Thursday, November 29, 2012

Chew Volume 6: Space Cakes TPB [2012] by John Layman | Rob Guillory

      

      

CHEW VOLUME 6: SPACE CAKES TRADE PAPERBACK
Tony Chu twin sister Toni can bite into anything and foresee the events in their lives. Chow Chu asks Toni for some help to get some payback on someone who has been stealing from him for years.

Chew #27 was released one year ahead much like Images of Tomorrow scheme back in the 1990s. Tony ends up healing at a hospital after the events of Major League Chew as his fraternal twin Antonelle keeps him company.

Twenty-two months earlier FDA Agents Mason Savoy and Ceasar Valenzano visited the Farmington-Kapusta International Telescope located at the heart of the Amazon. At the time Toni was high on licking frogs and couldn’t remember they have met before. Now Toni meets up with Jacob Butterfield who accidently bred psychedelic chogs and someone by the street name of D-Bear took all the chogs. Toni and her supervisor takes down and captures D-Bear. 

USDA Agent John Colby and FDA Agent Ceasar Valenzano track down a scientist who is captured by terrorist and developed exploding meet products. Next Agents Toni, John, and Ceasar team up their respective organizations to stop the “vampire.” Toni gets a proposal by her supervisor Paneer however she knows the outcomes is not good.

The series reaches its midpoint with issue #30, as Antonelle and Paneer have their wedding however it ends with her kidnapped by the vampire. The vampire eats her left arm and two legs to possess her abilities. However Antonelle outsmarted him by eating beets. She foretold that the vampire will die at the hands of Tony. The vampire kills her and in the past Ceasar remembers a Antonelle telling him about saving the world. 

CHEW: SECRET AGENT POYO #1
Poyo fights his way out of hell to serve the USDA and now has to stop Dr. Albrecht Regenbogen from dropping animals from the sky. After Poyo stops and kills him, he heads back home and tends to his chogs.

This paperback collects
Chew #26-30

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