One of the neat things about DC’s Omnibus editions is how they reprint not only the main series of a title, but often some of the affiliated works. In this volume of the series collecting James Robinson’s seminal Starmanseries, we’re also treated to extra reprinted issues including the Geoff Johns/Robinson written Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. #0, the Starman #1,000,000 issue (which tied into a line-wide event at DC Comics), and JSA All-Stars#4, written by Robinson and concerning Ted Knight, the golden age Starman and father of this version.

Deservedly back in print after several years, Reneé French’s The Ticking is damned clever and well done. There’s a certain fragility in both the art and the story that belie reader expectations: a deformed boy whose mother passes in childbirth could be played so many ways, most of them poorly and stereotypically.

One of the Vertigo Crime original hardcovers, A Sickness in the Family sets a compellingly creepy mood. The focus is on the Usher family, who may look normal and even enviable on the surface, but cracks in the family facade offer a view at selfishness, philandering, corruption, and disappointment.

The hook of Superman: Earth One is that although both Clark Kent’s teenage adventures in his hometown of Smallville and his early years as Superman in Metropolis have been well chronicled, the time period between those two has been left largely unexplored.

This volume collects the first couple of miniseries in which the Perhapanauts appeared, originally published by Dark Horse. The characters—which include a smart and spiritual bigfoot, a psychic, and a ghost—are agents of BEDLAM, an organization dedicated to keeping the world safe from weird creatures.

The main character of The Green Woman, an original graphic novel published by DC/Vertigo, has evidently been around for a while in scribe Peter Straub’s novels. That may have been half the problem with this book; the narration awkwardly flips between not enough information and too much spoon-feeding. The story jumps around in time quite a bit as well, opening the door to confusion.

The second volume of The Unwritten takes up where the first left off, an adventure wherein Christopher Robin-Harry Potter pastiche Tom Taylor is caught up in a conspiracy involving his father, an ultra-famous author who’s gone missing, and the very real magic of fiction.

Every issue of The Brave of the Bold is a self-contained narrative that usually centers on one unusual team-up from the DC Universe (hence the title of this book). It’s a simple concept, but can prove to be quite engaging if done right. Team-Ups of The Brave and the Bold gets it mostly right.

Ever wonder what happens when space gods meet future, Earth-based in-laws? Jersey Gods features characters highly reminiscent of Jack Kirby’s New Gods, but, at least in the case of Barock, the main protagonist, they are mired in slightly more mundane situations.