I love the Chew series, but this was a little bit more of a middle volume. There's a lot of set ups here, but very little gets resolved. Still, as always, it's a fun ride. ( )

This was a really good volume. ( )

The last volume of Chew [book: Space Cakes] was upsetting enough that I didn't read any further last night. It wasn't [author: V.C. Andrews] or [author: Cormac McCarthy] level upsetting, but it left me with a hollowness that I genuinely didn't expect I'd feel reading this comic series. The books had been disturbing, yeah, but more of a Preacher level madness than much else. Nevertheless, [book: Space Cakes] managed to leave me feeling a bit lost and hollow. Yet still, we travel on...

[book: Bad Apples] picked up where [book: Space Cakes] left off and kicked things into high gear almost immediately. The amusement, the lull that was present in [book: Major League Chew] and [book: Space Cakes], slight though it was, is now fully absent. Tony is on a mission, and nothing is going to stop him. Even Colby fully comes into his own and comes through. Olive is now a full part of the story, and the Vampire is confronted for the very first time. You can almost feel the electric excitement as everything begins to fall into place. This is story-telling, and this is a startling pace that is so immensely satisfying after the end of the last book. Character development, confrontations, and a cliff-hanger of an ending I didn't see coming. Perfect.

Chew continues to astonish and deliver and I'm both happy things are speeding up since there's only 5 volumes left and this means it will all wrap up well (theoretically) and devastated since it means I'm nearing the end.

I guess after this I'll have to delve into [book: Saga]... ( )

My blog post about this book is at this link. ( )

Volume 7 in the Tony Chu saga.

Tony Chu is back and unfortunately my interest has lower accordingly, apparently he is my overall problem with the Chew books, the parts that don't feature him move much better for me. The story continues to advance and be strong and they continue to use a more expansive color palate, though I am beginning to really want at least a hint of what the secret behind the avian flu story is, I am beginning to become impatient waiting for something, anything about that.
There was a very brief Pengthulu encounter, which was awesome and hopefully he will show up once in a while (or at least once more) going forward like Poyo does.
I am enjoying the fleshing out of the food powers, the writers are quite creative with those, and I'm hoping the ending here hints at a character development going forward and I really hope I find a way to like Tony more or this is going to be be a long slog going forward. ( )