Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns is awesome. The Jeph Loeb / Tim Sale books are very good also, such as Batman: The Long Halloween or Dark Victory.
If you want X-men or Spider-man, get the Ultimate trade paperbacks. For those that don't know the Ultimate line was a ravamp of the Marvel universe that started a couple years ago. It's kind of fun getting in at the start of things.
And if you want something totally different, look for 100 Bullets, Fables, or Y: the Last Man. redravin40 is also right to recommend LOEG. The references in every single panel are fun to see.
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