Chew #43

Chew #43 brings John Layman and Rob Guillory's wonderfully weird food-crime series to its third chapter of "Chicken Tenders" with a cover that's as inventive as the series itself. Guillory's art splits the image across three misaligned horizontal bands, creating a scrambled composite face — part goggled figure with a live octopus draped across their head, part masked character, part a calm, dark-haired woman — a visual trick that perfectly captures the series' off-kilter sensibility. It's a genuinely clever design that rewards a second look and makes this 2014 Image issue hard to miss on any shelf.