X-Men Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! It’s finally time, y’all… time to MAP MY X. This post offers maps for flagship X-Men series – books with “X-Men” in the title! Then, in the following posts I’ll look at other X-Team titles and solo characters.

This post explains titles and potential X-Men Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

For this post, it’s important you understand that I don’t think all of these books are a good idea! Some of them were votes on past polls or popular comments from Near Mint Condition viewers.

Also, many of these maps are not even my idea. As Marvel has progressively (and recently) recollected 90s and 00s X-Men in paperback, they have clearly shown their plans on how they group this material. If Marvel told me how to map something, that’s the map I used! Our fanciful mappings of years past are less relevant than ever.

With those disclaimers out of the way: Are you ready to see all of the omnibuses we’d need to collect every issue of every book with “X-Men” in the title from 1963 to 2023 – as well as collecting every major run of the Age of Krakoa? Strap in, folks – it’s gonna be a long post!

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for my explanations. Or, if you’ve already voted, learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including some of my mistakes and regrets as one of the editors of the options on the final poll.

Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period.

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X-Men Omnibus Mapping: Silver Age X-Men

All of the regular issues of Silver Age X-Men and John Byrne’s Hidden Years are collected, but we could still get two more omnibuses that fit into this era of comics.

X-Men: Silver Age Vol. 3 (AKA The Lost Years)
See Guide to Silver Age X-Men. This would collects complete contents of X-Men Masterworks Vol. 7 and Vol. 8 or X-Men Epic Collection Vol. 4, minus the covers of X-Men #67-93, which already ran in the Volume 2 omnibus

That includes Amazing Adventures (1970) #11-17 (transformation of The Beast), Incredible Hulk (1968) #150 & 161 (Havok/Polaris & Beast/Mimic), Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #92 (Iceman), Marvel Team-Up (1972) #4 (full team), Avengers (1963) #110-111 (Magneto vs. Avengers), Incredible Hulk (1968) #172 (minor Xavier/Scott/Jean) and #180-181 (debut of Wolverine), Captain America (1968) #172-175 (Cyclops & Jean in the original Secret Empire), Marvel Team-Up (1972) #23 & 38 (Iceman), Defenders (1972) #15-16 (Magneto’s infamous de-aging), and Giant-Size Fantastic Four (1974) #4 (the debut of Jamie Madrox, The Multiple Man).

To this, we could add Magneto’s appearances in Fantastic Four (1961) #102-104 and Amazing Adventures (1970) #9-10.

X-Men: First Class
This isn’t truly Silver Age X-Men, but it covers untold stories of their youth spanning from their earliest issues to the first portion of the Uncanny X-Men Era.

A vote for this book would collect a minimum of Cyclops (2011) #1, Iceman and Angel (2011) #1, Magneto (2011) #1, Marvel Girl (2011) #1, material from Spider-Man Family (2007) #8-9, X-Men (1963) #1, X-Men First Class (2006) #1-8, X-Men First Class (2007) Special and #1-16, X-Men: First Class Finals (2009) #1-4.

It would likely also add Uncanny X-Men: First Class (2009) Giant-Size Special & #1-8 at the end. However, 21 Wolverine: First Class (2008) issues probably wouldn’t fit in this book, and the Uncanny material fits better with them than it does here.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: Claremont-Era X-Men

What is this second? Don’t we have every issue of Claremont X-Men in omnibus now? Yes, we do, but there are still some additional books we could (or definitely will) see from Marvel to collect this era in different ways.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6 (MMW 14-15?)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont. Marvel has already announced that a next Uncanny X-Men classic Masterworks-based omnibus has been mapped, but it is not yet announced. Most Uncanny X-Men classic omnibuses now collect just two Masterworks of material, but that’s because the Masterworks are pretty thick!

For some folks, the urgency to vote for this is off, because this material already exists in line-wide omnibuses starting with the Mutant Massacre Omnibus. However, others only want the main run of Claremont’s X-Men – in which case this book is for you!

Marvel moved up Uncanny X-Men Annual 10 and New Mutants (1983) Annual 2 in the prior book to respect existing break points, so this would collect Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #210-231 & Annual 11, Fantastic Four vs X-Men (1987) #1-4, X-Men vs. Avengers (1987) #1-4, and material from Best of Marvel Comics (1987).

If you’re about to ask for more “Fall of the Mutants” content… shhhh. It already exists! That’s what the linewide X-Men omnibus line is for! Again, this classic line has now committed to only collecting Uncanny X-Men issues and direct crossovers from other titles.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men Vol. 7 (MMW 16-17?)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont. Similar to the prior entry, this would collect the next two thick Masterworks of material with a tight focus on Uncanny X-Men itself.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect start by collecting Uncanny X-Men (1963) 231-243 & Annual 12 and the direct Inferno crossover issues from X-Factor (1986) #37-39, and then continue to the contents of the 2025 Masterwork volume (very likely to be Uncanny X-Men (1963) #244-255 & Annual 13, plus stories from Marvel Comics Presents (1988)).

X-Men: X-Men – Inferno Aftermath
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont. In the same way that some readers are looking for a pure “Claremont only” line of Uncanny X-Men, other readers want the “full line” omnibuses to continue past Inferno.

I can’t give you an explicit map for this one, because it’s standing in for two different books.

One of those books would push forward in collecting the full line, starting from Uncanny X-Men (1963) #244, New Mutants (1983) #74, and X-Factor (1986) #41. This would intensely double-dip both the first X-Men by Claremont & Lee omnibus and the third New Mutants omnibus, but it would collect X-Factor material we haven’t yet seen in omnibus. This would probably stop somewhere just before Acts of Vengeance in all three titles, which would give us roughly 10 issues from each. (That means the next book would start with UXM #255-258, New Mutants #84-86, and X-Factor #49-50).

