DC Shelves Dark Knight Strikes Again #3
Fans who have been waiting for the conclusion to Frank Millers much hyped Dark Knight Stikes Again series will have to wait a whole lot longer. DC Announced that it has postponed the publication of the book, perhaps indefinately. The series, which marked Frank Millers return to superhero comics after an absence of almost a decade, was the highest ordered book in over five years. Fans were hungry for a return to the world that revolutionized the comics world more than 15 years ago in the landmark "Dark Knight Returns" series. Production delays had made the book late with each issue, but no one was prepared for the actual shelving of the third and final issue.
"Let's face it, the book really blew chunks." DC President Paul Levitz said. "Everyone was hoping that it would be as good as the first one and it just wasn't. And the coloring was an embarrisment to DC usual production standard. Sure, we sold a lot of copies, but paying people for all those good reviews that it was getting was really eating up our profits. So our plan is just to shelve it and hope that fans forget. If not, maybe Miller will come up with a conclusion that might justify the 24 bucks that fans have had to spend on the series."
Asked if he had any plans to revise the third issue to DC's satisfaction, Miller said, "Hey, I've got my money! What do I care?"
The anouncement was met with mixzed reaction within the comic industry. Garab Shamus, publisher of Wizard Magazine said, "Did you know that when you burn copies of DK2 they produce this really cool multi colored halucinagenic flame? It's psychidelic. Groovy, man! What was the question again?"

CGC 10.0 Graded Copy of Captain Carrot Sells For $61,000!
An annonymus collector bought a rare copy of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew for an astounding $61,000! The book was originally published by DC Comics in 1982 and lasted for 20 issues before being cancelled because... well, nobody liked the book. As the book was mainly sold to dealers, some 74,000 copies, most of which grade at 10.0 are known to exist. The day after the auction closed, another 314 copies of Captain Carrot, all graded 10.0 were placed on E-Bay for auction. The bidder remains annonymus and was known only by his E-Bay name of "StudidFool63".
In a related story, CGC has announced that it is now grading comics at the new, higher grade of 11.0. A representative for the company said, "CGC has always responded to the needs of its' customers. Sometime a grade of 10.0 is just not good enough. So this on is, like... one more." The first CGC graded 11.0 book, a copy of Spawn #106 went on the market yesterday with an opening bid of $10,000.

Jack Kirby Returns to write and draw Thor!
In news that has shocked the entire comic industry, legendary comic writer and artist Jack Kriby will return to write and draw Thor, Marvel editor-in=chief Joe Quesada said Monday. The news is even more suprising in that Kriby passed away almost a decade ago.
Said Quesada, "I was visiting my medium last weekend, trying to channel the spirit of Stan Lee and having no luck at all, you know? Stan Lee just wouldn't talk to me from the beyond the dead, I couldn't figure out why. So anyways... I'm searching around the afterworld and I run into Jack Kirby. Now, I've always had the utmost respect for Kirby, in my book the work he did on Daredevil was some of the best comics ever produced, you know? So, he says that he's been keeping up with Thor and he thinks that he could do it better, you know? So, I'm like, sure man, whatever. So as luck would have it, Dan Jurgens dies in this horrible car crash and I think, 'what luck!' It was like, a sign or something. So we got the paperwork ready in a flash and they'll be hitting the stands soon."

Garth Ennis Signs Exclusive Contract With Marvel
Popular comic writer, Garth Ennis has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics to produce several new series over the next two years.
"I am happy to be working for a company with the reputation for innovation that Marvel obviously has. You can expect the best work I can do on every project. I have so many #@%&*'n ideas that I don't know which one to do first."
Marvel did release a tenative schedule of upcomming Ennis projects, which include:
May- Silver Surfer: If This Universe Must Be Destroyed!
June- Spider-Man Goes $@#&**n Nuts!
July- Daredevil Boes Bezerk And Kills Everyone
August- The Avengers Die Horribly
and in September, his eagerly awaited mutant book:
X-#@%&*#'rs!
Marvel Publisher Bill Jemas said, "We are truly ecstatic to be working with an artist the caliber of Garth Ennis. His work on our books so far have redefined the state of the art in the writing of funny books. And besides, he's Irish, so we're pretty sure that we can get him drunk and not pay him!"

Publishers Revise Plans for Free Comic Day
DC, Marvel, Image and Dark Horse made a joint announcement today concerning the much anticipated "Free Comic Day". All four publishers now plan to charge $2.95 for their books. Marvel Publisher and CEO Bill Jemas said, "When we saw the numbers come back on the orders for Free Comic Day, we thought, 'Holy Heck, this could be a gold mine!' So why are we making the highest ordered books for the year free? What, are we stupid? So we decided the we should charge for them. Hell, I wanted to charge five bucks a pop, but those Dark Horse bozo's held the line at $2.95. Still, this worked so well, that we're going to have Free Comic Day every month."
Asked if it could still be called "Free Comic Day" when the books were not free, Jemas said, "That's just like you comic media types to get all hung up over semantics! Sure, Sure, you COULD say that, but why have all that negativity. We could call it '$2.95 comic day' but that just doesn't have the ring to it that Free does. Free just kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? American's love for things to be free. So what if they have to pay for it."

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