Brightest Day Omnibus

The second New 52 Justice League omnibus covers the back half of Geoff Johns' run, when the team's internal politics became the plot. Trinity War is the crossover where three Justice League teams fight each other over a murder none of them committed, and it is the best structured event DC published in the New 52. Johns also finally writes the Superman and Wonder Woman relationship as a decision with consequences rather than a marketing beat.

Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV wrote Justice League as cosmology: the Source Wall breaks and the forces that built the universe start taking sides. The premise is that the Justice League have been fighting the wrong war: the Legion of Doom is trying to unmake reality's rules rather than rob a bank. The Batman Who Laughs is included here for good reason — it is the best thing to come out of the era and it reads as the run's real antagonist.

Injustice began as a tie-in to the fighting game and became one of DC's longest-running alternate universes, built on a single irreversible act: the Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane and their unborn child. Injustice works because it takes its premise seriously: the heroes who side with Superman have reasons, and the ones who oppose him lose. It is the most accessible DC alternate universe on the shelf, with no continuity required, and this omnibus replaces three years of scattered digital-first collections with a single volume.

Absolute Power Omnibus collects Mark Waid and Dan Mora's event and its tie-ins, in which Amanda Waller finally does what she has been building towards for years: strips every metahuman on Earth of their powers at once and leaves the heroes to fight back with nothing. Collected complete in a single oversized hardcover.

Identity Crisis 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales' murder mystery, in which the wife of a second-string Justice Leaguer is killed and the investigation exposes something the League did years ago and agreed never to discuss. It is the book that made DC's heroes capable of real moral failure, and it remains one of the most argued-about comics of the century.

DC One Million Omnibus collects Grant Morrison's crossover in which the Justice League of the 853rd century invites the present-day heroes to the future, and every DC title that month jumped a million issues ahead. It is Morrison at their most gleefully inventive: a Superman living inside the sun, a Batman descended from Bruce Wayne's line, and Vandal Savage still alive and still furious.

The second Bronze Age Justice League omnibus covers the early 1970s, when the team left their secret New England cave for a satellite in orbit and the stories went cosmic. This is where the JLA/JSA team-ups settle into their yearly rhythm and the multiverse becomes a working part of DC's storytelling rather than an occasional gimmick. It is also the era that established the League as DC's legends rather than just its biggest team.

The Darkseid War is the conclusion of Geoff Johns' years-long Justice League story, in which Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor go to war and Earth is the battlefield. The central idea is the best thing in Johns' run: each member is elevated to a New God — Batman takes the Mobius Chair and learns everything, Superman becomes a darker version of himself, the Flash is bonded to the Black Racer. Batman using omniscience to answer who killed his parents is the scene everyone remembers.

The second New 52 Justice League omnibus covers the back half of Geoff Johns' run, when the team's internal politics became the plot. Trinity War is the crossover where three Justice League teams fight each other over a murder none of them committed, and it is the best structured event DC published in the New 52. Johns also finally writes the Superman and Wonder Woman relationship as a decision with consequences rather than a marketing beat.

Aquaman by Geoff Johns Omnibus restores Arthur Curry as a king caught between ridicule, responsibility and the violent pull of Atlantis. Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Paul Pelletier make the ocean feel royal, dangerous and political, turning Aquaman into a lead who has to prove himself on land and underwater.

Geoff Johns wrote Avengers between the Busiek era and Disassembled, with Olivier Coipel on art. It is the run that asked whether a superhero team can act as a global authority without becoming one. The premise is sharp: every capital city on Earth vanishes and the nations turn to the Avengers, while Thor ascends to Asgard's throne and starts answering prayers directly — putting him at odds with Iron Man and Captain America. Johns writes the standoff as politics rather than a fight, and Coipel's art here is the reason he later got House of M.

Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus collects the complete run that rebuilt the team for a new generation: Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash and Wonder Girl joined by Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy as reluctant mentors. Johns writes teenagers who are genuinely afraid of becoming their predecessors, and the run contains 'The Future Is Now', still one of the best-loved Titans stories.

JSA by Geoff Johns, collected complete as a pack of 3 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the 1999 relaunch that made the Justice Society one of DC's flagship titles. Launched by James Robinson and David S. Goyer and quickly defined by Geoff Johns, it reassembles comics' original super-team around a legacy premise: Golden Age veterans mentoring a new generation. This volume introduces Stargirl — a character Johns created in memory of his sister — and delivers the signature early arcs, from "Justice Be Done" to "The Return of Hawkman" and "Virtue and Vice." Art by Stephen Sadowski and Rags Morales. JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 2 collects the team's most celebrated middle era. Now firmly Geoff Johns's book (with David S. Goyer co-writing much of the stretch), the Justice Society becomes a DC flagship through arcs like "Princes of Darkness," "Black Reign" — the Black Adam turn that reshaped the character — and "Waking the Sandman." The legacy-mentorship dynamic deepens as the old guard and the new generation are tested. Core art by Leonard Kirk and Don Kramer, with Rags Morales and others. JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 closes out the original series and opens the acclaimed 2007 relaunch, Justice Society of America. It gathers the "Lightning Saga" JLA/JSA crossover and the celebrated "Thy Kingdom Come" — the epic where the Superman of Kingdom Come crosses into the main DC Universe. Dale Eaglesham becomes the signature artist of the relaunch, under iconic Alex Ross covers, in the run that broke Star

JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 closes out the original series and opens the acclaimed 2007 relaunch, Justice Society of America. It gathers the "Lightning Saga" JLA/JSA crossover and the celebrated "Thy Kingdom Come" — the epic where the Superman of Kingdom Come crosses into the main DC Universe. Dale Eaglesham becomes the signature artist of the relaunch, under iconic Alex Ross covers, in the run that broke Stargirl out as a marquee character. The definitive Johns JSA reaches its high point.

JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 2 collects the team's most celebrated middle era. Now firmly Geoff Johns's book (with David S. Goyer co-writing much of the stretch), the Justice Society becomes a DC flagship through arcs like "Princes of Darkness," "Black Reign" — the Black Adam turn that reshaped the character — and "Waking the Sandman." The legacy-mentorship dynamic deepens as the old guard and the new generation are tested. Core art by Leonard Kirk and Don Kramer, with Rags Morales and others.

JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the 1999 relaunch that made the Justice Society one of DC's flagship titles. Launched by James Robinson and David S. Goyer and quickly defined by Geoff Johns, it reassembles comics' original super-team around a legacy premise: Golden Age veterans mentoring a new generation. This volume introduces Stargirl — a character Johns created in memory of his sister — and delivers the signature early arcs, from "Justice Be Done" to "The Return of Hawkman" and "Virtue and Vice." Art by Stephen Sadowski and Rags Morales.