10 Image Graphic Novels You Must Read Before You Die
5. Chew, Volume 1: Taster's Choice
John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew is one of the strangest, but still entertaining works of fiction published today. The series revolves around Tony Chu, a police detective working in a world where the consumption of birds is illegal. His goal: find anyone poaching and selling chickens or other bird meat and throw the book at them!
There is of course, a catch, Chu is a Cibopath and he uses this skill to hunt down criminals. If you're scratching your head wondering what in the world a Cibopath is, the book lays it out for you in the first volume of the series' first five issues under the name, Taster's Choice.
A Cibopath is a person who can take a single bite of something and have an immediate psychic sensation of what happened to the object. This means he can bite into a cadaver and know who killed the person.
It's a disgusting, but incredibly useful skill and Chu uses it to the fullest in this hilarious comic book series consisting of 60 issues collected into 12 volumes.