| Title | : | Chew, Vol. 5: Major League |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1607065231 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781607065234 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 |
| Publication | : | First published April 18, 2012 |
Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 5/8/2012 Pages: 120
Chew, Vol. 5: Major League Reviews
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same excuse, different day:
i burned through all ten published volumes of this series in a matter of months, and while i managed
a fairly coherent review of the first volume, i am overwhelmed by the thought of going back and reviewing volumes 2-10, trying to recapture that innocent mindset that didn't know what happened in subsequent volumes and trying to stay within the lines of the volume i'd be reviewing.
my hat is off to you serial comic book/graphic novel reviewers who are able to consistently churn out smart, comprehensive, and entertaining reviews that manage to discuss the book itself as well as its place within the larger universe of the series or character's existence.
i can't do that. i read these so compulsively and so quickly - like jamming cookies into a mouth that was already crammed with cookies - that it's just too much road to backtrack and too many metaphors to mix and since i have so many other books that i have to review, i'm going to take a totally cheap opt-out review path and just post pictures from each book that i enjoy for reasons pertaining to the plot, or just cuz i like the damn pictures.
and maybe now that i have to wait a couple of months until volume 11 comes out, i'll be able to do that one proper review-style, but right now - too full of stress and anxiety and just wanting to make this stack of books needing reviews go down LGM.
a bekilted tony chu riding a segway and rescuing kittens from trees? yes. i am all in.
also, weapons made out of food, butterzilla, and some incredible developments. this series keeps getting better.
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Chew has proven to be a consistently great graphic novel title. The stories are unique and the art is great. I am always looking forward to another adventure with Tony Chu.
In this volume, we learn more about Tony's powers. Also, pretty much everyone in his life has a key role to play. It is nice how coming back to this title after a few months it is easy to get right back into it. Reaquainting myself with the characters and the storyline is a breeze!
I mentioned earlier that the art is great. That, combined with well written humor, make this a fantastic escapist graphic novel. You don't get serious drama, but that should not be what you are looking for with Chew.
Creative, funny, and action packed. How can you go wrong? -
Chu and Colby get kicked out of the FDA. Chu winds up working as a traffic cop and actually likes it. However, things won't stay peaches and gravy forever...
Here we are, volume 5 in the adventures of everyone's favorite cibopathic detectve, Tony Chu.
Chu is working as a traffic cop and Colby is a USDA agent when the book starts. Meanwhile, Savoy and Valenzano have Chu's daughter Olive and want to train her as an agent. Amelia's ex-boyfriend kidnaps Chu and wants to use his power to find the sex secrets of dead baseball players. Meanwhile, Agent Colby's new partner is a lion...
Overall, I liked Major League. Layman has further expanded Chu's world of food-related super powers. I also liked that Olive is working with Savoy and Colby's new job at the FDA. Chu's plight was interesting and his new career path opened up a lot of new possibilities.
I still feel like the book is in a holding pattern regarding the overall plot, though. I'm going to trust Layman has a point with a lot of the new elements introduced and continue the series, at least for another volume or two.
While my enthusiasm for Chew isn't what it once was, Major League was entertaining. 3 out of 5 stars. -
Okay. Picture this. Tony Chu wearing a kilt. Riding a segway.
If you're still reading this and not out buying the latest volume of Chew, you must not be acquainted with this wonderfully weird series about an FDA agent with a very strange gift. - (See
Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice)
It's a great day! Even Mike Applebee's sweat stains are smiling. Why? Because the bane of Mike's existence, Chu, has been demoted to traffic. Hence, the kilt/segway thing. But, this is Chu we're talking about here. Things will begin to get wacky before the ink on his first parking ticket has dried.
This is a great addition to the series. You'll see plenty of familiar faces popping up in the book. Those astoundingly top-heavy gals from the USDA are back. So is sportswriter Dan, Amelia's insanely jealous and insanely insane ex-beau from the last installment. And two of my favorite things - coffee and chocolate - play a big part in the action.
Where else can you find baseball, Elvis impersonators, butter sculpture, and severed limbs all in one slim, colorful volume.
Welcome back, Chew.
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"Darlin', that has got to be the most amazing recipe for friend peanut butter and banana sandwiches ever."
Tony and Amelia are the cutest, Olive is badass and John is hilarious as usual.
