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You might know Chip Zdarsky as a comics writer who sometimes draws. He is that. However, he is also a former national political cartoonist and mayoral candidate, and now he has found his next job: editor.

DC Comics has hired Chip Zdarsky as guest editor for its long-running comic comic MAD Magazine. While that might be enough to make some DC Fans (and employees) nervous already, DC is allowing him (or encouraging him?!) to point his humor back at them as it's a Mad Magazine one-shot making fun of/with DC Comics.

“This project embraces the spirit of MAD Magazine in the best possible way,” DC's editor-in-chief Marie Javins. "MAD has a long tradition of sharp, fearless satire, poking fun at everything, including DC, with real wit and craft. When Chip pitched a project that would roast the DC Universe, it was clear he could assemble the right team. These creators know our characters inside and out, which is why they can twist them in ways that feel both surprising and smart. That kind of playful irreverence is what MAD does best.”

If you're asking how dark Chip Zdarsky's jokes will be for the usually buttoned-up DC, his cover for this pokes fun at DC publisher/CCO Jim Lee and his lateness related to his current Batman arc 'H2SH.' 

The Zdarsky-led MAD about DC comes fresh from the culmination of Zdarsky's Eisner-nominated comics journalism satire magazine Zdarsky Comic News (a cover of which is used as the header above), and just as the writer/artist heads into a busy year as the main writer of Marvel Comics' main event of the year, Avengers: Armageddon.

MAD About DC will run 64 pages, and includes a new edition of Spy vs. Spy called 'Guy vs. Spy' by Jim Zub & Ramon Perez, a strip with Sergio Aragonés giving us 'A MAD Look at Comic Book Stores,' and additional stories by... takes deep breath... : Kyle Starks, Dave Johnson, Tini Howard, Mattie Lubchansky, Mark Waid, Ty Templeton, Rainbow Rowell, Vita Ayala, M.L. Sanapo, Mark Russell, Steve Lieber, Jeff Parker, Lukas Ketner, Gerry Duggan, Scott Aukerman, Mitch Gerads, Joanne Starer, Joe Quinones, Scott Snyder, Josh Williamson, Deniz Camp, Gail Simone, Colleen Doran, Joe Kelly, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Mariko Tamaki, Riley Rossmo, Al Ewing, PJ Holden, Shannon Wheeler, Leah Williams, Isaac Goodhart, Cody Ziglar, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Daniel Kibblesmith, Brandt&Stein, Casey Gilly, J. Bone, Skottie Young, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Byrne, Colleen Coover, Benjamin Errett, Matt Fraction, Kagan McLeod, Lee Gatlin, Joseph Starkey, Graham Roumieu.

I'm told there's more... but can they fit them all in 64 pages?

MAD About DC will go on sale April 1 - yes, April Fool's Day.

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