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USA Today has confirmed that Bruce Wayne will be hanging up the cowl in Grant Morrison’s Batman #681, due next week.

Just as The Dark Knight closes in on $1 billion worldwide gross, DC Comics is ready to have Bruce Wayne “die” — or at least give up the cape — in his monthly comic.

Batman #681, due Nov. 26, wraps up writer Grant Morrison’s Batman R.I.P. story line, in which the crimefighter is so shaken by a secret from his past that a new Batman must be found.
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[Neil] Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the character, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, due in February. “This is my last Batman story,” he says. “And in some ways, it could be seen as every last Batman story.”

Here is great story about a man and his love for comic books. The article is written by the wife of John Borger, a man who has just donated his collection of more than 40,000 comic books to the University of Minnesota.

After John had made all the arrangements to donate the books, I visited their final resting place. A delightful young woman took me to the lowest cavern, which is two stories high and the length of two football fields. This is where the books are kept at the optimum 62 degrees Fahrenheit and approximately 50 percent relative humidity, in acid free boxes on shelves lit by lights on timers like the knob you turn in a hotel bathroom for a sunlamp. Collections appraised at more than $100,000 carry the donor’s name.

[MinnPost]

Fans will be sorry to hear that the long-awaited JLA movie is not going to happen, according to Variety. Budget, timing and the writer’s strike all had a hand in the demise of the Justice League.

Warner Bros. let the options lapse on the cast that director George Miller chose to play the DC superheros. The studio had set Tuesday as its greenlight deadline for the pic, but confirmed Wednesday that the project is on indefinite hold.

We probably will not see it get underway until late summer or fall, but that seems overly optimistic.

A few of the studio’s reasons for forestalling the project are: They were unable to get the official response required on tax breaks for shooting in Australia. Another problem was the script. WB execs like it, but think it would benefit from a little more work, something that isn’t possible because of the current writers’ strike.

A major problem down the road: The studio risks losing the cast to other film jobs, despite the starmaking potential of “Justice League.”

One day we may see this film. But it’s not looking good today. Where’s the justice I ask you?

[Variety]

Forget about Kirsten Dunst in the movies. Spiderman has been married to the Character of Mary Jane for almost 21 years now.

That’s why the comic book world is in an uproar over Marvel Comics’ decision to undo their marriage. I mean, let’s face it, Hollywood marriages come and go, but Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson used to be something you could bank on.

In Amazing Spider-Man #545 last week, Peter and MJ make a deal with the devil-like character Mephisto: In exchange for saving Aunt May’s life, Mephisto erases all traces of the Peter-Mary Jane marriage from memory.

Sure, it’s a tough choice, but Aunt May had a good life. Keep your hot wife.

In the issue out this week, Peter Parker returns to his roots – young, nerdy and single. Aunt May is alive and well and Mary Jane is again just part of the cast. The marriage never happened. Nice move Marvel. Geeks everywhere feel like they are the child in a divorce and refuse to emerge from their mother’s basements.

“We knew it would be a very controversial thing to do,” says Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor in chief, who believed so much in the project that he drew the crucial issues himself. “Looking into the future, this is really the right thing to do for the long-term health of the character.”

Only time will tell. And you might say that this move is only art imitating life, as marriage is not the sacred institution it once was, deal or no deal with Mephisto.

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