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A delightfully grotesque and darkly hilarious procedural where solving crimes means stomaching the unspeakable. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Chew, Vol. 1.
- chaotic
- grotesque
- grimy
- surreal
- 01
Nailbiter
Joshua Williamson
A blood-spattered, cinematic descent into the dark heart of a small town that breeds monsters.
- 02
X'ed out
Charles Burns
A feverish, dread-soaked descent into a hallucinatory nightmare where grotesque visions refuse to be silenced.
- 03
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1
Robert Kirkman
A relentless, black-and-white descent into a collapsed world where the living are far more dangerous than the dead.
- 04
Sweet Tooth
Jeff Lemire
A brutal, blood-stained road trip through the apocalypse, carried by the fragile innocence of a boy with antlers.
- 05
Sex Criminals
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
A laugh-out-loud, neon-drenched romp that uses a wildly explicit premise as a Trojan horse for a tender story about intimacy and mental health.
- 06
Seconds
Bryan Lee O'Malley
A frantic, magical-realist spiral into the chaotic consequences of trying to edit your own life into perfection.
- 07
Rutabaga the adventure chef
Eric Colossal
A delightfully weird culinary quest where defeating monsters means figuring out the best way to cook them.
- 08
Fables
Bill Willingham
A gritty, hardboiled reimagining of childhood legends forced to navigate the shadows of modern-day New York.
- 09
Locke & Key, Vol. 1
Joe Hill · 2008
A dark, grief-stricken descent into a haunted family legacy where childhood wonder collides with visceral, unrelenting horror.
- 10
Death Note, Vol. 1
Tsugumi Ohba
A razor-sharp psychological thriller that traps you in a deadly, high-stakes game of chess between two brilliant, morally ambiguous minds.
- 11
Scalped Vol. 1
Jason Aaron
A gritty, hard-hitting crime story steeped in the shadows of a corrupted homecoming.
- 12
Velvet
Ed Brubaker
A tense, shadowy espionage thriller where a seemingly ordinary secretary is forced to unleash her buried, lethal past.
