Phil Winslade

The Flash by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 2 is where the Wally West run becomes darker, sharper and more personal. Across 872 pages, Johns pushes the Rogues mythology further and introduces Zoom as a Reverse-Flash built around tragedy rather than simple villainy. The Blitz material gives the book its emotional punch, while The Secret of Barry Allen deepens the legacy pressure sitting behind Wally's heroism. This volume should be sold as continuation, consequence and character damage: the middle movement where Johns proves Flash stories can hit as hard emotionally as they do visually.

The Sentry arrived in 2000 as Marvel's answer to a question the universe had never asked: what if there was a Superman-level hero who had always existed, but everyone had forgotten him? Paul Jenkins constructed the concept as a mystery — Bob Reynolds is the most powerful hero alive, but something made all of Marvel's heroes erase their own memories of him. The series is as much psychological thriller as superhero comic.