However, the other potential book runs alongside the X-Men by Claremont & Lee omnibus line, and just collects New Mutants and X-Factor in a companion volume! That would probably be able to push farther into both books. Uncanny X-Men was double-shipping almost this entire time, so I think it could take both New Mutants and X-Factor up to that point by collecting New Mutants (1983) #84-94 and X-Factor (1986) #41-59, plus annuals, OGNs, and specials in that period.

If you vote for this book, you’re rolling the dice on which of those maps Marvel would use for this book.

X-Men: Forever by Claremont (& Simonson)
This is an alternate reality series that extends what Claremont would have written if he didn’t depart X-Men in 1991. Except, it’s not what he would’ve written, because we’ve heard about those plots before and they’re not all in this book!

A vote for this book is a vote to collect X-Men Forever Alpha (2009) #1 (a reprint of X-Men (1991) #1-3), X-Men Forever (2009) #1-24 & Annual 1, X-Men Forever Giant-Size (2010) #1, X-Men Forever 2 (2010) #1-16, and material from X-Men Forever Digital Preview (2009) #1.

We could also add two separate continuity “Forever” series by Louise Simonson to extend her respective runs that cut off shortly before Claremont’s departure, New Mutants Forever (2010) #1-5 and X-Factor Forever (2010) #1-5.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: 90s X-Men

This covers mapping for every non-omnibused “X-Men” title from 1991 to 2000. Other team books like X-Force and X-Factor will be in my next post.

X:Men: X-Cutioners Song Omnibus (includes Bishops’ Crossing et al)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2001) – The Crossover Era. This imaginary book is so popular with Near Mint Condition fans that Omar added it to the Marvel Omnibus reprint poll even though it would be a new book and not a reprint!

This would merge the contents of Bishop’s Crossing and X-Cutioner’s Song into a single omnibus, recollecting two long out-of-print hardcovers and making them eligible for reprints. Marvel just made a similar move with announcing the X-Tinction Agenda omnibus, which emerged directly from demand from Near Mint Condition viewers and polling.

That means this would collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #281-297, X-Men (1991) #12-16 (plus backup stories from #10-11), X-Factor (1986) #84-86, X-Force (1991) #16-18, and Stryfe’s Strike File (1993) #1.

That would weigh in around 750 pages, based on the lengths of the two existing hardcovers. Some folks advocate for jamming X-Men: Scattershot in there as well since it wasn’t an official omnibus. I think that makes brilliant sense from a mapping perspective since it immediately follows this volume, but that’s 500+ pages and might make this too big for Marvel. (I suspect they might reconfigure the Fatal Attractions hardcover instead to remove the X-Factor issues.)

X-Men: X-Men (1991) Vol. 1
See Guide to X-Men, Vol. 1 (1991 – 2001). This is a common vote that crops up every year but doesn’t get a ton of traction. Essentially, it’s asking for a collection only of X-Men (1991) without any issues of Uncanny X-Men or X-Men Unlimited interwoven into it.

If we skipped over the X-Tinction Agenda and Phalanx Covenant crossover issues (or just didn’t collect the crossover parts), we could probably make it all the way to Onslaught in just one tome that collects X-Men (1991) #1-41 & Annual 1-3 and Ghost Rider (1990) #26-27.

It’s an interesting concept, although I’m not sure if that would be a terrific read completely stripped of the context of Uncanny. If you have been buying X-Men hardcovers for the past decade you already own this material across Claremont/Lee Vol. 2, Bishop’s Crossing, X-Tinction Agenda, Scattershot, Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix, Phalanx Covenant, and Legionquest.

X-Men: X-Men Unlimited Vol. 1
Similarly, a vote pops up every year for a complete, standalone collection of the X-Men Unlimited (1993) anthology series. Even though these issues have been deliberately interwoven with collections of Uncanny X-Men and X-Men, this request makes a bit of sense because these issues were almost always blockbuster standalone stories, rather than chapters of crossovers.

Issues of this title were a minimum of 48 pages long – and they were often 64 pages! That means we probably can’t make it past X-Men Unlimited (1993) #1-20 in a single book. I think we could be looking at three volumes here to get through all 50 issues, especially if we continue to collect X-Men Unlimited (2004) #1-12

X-Men: X-Men – Onslaught Aftermath (AKA Trial of Gambit)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2001) – The Crossover Era. Assuming Marvel is already on their way to collecting the second half of the “X-Men: Road to Onslaught” material in the next year, this is now the next X-Men material not collected in oversize hardcover! We’ve made it all the way to 1996!

This would collect the contents of the existing X-Men: Onslaught Aftermath and X-Men: The Trial of Gambit paperbacks, which included Uncanny X-Men (1963) #338-350, -1, & Annual 20/1996, & Annual 21/1997; X-Men (1991) #58-70, -1, and Annual 1997; X-Men Unlimited (1993) #12-14, and X-Factor (1986) #130.

Remember: Marvel doesn’t like to make X-Men books too huge if they don’t have to. 10-15 issues of each title is the perfect sweet spot. Plus, this is a very well-coordinated set of stories with a natural stopping point. It could possibly also add some mini-series, anthology stories, or one-shots from this period.

X-Men: X-Men by Kelly & Seagle (AKA Hunt for Xavier)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2001) – The Crossover Era. This collects a set of twin runs that got back to basics with the X-Men cast, pulling back in errant members like Kitty, Nightcrawler, and Colossus at the end of the run of Excalibur (1988).

This would collect the contents of the existing X-Men Gold Vol. 0, X-Men Blue Vol. 0, and Hunt for Professor X paperbacks, which included X-Men (1991) #70-84, 1/2, & X-Men/Dr. Doom Annual 1998, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #351-365 & Uncanny X-Men/Fantastic Four ’98 (1998), and Cerebro’s Guide to the X-Men (1998) One Shot.

Those trades collected only X-Men Unlimited (1993) #17-18 & 22, but to keep X-Men Unlimited (1993) fully collected in this ongoing line of omnibuses we might choose to add in #19 (Nightcrawler), #20 (Generation X), and #21 (X-Factor). That means Unlimited will continue unbroken all the way through the existing Eve of Destruction omnibus.

