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.”

Eddie Murphy says he’s going to retire from the movie business. About time too because he hasn’t been funny in decades. Murphy is appearing in a highly publicized movie called Meet Dave opening July 11. There was talk of a fourth Beverly Hills Cop, but that has been shot down because the script just isn’t right. The script isn’t right because Eddie sucks.