Another great volume of Chew! 4.25 -
The protagonist, Tony Chu, is kidnapped and is forced to use his powers for them, while Mason moves moves plans forward. The series doesn't shy away from the craziness it has to offer and embraces it all its glory, which makes the series all the more fun.
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Volume 5 of Chew was another great addition to the series that I enjoyed!
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Page one. PAGE ONE!! That is how good this book is (at least for regular readers, who know *why* that dude is on cloud nine). I'm sold by page one, and even when it slows down into regular plotting, the fact they can instantly establish a feel is pretty damned talented.
This book delivers just as many weird or silly moments as before (including some hilarious background elements Guillory keeps adding in for fun - like South Park reference, Mike Myers reference, Muppets reference), but is dragging its feet on what the big uber-mystery is really about. We don't get a whole lot closer to the heart of it, but instead dance around the story with some fun nuances of the folks who are digging closer to it.
Like who the fuck are the Serbians who masquerade as vampires already? And what's with all these Food Powers? [Which reminds me of the "Moon powers!" quote from Captain Marvel #1]
Learning a little about Tony's daughter and her own special capabilities is fun, and seeing our agents in new work placements is frankly hilarious.
Fun, enjoyable comics with the artistic flair and background rewards that have made this such an enjoyable ride. I'm hoping for a little more momentum next book, as this was more like a day trip away from our main visit.
But seriously, when a comic has this much fun with its characters, how can you not enjoy it? Mason Savoy is terminally obese but he can somehow face kick his opponents without breaking a sweat. John Colby is a lazy man-whore with very few redeeming qualities except loyalty to his partner. Head of the USDA unit is some kind of exaggerated Barbie doll with about 30 years of hard miles on her, and has no qualms about her prowess. That is the kind of awesome fun these creators don't think twice about. -
The funniest volume in awhile. The overarching story has kind of slowed down, but there is some traction. Olive, Tony's daughter, is turning into quite an interesting character in her own right.
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Tony Chu and his daughter Olive are kidnapped - by different people for different reasons. Tony is taken for his cibopathic abilities in revealing the sordid details of famous dead baseball players while Olive is taken by Mason Savoy to be trained to fight a larger fight against a mysterious and powerful enemy.
Chew 5 is the first book in the series which I haven't fallen in love with 100% and that might be for a couple of reasons. First off Tony and John Colby are broken up and sent to different departments in the police force for no real reason which felt a bit contrived. Second, there seem to be more and more people with weird eating powers being introduced by the book. Also, the book doesn't really play a big part in the overall story arc, it's more of a side road and standalone book; but I wanted to find out more about the main story.
That said, there's still all of the elements fans of the series love like the whacky storylines. In one, a chocolate sculptor is so good at sculpting objects from chocolate that they attain the characteristics of that object. In another, a murderous barrista serves up coffee that makes you kill. And of course the wonderful image of seeing Tony in a kilt on a Segway.
Rob Guillory's artwork is still mesmerizingly brilliant. He goes further in this book, cramming in loads of detail in the panels so there are figures of pop culture in the background, along with lots of fun graffiti and side-jokes in between the letters.
Chew remains one of the best and most original comics series going at the moment and "Major League Chew" will tick most of the boxes fans of the series love it for. Here's hoping John Layman's original interesting storyline isn't lost in later books. -
Tony Chew has been kidnapped for a very ridiculous reason! That sportswriter finally had his (almost) revenge with our charming cibopath as he forces loads and loads of anciently rotten baseball players to Tony just to write a book about their sexual escapades. Haha, as if Chew isn't weird already.
Yet I quite get the feeling that this particular volume is just a filler arc. The baseball story just provides a perfect leeway for Olive Chu character to develop, and John Layman has carefully changed her from a quiet emo kid to a very likeable protagonist. I am so interested with what Olive can do given what she has shown here.
Chew has been consistently fun and over-the-top weirdly funny. There is literally no limit to what John Layman can do in the series. -
Introduction:
Just when I thought that this series could not get any better, it just continues to amaze me! With its wacky sense of humor and going into the dark and gritty nature of crime sprees, John Layman’s fantastic “Chew” series just continues to impress me! In the fifth volume of “Chew” called “Major League Chew,” Tony Chu is definitely up for some more crazy adventures as the mysteries of the fourth volume continues to unfold!