Again, this is a perfectly-coordinated set of material that is already at the perfect sweet spot of length, but we could also add some mini-series, anthology stories, or one-shots from this period. However, there’s a chance that Hunt for Xavier could get moved to the next book to balance the lengths to be only two trades each.

X-Men: Magneto War
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2001) – The Crossover Era. This would collect the remaining issues of the two flagship series we need to take us to the start of the Apocalypse: The Twelve omnibus, which begins with Uncanny X-Men (1963) #371 and X-Men (1991) #91.

That means this would collect the contents of the existing Magneto War paperback. Yep, that’s it! That’s because it is already 500 pages long, so we can’t reasonably merge it into the prior book.

This would collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #366-371, X-Men (1991) #85-91 & Annual 7/1999; X-Men: The Magneto War (1999) #1; X-Men Unlimited (1993) #23 (and material from #24); and Magneto Rex (1999) #1-3.

However, I’m sure we could find some other material to include to differentiate this from the paperback. Bishop: The Last X-Men (1999) #1-13 is one option.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: X-Men, 2001-2012 – The Trade Paperback Era

This section covers the mapping of the era of “X-Men” titled books that kicked off with Grant Morrison’s New X-Men. Coincidentally, this is the era of books where every title tended to get a trade paperback not too long after release of the single issues (although that kicked into high gear in 2004).

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Joe Casey (AKA X-Corps or New X-Men Companion)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. At its core, this book would be collecting the Joe Casey run that launched alongside of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, which is the next hunk of uncollected Uncanny X-Men after the Eve of Destruction omnibus.

That run has been previously collected as X-Men: X-Corps, which contained Uncanny X-Men (1963) #394-409 & Annual 24/2001. If you vote for this book, that’s what you are asking for. If you think this would get merged with the Chuck Austen material that follows it, I’d say that directly contradicts Marvel’s trade paperback mapping from the past decade.

That’s where things get interesting, because I have a different opinion of the contents of this book than I used to!

Now that we’ve seen this omnibus line’s commitment to consistently collecting every issue of X-Men Unlimited, I think this ought to collect all of X-Men Unlimited (1993) #34-43. That’s actually very similar to the contents of an existing “New X-Men Companion” trade paperback, but we’d save the remainder of the Unlimited run for where they fit into the next book.

I used to think this should also collect the contemporaneous X-Men mini-series Nightcrawler (2002) #1-4 and Chamber (2002) #1-4, since those characters appear in this run.. I think at this point they are optional. However, there are so many mini-series in this period that there could be a whole book of them – there’s also X-Men: Hellfire Club (2000) #1-4, Brotherhood (2001) #1-9, X-Factor (2002) #1-4, Muties (2002) #1-6, and Morlocks #1-4

X-Men: X-Men by Chuck Austen
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. This may be the most-reviled flagship X-Men run of all time, but I think it’s just fine!

We now have this mapped in a trio of paperbacks – X-Men: Unstoppable, X-Men: The Trial of Juggernaut, and X-Men: Reload [by Chuck Austen], so we know exactly what to expect. It will collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #410-443, New X-Men (2001) #155-156, X-Men (1991) #157-164, Exiles (2001) #28-30, and X-Men Unlimited (1993) #44-45. I think this also should add the Claremont-penned X-Men (1991) #165, even though the next omnibus would obviously double-dip that issue.

That adds up to more than 1200 pages, so there’s a chance this doesn’t push as deep into the X-Men (1991) run as the trades and moves X-Men (1991) #157-164 from the Reload trade into a subsequent Milligan omnibus listed two entries below here. But, if there was ever an X-Men book that just needs to be big and get it over with, this is the one!

Could we fit in X-Men Unlimited #46-50? They were contemporaneous to this material, and they are under 30 pages each at this point. I’d be in favor of it, especially if X-Men (1991) #157-164 get moved out of here and into Milligan! Anything to make this book a more desirable purchase for Austen-haters.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men, The New Age by Chris Claremont (2004 – 2006)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. This would collect Claremont’s triumphant (and pretty fun) return to Uncanny X-Men in the mid-00s, which continued past House of M and into Decimation.

This would collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #444-474, Annual 1/2006, Decimation: House of M – The Day After (2006) #1, and the Claremont-penned X-Men (1991) #165.

That’s just 32 issues! Since we just had an omnibus announced that collects all the Decimation mini-series, there’s no reason to include them in this map anymore! However, this could optionally also pick up all of Excalibur (2004) #1-15 by Claremont as a prelude to the House of M arc.

Krisis Regrets: I still know this as “The New Age” because that’s what the original trades were called, but that happened 20 years ago! Now fans know this as “Reloaded” – which the era was called in advertising at the time but not on the collections. This is one of my few unforced errors on the X-Men poll (and we’re coming up on the second one).

X-Men: X-Men (1991) by Peter Milligan
See Guide t0 New X-Men & X-Men (2001 – 2008). While Chris Claremont writes Uncanny X-Men, Peter Milligan takes over for Chuck Austen on the adjectiveless title.

This would collect the content of two Peter Milligan trades, Dangerous Liaisons and Blood of Apocalypse (2022 version). They collected X-Men (1991) #166-187, a direct crossover with Black Panther (2005) #8-9, and Cable & Deadpool (2004) #26-27.

Together they add up to under 700 pages, so I think there is a strong chance that the end of Chuck Austen’s run in X-Men (1991) #157-164 (+ 165 from Claremont) could get pushed back into this book.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Ed Brubaker
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. This was my other big goof of the pool – this absolutely should say “Includes Messiah Complex” … or, should it?

If this were to stop prior to Messiah Complex, it would collect X-Men: Deadly Genesis (2006) #1-6 and Uncanny X-Men (1963) #475-491… that’s it! That’s the contents of previous paperbacks Deadly Genesis (160pgs), Rise & Fall of the Shi’ar Empire (320pgs), and The Extremists (120pgs) for a total of 600 pages.

