Tony Chu – Beats – Ryan K Lindsay

1. A wide panel showing hands close together, they are in cuffs. The hands have a reddish/purple stain right up them, they have been rubbed with beets and their juices.

NO COPY

2. A man sits in the back seat of a police car. We see most of his skin is stained this reddish/purple blotch. If we can squeeze the corner/side of Tony’s head in the side/corner of the panel as he drives the car, that’s cool, if not then the balloon with point to off panel toward the driver’s seat.

Tony: I can’t believe you thought that would work.

3. Tony’s police car drives toward the police station.

Tony: Behind the cibopath headlines, I’m still a really good cop.

Criminal: Sorry.

Tony: Shut up.

Caption: "Earlier..."

Tony Chu- Camelot Spamalot -Dan Hill

Disclaimer: I've only read the first trade of Chew, despite being a big fan of the concept and art. That said, this script is firmly set in the early days of Tony's career. The character of Josiah Drake is meant as a foil, a dark mirror of Tony himself:

Page Twenty One (8 panels)

The page consists of four tiers of two equally sized panels.

Panel 1

Tight on TONY CHU, his gun drawn pointing to the right of the panel. He’s wearing a shirt and a loose tie (cotton trousers and a pair of loafers too-- which we can’t see, but I don’t want you to picture his bottom half naked, you know?)

It’s night and we can see a fire door behind Tony. We’re on the roof of a tenement building somewhere in the city.

TONY:  Freeze, Josiah!

TONY:  Nowhere left to go.

Panel 2

JOSIAH DRAKE faces camera, his hands up in surrender. He stands near the edge of the roof. A second more and he would have leapt to the next building over, about 8-10 feet away.

Josiah is in his early thirties with piercing blue eyes and hair so blonde it’s almost white.  He’s wearing a shirt and tie under a sharp Vivienne Westwood suit, all grey and clean lines. Despite the fact he’s been running flat out from Tony, not a hair looks out of place. This guy makes everything seem effortless.

Betraying his look are the crusty traces of a grey and yellow-ish liquid around Josiah’s mouth.

JOSIAH:  Maybe.

Panel 3

Back on Tony, gun still drawn.

TONY:  Stay where you are. They’re coming for you.

JOSIAH (OFF):  You sure?

TONY:  You’re confident for a man with his hands up.

Panel 4

Tight on Josiah, stern faced.

JOSIAH:  So certain of your system. Your rules. Your structure.

JOSIAH:  I’d wager you'd go crazy without them. Like your brother.

Panel 5

Close up on Tony. He’s starting to lose his cool.

TONY:  Crazy? You ate President Kennedy’s brain!

TONY:  And for what? Money? Power?

Panel 6

Back on Josiah. He ponders Tony’s words.

JOSIAH:  Hmm. Yes...


Panel 7

Fixed panel. Josiah looks up, a small smile playing across his lips.

NO COPY

Panel 8

Fixed panel. Josiah’s smile breaks out into a wide, flashy grin-- a shark with a set of shiny white teeth.

JOSIAH:  But it tasted so good.

Tony Chu – Eat ‘It – MK Stangeland Jr.

(6 Panels)

Panel 1: TONY CHU is at his desk, but looks up as AMELIA MINTZ enters through a nearby door.

AMELIA MINTZ: I have good news and bad new.

Panel 2: AMELIA MINTZ looks nervous as she tries to explain the current situation.

AMELIA MINTZ (1): They finally found Mr. G.

TONY CHU: And the bad news is?

AMELIA MINTZ (2): He was in Florida.

Panel 3: TONY looks at AMELIA with a confused look.

TONY CHU: How is that…

AMELIA MINTZ: An alligator found him first.

Panel 4: Beat panel. TONY and AMELIA look at each other.

Panel 5: TONY slumps back into his chair.

TONY CHU: And the alligator already ate him?

AMELIA MINTZ: Yes.

TONY CHU: Was he still inside the alligator?

AMELIA MINTZ: Barely.

Panel 6: TONY slouches in his chair, eyes closed as he contemplates what it means.

TONY CHU: So you’re telling me he’s now…

AMELIA MINTZ: Yes.

TONY CHU: And the only way to interrogate him now is…

AMELIA MINTZ: As far as they’re aware.

(END PAGE)

Tony Chu - Missing the Point - Grant McLaughlin

Page 22

Among the various plot points leading up to this final page, Tony has gathered together a whole bunch of his close associates and friends (including his sister Toni, his daughter Olive, his girlfriend Amelia, Agent Colby, Caesar Valenzo, and anyone else that might seem appropriate – I include Poyo in that category) for reasons that we don't have to go into here. What does matter is that Tony also accidentally ate some dirt (due to some hilarious series of unlikely events that I'll leave to your imagination) and got a cibopathic reading off of it. Indeed, it was a pretty intense one, where he realized that the gob of earth had thoughts, dreams, aspirations, and the like. Shocked and surprised, he just announced on the previous page to everyone in the room that “The Earth is ALIVE!”

