Chew #15

Written by John Layman
Art by Rob Guillory

This comic just keeps getting better and better, as Tony goes to a family Thanksgiving dinner.

To begin, the story has a wonderful gatefold cover (one third of which is pictured here), featuring the Chew crew sitting down to a Last Supper Thanksgiving dinner in the Russian observatory that showed up early in the title's run, and which gets mentioned again here.

The story itself features two Thanksgiving dinners.  The first is Mason Savoy's, and he uses it to learn some more about Tony.  The second is the Chu family's, as we find out that Tony's family is bigger and more dysfunctional that we ever imagined.  There are a lot of brothers and sisters, including a fraternal twin, and a couple of other surprises that I won't ruin here.

The characterizations in this title are what have always made it work for me (although I find the larger conspiracy-based plot to be pretty interesting too), and this issue goes above and beyond anything we've seen before.  There are plenty of great character moments (poor Appleby), and I enjoyed seeing the different ways in which Guillory played around with the Chu family genetics to make the different members of Tony's family.

This issue is extra-sized, and quite impressive.  Canada has already had its Thanksgiving, but this book is out just in time for Americans to be able to relate to having to share a large (and quite possibly illegal) meal with a bunch of family members who don't like you.