‘Chew/Revival’ is a Great Meeting of Two of Today’s Best Comics
Some things just go together well. Peanut butter and chocolate. Fries and ketchup. Salt n Pepa. John Layman’s Chew, the hit comic about an FDA detective with food-related superpowers, and Revival, Tom Seely’s gothic noir comic set in a town where the recently dead “revived”, seems like a great match. Both are about cops working in topsy-turvy worlds, both either flirt with black humor or let black humor take them to the back seat of its Dodge. But tonally, style-wise, the two comics can seem at odds. So how do you do a crossover twixt the two that doesn’t come out like a strange melange of two opposing styles? Well…you cheat. Or at least get creative with it. Rather than a traditional crossover, Chew/Revival (and Revival/Chew) is actually two takes at the crossover in one book, with the original artist teams doing what they do best, focusing on their characters, and giving their own spin on how a collision of the Chew and Revival universes would play out.
