DC
Grant Morrison
This was a fresh approach to the DC super colossal event. It was a straight forward world threat story about the black ring with no distracting subplots and random side stories popping up and never completing. The team of Flash, Green Lantern, Mera and The Atom get ample spotlight, showing that sometimes Batman and Superman can take a break. Technically, this comic starts from 2009, but I think it was the great start for DC using other parts of their artistic muscle.
B
Marvel
Bendis
In the buildup to Siege, The New Avengers are being hunted by the Hood's caudry of goons. Doctor Jonas Harrow builds a powers bomb that steals all the powers of Spiderman, Luke Cage, Spider Woman and the other Avengers. It's a good conflict, pitting the team against every bad guy imaginable and having no way to defend themselves.
B +
The Mighty Avengers # 21-23
Marvel
Slott
I love this team origin story because it gives the right limelight to some heroes that badly need the coverage. Hank Pym sorely needed to be seen as a competent scientist and his exposure grows from here on. In the story The Scarlet Witch recruits Hank Pym, Hercules, Jocasta, US Agent, Vision, Cassandra and Cho (boy genius) to fight off a global threat of evil magic. The team is so fresh that anyone looking for a set of characters to fall in love will definitely be rewarded.
B+
Marvel
Slott
I love this team origin story because it gives the right limelight to some heroes that badly need the coverage. Hank Pym sorely needed to be seen as a competent scientist and his exposure grows from here on. In the story The Scarlet Witch recruits Hank Pym, Hercules, Jocasta, US Agent, Vision, Cassandra and Cho (boy genius) to fight off a global threat of evil magic. The team is so fresh that anyone looking for a set of characters to fall in love will definitely be rewarded.
B+
Justice Society of America: The Bad Seed
DC
Bill Willingham
The JSA get a fresh makeover as Bill Willingham writes for this 5 issue run. In this story, Obsidian gets turned into an egg, and a flurry of B-list villains overpower the JSA (Eclipso, The Dog Pound, Tapeworm...). This story arc adds complete anarchy to the team in sheer numbers, which is what the JSA stories has thrived on. The whole graphic novel is a mental assault which keeps you guessing till the very end.
Batman and Robin: Reborn
DC
Grant Morrison
After the death of Batman's Bruce Wayne, Grant Morrison decided to take the story in the new direction. Dick Grayson is portrayed as a struggling understudy, trying to fill the shoes of a perfectionist. Damian, the new Robin, plays the immature young sidekick who just doesn't understand the responsibility. In light of the threat of Professor Pyg and the Red Hood, both Dick and Damian power through it and show a new arc to the Batman series: we are not Bruce Wayne, but we can still be Batman and Robin.
A
Detective Comics: Batwoman
DC
Rucka
Batwoman is in her own universe, fighting her own villains. Greg Rucka spins a tale of a bold heroine with the fear tactics of Batman, but the exotic style all her own. She battles a deranged Lewis Carol psychopath, named Alice, who wants to plant a bomb over Gotham. Meanwhile, Batwoman's alternative lifestyle and relationship with her father come up as mini conflicts to the journey of the rising heroine. In the Batwoman Annual, we learn that she has a twin sister that we thought was killed in a terrorism accident, but ends up being the deranged Alice.
B +
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