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"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been bro...

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Main Author: Layman, John, 1967-
Other Authors: Guillory, Rob
Format: Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : Image Comics, c2009.
Series:Layman, John, 1967- Chew ; 1.
Subjects:
Food law and legislation > United States > Fiction.
Police > Fiction.
Psychics > Fiction.
Comics (Graphic works)
Detective and mystery comics.
Graphic novels.
Science fiction comics.
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Summary:"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases"--P. [4] of cover.
Item Description:"Created by John Layman & Rob Guillory."
"Originally published in single magazine format as Chew #1-5"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
ISBN:9781607061595
1607061597
Author Notes:John Layman is the creator, writer and letterer of Chew , the New York Times best-selling, Harvey Award and multi-Eisner Award winning cannibal cop comedy series from Image Comics. Layman was an editor for WildStorm Production and has written or lettered for every major publisher in comics for the last decade and a half. He's written Cyclops , Detective Comics , Mars Attacks , Godzilla , Aliens , Thundercats , Gambit , Scarface , Red Sonja , Marvel Zombies Vs. Army of Darkness , House of M: Fantastic Four , the Marvel Identity Wars Annuals, Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen ... and a whole lotta other stuff. He's currently the writer of Leviathan with artist Nick Pitarra and Outer Darkness with artist Afu Chan, both published by Image Comics.

Born, raised and currently based in Lafayette, Louisiana, Rob Guillory is most known for his art on Image Comics' longrunning series CHEW. Written by John Layman, the book has achieved much success, winning two Harvey Awards (including Best New Talent for Guillory) and two Eisner Awards (Best New Series in 2010 and Best Continuing Series in 2011).

His most recent work with Image Comics is FARMHAND.

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