Picks of the Week: 06/29/2016

IT'S HERE! The sequel to industry sales-beast JUPITER'S LEGACY is back and it boasts monthly FRANK QUITELY! Superhero offspring Hutch and Chloe have come out of hiding with son Jason to assemble a team of super-crooks from around the globe.

The titular 4 Kids figure out what's going on... and develop a plan of their own... and eat some pizza.

Batman and Robin prepare for war with the Master Race, and an ally returns from an unlikely place...

Stranded on a mysterious desert island, Bloodshot is running for his life! But as he tries to make sense of his surroundings, he's quickly discovering that this is no ordinary tropical getaway... Surrounded by decommissioned relics of the same bloodstained project that created him - World War II Bloodshot, Cold War Bloodshot, Vietnam Bloodshot, and other antiquated experiments - Bloodshot is about to find out where Project Rising Spirit sends it old soldiers to die. Can this seasoned band of killers trust each other long enough to survive the threats that lie in the jungle around them...and unlock the secret at the heart of the island's existence before they're each permanently retired?
This summer, superstar creators Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men) and Mico Suayan (BLOODSHOT REBORN) send Bloodshot screaming into his most action-packed adventure yet as "BLOODSHOT ISLAND" ups the ante for the Valiant Universe's most formidable man-at-arms!

ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! The march toward the greatest Valiant milestone of all time starts here as X-O Manowar begins "LONG LIVE THE KING"!

They are The Torment - and their name means death. Thought to be a legend by the extraterrestrial empire called the Vine, they have now become Earth's violent reality. They have traveled for eons to reach us...in search of Aric of Dacia, the unstoppable X-O Manowar. How can Aric of Dacia defeat an omnipotent threat nearly as old as the universe itself? Will the X-O Manowar armor truly be our world's salvation, just as the Vine's myths foretold? Is this the beginning of the end for X-O Manowar...or the beginning of something bigger?

Plus: The X-O MANOWAR #50 COUNTDOWN GIVEAWAY begins here! Each issue of "LONG LIVE THE KING" comes bagged with one of 50 exclusive micro-prints from comics' leading talents...or full-blown ORIGINAL ARTWORK!

• Vader takes on Cylo and his cybernetic operatives.
•  The Executor moves closer to completion in time for its launch.
•  Meanwhile - the murderbots take on their "master".

Determined to find out the identity of Spyral's Agent 37, detective Jim Corrigan gathers a collection of heroes who have seen the swirl-faced spy in order to hear their accounts. With guest appearances by Harley Quinn, Azrael, John Constantine and Green Lantern Simon Baz, get ready for some of Dick Grayson's greatest hits!

MINI-SERIES CONCLUSION
With the kids torn apart and lost in the woods, nothing can prepare them for what happens next. The startling conclusion to PLUTONA, with an ending that no one will see coming!

SERIES FINALE
The end. Drinks on us.