Officially, that is what you are voting for! There’s no question that the X-Men line needs those collected in one place before Brubaker’s team fractures off completely and heads into War of Kings.

Must the omnibus end there? Actually, I’d say it very likely wouldn’t. We’ve already seen that Marvel doesn’t like the idea of collecting Brubaker’s final run along with Matt Fraction’s fun, even though Fraction was co-plotting at that point. So, let’s add Uncanny X-Men (1963) #495-499 – another 160 pages, bringing us to 760 pages.

To me, that feels like the safest bet for what this book might collec.t But… why wouldn’t it collect Messiah CompleX? The only real reason is because the tonal shift from space stuff to Morlocks to “hated & feared” is pretty intense… but we got all of those same shifts from Claremont in the early 80s!

It would be 352 pages to add the full Messiah Complex crossover (X-Men: Messiah CompleX (2008) One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #492-494, X-Men (1991) #205-207, New X-Men (2004) #44-46, X-Factor). That would bring us to 1,112 pages. It would not be completely unreasonable to add all of Endangered Species as well, which is just 136 pages.

However, it could also be that Messiah Complex and Endangered Species are their own book, possibly also including Uncanny X-Men (1963) #495-499 as an epilogue.

Krisis Regrets: I didn’t want to over-tune the mapping around this period, because it’s so complex and contentious, but as a result I left “Messiah Complex” off the poll entirely, which means the “Messiah Trilogy” book is going to get those votes.

That’s fine, but I feel the need to defend myself by saying I made this mistake because it is crushingly obvious to me that “Brubaker” includes Messiah Complex, since Brubaker’s run straddles the event! Sorry for being an X-Fan with a eidetic memory for issue numbers and covers, y’all.

We Missed It (or did we?): X-Men: Messiah CompleX
See the next entry for my thoughts on this!

X-Men: The Messiah Trilogy
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. I purposefully left this title a bit loose so you can picture it either way, because I didn’t want to split votes between Messiah Complex and Messiah Trilogy.

Why? Because… maybe this is one volume… but maybe this is three volumes!

Maybe the first volume is X-Men: Messiah Complex and it includes Messiah Complex and Endangered Species.

Maybe the second volume is X-Men: Messiah War and it includes ALL of the Cable (2008) series in addition to the Messiah War crossover.

Maybe the third volume is X-Men: Second Coming and Second Coming Revelations.

I think with the complete run of Cable and Hope as the middle book in this trilogy it suddenly becomes a much more compelling story, while also giving us a pair of improved X-Men crossover volumes that we really need to see recollected.

However, you don’t have to agree with me! You could want this to literally just jam together all of the three crossovers and none of those supporting books. It would include Messiah Complex and Second Coming with none of the amazing character development that occurred between them to set up Second Coming. Instead, it adds Messiah War, a completely unrelated story with a completely unrelated cast of characters, just because it has “War” in the title.

X-Men: X-Men (1991) by Mike Carey Vol 1 (starts at #188-204, Secret Invasion, & Legacy)
See Guide t0 New X-Men & X-Men (2001 – 2008). A vote for this book is to collect all of Mikey Carey’s X-Men material, starting from the start!

That means beginning before Messiah CompleX, when Carey’s title transformed to X-Men Legacy. That would include X-Men (1991) #188-204 & Annual 1/2007, and maybe also all of Endangered Species, plus X-Men: Secret Invasion (2008) #1-3.

Then, this line would push on to collect all of Carey’s X-Men Legacy from X-Men Legacy (2008) #208-260 & Annual [AKA Giant-Size], X-Men: Odd Men Out (2008), the Original Sin crossover (Wolverine: Origins #28-30 an X-Men Original Sin One-Shot), all of Age of X (Age of X: Alpha (2010), New Mutants (2009) #22-24, and Age of X: Universe (2011) #1-2, and and material from X-Necrosha [AKA Necrosha X] (2009) #1.

Why would you not vote for this book? I think the reason would be that you envision a “X-Men by Brubaker & Carey” omnibus that collects all of their material running up to Messiah Complex, and then the post-Complex Brubaker material would fit with Fraction’s first volume. Personally, I’d prefer that option! But, Marvel seems to think of the Brubaker and Fraction material as distinct from each other based on how they collected the Fraction Complete Collections.

X-Men: X-Men Legacy by Mike Carey, Vol. 1
See Guide to X-Men Legacy. A vote for this book is a vote to begin to collect Mike Carey’s X-Men Legacy only from when the title changed to “Legacy”!

Why is this such a significant distinction? While Carey’s book had a heavy focus on Rogue from the start of his run on X-Men (1991) #188, he tells a complete and well-formed story of Professor X and Rogue in Legacy that exists without many ties to the plot of his first year and a half of stories.

This would collect X-Men Legacy (2008) #208-234 & Annual [AKA Giant-Size], X-Men: Odd Men Out (2008), Wolverine: Origins #28-30, X-Men Original Sin One-Shot, and material from X-Necrosha [AKA Necrosha X] (2009) #1. We don’t need any other Utopia or Necrosha material, because Legacy stories in those events stood alone without crossing over to other titles. To make this a hair longer, we could push beyond Second Coming to collect the next arc in #238-241, but I think pushing to #244 would take away from the setup of Age of X in the next volume.

Then, a second volume would collect material from X-Men Legacy (2008) #238-260 and all of Age of X (Age of X: Alpha (2010), New Mutants (2009) #22-24, and Age of X: Universe (2011) #1-2.) That’s only about 30 issues, so this could do us a solid and also include X-Men Legacy (2008) #260.1 & 261-275 by Christos Gage.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Matt Fraction (2008 – 2011)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. A vote for this book is a vote to collect the beginning of Matt Fraction’s run on Uncanny X-Men through the end of the “Utopia” storyline – basically replicating 1.5 of Matt Fraction’s Complete Collections and adding crossovers and bonus material.

