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Theme Parks: Walt Disney World is decorating its Monorail S.H.I.E.L.D. style with The Avengers graphics aplenty this spring/summer. Industry: Ken Sasaki, former Senior Vice President and General Manger of Viz Media, is now the company's President and CEO...

The neck-breaking speed with which the much maligned AKIRA live-action film goes in and out of active development has me unsure as to its present status, but the movie blog people seem to think it's dead for the moment. However, seemingly determined to bring some manga to American cinema audiences, Warner Bros...

AHHHH!: Redditor ozLebowski shares a sonogram of he and his wife's unborn child, who may or may not be an alien symbiote. Movies: The Wolverine has an official release date: July 26, 2013. Manga: Nook and Nook Color users now have access to essentially up-to-date runs of several Viz series including One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Bakuman and more...

Legal: Julie Taymor is suing the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark producers over for what she claims are creative rights violations and unpaid royalties. Digital: Amazon's Kindle Fire will officially ship with the Comics by comiXology app on November 15...

North American manga publisher Viz Media, in partnership with prominent retailer Animate and Japan's leading boys love manga publisher Libre, will launch the new SuBLime line of Yaoi titles in both print and digital formats beginning this spring...

Manga: Viz Media has announced the new Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, a digital periodical available on the publisher's iOS apps that will translate installments of Bakuman, Bleach, Naruto and other series just two weeks after they run in their native Japan...

Gaming: New key art of the Joker from Batman: Arkham City has surfaced. He looks somewhat sicklier than normal. Movies: After numerous delays, the Vancouver Sun reports that The Wolverine will finally begin shooting in November. Costumes: New images from The Amazing Spider-Man show Spidey's new costume's soles...

The manga industry sorely needs a workable digital distribution model. Manga piracy has become deeply ingrained in the culture of its readers, and publishers need to attempt to offer solutions for the people who pirate manga because the volumes they want aren't available locally or in a format they enjoy, rather than those who pirate just to get free manga or despise the official translations... R

Movies: Batman's The Dark Knight Rises rides were caught chillin' on a truck at TDKR's Pittsburgh set. Manga: Viz is taking submissions for its storyboard contest through today. Winners will have their work critiqued at San Diego Comic-Con by Hisashi Sasaki, deputy director of Shueisha's Shonen Manga Group and former EiC of Japan's Shonen Jump...

Upcoming: The Thor Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD will arrive in stores on September 13. TV: AMC will air a first-look video from the upcoming second season of The Walking Dead during the Season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad this Sunday. Set your DVRs...