gajeam's review against another edition
5.0
Personally, I found this to be the best Chew trade yet. They abandoned some of the plot lines I didn't care about and picked up some fantastic ones. The whole thing balanced humor and captivating plot in an unprecedented way. I'm holding my breath for the 6th trade to come out.
jcschildbach's review against another edition
4.0
Probably my favorite volume so far--likely because it's a bit more straightforward than the other ones. Plus, Tony's powers expand (sort of) as he is kidnapped and forced to feast on the corpses of baseball players in order to provide information for a book his girlfriend's unstable ex-boyfriend is writing. Tony's daughter, Olive, also begins to understand her own power while assisting Tony's vampiric former-mentor/current nemesis.
menniemenace's review against another edition
3.0
Chew was missing for a lot of time and no one noticed, his daughter is working with his arch-nemesis, and his partner is trying every trick in the book for a better situation.
The volume took no time to finish, but I miss Tony/Colby and Tony in general.. I hate this situation.
The volume took no time to finish, but I miss Tony/Colby and Tony in general.. I hate this situation.
ceraphimfalls's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
It's always interesting to me that this is the volume that won awards. It's good, don't get me wrong, and the character development is deep and art beautifully grotesque. It's just... Volume 6 exists.
sizrobe's review against another edition
5.0
This volume involved a effervenductor who can control people's minds through latte foam and a xocoscalpere who can craft sculptures out of chocolate that exactly function like the real thing.
rikki's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
5.0
Like many people my age, baseball is more than just a sport. It's a thing you think about to lose your erection.
This goes back to the 1994 Major League Baseball strike where the greedy owners and the greedy players couldn't agree on whose greediness was most vital to the game, so they cancelled the second half of the 1994 season, and couldn't get their acts together into well into the 1995 season, resulting in two years of rich people getting richer without doing any actual work. The American Dream.
I mention this because terrible things happen surrounding baseball in this collection, which is driven by a character obsessed with the sex lives of baseball players. And while I'm not mad at anyone currently playing in the major leagues (as there are very few players involved in the strike who are still active), it's still tough for me to feel bad for anyone involved in the sport.
This is the volume, however, where you start to feel really bad for some of the characters. It's still a non-stop shifting plot story where something unusual and food related is happening but for the first time in the series, characters short term problems aren't wrapped up neatly by the ends of the issues. There are still stellar final page reveals (and long running jokes) but often they aren't the beginning or end of a problem, rather a reveal as to how something is about to get worse for someone.
This goes back to the 1994 Major League Baseball strike where the greedy owners and the greedy players couldn't agree on whose greediness was most vital to the game, so they cancelled the second half of the 1994 season, and couldn't get their acts together into well into the 1995 season, resulting in two years of rich people getting richer without doing any actual work. The American Dream.
I mention this because terrible things happen surrounding baseball in this collection, which is driven by a character obsessed with the sex lives of baseball players. And while I'm not mad at anyone currently playing in the major leagues (as there are very few players involved in the strike who are still active), it's still tough for me to feel bad for anyone involved in the sport.
This is the volume, however, where you start to feel really bad for some of the characters. It's still a non-stop shifting plot story where something unusual and food related is happening but for the first time in the series, characters short term problems aren't wrapped up neatly by the ends of the issues. There are still stellar final page reveals (and long running jokes) but often they aren't the beginning or end of a problem, rather a reveal as to how something is about to get worse for someone.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
3.0
This was ... good, interesting, inventive ... gross, annoying and kind of stupid. There is not a lot of sense in this. But it continues to have possibilities. I wish it would stop with the poorly run government agency with hateful rotten bosses. This is still better than it should be but not exactly good.
androthemeda's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
The text in the background is just as good as the dialogue and it’s not afraid to go over the top.