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As readers will know from our weekly Best Cosplay Ever feature, we’re big fans of cosplay at ComicsAlliance. The comics, sci-fi, gaming, and fantasy communities have proved time and again their exceptional talents for homemade disguises and superheroic sartorial excellence, and all of their craft and skill will be on display this weekend at HeroesCon. Our chief cosplay correspondent Betty Felon is on hand to document as much of it as she can. Scroll down for some of the very finest cosplay from HeroesCon!

Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive day. Take a look at today's hand-picked links after the jump.

Fans got a pretty solid look at the four stars of Jonathan Liebesman's live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in action figure form a few months back, but now the rest of the cast can be seen in all of their plastic Playmates prestige. Click through for a good look at Shredder, Splinter, April O'Neil, what appears to be a Foot Clan soldier, and a trenchcoated Raphael from the first series

Movies: New licensed kids books give fans a better look at Superman and Zod's Man of Steel movie looks. Movies: The International version of the Iron Man 3 trailer has just a touch more footage than the American one, just in case you crave a few seconds more...

Chris Sims: Hello everyone, and welcome back to ComicsAlliance's exhaustive (and exhausting) look at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, the franchise you chose for us in our last vote. Over the past few weeks, we've been revisiting some fond memories with the first two movies, but this time around, we're heading into uncharted territory with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III...

Cassandra Peterson has crossed paths with scores of aliens, monsters and other creatures as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, but in this week's episode of Nickelodeon's CG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, the actress will voice a character that menaces mutants (and humans) for a change...

The New York Comic Con reveal of Lego's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series was a welcome sight to fans who either weren't sold on the prior Mega Bloks brick toys, or missed them entirely. Judging by the reveal of multiple new TMNT Lego sets scheduled to arrive in 2013, the toys will also prove a huge boon to what is surely a near-nonexistent group of Lego pizza collectors (the 1994 "Pizz

April O'Neil has had a few careers across various Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continuities, but in IDW's new comicverse helmed by co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz, the redhead is a college student studying biology and interning at Baxter Stockman's Stockgen Laboratories...

In advance of its full New York Toy Fair reveal, Playmates has shared more from its line of toys based on Nickelodeon's upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CG animated series at MTV Geek. Joining the several varieties of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael are basic figures of Shredder, a possible Krang, a Foot Clan ninja, April O'Neil and Splinter...

Digital: Archie Comics has begun offering Spanish language versions of its titles through its various digital storefronts and iVerse apps. TV: The... "HumancentiPad" is coming in the first episode of South Park's new season. It's about exactly what you'd expect from a The Human Centipede/iPad parody on SP...