Books by John Layman
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review 1: You should be reading this. I don't know what else to say. This book is so weird and all over the place and zany and yet it WORKS and it's filled with so much heart. This volume is essentially a time travel narrative, but with a really clever way of working it into the greater co...
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review 1: I am sorry, I am never going to write something bad about Chew. This book picks up where the last trade left off, in the aftermath of a truly surprising and awful event. The story is similar to the character it is about. In this volume, Tony Chew is Ruthless and gets straight to ...
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review 1: Amazingly fun book about a man named Tony Chu. A law officer who is a “Cibopathic” meaning he gets psychic impressions when he takes a bite out of something living or dead. The comic starts with showing a scene of a chief preparing a soup and cutting himself. Following this Tony ...
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review 1: I had some issues with this one. While I loved the fake vampire cannibal introduction and the fruit that tastes like chicken that might possibly be from outer space, I hated the fact that they made Applebee to be such a grouch because he's gay and was hiding it. Maybe this is jus...
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review 1: Chu & Amelia Mintz's relationship is going pretty well, but can it survive a family gathering with the entire Chu family? Meanwhile Chu's partner goes after Savoy and a bionic fighting rooster.I enjoyed the Pulp Fiction-esque cover for the rooster issue, and it was certainly int...
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review 1: Oh, Chew. You wonderful, horrible series. :)Things are starting to go from bad to worse with the number of people able to affect themselves and the world around them with food. This time, a food fight turns deadly and Tony and his partner need to work out what happened. And then ...
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review 1: Tony Chu has been transferred to the traffic division, but that doesn't mean trouble can't find him. When his daughter Olive goes missing, Tony tries to track her down, and gets kidnapped himself. Turns out Olive has new abilities even greater than her father's, and is now usin...
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review 1: I’m so relieved DC booted Tony Daniel off of Detective and replaced him with John Layman, the writer of the excellent Image series, Chew. DC must’ve been paying attention to the negative reaction of Daniel’s run because right on the cover is a blurb acknowledging that his series ...
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review 1: One of the best comicbook series I've read, the concept itself is one of a kind. A police procedural mix with the weird and supernatural, as the main character can tell where or what's behind the stuff he eats, called Cibopathy. This volume is a great intro to the series, setting...
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review 1: I love Chew... The book is just awesome. It reminds me of how comics can be fun, entertaining, imaginative, gut wrenching, and just an all around engrossing experience (no pun intended). I love that the creators seem to be having fun with this, and not taking themselves way too...
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review 1: Though I found the second installment of Chew slightly less compelling than the first, I maintain that the central premise is clever. Since this is the second installment, there’s no need for the story to cover how Chu’s “superpower” works (which may have been my favorite part of...
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review 1: You cannot not like POYO.I really don't like how they portray Amelia Mintz as the whiny girlfriend in this book. She appeared to be an independent woman in the previous novels and she has her career as a writer. We hardly see them interacting in their relationships but when we do...
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review 1: I'm really enjoying this graphic novel series, but this is just getting so weird. I like every chapter in this jumped from one thing to another, creating more questions for the readers without answering any of the previous ones. D: Plus, it's just getting so confusing. Space lett...
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review 1: This shouldn't be a factor in any way, but just saying, I'm a big fan of Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report is really funny, he was really funny in Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Strangers w/candy, even the Love Guru, etc.Also, this book sucked. It just wasn't very funny. There are so...