Just Desserts (Chew)


Just Desserts is a 2010 graphic novel written by John Layman, drawn by Rob Guillory, and published by Image Comics as the third volume of the American comic book series Chew, set in the Image Universe. Following Tony Chu, a Cibopathic Food and Drug Administration agent who solves crimes by receiving psychic impressions from whatever he eats, Chapter One was released June 9, 2010, Chapter Two was released July 14, 2010, Chapter Three was released August 18, 2010, Chapter Four was released September 29, 2010, and Chapter Five was released November 10, 2010. Preceded by International Flavor, it is followed by the story arc Flambé.
The series received a universally positive critical reception.

Premise

Chapter One

Things are looking up for Tony Chu! He's got a girlfriend, a partner he trusts, and even seems to be getting along with his jerk boss. Only when he discovers an exclusive diner's club of the rich who commit crimes in order to procure the meat of the rare, exotic and extinct, having stolen a frozen intact mastodon to eat, he must infiltrate their annual dinner and stop them. Guess who's coming to dinner to stop them? The cast of Office Space make cameo appearances.

Chapter Two

As Tony goes undercover, the killer cockerel Poyo returns!

Chapter Three

As Mason Savoy returns, a double agent is revealed.
Reporters Peter Parker and Jimmy Olsen make cameo appearances.

Chapter Four

Tony and Mason must face off against one another in a "Cibopath Showdown".

Chapter Five

Tony takes Amelia to meet his family at Thanksgiving, including his twin sister Toni, and his previously unmentioned daughter Olive, as the skies of Earth are left permanently alit with a strange fiery message written in an alien language into the atmosphere itself, changing the world forever.

Collected editions

The special-length Chew #15 was published with a tri-fold poster cover, repeating the positioning of The Last Supper.