This would collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #500-519 & Annual 2/2009, Utopia material (Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men (2009) Utopia & Exodus, Dark Avengers (2009) #7-8, Dark Reign: The List – X-Men (2009) #1, and material from Dark Reign: The Cabal (2009) #1), as well as adding material left out of his Complete Collections, including Dark X-Men: The Beginning (2009) #1-3 & The Confession and maybe all of Dark X-Men (2009) #1-5.

Also, this could optionally include Carey’s X-Men: Secret Invasion (2008) #1-3 if you assume a Carey omnibus line would include only issues of X-Men Legacy.

X-Men: Second Coming (AKA by Matt Fraction Vol. 2)
See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (1991 – 2011) – The Trade Era. A vote for this book is a vote to collect the end of Matt Fraction’s run on Uncanny X-Men, which includes all of the “Nation X” and “Second Coming” storylines – basically replicating 1.5 of Matt Fraction’s Complete Collections and adding crossovers and bonus material.

Unlike Messiah Complex, which isn’t really a part of any one author’s ongoing story, Second Coming is critical to Fraction’s era of X-Men! It makes no sense to collect the back half of Fraction in oversize format without it.

This would collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #515-534, Dark Reign: The List – X-Men (2009), Nation X (2009) #1-4, Second Coming crossover issues (X-Men: Second Coming (2010) #1-2, New Mutants (2009) #12-14, X-Men Legacy (2008) #235-237, X-Force (2008) #26-28, and material from Second Coming: Prepare (2010) #1), Second Coming tie-in issues (X-Men: Blind Science (2010) #1, X-Men: Hellbound (2010) #1-3, and X-Men: Hope (2010) #1, but not the X-Factor tie-ins, which are unrelated), and Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age (2010) #1.

X-Men: Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2 (AKA by Ellis, Way, Gage, & Liu)
See Guide to Astonishing & Amazing X-Men. A vote for this book is a vote to collect Astonishing X-Men (2004) #25-68 & Annual 1, Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes (2008) #1-2, and Astonishing X-Men: Exogenesis (2011) #1-5,

That’s already over 50 issues, so we probably can’t include a crossover from #60-61 into X-Termination (2013) #1-2 [AKA Alpha & Omega], Age of Apocalypse (2011) #13-14, and X-Treme X-Men (2012) #12-13.

If Ellis’s name could still sell books as heavily as it could a few years ago, I think there would be an argument to only collect the 17 issues of Ellis material, maybe adding in the 8 Way/Gage issues.

Then, a second book could be Pak/Liu, and not only include all of X-Termination, but all of Greg Pak’s X-Treme X-Men (2012) #1-13 & 7.1

That’s why we just said “Vol. 2”!

Krisis Regrets: I forgot to include Pak’s name in the title!

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men (2011) by Kieron Gillen (2011 – 2012)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men into one volume.

Marvel has already mapped this for us in a pair of Gillen Complete Collections, which included S.W.O.R.D. (2009) #1-5; Uncanny X-Men (1963) #534.1 & 535-544; X-Men: Regenesis (2011), and Uncanny X-Men (2011) #1-20, and Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences (2012) #1-5.

That’s 37 issues – a fine omnibus. However, to make this period complete I think we could add Annual 3/2011, Namor: The First Mutant (2010) Annual 1, and Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2010) Annual 1.

And, for that matter, I think there’s argument to be made that Gillen’s Generation Hope (2010) #1-12 belongs here as well, but then we’d be abandoning issues #13-17 by James Asmus – and, all of it together would probably make this too big for Marvel’s taste in modern X-Men omnibuses.

X-Men: X-Men (2010) by Gischler & Wood (2010 – 2012) AKA Curse of the Mutants
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this book is a vote to collect X-Men (2010) #1-41, X-Men Giant-Size (2011) #1, X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Storm & Gambit (2010) #1, X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Smoke & Blood (2010) #1 [originally solicited as “X-Club”], X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Blade (2010) #1, and X-Men vs. Vampires (2010) #1-2.

While the final third of this is written by Brian Wood and could be collected alongside his X-Men (2013) run, Wood is no longer a name that really sells big books, so it probably makes sense to simply collect this whole series in a single book.

X-Men: X-Men Origins
A vote for this book is a volume to collect all of the one-shot X-Men Origins specials from 2008 forward.

That’s a first round of X-Men: Origins – Beast, Colossus, Gambit, Jean Grey, Sabretooth, and Wolverine and a second round of X-Men: Origins – Cyclops, Deadpool, Emma Frost, Iceman, and Nightcrawler.

However, we left this title vague. Could this book also include both Wolverine Origin mini-series? Sure! Should it collect the X-Men Season One OGN? Why not! I think any non-all-ages Origin retelling material would fit into this map.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: Marvel Now X-Men (2013 – 2015)

This section includes all of the main “X-Men” titled books that still need omnibuses from the Marvel Now era, which ran between Avengers vs. X-Men and Secret Wars (2015)

X-Men: Amazing X-Men (2013 – 2015)
See Guide to Astonishing & Amazing X-Men. A vote for this book is a vote to collect Amazing X-Men (2014) #1-19 & Annual 1.

We tried not to “overtune” this poll by proposing our own mappings for books, but personally I think this should be “Wolverine & The X-Men Companion” and add Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha & Omega (2011) #1-5 and Wolverine & The X-Men (2014) #1-12.

X-Men: Marvel Now X-Men by Bendis (both titles)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this book is a vote for a first volume that is a merged “everything by Bendis” collection of Marvel Now X-titles.

This would include All-New X-Men (2012) #1-41, Annual 1, & Special, Uncanny X-Men (2013) #1-35, 600, Annual 1, & Special, all of Battle of the Atom (X-Men Battle of the Atom (2013) #1-2, Wolverine & The X-Men (2011) #36-37, X-Men (2013) #5-6), X-Men: No More Humans (2014) OGN by Mike Carey, Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #11-13, and material from material from X-Men: Gold (2013) #1.

