Chew #45

John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew keeps delivering its singular blend of dark humor and food-world weirdness with issue #45, "Chicken Tenders, Chapter 5." The cover, illustrated by Guillory, shows a grinning, fur-collared villain clutching a wide-eyed, squawking rooster against a backdrop of red flames — a tableau that captures the series' gleefully unhinged energy perfectly. If this arc has been building toward something messy involving poultry, this cover suggests it's arriving right on schedule.