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Keep it varied, keep it scary.

Speaking with The Beat just in time for spooky season, the director told us that The Conjuring: Last Rites really is envisioned as the final installment for the long-running horror franchise.

The Beat's finest writers choose their favorite Treehouse of Horror segments from almost four decades of The Simpsons Halloween specials.

DC cancelled retailer orders for Batman Universe: The Deluxe Edition, an upcoming hardcover collection featuring the work of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Nick Derington. Some of the bonus content planned as backmatter for the book is not yet ready, and that the collection will be resolicited at a later date, when it is complete.

Also on today's Digest, Papercutz reveals The Secret S.T.E.A.M. Society, and movies of Last Flight Out and Buck Rogers are in the works.

Takumigraphics, the new imprint of Fantagraphics dedicated to East Asian Comics, aims to curate a library that matches its editorial line.