Chew #56

Rob Guillory's cover for Chew #56 sets an immediately unsettling tone: a heavyset, scowling man in a dark suit sits at a candlelit dinner table, gripping a knife and fork with white-knuckled intensity, while a bloody plate bearing a single grim morsel sits before him — and two pale, anonymous hands rest at the near edge of the table, suggesting a very unwilling dining companion. Reflections in the mirrored panels behind him multiply the menace, making this feel less like a meal and more like a confrontation. John Layman and Rob Guillory's long-running Image series has always blended food, crime, and dark humor in ways that feel genuinely one-of-a-kind, and this 2016 issue looks ready to deliver more of the same.