Superman - All-Star Superman 1 (Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely)

Generally the weakest of the batch I got. Nice art notwithstanding, there's just too much pre-Crisis era nonsense - Superman Squads from the future, subterranean dinosaur-men, Biblical and Greek myth heroes. It starts off well, with Superman dying from irradiated cells from too much sun. Not really that bothered about him finding a cure.

Superman For All Seasons (Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale)

The creator of the Buffy series has always astounded me. And this one is also pretty good. The art is oft-kilter, looking like a 40s Action Comics-style work interbred with Norman Rockwell, but works well enough for the story. Told from four seasons and four persepctives (Pa Kent, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor and Lana Lang), this one is a up-close dynamic profile of the Man of Tomorrow. So close that it shows Supes lounging around on his bed thinking. That's not something you see everyday. I liked this bar the gaudy and crap LexCorp robots.

Batman - Haunted Knight (Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale)

A collection of three tales pre-Long Halloween from the "Legends of the Dark Knight" series, this one is also quite good. My only gripe is that the paper quality is crap and not like the ones Dark Victory or The Long Halloween was printed upon. Again, Halloween is the theme here and the last story is "A Christmas Carol" set to fit the trick or treat mode. It doesn't have the psychological profiling of its successors and lacks such verbose factual details of the mafioso but it'll do nicely. Best of the bunch.

One more thing - I fing the DC graphic novels to be much cheaper than the Marvel ones. Which is good since I'm more of a DC reader. Civil War is going for RM85.52 (about USD 22.50) and X-Men : Age of Apocalypse is going for RM102.17 (about USD 27) and I can forgo these two really. Are they really that much more popular?