Doug Mahnke

Batman & Robin by Tomasi and Gleason Omnibus collects the New 52 run where Bruce Wayne and Damian Wayne have to become a father-and-son team as much as Batman and Robin. The book follows Damian's violent training, Bruce's moral code and the emotional cost of building trust in Gotham.

Blackest Night turns the emotional spectrum into a horror engine. Geoff Johns and the Green Lantern team build a DC event where death itself rises, old losses return wearing familiar faces, and every ring color suddenly feels like a weapon in a cosmic war. It is vast, grim and operatic because grief itself becomes the battlefield.