YMMV / Chew

• Complete Monster: The Vampire, also known as The Collector, is a Serbian killer and Cibopath who harnesses the legends of vampires to become feared. In truth, The Vampire uses his Cibopath powers to absorb the powers of others, killing, butchering and eating them to gain their abilities, even relatively useless abilities; at least several dozen, and possibly more, are killed in this way. The Vampire kidnaps hero Anthony "Tony" Chu's twin sister, Antonelle "Toni" Chu, and attempts to gain her abilities through eating her limbs. When this fails, he furiously snaps Toni's neck. When Tony's friends attack his hideout, The Vampire attempts to slaughter them, taking great pleasure in trying himself to devour Tony's teenage daughter Olive. When he and Tony finally face off, The Vampire mocks him by saying how he will hunt down Olive and devour her.
• Creator's Pet: The creators of the comic seem to think the very idea of a badass chicken is inherently hilarious. As a result, the comic regularly comes to a stop to show us another scene of Poyo doing something random. This happens even at the climax of the plot, using up space that many readers felt was needed for more character development.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Agent Vorhees appears to be autistic, but it's never stated on-page.
• Funny Moments:
  • The last page of issue #9.
    • The last page of issue #11, with Tony's goofy, "I just got laid!" grin.
  • Also, the incident in issue #4 with the Senator's ashes. "Good day to you, madam." Indeed.
  • All of Issue #40.
  • Chow gets caught in a rainstorm, revealed to be Napoleon Bonaparte urinating on him from Heaven as a laughing Toni watches.
  • The numerous little signs and notes written on things throughout the series. Like a framed newspaper headline reading "FDA: Voted Biggest D-Bags" that's hanging near Tony's desk.
• Heartwarming Moments: Peñya and Colby see Poyo entering an evidence room filled with chogs (chicken-frog hybrids used to get around the poultry ban) and fear he's going to kill them all. Instead, he's playing with them.
• Ho Yay: Besides Colby sleeping with Applebee, Colby is, in spite of his own Jerkass behavior, fanatically loyal to Tony. The only thing that can make him think about someone besides himself is the fear that whatever is going on will upset Tony.
• Memetic Badass: Poyo, in-universe.
• Squick: Tony has to eat a lot of things, including an old severed finger and a dead freeze-dried dog.
  • Though the line gets drawn at feces.
  • In a later issue, he gets force-fed many dead baseball players.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Even a series as funny as this manages this sometimes. Notably the death of Toni Chu. Her absolute fearlessness in the face of death and defiance towards her killer softens the blow, but her visions of the perfect wedding she could have had if not for the Collector, her final farewell to her sister Sage (with Sage not knowing of Toni's impending death) and that brief little break in her composure when she reflects that she won't be around to see her siblings live the happy lives they deserve is heartbreaking. Seeing the large, dysfunctional-as-hell Chu family utterly united by grief and backing Tony one hundred and ten percent against the Collector drives in just how much the lively, spirited Toni meant to them.
  • The death of Poyo. Colby, who genuinely respects Poyo, reluctantly snaps his neck because he knows eating Poyo is the only way for Tony to defeat the Collector. Made all the more heartbreaking because you know Poyo trusts Colby too because otherwise he'd be able to defend himself.
  • The third-and-second-to-last issues, showing the Heroic Sacrifice of Amelia Mintz and John Colby, and knowing how it's going to absolutely destroy Tony to lose the love of his life and his only friend.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Lin Sae Woo. A badass USDA agent with an equally badass cyborg rat as a Loyal Animal Companion could have been an interesting recurring ally for Chu to have in his investigations, but both her and her rat are killed off soon after being introduced to show off how dangerous The Vampire is,
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic/Unintentionally Sympathetic: in the "Blood Pudding" arc, Chu is angry at Colby for going on a suicide mission against the Collector with his daughter. Now we are supposed to feel sorry for Chu... and Colby. Despite the fact that Colby collaborated with a known murderer who bit off Chu's ear, and the moment he found out Chu's daughter was working with said murderer, Colby did not tell Chu. We are supposed to believe Chu went too far yet he really didn't.