Well. This was one of the strangest things I've ever read in my life. And nonsensical and confusing and gross. 
 IN A WORLD... WHERE THE AVIAN FLU WIPES OUT HALF THE POPULATION AND CHICKEN IS A BANNED SUBSTANCE.... TONY CHU MUST... WORK FOR THE FDA? TO SOLVE.... CRIMES OF SOME SORT?... WITH HIS SPECIAL POWER OF GETTING PSYCHIC READINGS FROM THINGS HE EATS..... 
 INCLUDING PEOPLE. 
 "So Jen," I hear you say, "Why on Earth did you read this, then?" Well, for one thing I generally LOVE things this strange and weird. The potential panels upon panels of Tony Chu eating dead bodies did not necessarily deter me as I watch shows such as Hannibal. But whereas Hannibal is a slow build filled with tension and well fleshed out characters, Chew just shoved the eating dead bodies idea in your face and ran along at a breakneck pace hoping to stumble over where a potential plot might be. 
 Chew really does seem to be overly juvenile in its presentation. Tony's interesting eating abilities are used mainly as fodder to gross out the audience, purposefully putting him in situations meant to be as incredibly disgusting as possible. All of the characters seem to just... not operate in a world with any sort of morals. None of the characters seem to like each other at all and although most of them work for the FDA, which in this universe is tantamount to the secret service it seems, none of them seem to pretend that there are any rules in place at all. 
 There was almost no set up or world building. We get thrown into this story with the assumption that we should understand how this world operates. Maybe no one DOES have any morals, I don't know! We never established a base line for the political and moral climate of the setting. There's apparently been a worldwide issued ban on chicken due to avian flu that maybe is just a government coverup of something else? Which sounds interesting! I wouldn't know, though, because the book offhandedly mentioned this but didn't go into great detail. We mention it in passing a couple times and the chicken ban is the entire justification for why Tony is running around being Mr. FDA Badass over here with zero regulation. 
 I would be remise to neglect mentioning the women in this book. Remember the aforementioned juvenile tone? Well then I hope you like your ladies scantily clad and with large boobs because what little ladies exist in this are depicted as such. The only one I can think of off the top of my head who wasn't a busty bikini lady is the food critic Amelia. ....who Tony promptly falls in love with upon seeing her. 
 All in all the only part of the book that I enjoyed was the initial premise and the art style. Every page is BEAUTIFULLY rendered, and the panel compositions are interesting and dynamic and flow well from panel to panel. But the presentation of the story was just too reckless and ill paced for me.