Geoff Johns' JSA (any and all)

Batman:

Batman: Reborn / Batman and Robin is my favorite Batman storyline. Tomasi is amazing in taking what should be an annoying bratty Robin and finds a way to explain why he is what he is. A+

Secret Six (2008) - great stuff. Made me a Bane fan.

The ones I have enjoyed:

Batman: Tales Of The Demon

Batman: Venom

Batman: Knightfall 1, 2, 3

Batman: No Man's Land 1-5

Batman: Hush 1 & 2

All-Star Batman and Robin
Others have hated it. I loved it.
The artwork is perfect.



Superman/Batman starting with Public Enemies,
(especially the first 3 or 4 TPBs)
and just keep reading until you find some you don't like.




Death of Superman
World Without a Superman
The Return of Superman

Superman/Doomsday Omnibus

Superman: Our Worlds At War Volume 1 and 2

All-Star Superman

Kingdom Come
(find the paperback novel and read it also, it's great)



Various Batman vs Predator, Batman vs Aliens,
Superman vs Predator, Superman vs Aliens,
Batman & Superman vs Predators & Aliens.

Pointing out some not already mentioned:

52 - not the "New 52", just simply 52. I loved it.

The Animal Man my Grant Morrison

Batman: The Long Halloween - This my all-time favorite DC run. It's simply fantastic. You will notice that almost all Batman films draw influence in some shape or form from the series.

52 was so good they named the reboot "new52" after it!
There's a lot of them--52 weeks, but it's a great story.

I thought Trinity Wars was well done. It was the prelude to the Forever Evil stuff, which was AWESOME, IMHO.

Counterpoint: One of my least favorite DC runs. You will notice that almost every issue steals one or more visual images/dialog from a previously existing movie or television series. If you have absolutely no familiarity with the pop culture of the 20 years previous to this story, you may find it exciting, but I found it to be wholesale theft.

This is probably the least imaginative Batman story told, and should be the comic book series most likely to be proven to be plagiarized. I condemn this as the all-time laziest thought-out comic series, and this is coming from someone who has seen Jim Shooter's initial Legion of Super-Heroes stories reworked time and time again.

Legion Lost 1-2
Lots hated it but I thought it was pretty good. The art was sup-par and the character selection could use some work but all in all I thought the series was worth reading, the legionnaires were handled fairly well and the Retconed origin story for Timber Wolf alone made the second volume worth having. I think had it been given more time, it could have tied up a lot of the loose ends it had.

Wrong.


Filler

OP, if you're interested in reading stories about supervillains, I recommend Secret Six. Start with Villains United, and if you like it, there are a handful of trade paperbacks that continue the story (including one Birds of Prey TPB that features a Secret Six crossover). Any story with the Six usually includes some great fights.

Well, he's not wrong, though. The Long Halloween has characters, dialogue, and entire scenes that are almost exactly lifted out of other works. I like it anyway, maybe because I read TLH well before I saw The Godfather or several of the other works from which Loeb "borrowed."

That's my point. I came into The Long Halloween after a lifetime of exposure to pop culture of the past as well as exposure to items from (at the time) recent pop milieu and I judge TLH to be strait-up plagiarism of those other works. From my recollection, it was literally at least one major theft per issue, with absolutely no lampshading or recognition on the part of the creative team. I'm aware that many people love this story, but it has a serious creative flaw that I cannot overlook.

Makes sense. I haven't read TLH in ages, but I remember that it lifted from The Godfather and Manhunter/Silence of the Lambs pretty heavily in some scenes.

I just read "Superman: American Alien" by Max Landis and company. It is really good, especially if, like me, you find Clark Kent rather more interesting than Superman. The yacht issue is priceless.

So... did you buy anything?