Chew Volume 4: Flambe (edition 2011)

Summary: Tony Chu is a cibopath - he gets sense impressions and memories from the things (or people) he eats - which makes him one of the FDA's top agents. Unfortunately, his boss keeps sending Tony and his half-android partner out on cases that have no obvious connection other than their extreme likelihood to get Tony killed... but somehow they all seem to come back to the giant flame-letters that have mysteriously appeared in the sky all over the world.

Review: This series has a lot of things going on, all of them are exceedingly strange, and a lot of them don't always seem to fit together. It may be my fault for having a terrible memory and losing a lot of the details between trade paperbacks, but I'm starting to feel like the series is getting away from me, and that the weirdness is not resulting in enough satisfying payoff. It's clever as heck, and there are some truly funny moments amid all the weirdness, but I'm at a point where I think I might be better off waiting until Layman & Guillory wrap up the series/story arc, and then starting again from the beginning... although that's going to be a lot of strangeness to take in at once. 3 out of 5 stars. ( )