Reddit mentions of The Invisibles Book One Deluxe Edition

Deluxe editions are essentially omnibuses split into smaller, really nicely produced books, containing around 300-400 pages each (which is my personal sweet-spot for volume length). Vertigo and Image both put these out. Some contain entire runs in one volume, like The Fade Out, some are multi volume, like The Invisibles. Most of them also contain script pages, character sketches, cover galleries, pitches, and a bunch of other 'special-features' in the back to make them feel a little more special.

Year editions are something Image started doing relatively recently, but I really dig them. They essentialy contain a year's worth of trades in a big hardcover. So far they only have one for East of West, but they look to be releasing more in the next few months. Ody-C is getting one soon, and a bunch of others are yet to be announced.

EDIT - Dark Horse's Library Editions are pretty much Image's Deluxe editions, except they're pretty huge (in terms of dimensions), and are, in my opinion, the best produced books on the market; everything about them, from the binding to the paper stock, feels absolutely luxurious. I've been collecting the Kabuki Library Editions as they've been released and each new one still stuns me a little when it turns up. They're insanely gorgeous.

If you're asking for Grant Morrison recommendations, I can recommend The Invisibles, his Doom Patrol run, and his Animal Man. There are way more good comics of him out there but honestly, I started off Grant Morrison with these three.

So Chris Claremont really defined the X-Men back in the 70's and the cartoon show completely drew from his run to write their shows. You can start at the beginning and see the interesting character dynamics. If you want something more modern that really informs where things are now, I'd say start with Morrison's run on New X-men. I am a big fan of Morrison's X-Men work and I genuinely think he kickstarted the X-Men back into an interesting conversation (If you like his work, I strongly encourage you to check out The Invisibles ). Before that was this weird, kind of wretched 90's period run by Scott Lobdell. Personally, I think most of the 90's runs were skippable (Except Age of Apocalypse which is cool af and cherished by most fans).

Edit: End parentheses

Flash:

• The Flash | Mark Waid
  
• The Flash | Grant Morrison & Mark Millar
  
• The Flash | Geoff Johns
  
• The Flash | Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato
  
• The Flash: Rebirth | Joshua Williamson
  
  Recommended "best/good" DC & DC-imprint:
  
  
• 100 Bullets | Brian Azzarello
  
• American Vampire | Scott Snyder
  
• All-Star Superman | Grant Morrison
  
• Animal Man | Grant Morrison
  
• Batman: Year One | Frank Miller
  
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns | Frank Miller
  
• Fables | Bill Willingham
  
• Daytripper | Gabriel Ba
  
• Gotham Central | Brubaker & Rucka
  
• Hellblazer (Constantine) | Delano, Ennis, et al.
  
• Kingdom Come | Mark Waid
  
• Omega Men | Tom King
  
• Planetary | Warren Ellis
  
• Scalped | Jason Aaron
  
• Saga of the Swamp Thing | Alan Moore
  
• Sleeper | Ed Brubaker
  
• Sweet Tooth | Jeff Lemire
  
• Transmetropolitan | Warren Ellis
  
• Y: The Last Man | Brian K Vaughan
  
  Recommended DC & DC-imprint Grant Morrison (not already recommended, in order of most-to-least coherent/understandable):
  
  
• WE3 | Grant Morrison
  
• Joe the Barbarian | Grant Morrison
  
• Batman | Grant Morrison
  
• Batman: Arkham Asylum | Grant Morrison
  
• Seven Soldiers of Victory | Grant Morrison
  
• Doom Patrol | Grant Morrison
  
• Flex Mentallo | Grant Morrison
  
• The Filth | Grant Morrison
  
• The Invisibles | Grant Morrison
  
  Modern DC events/crossovers:
  
  
• Crisis on Infinite Earths | Marv Wolfman
  
• Identity Crisis | Brad Meltzer
  
• Infinite Crisis | Geoff Johns
  
• 52 | Geoff Johns, et al.
  
• Final Crisis | Grant Morrison
  
• Blackest Night | Geoff Johns
  
• Flashpoint | Geoff Johns
  
• Forever Evil | Geoff Johns
  
• The Multiversity | Grant Morrison
  
• Darkseid War | Geoff Johns
  
• DC Universe: Rebirth | Geoff Johns
  
  Superman:
  
  
• The Man of Steel | John Byrne
  
• Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? / For the Man Who Has Everything | Alan Moore
  
• The Death and Return of Superman | Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, et al.
  
• Kingdom Come | Mark Waid
  
• For All Seasons | Jeph Loeb
  
• What's so Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way? | Joe Kelly
  
• Red Son | Mark Millar
  
• Birthright | Mark Waid
  
• Secret Identity | Kurt Busiek
  
• All-Star Superman | Grant Morrison
  
• Up, Up, and Away! | Kurt Busiek & Geoff Johns
  
• Kryptonite | Darwyn Cooke
  
• Superman and the Legion of Superheroes | Geoff Johns
  
• Brainiac | Geoff Johns
  
• Action Comics | Grant Morrison
  
• American Alien | Max Landis
  
• Superman: Rebirth | Peter Tomasi
  
  

I wish I had snippets of him talking about exactly that, but he seems to ramble for long periods around the subject. I can definitely point you in the direction of some Morrison rants regarding the 5th dimension.

http://smodcast.com/episodes/grant-morrison-bat-bard/

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Book-One-Deluxe/dp/1401245021/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1416181375&sr=8-3&keywords=invisibles

http://www.amazon.com/Supergods-Vigilantes-Miraculous-Mutants-Smallville/dp/0812981383/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416181390&sr=8-1&keywords=supergods&pebp=1416181392529

The basic gist of Morrison and his writing is that he believes he was kidnapped (or just borrowed) by 5th Dimensional Beings after completing a mystical challenge in Kathmandu. He was shown our world from a 5th dimensional perspective. He compared it to watching black and white television... what seems real to us now is just a television show... in reality there is brightness and vividness beyond all comparison, but we have to collectively as a species be prepared to make the jump to get there.

In Supergods and the Fatman on Batman podcast, he goes in depth about his Kathmandu experience and how it shapes his thought processes. In Invisibles, that experience is put on paper in comic book form. It is the story of a group of "good guys" that realize from a 5th dimension perspective that there is no good and evil... It is all just a group of people trying to make the jump to hyperspace. From Invisibles: this is what a fourth dimensional being able to traverse time and space would see in people:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k72hbxx5F8M/T8fqJpSOEPI/AAAAAAAAAbE/2eXmfuEmzvs/s1600/invis012322.jpg

The trail is every instance of a person in their lives.

Little bit of a rant, but I find his writing amazing, and as hokey as his "experiences" sound, there is definitely part of me that believes that something happened.