I've yet to read Year One, but I heard that it was up there with Killing Joke and Dark Knight Returns as far as brilliant writing goes. Funny enough, neither of those are my favourites, I found The Long Halloween to be the best Batman comic I had read. As far as the Surrogates are concerned, I never even knew of it, but my friend let me borrow it, I have yet to read it as I'm still finishing up Year One, but I'm looking forward to getting a chance to read it.