I think that means this would be at least two volumes, if not three! If it extended to three, It could optionally include some or all of Black Vortex, but the existing oversize hardcover line collected none of that crossover along with the All-New X-Men issues.

Krisis Regrets: We should have included “Vol. 1” in the title of this book.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men (2013) by Bendis (2013 – 2015)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this book is a vote to collect Uncanny X-Men (2013) #1-35, 600, Annual 1, & Special and All-New X-Men (2012) Annual 1.

I think it would also make sense to include Mike Carey’s X-Men: No More Humans (2014) OGN in here.

We Missed It: X-Men: All-New X-Men (2012) by Bendis (2012 – 2015)
See Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men. For balance, we should have included this.

This would include All-New X-Men (2012) #1-41, Annual 1, & Special, Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #11-13, and material from material from X-Men: Gold (2013) #1.

X-Men: X-Men (2013) by Brian Wood et al
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this book is a vote to collect X-Men (2013) #1-26 by Brian Wood. It crossed over with Battle of the Atom, but I don’t think that’s required here in full – it belongs in a Bendis omnibus.

I think we could throw Marvel Knights: X-Men (2013) #1-5 in here as a special bonus so it doesn’t get abandoned and since it includes some shared cast members with this run.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: All-New All-Different Marvel X-Men (2015 – 2017)

This era covers “X-Men” titled books running from the end of Secret Wars at the close of 2015 through Inhumans vs. X-Men at the start of 2017.

X-Men: Extraordinary X-Men by Lemire (2016 – 2017)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this is a vote to collect Extraordinary X-Men (2015) #1-20 & Annual 1.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men (2016) by Cullen Bunn (2016 – 2017)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this is a vote to collect Uncanny X-Men (2015) #1-19 & Annual 1 and Civil War II: X-Men (2016) #1-4 (also by Bunn).

Could we merge this omnibus and the prior one? Probably. But, it would be even better if this book included Magneto (2014) #1-21. We didn’t put that in the title because we didn’t want to force people into a map they weren’t interested, but… it’s an obvious add, right?!

We Missed It: X-Men: All-New X-Men (2015) by Dennis Hopeless (2016 – 2017)
See Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men. A vote for this is a vote to collect All-New X-Men (2015) #1-20 & Annual 1.

I think there’s a strong argument to make that this should push forward into ResurrXion to also collect Hopeless’s Jean Grey (2017) #1-11

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: X-Men – ResurrXion (2017 – 2019)

This section covers the mapping of the entire “ResurrXion” era that stretched from the end of Inhumans vs. X-Men to just prior to the start of the Age of Krakoa.

X-Men: ResurrXion – X-Men Blue (2017 – 2018)
See Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men. A vote for this book is a vote to collect X-Men Blue (2017) #1-36 & Annual 1, Venomized (2018) #1-5 (which is effectively an extra arc of this series when the young team disappears from the main title), and Extermination (2018) #1-5 (which completes this story).

X-Men: ResurrXion – X-Men Gold (2017 -2018)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). A vote for this book is a vote to collect X-Men Gold #1-36 & Annual 1-2, X-Men Prime (2017) #1, & X-Men: The Wedding Special (2018) #1.

If you argued that this should also include all of Mr. and Mrs. X (2018 – 2019) #1-12 I wouldn’t tell you you were wrong!

Or, you could argue this should include all of Generation X (2017) #1-9 & 85-87, since it was also based in the re-located mansion. Again, no arguments here!

We probably can’t include both, though.

X-Men: ResurrXion – Astonishing X-Men (2017 – 2018)
See Guide to Astonishing & Amazing X-Men. A vote for this book is a vote to collect Astonishing X-Men (2017) #1-12 by Charles Soule & Matthew Rosenberg’s Astonishing X-Men (2017) #13-18 & Annual 1.

That’s only a 19 issue book. I think there’s a very good argument to be made that this should also include Tom Taylor’s X-Men Red (2018) #1-11 & Annual 1, in which case it should also include Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey (2017) #1-5.

Why? Because then this book is all about bringing back both Charles Xavier and Jean Grey! Of course, Taylor is a huge name on his own, so maybe that 12-issue title would get its own omnibus.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men (2018) by Rosenberg et al (2018 – 2019, including Rosenberg minis)
See Guide to X-Men Flagship Titles (2010 – 2019). This would collect Rosenberg’s entire multi-title X-Men epic from New Mutants: Dead Souls (2018) #1-5, Multiple Man (2018) #1-5, Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey (2017) #1-5, Astonishing X-Men (2017) #13-18 & Annual 1, Uncanny X-Men (2018) Annual 1 & #11-22, and War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men (2019) #1-3.

That’s 38 issues, so this could probably also include Uncanny X-Men (2018) #1-10, which probably makes more sense here than in an Age of X-Men omnibus.

Also, I think there’s an argument to segregate Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey (2017) #1-5 from this material and place it into an X-Men Red book instead.

X-Men: The Age of X-Man (2019 Event)
See Guide to X-Man – Nate Grey. A vote for this book is a vote to collect the entire Age of X-Men 2019 event!

This would collect Age of X-Man (2019) Alpha #1 & Omega #1, The Amazing Nightcrawler (2019) #1-5, Apocalypse and the X-Tracts (2019) #1-5. The Marvelous X-Men (2019) #1-5, Nextgen (2019) #1-5, Prisoner X (2019) #1-5, and The X-Tremists (2019) #1-5.

If we’re being honest, this probably also ought to include all of Uncanny X-Men (2018) #1-10 to make complete sense.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: X-Men – The Age of Krakoa

Obviously there are a lot of potential omnibus volumes to map from the Age of Krakoa! This is not a definitive map of every possible omnibus, even with me adding in a few that we missed! Please look out for a future post with a complete mapping of the period once the entire era is over.

