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Taster's Choice (Chew)
American graphic novel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Taster's Choice is a graphic novel written by John Layman, drawn by Rob Guillory, and published by Image Comics as the first volume of the American comic book series Chew, set in the Image Universe. Following Tony Chu, a Cibopathic Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agent who solves crimes by receiving psychic impressions from whatever he eats, Chapter One was released June 3, 2009, Chapter Two was released July 1, 2009, Chapter Three was released August 5, 2009, Chapter Four was released September 2, 2009, and Chapter Five was released October 21, 2009. It is followed by the story arc International Flavor.[2][3]
The series received a universally positive critical reception.[4][5] In 2010, Chew won the Eisner Award for Best New Series for Taster's Choice and International Flavor, as well as two Harvey Awards, and was nominated for two Eagle Awards.
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Chapter One
Tony Chu is a Cibopath, receiving psychic impressions from whatever he eats, making him the world's greatest detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on a corpse to figure out whodunnit. After the government figures out Tony's secret, he is conscripted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), militarised in the years since a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu (which killed millions and saw all chicken and bird meats be made illegal) made them the most powerful law-enforcement agency on the planet.[6]
Chapter Two
It's Tony Chu's first day on the job as an FDA federal agent. With a new know-it-all partner and a boss who hates his guts, by the end of the day, Tony will ingest a decomposing finger and rancid sushi, face down the Yakuza, and meet the girl of his dreams.[7]
Chapter Three
Amelia Mintz is a food critic and a Saboscrivner, able to write about food so accurately that people get the actual sensation of taste when reading her restaurant reviews. In protest of the prohibition of poultry, she has only reviewed restaurants with a "D" rating or less from the Health Department, leading hundreds to be sent to the hospital with severe food poisoning, and a warrant being put out for her arrest, something Agent Tony Chu is reluctant to do, since he finds himself madly in love with her.[8]
Chapter Four
After a senator turns up dead with a body full of drugs and a belly full of chicken, the trail leads Tony Chu and his partner back all the way the Arctic, to a joint U.S./Russian space observatory singularly focused on a single, distant, Earth-like planet, on which resides the godlike chicken species responsible for the bird flu.[9]
Chapter Five
FDA Agent Tony Chu just landed the biggest bust of his career, but while the bullets were flying and the bodies were falling, Tony's partner Mason Savoy took a slug. Having just ate something that's revealed the identity of a dangerous enemy, Tony must face down the absolute last person he should be facing without backup.[10][11]
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On July 23, 2010, Chew won the Eisner Award for Best New Series for Taster's Choice and International Flavor.[12] On July 26, 2011, it won two 2010 Harvey Awards (Best New Series and Best New Talent) for the volume,[13] and was nominated for two 2010 Eagle Awards.[14] Taster's Choice was also MTV Splash Page's pick for "Best New Series of 2009",[15] and IGN's pick for "Best Indie Series of 2009".[16]
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