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A ton of Amazing Spider-man clips, some great new pics from Season Three of The Walking Dead, along with a smattering of interesting development news in your weekly roundup of comics and nerdy film happenings.

It seems Valiant was being a little sneaky and pulling a misdirection when they released that Ninjak teaser image. Turns out, Ninjak is actually making his debut in X-O Manowar #5. Is this Valiant's first crossover? Maybe. But nothing's yet been indicated the story will be continued in Ninjak #1. For that matter, Ninjak #1 hasn't been announced yet. It probably isn't too far off, though. If this doesn't cross into a Ninjak series, it would just be what they call a backdoor pilot in the TV business and Ninjak would spin off into his own series.

With only a few weeks until this year's Comic-Con extravaganza, the big studios are rolling out their panel plans, and as we suspected, film studios are not going in pedal to the metal this year. Variety reports that Paramount, Fox and Relativity are definitely sitting things out, while Universal is iffy. Disney/Marvel sat out last year—they went to their own purpose built D23 show instead—but will be back. (Perhaps to announce the mystery 2014 movie?) WB is also expected to attend with Superman and (we pray) THE HOBBIT. Elsewhere, it's all a little sketchy:

Lettering king Todd Klein has a couple of great blog posts showing a series of photos by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez in 1979 on a visit to DC's offices. Klein's memory is prodigious and it's a great look at everything from obsolete technology to the prevalence of sweater vests in the late 70s to a different way of working:

We were all pretty excited when the first set photos of Henry Cavill as Superman leaked out. It seemed that after years of binding and CGI smoothing, Superman was finally getting super where it counted.

Wild party man Andrew W.K. is known for his high energy rockin' anthems, his white attire...and now that he is a Brony. It seems that he has signed on as a speaker for Canterlot Gardens, an Ohio convention for My Little Pony Fans, where he'll deliver an inspirational speech.

Note to Europeans: I am available to go to your comics festivals. Cry cry cry....

If you click the link, you will get to see Cyclops wearing a thong.

The cover for September's issue of Catwoman is.....

John Jackson Miller has posted the May sales estimates over at Comic Chronicles and, my but May was a healthy month for comics. Miller reports several records were set in May, at least in terms of Diamond exclusivity era. (This would have been an alarmingly low sales month in 1990.)

Renowned French comic artist Jacques Tardi, a genius of the French bandes dessinées, offers up his US debut "Manhattan," along with three other tales of the Big Apple written by Benjamin Legrand and Dominique Grange.

Via Popcrunch. There are several artists on here who show in spades that design is not their strong suit. Or their biker suit.