A selection of some of the funniest, most interesting and strangest quotes from the past week:

“The last thing he ever writes: ‘If lost, please return to Light Yagami’.”

– blogger and retailer Hal Johnson, making a joke that will only be funny to fans of Death Note

“I hate to let people down when it comes to my work, and I hope that everyone understood that my reasons are the best imaginable: we want to stop while we’re doing well. I can’t do it without J. I didn’t realize that until I was faced with the possibility of it. I hadn’t ever considered doing The Spirit without J. and when I did, I realized it was a losing proposition to try. We’d exhausted a search for the right talent and other tangential issues deepened my concern for the ability to keep things on the quality level the Eisner name demands.”

– cartoonist Darwyn Cooke, on the announcement that he and inker J. Bone will leave DC’s The Spirit with Issue 12

“We are NOT contestants. I can’t expect the corporation looking to break into Hollywood with the next big idea to understand that. But I SHOULD be able to expect the people MAKING these comics to understand it.

“We are NOT contestants. You don’t need to ‘win’ your success in some foolish contest where a media corporation dangles a contract over your head. You are a creator. You may not have much, but the one thing you do have (maybe the ONLY thing you do have) is the internal spark that allows you to create a character or a universe out of thin air. If the one thing you have is the dignity of being a creator, why would you give that one thing away so eagerly?”

– cartoonist Scott Kurtz, on contests such as those sponsored by Platinum Studios and DC’s Zuda imprint

“Following extensive research, we discovered The Dandy readers were struggling to schedule a weekly comic into their hectic lives. They just didn’t have enough time. They’re too busy gaming, surfing the net or watching TV, movies and DVDs.”

– editor Craig Graham, on The Dandy’s change to the biweekly Dandy Xtreme

“We respect the fact that the studio is still calling it Rory’s First Kiss, especially if Batman draws more problems, in terms of crowd control. But, clearly, there’s no sense pretending it’s not a Batman movie.”

– Rich Moskal, director of the Chicago Film Office, on efforts by Christopher Nolan & Co. to keep shooting of The Dark Knight under wraps

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