There’s no doubt that Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s Jupiter’s Legacy, a look at superheroic family dysfunction, is the comic event of the week. Meanwhile, Atlantis has a new king, two thieves steal a curse and a vampire eats a crimelord, all in this week’s comics!

Warning: This oddly lengthy clip seems to give away a rather key moment in Kick-Ass 2's climactic finale, so maybe you don't want to watch it. Or maybe you don't want to watch it because it seems like it's trying waaaaay too hard, what with the Avengers line and the dog biting Red Mist in the balls. Either way.

Fox hasn't always done the best job making use of its Marvel Comics film properties — they appear to have just lost the rights to Daredevil, and their Fantastic Four films aren't considered classics. So it's probably good news that they've hired Mark MIllar, who's done so much to reshape how Marvel's characters are…

Like clockwork, here's your Wednesday batch of comics for reading on a beautiful spring day. Or a crisp autumn day, if you're reading this from the Southern Hemisphere. Or a day-less season-less day if you're reading this from the International Space Station. Shall we?

Last year, the breakout star of Mark Millar's comic-series-turned-DIY-superhero flick was Hit Girl, a ten-year-old assassin dedicated to eviscerating crime. At London's Kapow! Comic Con this weekend, Millar announced that the heroine will be getting her own miniseries come September.

It looks like the British are sick of invading. A new San Diego-scale comic convention has been announced, and it will be taking place in London.

There's a lot of comics coming out this week, but the two standouts are Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s Kick-Ass 2 and cartoonist Charles Burns' Hergé-inspired headtrip, X'ed Out.

New Bat-rumors are flying! Now that Christopher Nolan's third Batman film is lensing in New Orleans, inside sources are claiming they know who the film's big bad is. How so? We explain. Possible spoilers ahead...

Find out why Mark Millar's comic book Wanted really should have had singing mice and a pumpkin coach.

"Evil batman" Nemesis creator Mark Millar claims that Tony Scott's movie adaptation of his ultra-violent comic Nemesis has a budget of $150 mil. Plus, his anti-hero Nemesis WILL be keeping the infamous white suit. That's one pricey bloodbath. [MTV]