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Joss Whedon shares his feelings about Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk, news on upcoming graphic novel adaptations from Archaia and Oni, another round of spoilers from the final two episodes of The Walking Dead and more!

Recent interviews with a bunch of notable cartoonists reveals a treasure trove of advice on life and career.

Today is the International Women's Day in Women's History Month. I was working on a big old post on all sorts of recent gender related topics but...it will have to wait. Instead, I'll shore my little Pinterest board I have called "Women in Comics."

Created by designer Roberto Salvador. Open to submissions.

As many have noted, DC rolled out its brand spanking new website yesterday, with a whole new look, new logo and new commenting system. Among the many improvements, new sections for major characters, and subsections for videos, live social media updating and the like. (What, no Pinterest?) The site seems to be the work of the West Coast branding/web team, and although useful and streamlined, it does match the corporate vibe of a lot of DC rollouts of late.

Mocking the comfy tropes of The Family Circus is a joke that never gets old. Or as Stephen Colbert put it last night, "We're getting all relaxed and average."

According to this posting on the Source, DC collections are adding LoC information and will be added to the library's holdings. The Library of Congress has a few other comics connections of late, including an SPX collection, so the place of comics in the nation's greatest library is clearly growing.

Catching up on the last few days of links:

This interview with Scott Lobdell from ComicVine was sent to us with the idea that maybe he wasn't up on the news that Static was joining the Teen Titans, which was announced at MegaCon:

The latest news on the plethora of all the mega nerd events at the movies and on TV this Spring and much more.

Print isn't dead, it's just resting. As you may know CLiNT magazine is relaunching with a Volume 2.1 and a bunch of new strips, including the long-awaited "The Secret Service" by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. A joint venture between media magnate Millar and Titan Books, CLiNT is based on the old-fashioned concept of a slick magazine that includes text AND comics. It's sort of a brash mash-up of a lads mad and Judge Dredd, and it's definitely had some ups and downs on English newsstands, but has found an audience in comics shops, both in the UK and the US.

Although we get all the PR, we haven't been covering Vivid's Axel Braun directed series of porn parodies of geek-beloved franchises because, well, it's not really in our target demo. However a recent release backs up what we've been told by porn industry insiders for quite a while: these nerd-themed parodies are the only hot category in the original porn business as homemade sex tapes and VOD have changed the entire distribution model. As Braun told Die Screaming: