Warren Ellis

The Planetary Omnibus collects the complete Warren Ellis and John Cassaday series — one of the most acclaimed comics of its era. Planetary is a secret organization of "archaeologists of the impossible": Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner and the Drummer, uncovering the buried superhuman history of the 20th century. Every issue is a self-contained mystery and a homage to a piece of pulp or genre fiction — Doc Savage, the Shadow, kaiju, the Fantastic Four reimagined as villains — building into a single grand tapestry. Cassaday's widescreen art (with Laura Martin) is among the finest of the period. The whole saga plus all crossovers in one volume.

The Authority arrives like a superhero team with no patience for polite rules. Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Mark Millar and Frank Quitely push widescreen action, political violence and impossible scale into a book that helped change what modern team comics could look like. This is not cozy heroism; it is power used loudly, controversially and with world-changing intent.