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‘Chew/Revival’ is a Great Meeting of Two of Today’s Best Comics

Some things just go together well. Peanut butter and chocolate. Fries and ketchup. Salt n Pepa. John Layman’s Chew, the hit comic about an FDA detective with food-related superpowers, and Revival, Tom Seely’s gothic noir comic set in a town where the recently dead “revived”, seems like a great match. Both are about cops working in topsy-turvy worlds, both either flirt with black humor or let black humor take them to the back seat of its Dodge. But tonally, style-wise, the two comics can seem at odds. So how do you do a crossover twixt the two that doesn’t come out like a strange melange of two opposing styles? Well…you cheat. Or at least get creative with it. Rather than a traditional crossover, Chew/Revival (and Revival/Chew) is actually two takes at the crossover in one book, with the original artist teams doing what they do best, focusing on their characters, and giving their own spin on how a collision of the Chew and Revival universes would play out.

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Comics You Should Be Reading…John Layman’s Chew

Chew Written by John Layman Art and covers Rob Guillory Published by Image Comics To the outsider, the world of comics can seem as daunting and impregnable as the Great Wall of China. That is, if the Great Wall involved more people in long underwear beating up criminals with deformities, of course. In spite of …

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