Okay, didn't see that one coming. Thirty years after his seminal miniseries/graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns---and nearly 15 years after his much less seminal sequel The Dark Knight Strikes Again---Frank Miller is coming back to Gotham. DC Entertainment has announced that Miller will be writing "the epic conclusion of the celebrated...saga." An eight-issue miniseries beginning in late fall, The Dark Knight III: Master Race will be a joint writing venture between Miller and Brian Azzarello (who has also worked on Joker and other DC books). No artists have been announced, though a teaser image that DC released seems to point to the fact that Superman is going to be involved.
Overall, this is great news---we think. The original Dark Knight was a watershed moment in both Batman's development and the validation of sequential art as a literary platform, and Miller is responsible for some truly incredible work, from Ronin to Sin City. Given Miller's recent ideological (d)evolution, though, we do wish they'd gone with a different title. Coming from the guy who wrote Holy Terror, this is just a wee bit problematic.