Superman: Brainiac

Geoff Johns and Gary Frank reunited at DC in 2009 for a single, oversized issue that redefined Superman’s cosmic rogue’s gallery. This prestige-format story pits the Man of Steel against the cold, calculating Brainiac, stripping away decades of accumulated lore to return the villain to his chilling, alien-collector roots. With Frank’s hyper-detailed, cinematic art and Johns’s character-driven plotting, Superman: Brainiac stands as a definitive, self-contained chapter in the modern Superman mythos.