metacomics: s/d, c/d

I would suggest Art Spiegelman's "Breakdowns", a collection of his early (1970's) underground comix work which is meant to be very good, though I haven't read it myself. You can see some scans and some lengthy descriptions here. Lots and lots of formal tricks and jokes that rely on the fact that its a comic.

metacomics as in meta w/r/t form? or just the past twenty years revaluation-of-the-superhero trope? ("alan moore's Watchmen deconstructs our notion of the superhrttetttt;skdd;;;; goto 10

"Understand Comics" is great, although the sequel not so much.