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This is the news I’ve been waiting for; it’s still MY favorite thing you’ve ever done too and my boyfriend was tired of hearing me say “I think he has to announce more White Trees soon” over and over again but oh God what are we going to talk about at dinner now?

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That whispers queen series…tell me you have more to talk about it, cause i am VERRETY interested in learning more about her…er, it…yes, it.

Can’t believe we are almost finished with JY1. Feels like there should be 2 more issues, but hey, whatever works, right? I’m very excited to see what Dark Prisons has to offer after this arc. Curious, is Failsafe containing all the Zur personas? I can’t recall if it’s just our Zur or every Zur from the multiverse?

And hit damn, that’s some exciting news for James. Think he might be hiring? I’m in the market for new work and definitely wouldn’t mind it being in this line.

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It's safe to assume they're all in there with Zur. We saw him fighting them in his mind back in 141's backup!

And I think James has his crew up and running already on the comics side! Definitely subscribe to his newsletter, cause if he ends up publicly posting about job openings it'll be there!

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Ah, yes. Like I said, couldn’t remember off the top of my head…still, you’d think he’d wanna make more for the others so he wouldn’t have to share headspace with hostile alters from across the multiverse.

Done and done

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Pretty wild that Deadline managed to somehow miss the fact that Spider-Man is next to you in (what I can only assume is) your bathroom; shoddy as hell journalism

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lamestream media!!!

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I didn't read the whole thing because that Fiona Staples variant cover has struck me dumb with pure joy. So excited for this to finally be out in the world!

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If you need a dumb reason to read White Trees, in the immortal words of Always Sunny, dude hangs dong.

When was the last time Batman hung dong? Aside from that one time when it sent editorial into a panic, while Brian Azzarello was at a Comic-Con that weekend in Scotland selling issues of Batman Damned 1 for a wad of cash when my copy of the issue was still being mailed out to me and I had to get some "flashpoint" batman or something signed instead. Will Bats hang dong again, Chip? Isn't this what this is all building up to? It's all Zur's plan right?

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It's funny to see someone who puts out content as frequently and regularly as you do joking about doing the "bare minimum." If that's the bare minimum, I'd hate to know what people call what I do.

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"That's my secret, Cap. I always hate myself."

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My birthday is later, you announced more White Trees too early! But thank you so much, that news made my week. I used those two original issues to get non-comic friends to try the medium of comics, and boy howdy, it worked. I really love how that book emphasizes your ability to balance genres, tones and settings.

Joker Year One ended not how I expected, but goddamn

that final chapter was good. Great Gordon stuff and I like your writing of Batman & Joker's dynamic. I also like that there still isn't closure on Joker. We still don't know which one this is, if there are 3 separate people, personalities or both. Or even how much he really learned or already knew before he killed *spoiler* in issue 143. It leaves enough mystery for the Joker's origin while showing how he went from Red Hood to Clown Prince of Crime. Will we ever get more insight on Halliday though?

I hope your vacation is going well! I hope you don't see any spooky pale men coming out of bodies of water nearby.

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Have fun on your vacation......if you have already left for vacation stop reading this right now

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I believe in you Chip!!

(people, he's clearly going to check his e-mail but let's try and boost his confidence)

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Enjoy you vacay, Chip!

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OH HELL YES, more white trees!

Also- Tynion opening a new production house? Time to endlessly fantasize about comics work but never achieve it

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Nice! Enjoy doing absolutely nothing for three days Chip (Said in not sarcastic tones.)

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And so Chip-en-arrh will put Chip "on vacation" so that Zur-en-Zdar can think he's working on his novel so that The Chipster can come out and do their filthy business but is really being replaced by the Three Zipsters. Nighty night.

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Going back to Blacksand is awesome news!

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dear chip,

thank you for all this great news!

one thing though... did you mean to include a spoiler that batman knows everything?

because now WE know that batman knows everything, so if we want to know ANYTHING, all we have to do is ask batman nicely.

which is pretty cool to know.

thank you!

love

myq

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