Superman #1

This French-language collection from Urban Comics presents Grant Morrison and Rags Morales's vision of Superman at his most raw and grounded — and the cover delivers immediately. Morales renders a younger, jeans-and-t-shirt-clad Man of Steel bursting through concrete rubble, red cape flying, looking every bit the scrappy outsider hero rather than the polished icon. It's a striking 2012 reinvention that feels both fresh and earned.