Jessie Robertson reviews Chew #44…
“CHICKEN TENDERS,” Part Four Warning: Sissies will need an adult diaper before reading this one. No joke. No lie. This will be the most talked about issue of CHEW in years
I’ve been reading Chew for a bit now and this issue finally gave us something I had no idea I wanted to see: a massive bloody fight involving food and utensils. A barrage of chopsticks, sharpened butter knives, bowel removing pizza cutters, and razor-sharp tortilla chips and chocolates, these are just some of the items used in this wild brawl that continues the Chicken Tenders storyline.
We left off seeing Olive Chu being killed, or so it seemed, and we pick that up at the end of this insane brawl between the Collector and the FDA squad.Chew drops the humor and strange references to the back burner to deliver pulse pounding action for this issue. Tony himself is only featured in a couple of panels as he gives a lot of the dramatic details that show the history of what needs to be done to defeat this monster who has been rampaging through the FDA ranks.
Besides that, we get some great cameos, from everyone to Popeye (huh?) to Oyop, Poyo’s dark doppelgänger (what?). We’re even introduced to Babycakes, the FDA’s newest animal employ, complete with cybernetic eye, if only for a moment. It remains to be seen if Olive will survive this ordeal, if Tony will find out she’s involved in enough time or not, but one thing’s for sure; she gets the best “let’s fight” line for this style of book: “Kitchen is closed, Asshole.”
Jessie Robertson is a contributing writer who loves all things comic books. He currently has one novel on Amazon.com, exploring people able to consciously do what they want in dreams. Yeah, sounds good right? Feel free to email him anything, questions, comments, critiques or Lost trivia at phdreamer81@yahoo.com.
Originally published November 5, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
