Chu #8 Review

Writer: John Layman / Artist: Dan Boultwood / Image I was very vocal when Chu was put on the shelves because while I appreciated individual elements, the first arc of Chu felt less like the first serving in multi-course meal and more like an extended ingredient preparation. There was a fair amount of bookkeeping of the greater Chew-ineverse done, and it was really only at the end where we got to appreciate how buckwild “Chew, but about food criminals instead of food detectives” would truly. Thankfully, the second arc (She) Drunk History has been a welcome pressure cooker of an experience that truly shows that John Layman has so many exciting plans for Saffron, and I am so excited to see them come to fruition. Chu #8 starts with a brief prologue, as has become a running gag in the series, that explains some crucial information that helps contextualize the truly wild events that are about to occur. This week there was a brief history lesson of how Saffron’s grandfather became aware “vineteporus,” an alcohol that allows you to time travel back to the year it was created. And honestly, that’s a truly bizarre sentence, but in a world where Saffron went from being a con woman who used her ability to steal information from marks to being a super thief with an large repertoire of various criminal enterprises after years in jail, time-traveling alcohol barely phases you. And that’s the wonderful thing about Chu. The world has already established that it has no limit on what food-based…