X-Men: X-Men Legends (2021 – 2023)
X-Men Legends was two separate series of classic creators creating canonical extensions of their old stories to pick up loose plot threads. That included legends like Larry Hama, Fabian Nicieza, Louise Simonson, and Ann Nocenti!

This would include X-Men Legends (2021) #1-12 and X-Men Legends (2022) #1-6.

Personally, I think it would be cool if an omnibus included 1-2 issues of the classic stories that lead into these retcons stories. That would create an awesome reading experience!

X-Men: House of X / Power of X
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. We already have an oversize hardcover of this book, but it wasn’t an omnibus! We’ve seen Marvel return to “omnibize” their X-Men hardcovers many times, sometimes just reproducing them verbatim (like Fall of the Mutants), other times merging them with other content (like Inferno + Inferno Crossovers = Inferno Omnibus).

Of course, this would collect House of X (2019) #1-6 and Powers of X (2019) #1-6, all of which were double-sized issues or longer, which means the existing collection is already 448pgs. Perhaps an omnibus could include some more behind the scenes material, penciled pages, or similar bonuses to make it an attractive buy.

If you think this should include even more material, that’s totally cool! But a vote for this book is primarily a vote to have all 12 of these issues in omnibus.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – X-Men by Gerry Duggan (2021 – 2024)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. You are voting for a book that would collect a minimum of Gerry Duggan’s X-Men (2021) #1-25 and X-Men: Hellfire Gala (2022) #1.

This is the main thread of X-Men following the existing Jonathan Hickman omnibus.

You could argue that this should also include X-Men (2021) #25-35, X-Men: Hellfire Gala (2023) #1, issues of Duggan’s Invincible Iron Man (2022), and all of Fall of the House of X (2024) #1-5. This book could absolutely contain all of that material and it would make for a fine read! However, there’s also a chance it would be collected in a single “Fall of the House of X” omnibus. We wanted to be sure voting for this option would work for folks regardless if they want to see that book.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa by Al Ewing (SWORD, X-Men Red)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. You are voting for a book that would collect a minimum of Al Ewing’s SWORD (2021) #1-11, Cable: Reloaded (2021) #1, X-Men Red (2022) #1-18, and maybe also X-Men: Before the Fall (2023) Heralds of Apocalypse #1.

This is the main thread of Ewing’s cosmic X-Men.

You could argue that this should also include the rest of the “Last Annihilation” event from Guardians of the Galaxy (2020) #16-18, The Last Annihilation: Wiccan & Hulking (2021) #1, and The Last Annihilation: Wakanda (2021). However, these had much more to do with Guardians of the Galaxy than with the event that only really impacted SWORD #7 and the Cable one-shot.

You could also argue that this should include all of The Resurrection of Magneto (2024) #1-4. It’s effectively a final arc to X-Men Red! However, there’s also a chance it would be collected in a single “Fall of the House of X” omnibus. We wanted to be sure voting for this option would work for folks regardless if they want to see that book.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – by Kieron Gillen (Immortal X-Men et al)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. You are voting for a book that would collect a minimum of Kieron Gillens’s Immortal X-Men (2021) #1-18 and X-Men: Before the Fall (2023) Sinister Four #1.

I’d argue it also needs X-Men: Hellfire Gala (2022) #1 for context, though that was written by Duggan.

There’s also a chance this could (and should) contain some or all of Gillen’s Judgment Day content from A.X.E.: Judgment Day (2022) #1-6, A.X.E.: Avengers (2022) #1, A.X.E.: X-Men (2022) #1, A.X.E.: Eternals (2022) #1, A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment (2022) #1, A.X.E.: Judgment Day Omega (2022) #1, A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants (2022) #1-3, A.X.E.: Starfox (2022) #1 and material from Free Comic Book Day 2022: Avengers/X-Men 1 (A.X.E. story).

You could also argue that this should include all Rise of the Powers of X (2024) #1-5, X-Men Forever (2024) #1-4, and Steve Foxe’s Dead X-Men (2024) #1-4. However, there’s also a chance it would be collected in a single “Fall of the House of X” omnibus. We wanted to be sure voting for this option would work for folks regardless if they want to see that book.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa by Simon Spurrier (Way of X, Legion of X, Uncanny Nightcrawler)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. You are voting for a book that would collect Simon Spurrier’s Way of X (2021) #1-5, X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation (2021) #1, Legion of X (2022) #1-10, X-Men: Before the Fall (2023) Son of X #1, Uncanny Spider-Man (2023) #1-5, and X-Men Blue (2023) Origins #1.

This is the entirety of Spurrier’s run focused on Nightcrawler and Legion. Personally, I think it should also include X-Men (2019) #7 as a prologue, since so much of what Spurrier does with Kurt launches out of that issues.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Mauraders by Duggan & Orlando
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. You are voting for a book collect Marauders (2019) #1-27, King in Black: Marauders (2021) #1, Devil’s Reign: X-Men (2022) #1-3, and Marauders (2022) #1-10 & Annual 1. Maybe also X-Men: Before the Fall (2023) Mutant First Strike #1.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa by Tini Howard (2019 – 2023)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. This would collect Excalibur (2019) #1-26, X-Corp (2021) #1-5, Knights of X (2022) #1-5, Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain (2023) #1-5, and The Secret X-Men (2022) #1.

You could argue that this should also include all of X of Swords, which is very much an Excalibur event. I wouldn’t say you were wrong!

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – The New Mutants (2019 – 2023)
See Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men. This would collect New Mutants (2019) #1-33, Children of the Atom (2021) #1-6, and New Mutants: Lethal Legion (2023) #1-5.

