: The Long Cold Fire and it’s kind of boner magic for comic and graphic design nerds. The monochromatic drawing of a viking about to fuck some shit up by Nic Klein sits perfectly on a bright yellow background with plenty of negative space for all the minimalists out there, then there’s the random-yet-obviously intentional blue shards near the logo. Top it off with plenty of splatters and a touch of halftones (which are totally “in” btw) and blam! Sexy, gooey, graphic design lust in comic cover form.

All comic covers should be this good.

Viking, Vol. 1: The Long Cold Fire drops December 8th from Image Comics.

[Via Fanboy]