Four panels of equal size. Each one stretches the width of the page. Each panel has an identically placed and sized inset panel towards the right hand side.

1 – Shot of everyone but Tony (who is off-panel). They look towards Tony (and, consequently, the reader) with blank stares. Poyo is perhaps the most confused, cocking his head to the side.  No dialogue.

1.1 – Inset panel on the right hand side. It's Tony Chu. He is confused at everyone's confusion.

TONY: What?

2 – Shot of everyone. More or less the same, with some slight movement on everyone's part as they speak or think to themselves.

AGENT COLBY: Are you trying to tell us that you've never eaten dirt before?

CAESAR: The bigger kids on the playground didn't force you to chow down on some good ol' terra firma?

2.1 – Back to Tony. He is still confused, but it's definitely moving towards annoyance.

TONY: I hardly see how it's rele--

3 – Shot of everyone. Olive speaks up here. Everyone looks towards her.

OLIVE: Not once? You really expect us to believe that?

3.1 – Back to Tony. It's full on annoyance now.

TONY: This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I was actually quite popular in school.

4 – Same shot as panel 1. Everyone is confused again.  No dialogue.

4.1 – Back to Tony. Annoyance has given way to exasperation mixed with defeat.

TONY (1): *grumble*

TONY (2): Let's just get back to this Earth thing...

TO BE CONTINUED!

Tony Chu - Twenty Three Times - Ben Rosenthal

1. Tony Chu is sitting in a dimly lit apartment. It is messy, with Tony wearing a singlet, boxers  and stubble.  His knees are folded up to his chest, and he is looking down at his toes (off panel, although we can tell he is holding his foot by the way he is seated).

CAPTION (Tony)
I don't remember a thing about that night.

One moment I'm having the time of my life, the next I've called up half of the room.


2.  Same as Panel 1, however Tony's face is in screwed up in pain.

CAPTION (Tony)
I have to know.


3.  Same framing as Panel 1. Tony holds his bloody little toe in between his fingers.  He looks at it with curiosity.

CAPTION (Tony)
You are what you eat, huh?


4. Same as the other panels, with Tony throwing his toe into his mouth, ready to consume.

CAPTION (Tony)
Let's test that theory.

Tony Chu – Pulp Chicken – Shaun Richens.

1 PAGE

9 PANELS

1,2 and 3 make up the top row and are the smallest panels.

4,5 and 6 a second slightly bigger row.

7,8, and 9 the bottom and biggest row. Not much bigger than row 2 though.

1. TONY CHU has just walked into his kitchen at home. He is standing in the doorway, a fridge to one side, a work surface with a toaster on on the other side. An open box of pop tarts sits next to the toaster.

2. A close up on TONY’s face, he looks very confused and puzzled by whatever he is looking at.

3. Cut to a sheathed Katana lying on the work side.

4. TONY has picked up the sword and has pulled it slightly from the sheath, the blade glistening in the dull light of his apartment kitchen.

            SFX (OFF PANEL):

   FLUSH

5. TONY turns to face the bathroom door at the back of his kitchen after hearing the toilet flush. The blade now readied in his hands he waits to see whom the intruder is.

6. The bathroom door now open we see a NINJA stood helpless looking on at TONY as he holds his bathroom reading material in one hand.

6.1.  A small inlaid panel. A close up on the book that the Ninja holds. The title of the book reads, HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT CHICKEN.

7. A shot over TONY’s shoulder looking at the NINJA in the bathroom doorway.

8. Cut to an over the shoulder shot of the NINJA as he looks at TONY. TONY is still holding the Katana in both hands. He looks like a bad ass.

8.1 A small inlaid panel. Two pop tarts pop from the toaster.

            SFX:

   POP

9. TONY raises the sword above his head and screams.

            TONY:

   HI YA. 

Why Tony Chu?

I have three reasons why I picked Tony Chu…

First Tony Chu is a Cibopathic, which means when he takes a bite out of say an apple he gets a feeling in his head about it, what tree it came from, who picked it, when it was harvested, or lets say he was to nimble on a dead guy he may just discover how he ended up dead. This makes Tony a damn good detective.

Secondly Chew is one of the single best comics on shelves today and not enough people read it. It is funny, action packed and so damn witty. So I want this week to be a chance for us to highlight why people should be reading this book.

And lastly…. Oh come on did you not read reason one? The dude can see into the past being eating. That’s awesome.

So lets just take Tony out for dinner and see where the night takes us shall we.