DC Comics

Hawkman by Geoff Johns Omnibus rebuilds Carter Hall around reincarnation, ancient violence and a love story that never arrives cleanly. Geoff Johns, Rags Morales and the art team turn Hawkman into a hero haunted by all the lives he has already lived, with wings that feel as much like a burden as a weapon.

Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol pushes the team into identity, magic, body, gender and spiritual weirdness with a voice unlike anything else in DC superhero comics. It is strange, vulnerable and deliberately hard to flatten into a simple team adventure. This omnibus is for readers who want Doom Patrol as transformation, not just eccentricity.

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol is where superhero comics mutate into dream logic, trauma comedy and philosophical body horror. Robotman, Crazy Jane and the team face threats that feel like ideas wearing costumes, while Brendan McCarthy, Richard Case and the art team make strangeness feel physical. It is the run most readers associate with Doom Patrol's surreal DC identity.