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This week on the Showcase, Marvel outdoes itself with numerous entries that pique my interest, DC has some wonderful mainstays and one surprise, and the indies manage to serve up two of my favorite comic books. It looks like this week gets my official stamp of approval. Now I do not have to send out angry letters to publishers.
Scott Snyder has noted multiple times on his Twitter feed that Batman #5 is his favorite issue that he and Greg Capullo have done so far. I am expecting it to set the stage for the next year’s worth of Bat stories. The “Night of the Owls” crossover between a number of Bat-books begins in May or so. Those of you already reading this know how intricate the mythology is that Snyder is creating. This should be awesome!
Originally Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev were only on Moon Knight for the first eight issues and now I see they are going to be on Moon Knight #9. I am assuming that this means we are getting at least a full year of stories from this creative team. That is excellent because only these two have managed to make Moon Knight’s multiple personality problems interesting and funny. This issue, the major superpowered baddie Moon Knight beat a few issues earlier, comes back for revenge. That can’t be good.
Man, last issue we left off with the main character of Chew about to be force-fed some corpses, while the enemy has recruited his daughter. Chew #23 should be just as insane and I cannot say enough good things about this book. This title is definitely one of my Top Five favorite comics month in and month out.
The second part of the two-part Spidey/DD crossover hits the shelves this week with Daredevil #8. Spider-Man is trying to clear the Black Cat’s name to impress her while she becomes interested in a certain blind superhero, thus a new love triangle is born. I’m telling you, Matt Murdock is the George Clooney of the Marvel Universe. Sooner or later he dates EVERYONE.
The way the storylines came to a head recently blew my mind and now that the Cobra Civil War is over I am anxious to find out what happens now in Cobra #9. This comic has always transcended the toy and cartoon property it is based on, and is one of the best comics coming out as far as examining the personalities of dubious characters. I cannot wait to see where it goes from here.
With the exception of Scarlet Spider, it looks like just about every comic book related to Spider-Man is coming out this week! Most notably of course is Amazing Spider-Man #678, which kicks off a new story arc, following up on the first part of the team-up with Daredevil… part two of which can be found in this week’s Daredevil #8! Writer Mark Waid and artist Kano did a bang-up job on the first part and we’re sure the end is gonna be great. 
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DC is five months into its 
Whenever Chew comes out, it’s an event around here. It’s that good. If you’re currently reading it, you know how good it is and you will likely be banging on the door at 10:55 on Wednesday morning to get your fix. If you haven’t read it yet and don’t want to pick it up with the third issue of a story arc (which this is), we’ve still got the first two parts, issues #21 and 22, in stock! Which pick up right where the 
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