re: #16 JasonA
Do not touch The Dark Knight Strikes Again. I recommend avoiding All-Star Batman as well, though for me it crosses over into “so bad it’s good” territory.
Also might I suggest anything by Warren Ellis, but Transmetropolitan in particular, its a remarkably thoughtful book centered around politics and a wonderfuly base anti-hero who basically Hunter S Thompson if he was alive in a semi-distopian future….