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Animation: Studio Ghibli has revealed posters for its next two animated feature films, Kaze Tachinu and Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, both set for release in Japan this summer. Webcomics: Second Quest artist David Hellman has reunited with writer Dale Beran after five years for more A Lesson is Learned, But the Damage is Irreversible...

Movies: Though he won't be in Iron Man 3, Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his Nick Fury role next in Captain America: Winter Soldier. Gaming: DC Universe Online players can now buy "Organic and Tectonic (Nature and Earth) weapon style packs" in the PC and PS3 Marketplaces...

Toys: Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys will follow up the first "Best of Marvel Minimates" series with a second wave of colorful comics-style two-packs featuring Mr. Fantastic and Doctor Doom, Daredevil and Venom, the Punisher and Deadpool, and the Hulk and Loki in the spring of 2013...

News: Underground comix legend Spain Rodriguez passed away earlier this week after a long battle with cancer. The Comics Journal's Patrick Rosenkranz remembers the 72-year-old artist, whose work mixed sex, violence, politics and social conscience, and helped to define and defend American counterculture for decades...

Upcoming: Dark Horse Comics has announced the limited-to-4,000-copies The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia Collector's Edition, which will feature new faux-leather hardcover binding and gold gilded pages when it drops on February 12 for $69...

Marvel has worked out a way to make it up to fans upset about the delay in release of the Marvel's Cinemtic Universe: Phase One Blu-ray box set. When the set is finally released next year, it'll include a sneak peak into Marvel's Phase Two movies...

In the pages of most Marvel comics, Hawkeye tends to draw arrows from a bottomless quiver, which furnishes everything he needs until the plot demands otherwise. For those rare occasions that the Avengers' resident archer does run out of ammo, the Captain America trained fighter is usually resourceful enough to improvise projectiles or fall back on melee techniques...

Not content to merely star in The Avengers, its multiple connected Marvel movies and the upcoming SHIELD TV series on ABC, actor Clark Gregg has Tweeted that "And now this aging fanboy can die happy..." with Agent Phil Coulson finally receiving an action figure from the scary-accurate Hot Toys...

Wally Pfister -- who shot The Dark Knight Rises for director Christopher Nolan -- is not a fan of The Avengers. The cinematographer, who has worked with Nolan on several movies and won an Academy Award for Inception, recently called Marvel's record-setting film "appalling," taking specific issue with what he called "illogical storytelling ...

TV: We weren't in love with Deadshot's Arrow appearance, but Deathstroke is looking pretty faithful to his comic book counterpart. Industry: According to ICv2, the digital comics market did very well in the first half of 2012, "tripling vs...