Dial H the deluxe edition

While I was reading this, a friend of mine posted a comment on twitter that the issue with reading Mieville is that it takes 100 pages to really understand what's going on. This was that, but in reverse - at first it seemed to be a straightforward revamp of an (admittedly ridiculous) superhero concept, but then around 50 pages in he flings us off the cliff of understanding, and it becomes a story that uses superheroes as a thought experiment for existentialism, Nietzschean philosophy, and the transient nature of both identity and reality.

DC has a strong history of taking superhero concepts and using them as vehicles in this way - Dial H is the latest in a long line of titles like those that Moore, Gaiman, Morrison, and Delano produced in years past, both in terms of style and quality.