We Missed It: X-Men: Age of Krakoa – X-Force by Benjamin Percy
See Guide to X-Force. This would collect X-Force (2019) #1-50.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Wolverine by Benjamin Percy
See Guide to Wolverine. This would collect Wolverine (2020) #1-40, X Lives of Wolverine (2022) #1-5, X Deaths of Wolverine (2022) #1-5, Ghost Rider/Wolverine Alpha (2023) #1, Ghost Rider (2022) #17, and Ghost Rider/Wolverine Omega (2023) #1

Krisis Regrets: We should have titled this “X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Wolverine by Benjamin Percy” to match the other Krakoa omnibuses.

We Missed It: X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Wolverine vs. Sabretooth by Benjamin Percy & Victor LaValle
See Guide to Sabretooth. This would collect Sabretooth (2022) #1-5, Sabretooth & the Exiles (2022) #1-5, and “Sabretooth War” from Wolverine (2020) #41-50.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa X-Factor by Leah Williams (2021 – 2022)
See Guide to X-Factor. This would collect X-Factor (2020) #1-10, X-Men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) #1-5, and X-Terminators (2022) #1-5

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Dawn of X, Vol. 1 (Anthology)
X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Dawn of X, Vol. 2 (Anthology)
X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Dawn of X, Vol. 3 (Anthology)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. These would collect all of material from the 16 Dawn of X anthology trades, which covered all of the initial launch series up to (but not including) X of Swords.

A vote for these books doesn’t have to assume these would be in the EXACT SAME ORDER as the anthology trades. The reading order could be improved in an omnibus with a broader range of content.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Reign of X, Vol. 1 (Anthology)
X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Reign of X, Vol. 2 (Anthology)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. These would collect all of material from the 14 Reign of X anthology trades, which covered all of the material starting after X of Swords.

A vote for these books doesn’t have to assume these would be in the EXACT SAME ORDER as the anthology trades. The reading order could be improved in an omnibus with a broader range of content.

Krisis Regrets: I goofed and we should have included a third volume based on length, but I think if you vote for these AND Trials the point gets across just fine.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Trials of X, Vol. 1 (Anthology)
X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Trials of X, Vol. 2 (Anthology)
X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Trials of X, Vol. 3 (Anthology)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. These would collect all of material from the 12 Trials of X anthology trades, which covered all of the material starting after the first Hellfire Gala.

A vote for these books doesn’t have to assume these would be in the EXACT SAME ORDER as the anthology trades. The reading order could be improved in an omnibus with a broader range of content.

We Skipped It: X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Destiny of X, Vol. 1-3 (Anthology)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. We skipped this because people only have 10 votes and there were already 8 anthologies on the poll! Also, this was the anthology line of trades that Marvel stopped publishing midway through the line so there is no obvious map.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Fall of X (Anthology)
See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa. A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of the 2023 Fall of X period into one book.

That would include a minimum of X-Men: Before the Fall (2023) One-Shots (Heralds of Apocalypse, Mutant First Strike, Sinister Four, Sons of X), X-Men: Hellfire Gala (2023) #1, and the limited series Alpha Flight (2023) #1-5, Astonishing Iceman (2023) #1-5, Children of the Vault (2023) #1-5, Dark X-Men (2023) #1-5, Jean Grey (2023) #1-4, Realm of X (2023) #1-4, and Uncanny Avengers (2023) #1-5, Uncanny Spider-Man (2023) #1-5.

That’s 42 issues – already a very big book!

I’d argue that Wolverine (2020) #36-40 and X-Force (2019) #43-47 have virtually nothing to do with the Fall of X, although we could certainly fit them if needed. It depends on if this is an Anthology book meant to collect the entire line, or a book meant to capture issues that won’t be duplicated in other omnibuses.

Similarly, Immortal X-Men (2022) #14-18, X-Men Red (2022) #14-18, X-Men (2021) #25-29, Ms. Marvel: New Mutant (2023) #1-4, plus relevant tie-ins issues of Duggan’s Invincible Iron Man (2022) are all tightly connected and would add more than 20 issues of additional content to fit into this anthology!

Since they’re all more critical to the end-game of this era, I think we could instead see them in a “Fall of the House of X / Rise of the Powers of X” omnibus alongside 38 issues of Fall of the House of X (2024) #1-5, Rise of the House of X (2024) #1-5, Resurrection of Magneto (2024) #1-4, Dead X-Men (2024) #1-4, X-Men Forever (2024) #1-4, and X-Men (2021) #30-35.

Comments

Red1116 says

April 7, 2024 at 5:18 pm

Sorry if this came up somewhere else already, maybe on YouTube comments, which I haven’t read. But was Eve of Destruction on the poll? Because it’s an OHC that needs to be turned into an omnibus to get reprinted, like Hulk: Dogs of War AKA by Jenkins. If it was on there then I just missed it.

And from the nitpick department (sorry, I don’t mean to be “that guy”), the map for UXM volume 7 (Masterworks 16 and 17) lists the contents of Masterworks 15 and 16. Masterworks 17 has not been announced yet, so far as I can tell.

- krisis says
  
  April 7, 2024 at 7:24 pm
  
  I personally don’t get too wrapped up on “was it ever an official omnibus” the way others do, so generally those books only popped up on the poll if people specifically voted for them or mentioned them in past polls.
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  I never mind corrections – there are 200 pages of guides to look after beyond these blog posts, and I’m bound to make some typos and mis-pastes along the way.
  
  - Red1116 says
    
    April 7, 2024 at 10:33 pm
    
    I understand about not getting wrapped up in that. It’s just that it doesn’t show up on this poll or the NMC reprint poll, and I kind of regret skipping the OHC. I honestly don’t know if I would vote for it, because I don’t know if it would displace any of my votes. But if it got a reprint then I’d be in, so I keep my eye out for it.
    
    Good to know about corrections. I won’t be shy then. ;) jk, I don’t think there’s actually many to find, you’ve already self-identified so many “regrets”
    
    - krisis says
      
      April 8, 2024 at 2:57 pm
      
      I think next year we probably need to do a survey of all of the existing OHCs to find ones that are 400+ pages to consider for the poll (either as-is or with some added material).