WIBR: Chew vol. 2: International Flavor

While I generally enjoyed the first volume of this series, it was essentially just setup for future stories and its “surprise twist” at the end wasn’t very surprising.  Now that these “future stories” are here, I can say that “Chew’s” future is looking pretty bright.  Re-teamed with his old partner, cibopath Tony Chu is sent on another crappy assignment that ends with him encountering a strange plant… that may be a fruit… that also tastes like chicken.  This leads him to a tropical island where chicken has been recently outlawed, a large-breasted martial arts expert working for the Department of Agriculture, his brother who now has a job cooking this “fruit,” and an international assassin known only as the “Vampire.”  All of this is played dead straight, which makes things even funnier and writer John Layman throws in a few genuinely surprising plot twists along the way which makes me think that he has a plan for this series.  Or he’s just really good at plotting by the seat of his pants.  Hats off to artist Rob Guillory as well, since the series wouldn’t be as entertaining without his comically twisted art.