Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1Absolute Batman (2024)Absolute Batman (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024The cleanest door back into DC. Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta started this Batman from zero in October 2024, in a separate universe where nothing you missed counts. This Bruce Wayne grew up working class without the family fortune and holds down a day job as an engineer, and Alfred has never been…0
  2. 2Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman (2024)Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024A finished Spider-Man story with a real ending, which is rare. Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto give you a Peter Parker who never got his powers as a teenager and only puts on the suit as a grown man, already married to Mary Jane with kids. The run closed with issue #24, so the collected…0
  3. 3Absolute Wonder Woman (2024)Absolute Wonder Woman (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024The companion to Absolute Batman, and arguably the bolder of the two. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman's Diana was exiled to Hell as a baby and raised by the witch Circe, who in this version chooses to be the mother Diana needs instead of her enemy. Expect magic and monsters more than Greek myth…0
  4. 4Immortal Hulk (2018)Immortal Hulk (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018If your Hulk was a sad man hitchhiking out of town, Al Ewing and Joe Bennett turned that loneliness into a horror comic. Banner keeps dying and the Hulk keeps bringing him back, usually after dark, and Bennett's body horror goes further than any Marvel book from the old spinner racks. The run…0
  5. 5Mister Miracle (2017)Mister Miracle (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Twelve issues, complete, and a good test of how far superhero comics have stretched. Tom King and Mitch Gerads take Jack Kirby's escape artist Scott Free and give equal weight to a war on Apokolips, his marriage to Big Barda and the arrival of a baby. Gerads builds most pages on a nine-panel grid,…0
  6. 6Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja Omnibus (2015)Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja Omnibus (2015)Published Jan 1, 2015Matt Fraction and David Aja asked what Clint Barton does when he is not being an Avenger, and the answer became one of the most copied superhero books of the 2010s. Short, mostly self-contained stories follow Clint, Kate Bishop, his apartment building and a stray dog, drawn with a sharp, graphic…0
  7. 7Daredevil by Mark Waid Omnibus (2017)Daredevil by Mark Waid Omnibus (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017For anyone who left when Daredevil was all grime and grief. Starting in 2011, Mark Waid and artists including Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin gave Matt Murdock his swagger back: bright pages, inventive ways of showing his radar sense and cases that end with a grin. It won the Eisner for Best…0
  8. 8Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo Omnibus (2025)Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo Omnibus (2025)Published Jan 1, 2025The friendliest superhero book of the last few years. Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo picked up Nightwing in 2021 with a simple hook: Alfred's will leaves Dick Grayson a fortune, and Dick decides to spend it fixing Blüdhaven rather than punching it into shape. Add a three-legged dog and a lot of…0
  9. 9All Star Superman (2006)All Star Superman (2006)Published Jan 1, 2006The Superman story to hand anyone who thinks Superman is boring. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's twelve issues stand completely outside continuity: Superman learns he is dying and uses the time he has left to do every impossible, generous thing he can. It is a love letter to the Silver Age…0
  10. 10Batman / Superman: World's Finest (2022)Batman / Superman: World's Finest (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022The book that feels most like the comics you left behind, in the best sense. Mark Waid and Dan Mora launched it in March 2022 as straightforward Batman and Superman team-ups with a Silver Age spirit: big villains, bigger set pieces and two friends who actually like each other. Mora's art is the…0