Tom King

Nightwing: Rebirth Omnibus returns Dick Grayson to the blue and black, back in Bludhaven and back in his own identity after Robin, Batman and Grayson. This 1496-page hardcover gathers the early DC Rebirth Nightwing run and key Bat-family crossovers. It is the clean oversized entry point for the modern Nightwing shelf before the later Taylor era, balancing street-level Bludhaven cases, Dick's history with Batman, romance, spy fallout and the question of how he stands as his own hero.

Dick Grayson, presumed dead after Forever Evil, becomes a secret agent working for Spyral — a shadowy intelligence organisation targeting superheroes. Tom King and Tim Seeley write Grayson with the wit and physical grace that defines the character, while Mikel Janín provides some of the most visually inventive pages in DC publishing of the era. A complete genre switch for a character who had always been a superhero, proving that Dick Grayson works in any narrative One of DC's most creative series of the 2010s.

The conclusion of Tom King's 85-issue Batman run: the failed wedding arc collapses the Batman-Catwoman relationship at its most vulnerable point. Cold Days puts Bruce Wayne on a jury debating Mister Freeze's guilt. Knightmares traps Batman in an alternate reality. City of Bane brings Thomas Wayne as an alternate Batman into collision with the original. Jorge Jiménez, Mikel Janín and Tony Daniel provide spectacular art. The emotional endpoint of the most literary Batman run in decades.

Tom King's acclaimed Batman run reimagines the Dark Knight as a figure defined by trauma rather than triumph. The opening arc, I Am Gotham, introduces two new heroes who force Bruce to question whether Batman is truly necessary. I Am Suicide takes the Bat-family into Santa Prisca for a Suicide Squad-style operation. I Am Bane is one of the most brutal confrontations in modern Batman history. War of Jokes and Riddles reimagines Gotham's most notorious criminals in a Golden Age-era conflict. Art by David Finch and Mikel Janín.