Picks of the Week: 03/16/2016

No Colin this Wednesday, but plenty of great books will be there to fill the void. Also make sure to check out the current Alphabet Sale and the month-long Batman / Superman Graphic Novel Sale. Here are our picks of the week:

LEGENDS OF TOMORROW #1 | Picked by Adam & Josh

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Gerry Conway & Various (A) Eduardo Pansica & Various (CA) Aaron Lopresti
It's four powerhouse tales in one colossal comic, as some of comics' most legendary talents launch new tales of Firestorm, Metamorpho, Metal Men and Sugar and Spike-that's right, Sugar and Spike!
FIRESTORM
Written by GERRY CONWAY
Art by EDUARDO PANSICA and ROB HUNTER
Firestorm is back! To save Jason Rausch, Firestorm will need to retrieve Danton Black's stolen research from Professor Stein's lab. But if Jason can't fuse with Ronnie by the Firestorm Protocol...who can?
METAL MEN
Written by LEN WEIN
Art by YILDIRAY CINAR and TREVOR SCOTT
Doctor Will Magnus' Metal Men may be the next step in robotics technology, but when the mysterious cyber-terrorist known only as Nameless comes after them, they may have met their match!
METAMORPHO
Written by AARON LOPRESTI
Art by AARON LOPRESTI with MATT BANNING
Metamorpho-a prisoner of millionaire industrialist Simon Stagg! Now, the only person who can save him is Stagg's beautiful daughter, Sapphire!? But can they defeat Stagg's prehistoric bodyguard, Java?
SUGAR & SPIKE
Written by KEITH GIFFEN
Art by BILQUIS EVELY
The last time we saw Sugar and Spike, they were still in diapers! Now, they're grown up, and they've become private investigators who specialize in cleaning up embarrassing problems for the DCU's greatest heroes. Sugar & Spike's first assignment: retrieve a cache of Batman's retired costumes that have been stolen by Killer Moth!

A&A #1 | Picked by Josh & Pat

Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) Rafer Roberts (A/CA) David LaFuente
GET SMASHED...OR BE SMASHED! Valiant's (somewhat) dynamic duo are going "IN THE BAG" for AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES from rising star Rafer Roberts and comic book superstar David Lafuente!

Meet Armstrong: Since the ancient city of Ur, this immortal adventurer has spent the last 7,000 years drinking and carousing his way through history alongside some of the greatest merrymakers the world has ever known.

Meet Archer: A sheltered teenage martial arts master and expert marksman that was raised for a single purpose - to kill the devil incarnate. Little did he know that this undying evil was actually Armstrong (he's actually a pretty good guy...once you get to know him) and, since hitting the road together, the two have become great friends and even better partners.

Now: Archer is about to set off on his most dangerous mission yet - a quest into the mystic reaches of Armstrong's bottomless satchel to liberate his friend and comrade from the clutches of the mad god Bacchus! (Okay, so, Armstrong went into the satchel himself to get a bottle of whiskey that he kinda misplaced and got stuck. It's like the Amazon warehouse of arcane treasures in there...and he doesn't exactly have a maid service.)

Imprisoned in Armstrong's satchel for centuries, Bacchus now commands a legion of monsters, goblins and golems bent on escaping back into the world of man and enacting revenge on their captor... Can Archer single-handedly combat the godly embodiment of intoxication himself - and rescue his best buddy - without
becoming lost amongst Armstrong's endless repository of bizarre artifacts and historical oddities in the process?

WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR #5 (NEW ARC) | Picked by Josh & Pat

Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) Robert Venditti (A) Juan Jose Ryp (CA) Phil Jimenez
ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! PRELUDE TO "LABYRINTH" - PART 1!

His wife has been murdered. His son has been kidnapped. As The Eternal Warrior sets out on his greatest challenge yet, an old enemy rears his head. How will his ancient rivalry with Gilad change The Eternal Warrior's future forever?

The road to LABYRINTH starts here with the FIRST ISSUE of a special two-part prelude from New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (BOOK OF DEATH) and blockbuster artist Juan José Ryp (NINJAK)!

TURNCOAT #1 | Picked by Pat & Colin

Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Alex Paknadel (A/CA) Artyom Trakhanov
What's to Love: Employing the most compelling elements of science fiction and the detective genre, Turncoat is a gripping exploration of power vacuums and the legacy of oppression. Alex Paknadel (Arcadia) and Artyom Trakhanov (Undertow) tell the story of a guilt-ridden protagonist through a grisly quest for a truth. Turncoat will scratch that itch you have for dark sci-fi likeBlade Runner, The Forever War, and Neuromancer.

What It Is: 300 years since humanity was brutally subjugated by the alien race known simply as the Management. Two years since these invaders abandoned Earth to return to their home world. Following her participation in the brutal massacre of human-alien hybrids left behind by the Management, resistance fighter Marta Gonzalez declines to join the new human government and starts her own private detective agency instead. Gonzalez is forced to confront her own bloody past and acknowledge the fact that the transition from oppression to emancipation is anything but clean.

GHOSTBUSTERS DEVIATIONS 1 (ONE SHOT) | Picked by Adam

Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Kelly Thompson (A/CA) Nelson Daniel
In a world, where on that fateful day in New York, the Ghostbusters did NOT cross streams, and were thus unable to destroy Gozer or close his portal. Now, 31 days later, NYC has descended into chaos and ruin, ruled with the deliciously soft fist of... THE STAY-PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN!

HUCK #5 | Picked by Adam & Dave

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Mark Millar (A/CA) Rafael Albuquerque
STORY: MARK MILLAR
ART / COVERS A & B: RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE

An old grudge leads to deadly threats against Huck and those he holds dear.

STARVE #7 (MR) | Picked by Dave

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Brian Wood (A/CA) Danijel Zezelj, Dave Stewart
STORY: BRIAN WOOD
ART / COVER: DANIJEL ZEZELJ & DAVE STEWART

The street finds its own uses for things, even black market greens, urban chicken farms, and off-brand fast food joints.

INTERNATIONAL IRON MAN #1 | Picked by Colin

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Alex Maleev
Who is Tony Stark, really? Since learning that he was adopted as a baby, this question has cast a shadow over Stark's life. Now, it is time to uncover what his legacy truly is, a journey that will carry Tony into new directions as a man and as a super hero. Alongside his strange new quasi-ally Doctor Doom, Iron Man will discover new things about the Marvel Universe he didn't know existed before! A character deconstruction from Bendis and Maleev along the lines of their award-winning DAREDEVIL run!

EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #8 | Picked by Colin

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Humberto Ramos
"APOCALYPSE WARS" STARTS NOW!
Mutantkind is an endangered species once more. But what better way to ensure your people see the future...than to skip ahead right to it? As the mutant race's last hope is jettisoned into the time stream, the Extraordinary X-Men make a startling discovery: the fate of their kind is about to fall into the hands of one of their most formidable adversaries - the immortal APOCALYPSE. Now, the X-Men race into a perilous future, desperate to reclaim what was taken from them...and completely unaware of the horrors that await them.
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