Marvel & DC Omnibus

Forever Evil Omnibus flips the DC universe into a villain-led event where the heroes are gone and the people left standing are exactly the ones nobody should trust. Geoff Johns and David Finch build a dark mirror of the Justice League, with Lex Luthor and other villains forced into the uncomfortable role of saving a world they usually exploit.

Charlie Huston's 2006 Moon Knight relaunch was a deliberate act of creative violence against the character's previous incarnations. Huston wrote Marc Spector as a broken man — knees shattered, psychology fractured, the multiple personalities no longer a quirk but a crisis — and the result was one of the darker modern Moon Knight runs Marvel had published.

After Avengers Disassembled, Bendis relaunches the title with a heterodox roster (Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Woman) and turns the Avengers into Marvel's most commercial team. Beginning of a decade of Bendis domination of the title: Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign and Siege start here. David Finch on art.

Batman by Tom King Omnibus Vol. 1 begins a psychological Batman run where romance, trauma, war stories and impossible heroism all press against Bruce Wayne at once. The book is less interested in Batman as a flawless machine than in the cost of asking one damaged man to become a symbol forever. For Batman readers, the value is the tension between casework and psychology: Gotham is not only a backdrop, but a pressure system that keeps exposing what Bruce can and cannot control.