jcschildbach's review against another edition
4.0
Still fun, although there's getting to be a huge backlog of unresolved storylines popping in and out, often feeling more like reminders that something is supposed to happen eventually than like actual happenings.
rutatheythem's review
4.0
Holy shit! This keeps getting crazier and crazier. I love it and get frustrated with it even more with new every volume I read, I'm really curious about how everything is going to end up.
Spoiler
I think Olive now has Toni's ability since she ate her toe, I really want this to be true.menniemenace's review against another edition
3.0
I'll miss Toni so much, this volume was a proper goodbye but I hate goodbyes.
rltinha's review against another edition
4.0
A sequência da fábrica de almofadas... ia cuspindo um pulmão de tanto rir.
ceraphimfalls's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
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
5.0
My second favorite volume- which may just mean Toni is my favorite character. I'm so proud of Layman and Guillory. This is the wildest, most insane issue but they stick the landing.
sizrobe's review against another edition
5.0
So good. It featured a hilarious bit where some characters eat some sauce made from psychedelic transgenic chicken-frog hybrids and mistakenly assault a pillow factory.
rikki's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
marblesonglass's review against another edition
5.0
This was my last course of the evening. Such a good story with complex characters and their relationships. Not for the squeamish though.
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
5.0
The Lost Phenomenon is when a serial story such as a comic or TV show (such as, say, "Lost") starts out with a really cool premise that involves a central mystery or series of small mysteries that the audience is invested in seeing solved. They get attached to the characters, and they are willing to accept a barrage of new mysteries, so long as there is a promise of a cool resolution to the overall storyarc, and the little mysteries start to get solved in a satisfying manner. And then the story falls apart, the characters act against their own interests in a perplexing way that is never satisfyingly explained, and ultimately, the audience feels betrayed that the writer(s) either didn't know what the mysteries were really about, and thus threw some half-baked macguffins in, or worse, they always knew what the ending would be, but the ending sucks (sometimes referred to as the Battlestar Galactica Frustration).
With volume eight of Chew, they mysteries start to be explained, and they're far-fetched in an entertaining way that aligns not only with the narrative structure but includes many small detail stories that seemed like they could have been inconsequential to the overall plot. With this volume, it seems clear that every character we've met, and every weird sidetrack we've taken has some use in the main plot of the book.
With volume eight of Chew, they mysteries start to be explained, and they're far-fetched in an entertaining way that aligns not only with the narrative structure but includes many small detail stories that seemed like they could have been inconsequential to the overall plot. With this volume, it seems clear that every character we've met, and every weird sidetrack we've taken has some use in the main plot of the book.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
3.0
Just went I think these are going to be consistently awful, they turn it around and go back to intriguing - at least somewhat. We get less absolute violence and a bit more character interaction. We also get a whole new set of silly eating powers. And there is a lot less Tony in this, which is a good thing. Still not great though.