all i want is to be your harbor
Showtime picks up script for “Chew”
Chew is the story of Tony Chu, a Chinese American “cibopathic” detective who gets psychic impressions from things he eats (from food to the macabre.) The comics feature a very diverse cast of characters that is only growing as the series heads towards its 20th issue. We’ve previously featured the comic book Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory in several articles including a Media Monday and our 2010 Holiday Shopping List.
The ongoing comic book series from Image Comics swept industry awards like the Harvey and the Eisner for Best New Series in 2010. As far as we’re aware, Chew is the first work centering around an Asian American charaacter to win the Harvey Award and the Eisner Award in this category. (An astute commenter rightly points out that prior to Chew‘s wins, Derek Kirk Kim won Harvey and Eisner awards in artist categories for Same Difference and Other Stories.)
I actually went to a comic book store to find it and flip through it, and it looks really good. If I weren't dirt poor right now because Borders is going under and I just bought tickets to Boston (and weren't still behind like 8 or 9 volumes in Fables) I would have been all over that. (Also, you know... I get coupons from Borders :/)
My guilty conscience aside -
Yesterday night Bri and I spontaneously decided to drive all the way to Cary to the other closing Borders in the area (the Raleigh one already closed, as she discovered). We picked through it - they had very little, and we didn't have a whole lot of time - but still managed to walk away with a few things. I found Dangerous Angels, which I'm certain I read but don't know if I own (and for $2, I think it's okay that I don't know), as well as The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (MY CHILDHOOD!!!) and That Was Then, This Is Now.
Then we drove to find ice cream because I passed! and Bri got into JET! and we needed to celebrate our awesomeness appropriately. We had originally planned to hit the Target and eat ice cream in my car (yes, we are just that lame) but in the end I found a Yopops frozen yogurt place. I cannot emphasize how much this place was EXACTLY like one at home. The flavors were the same, the bright orange and white walls, the cute little pink and white and red plastic chairs. I was so excited to have found someplace that so obviously walked its way across the country.
THEN. THEN.
Just as I was telling Bri how much like a pinkberry/Yogurtland/insert some other chain that isn't Ce Fiore in here it is a group of 20 Asian kids walk.
And I was like.
"OH MY GODS, NOW THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE HOME."
I even sent my brother a picture and he was like, "are you at yogurtland?!"
Fun times. Now I have to finish getting ready for work. Blah.
Chew is the story of Tony Chu, a Chinese American “cibopathic” detective who gets psychic impressions from things he eats (from food to the macabre.) The comics feature a very diverse cast of characters that is only growing as the series heads towards its 20th issue. We’ve previously featured the comic book Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory in several articles including a Media Monday and our 2010 Holiday Shopping List.
The ongoing comic book series from Image Comics swept industry awards like the Harvey and the Eisner for Best New Series in 2010. As far as we’re aware, Chew is the first work centering around an Asian American charaacter to win the Harvey Award and the Eisner Award in this category. (An astute commenter rightly points out that prior to Chew‘s wins, Derek Kirk Kim won Harvey and Eisner awards in artist categories for Same Difference and Other Stories.)
I actually went to a comic book store to find it and flip through it, and it looks really good. If I weren't dirt poor right now because Borders is going under and I just bought tickets to Boston (and weren't still behind like 8 or 9 volumes in Fables) I would have been all over that. (Also, you know... I get coupons from Borders :/)
My guilty conscience aside -
Yesterday night Bri and I spontaneously decided to drive all the way to Cary to the other closing Borders in the area (the Raleigh one already closed, as she discovered). We picked through it - they had very little, and we didn't have a whole lot of time - but still managed to walk away with a few things. I found Dangerous Angels, which I'm certain I read but don't know if I own (and for $2, I think it's okay that I don't know), as well as The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (MY CHILDHOOD!!!) and That Was Then, This Is Now.
Then we drove to find ice cream because I passed! and Bri got into JET! and we needed to celebrate our awesomeness appropriately. We had originally planned to hit the Target and eat ice cream in my car (yes, we are just that lame) but in the end I found a Yopops frozen yogurt place. I cannot emphasize how much this place was EXACTLY like one at home. The flavors were the same, the bright orange and white walls, the cute little pink and white and red plastic chairs. I was so excited to have found someplace that so obviously walked its way across the country.
THEN. THEN.
Just as I was telling Bri how much like a pinkberry/Yogurtland/insert some other chain that isn't Ce Fiore in here it is a group of 20 Asian kids walk.
And I was like.
"OH MY GODS, NOW THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE HOME."
I even sent my brother a picture and he was like, "are you at yogurtland?!"
Fun times. Now I have to finish getting ready for work. Blah.