Chew #22

Rob Guillory's cover for this 2011 Image series delivers a perfectly tense moment: a determined, bespectacled man crouches over a mysteriously glowing plate of food in a spotlight, while a shadowy figure looms from the foreground and a cluttered wall of clippings — warning of bird flu, fires, and casualties — paints a world deep in conspiracy. It's a wonderfully unsettling composition that captures Chew's unique blend of the culinary and the sinister. John Layman and Rob Guillory's Will Eisner Award-winning series is in fine form here with "Major League Chew, Part 2 of 5.