What is this story about?
In this volume, Tony Chu is immediately fired from the FDA and is forced to work at the municipal traffic division (which it turns out that he starts enjoying that job)! Unfortunately, things start going downhill for him when he is kidnapped by Amelia’s ex-boyfriend and they force him to eat the dead bodies of the baseball players to discover…new things. Meanwhile, Tony’s daughter, Olive Chu, is also kidnapped by none other than Mason Savoy and she will soon discover the secret mission that Mason is on that could change her life forever!
What I loved about this story:
John Layman’s writing: Once again, John Layman has proven that humor and gritty crime noir can be written on the same page together! As usual, I loved the way that John Layman made the story both hilarious and intense as the mystery surrounding Mason Savoy’s secret mission and the alien language in the sky continues to intensify in each volume. I also loved the humor being put into this volume as it was hilarious seeing both Tony and John Colby struggle with their new jobs and how their new bosses (well, not Tony’s anyway) continues to torture them for no reason! I also loved the fact that we get to see more of Olive Chu as she seem suspicious to me in the previous volumes and it would be interesting to see where Mason takes her character next in his mission.
Rob Guillory’s artwork: Rob Guillory’s artwork is as always hilarious and creative to look at as the characters look truly exaggerated, which makes the story even more humorous in tone. I was also impressed with how Rob Guillory made some of the illustrations disgusting to look at, especially the murder scenes, but it was that aspect of the artwork that really made this comic stand out to me since I rarely read comics where the gross out humor is actually used to tell an effective story.
What made me feel uncomfortable about this story:
For anyone who does not like gross out humor or bloody violence OR strong language, this volume does contain a lot of bloody violence that might be uncomfortable for the squeamish. Also, the gross humor, that often involves toilet humor, might be a turn off for anyone who does not like toilet humor in general.
Final Thoughts:
Overall, “Chew: Major League Chew” is a fantastic volume that is really starting to set things up for all the characters involved and who knows what Tony Chu and his friends and family will get into next! Now, on to the sixth volume!
Review is also on:
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Im rounding this up to four stars, for humour, originality and consistency.
This comic is a good laugh! -
I'm not 100% sure what it is about these that makes them only 3 stars. Like I like them enough, I fly through them and I stay up till 3am to read them apparently, but I just don't love them more than 3 stars. This was my least favourite so far. I think I just don't see any plot progression. There seemed to be a plot that the first 2 were following, the avian bird flu, but that has sorely disappeared in the last 3 issues. So I'm hoping this filler stuff leads to something good.
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Severek okuduğum bir devam cildiydi. En başta çizgi romanın kapağını alakasız bulmuştum. Fakat okuyunca bağlantısını anlayabiliyorsunuz. Keşke biraz daha dördüncü ciltte karşımıza çıkan olaylar hakkında bahsedilseydi, soru işaretlerim giderilmiş olurdu. Bunun dışında her zamanki gibi mükemmeldi.
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That's more like it. Much more my kind of thing than the last volume!
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I read this as part of the #Rainbowthon and I enjoyed this volume a lot. This is volume 5 in the ongoing Chew series which revolves around Tony Chu (a cibopath - someone who eats food and gets visions and memories which are associated with these) and his various friends and family.
Although not particularly interested in Baseball myself I still thought that this was a fun read and the story is enjoyable in it's own way. This volume focuses on Tony when he's in a rather tricky situation as he's been kidnapped by someone and is being forced to use his cibopathic powers to further this 'someone's own aims.
I liked the fact that because Tony was in his situation and stuck there it gave us a chance to explore Amelia, Colby and Olive a little more than we have previously. I think that they were all coming into themselves a little more and showing more of their personalities to us throughout this volume.
Once again the story was fast, furious and fun and the characters continue to grow. I feel like we're following a few different tangents still so I think I can once more only give this a 4* rating, but its still just a very enjoyable read and one I think lots of people would enjoy (although some of the imagery is rather gross and nasty in terms of blood, guts and gore). 4*s - recommended. -
This series just keeps running along and keeps making me laugh.
Tony gets fired from the FDA, and his new assignment is pretty hilarious, especially the uniform. The panel of his facial expression in his new uniform with his transport actually made me laugh so hard I nearly started crying. Brilliant. Colby, his partner, doesn't fare so well either, transferred to the USDA and paired with an unexpected companion.
