D-Bear
Sells black market chicken and is a snitch for the FDA.
Origin
Also known as Deshawn Berry. D-Bear sells Black Market Chicken, but he informs to the FDA so they let him continue to his business. Also, he may have killed at least 5 people.
He leads Tony and John into a black market chicken restaurant which results in John getting his face cut and Tony getting outed as a cibopath. He also helps Tony to stop Butcher Jones.
Creation
D-Bear was created by John Layman and Rob Guillory. His first appearance was in Image's Chew #1.
Major Story Arcs
Taster's Choice
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Tony Chu and John Colby are on a stakeout outside of Speedy Upholstery in the Fairmont area of Philadelphia when they see D-Bear walk inside the illegal resturant. The pair follow but they are stopped by Mason Savoy and told that D-Bear is working for the FDA. The Philadelphia Police Officers don't catch D-Bear that night but that was the night Colby almost dies, and Chu solves the Lee Cobb murders.
International Flavor
For more information see: "Chew" International Flavor
After John Colby returns to the force and joins the FDA he and his newest, old partner Tony Chu make D-Bear a little visit. Right away John takes out his aggression for getting a butcher knife to the face, out on D-Bear. The FDA agent beats up D-Bear and demands that the informant give him $3000 a month, the amount the FDA pays D-Bear to be an informant, plus a "little extra to make it a nice easy to remember round number". John then throws D-Bear out the window and through a car, leaving the street boss lying in a puddle of his own blood and urine.
Just Desserts
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Tony is forced to by Captain Applebee to take D-Bear undercover with him in an attempt to catch Butcher Jones and his illegal chicken fights. D-Bear, knows that Butcher Jones will kill him and anyone he associates with, due to the fact that D-Bear screwed him over years prior. D-Bear doesn't tell Chu this information, knowing that Chu will most likely kill Jones somehow and get D-Bear off the hook. D-Bear is correct, and Chu frees Poyo who kills Jones and his men in a rain of claws and beak.
Flambe
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When Langsham reopens Mother Clucker's he turns to D-Bear to supply the black-market chicken, something D-Bear happily does. Later when the flaming sky letter disappear, D-Bear can be seen in front of the chicken joint eating a giant drumstick.
Bad Apples
For more information see: Bad Apples
D-Bear has reopened the Speedy Upholstery and things are going well until Agent John Colby and Agent Caesar Valenzano come in for some illegal chicken. While D-Bear is getting them their chicken, Colby realizes that Valenzano is working for Savoy and the pair start a fight that wrecks most of Speedy's.