The Homelander

Few villains in Modern Age comics arrive with quite the menace of The Homelander, who made his chilling debut in The Boys #5 in 2007, courtesy of the wickedly sharp creative team of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Sharing the page with the likes of Billy Butcher, "Wee" Hughie Campbell, Queen Maeve, and The Deep, this DC character inhabits one of comics' most cynical and electrifying corners. Though his catalog footprint is small, the sheer cultural weight he carries makes every appearance worth tracking down for any serious modern collector.