Jerry Ordway

Thor: Heroes Return Omnibus Vol. 1 relaunches the God of Thunder after Heroes Return with Dan Jurgens and John Romita Jr. rebuilding Asgardian adventure for a late-90s Marvel landscape. The book restores Thor's world with gods, monsters, Midgard pressure and a clean sense of mythic momentum. This Thor material works when myth and responsibility collide, letting Asgardian grandeur sit beside questions of rule, sacrifice and what a god owes to the worlds below.

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.