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The Authority Omnibus Vol. 2 continues the WildStorm experiment after the original shockwave, collecting later-era stories where the team becomes government, target, myth and liability all at once. Across 1600 pages, Ed Brubaker, Dustin Nguyen, Robbie Morrison, Garth Ennis and others explore what happens when a superhero team powerful enough to change the world has to live with the political consequences of doing exactly that.

Hellblazer by Garth Ennis Omnibus is the run that turns John Constantine into a bruised, funny and spiritually exhausted survivor. Ennis and Steve Dillon balance pub realism, religious horror, old guilt and vicious comedy, making Constantine feel less like a superhero occult lead and more like a man who keeps winning by losing pieces of himself. Its shelf value is character voice: cynical, wounded, profane and still strangely human.