We then follow up on Tony's daughter and her potential special-skills, and Tony comes up to bat against Amelia's meathead ex.
This is just another solid, funny book, and it doesn't hurt at all that I predicted the last page, because we knew where it was going. When I smile this much reading a book, I enjoy that.
Please pick up this series from Volume 1 if you get a chance. Fine work.
Oh and keep your eyes open, Patrick Swayze circa Point Break makes a minor appearance! -
Reread: Good but not great
Another solid volume of Chew. I really liked the change in the jobs of Chu and Colby because it added a lot of hilarity. The side plotline with Olive is really great. I think that Tony was kidnapped a little too long in this arc for me though and it didn't push the overall story line forward much. Regardless, I liked this arc, there were a lot of funny and disgusting moments. This one will probably get better after a reread in the future. -
This volume!!! I definitely am so happy that I've stepped into this world again! It's been great and I'm really enjoying trying to figure out why the mysterious vampire guy is trying to kidnap all these people! I'm ready to see what happens next!
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This is all I'm going to say:
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So honestly this wasn't my favorite issue so far. Tony has gotten demoted, through no fault of his own, and is now on traffic duty. He then goes missing and while it amazes me that it takes so long for people to realize he is gone, we do get to see the badass side of his girlfriend. The reader also gets to learn more about Tony's daughter, Olive and I have to admit, she is a rather fascinating character.
As we are knee-deep in the plot by this volume, it's hard to say much and not give a lot away. I do love seeing where Tony's partner ends up after he too is demoted and I will admit, his new partner Buttercup is one of my faves. I will most definitely continue this series, especially since I think my local library basically ordered all of them in after seeing me request them one by one. -
I really love this series. Its so wacky and weird. The art is amazing and the characters and plot at times so stupid and funny, youd think it wouldnt work but somehow it does. 100% will continue this!!
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Chew yine tam gaz devam ediyor. Seviyorum bu seriyi :) Ajanımızın kızı çok daha yetenekli olacak şimdiden yazayım buraya...
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In this volume:
--Tony has been demoted to quilt-wearing meter maid.
--Tony gets beat and kidnapped by Amelia's ex, who thinks he can use Tony's gift of cibopathy in order to get sordid stories about baseball players for a book he wants to write.
--Olive is being trained by Mason Savoy and may possibly have an even stronger talent than Tony.
--This vampire who's not really a vampire who looks like a vampire keeps popping up throughout the book. Not one of my favorite characters, perhaps because there's not a real explanation to his role in the story just yet.
This has remained at a steady 3 star rating. Liking it, but at times feels like weekly episodes of a cop show. I'm sure all the story arcs will tie in at some point, but for now my rating will remain as liking it until the story comes to a more cohesive wrap-up. -
Hershel Brown is a Xocoscalpere, that means he can sculpt chocolate with such accuracy and detail that anything he crafts can exactly mimic its real life counter part!
Major league problems for the Chus, in the is the best volume since the first, with both father and daughter kidnapped for hugely different reasons. More slap-dickish dark comedy of the mostly food and/or sex related type. Still a pretty interesting book, which just lacks a certain something to make it a special book? 8 out of 12. -
Still funny with Tony wearing a kilt. Lol! We now have an overview of Olive's ability. And that thing with Colby and his new boss hilarious.
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I really liked this one. It keeps getting weirder and weirder, but so good!
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Tony Chu - the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats - has been kidnapped. He was ambushed, knocked out, brought to a remote location, and bound securely. His captor intends to feed Tony from a menu of his choosing, to find out what Tony can see, in order to learn from him. His daughter Olive has been kidnapped for the exact same reason. Two kidnappers, two captives, and two very different outcomes.
Major League is the fifth volume of the Chew series and I'm getting the sense this book is now starting to gear up for some darker twists here.
Upon first reading I thought we were off on some sort of sub-plot or side-story with this volume, but that's the great thing about this series so far - the connectivity. By the time you reach the end of any volume you realise the main plot just got a little more deeper and complex. Juxtapose this against the humour, wonderful characterisation and incredible artwork here and this gives the reader some serious momentum to continue reading! I'm still hooked!
On to volume six! -
Read. This. Series.
