Ed McGuinness

Joe Kelly's Spider-Man lives in the space where Peter Parker is funny, wounded, unlucky and somehow still standing. This omnibus gathers a sharp modern Spidey voice with artists like Chris Bachalo and Ed McGuinness bringing different kinds of impact: weirdness, weight, comedy and bruising superhero action. It is a strong creator-era volume for readers who like Spider-Man when the jokes are fast but the emotional damage still lands.

Superman/Batman Omnibus Vol. 2 keeps DC's two biggest icons side by side, using their friendship as the engine for stories that move from intimate trust to huge superhero spectacle. The appeal is contrast: Clark's hope and Bruce's suspicion pulling against each other while the DC universe throws impossible problems at both.

Superman/Batman Omnibus Vol. 1 is built around the simplest DC contrast and one of its strongest: Superman and Batman together, friends despite everything that should make them opposites. Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness lean into scale, speed and iconography, making the partnership feel huge without losing the personal spark.

Superman: Our Worlds at War Omnibus Vol. 2 focuses on DC's war-scale Superman event, with Superman shaped by cosmic conflict, grief, heroism under pressure and the cost paid by people around Superman. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Joe Kelly's Deadpool run is the creative moment that transformed a 90s mercenary character into something genuinely literary — Kelly introduced the fourth-wall awareness as a systematic device, gave Deadpool his signature voice, and wrote the first truly great Deadpool story in issue #11's time-travel team-up with the Golden Age hero, which remains one of the most moving single issues in the character's history. Kelly balanced comedy and tragedy in a way that no subsequent writer has fully replicated, and his Deadpool is the template against which every later run is measured.

Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. launch a new Amazing Spider-Man era with Peter Parker carrying a mysterious secret that has shattered his relationships with Mary Jane, the Avengers, and everyone he loves. The run deliberately withholds the reveal to build maximum tension: a storytelling choice that divided readers but kept discussion alive for months.