Ty Templeton, the artist on Batman: The Adventures Continue, announced he will be departing the series due to a recent cancer diagnosis.

Templeton announced the news on his blog in a Buns Toon comic strip. "Last month I was diagnosed with Stage-3 colorectal cancer," the strip reads. "Inoperable at the moment, but radiation and chemo is supposed to take care of that. Wish me luck!"

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The strip follows a bunny wearing a red t-shirt with "Ty" on the front, speaking to an audience with an IV pole connected to his arm. As the comic continues we see Templeton's bunny avatar undergoing some tests before discussing with his wife if a Buns Toon is the most appropriate way to reveal such series news. "In a way, it's disrespectful to the seriousness of the disease of this disease, right?" the bunny says. "I mean the bunny was meant to be light and silly."

More self-effacing humor continues with it ending as the bunny questions whether to just wrap everything up in a Facebook post. However, he chooses to forego that avenue to prevent things from getting weird.

"I'm not looking for sympathy -- my experience of chemo and radiation (so far) has been quite tolerable --- and I'm fairly confident I’m coming out the other side of this, alive and hopping, later this year," Templeton adds in his blog post. "But I wanted folks informed, so they don't wonder why I got SUPER-lazy this year, and just stopped drawing Batman Adventures Continue (and why I missed a couple of deadlines late last year too!)."

Templeton ends by thanking his collaborators for picking up his artistic slack, along with Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, "who wrote such wonderful scripts that I pulled myself out of bed and drew them anyway."

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