X-Men Omnibus Mapping, 2001-2019 | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every X-Men omnibus map for story material from 2001 to 2019 that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus.

To be very clear, this post only deals with books with “X-Men” in the title – and only through the period directly prior to Krakoa! Stories from Krakoa and onward will continue in a post tomorrow. Other X-Teams will be in one of my upcoming posts.

As one of the organizers of the poll, I work closely with Tigereyes and a team of Mapping Minties to be sure Marvel’s entire publishing history has been mapped, with every issue fitting somewhere into an omnibus volume to fill your oversize Marvel shelf. Then, we’ll kick off the poll on Near Mint Condition on March 22, 2026.

We have a wealth of flagship X-Men omnibuses in 2026, but only two books from this 18 year period of comics… and one of them is a wish that turned into a curled monkey’s paw! We’re getting Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen (although it’s one volume without Generation Hope (2010) rather than two) and X-Men: The Messiah Trilogy (which is likely going to be double dipped by four different future omnibuses).

That means we still have a lot of ground to cover when it comes to getting X-Men flagships fully collected from the start of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2001) through the finale of X-Men (2018) prior to House of X / Powers of X (2019).

Read this post and others in the series for a list of titles and omnibus mappings created by a group of the biggest collected edition enthusiasts on the internet. Every map is informed by Crushing Krisis comic guides and over a decade of polling data as explained by yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.

That includes some of the X-Men guides that were part of the original launch of Crushing Comics way back in 2010 – Guide to Uncanny X-Men (2001 – 2011), Guide to New X-Men & X-Men (2001 – 2008), Guide to Astonishing X-Men, Guide to X-Men Legacy, Guide to X-Men (2010 – 2019), Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men.

Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

• X-Men in the 00s prior to Deadly Genesis & Messiah Complex
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men – X-Corps by Joe Casey (2001 – 2002) [AKA New X-Men Companion, could include Icons minis, Unlimited, etc]
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Chuck Austen (2002 – 2005)
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men – Reloaded by Chris Claremont (2004 – 2006) [could include Excalibur (2004)]
  • X-Men: X-Men by Peter Milligan (2005 – 2006) [could include X-Men Unlimited (2004)]
• Uncanny X-Men in the The Messiah Complex / 2nd Coming Era (2008 – 2010)
  • X-Men: X-Men – Road to Messiah Complex by Brubaker & Carey (2006 – 2008) [Deadly Genesis, Rise/Fall, Extremists, Supernovas, etc]
  • X-Men: X-Men – Messiah Complex (2007 – 2008) [Endangered Species + crossover, could continue to UXM #499]
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Matt Fraction Vol. 1 (2008 & on) [includes full Utopia/Exodus]
• Astonishing X-Men & X-Men Legacy in the The Messiah Complex / 2nd Coming Era (2008 – 2010)
  • X-Men: Astonishing X-Men by Ellis, Way, & Gage (2008 – 2011) [AKA Vol. 2]
  • X-Men: X-Men Legacy Vol. 1 by Mike Carey (2008 – 2010)
• The Road to Schism & AvX
  • X-Men: X-Men (2010) by Victor Gischler (2010 – 2013) [AKA Curse of the Mutants, could include Namor]
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen Companion (2011 – 2012) [includes Gen Hope, Schism, X-Club, Not a Hero]
  • X-Men: Astonishing X-Men by Pak & Liu (2012 – 2013) [AKA Vol. 3; includes Pak X-Treme X-Men]
  • X-Men: Wolverine & The X-Men Vol. 2 (2011 – 2015) [includes minis, Amazing, W&tX (2014), etc]
  • X-Men: Storm and the X-Men by Brian Wood & Greg Pak (2012 – 2015) [X-Men 2010 & 2013 by Wood + Storm (2014)]
• X-Men in Marvel Now (2013 – 2015)
  • X-Men: Storm and the X-Men by Brian Wood & Greg Pak (2012 – 2015) [X-Men 2010 & 2013 by Wood + Storm (2014)]
  • X-Men: Wolverine & The X-Men Vol. 2 (2011 – 2015) [includes minis, Amazing, W&tX (2014), etc]
  • X-Men: X-Men by Brian Bendis Companion (2014 – 2015) [No More Humans OGN, Cyclops (2014), Black Vortex, Kitty Pryde in GotG]
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men & Magneto by Cullen Bunn (2014 – 2018) [Magneto solo, UXM 2016, Civil War II X-Men]
• X-Men in All-New All-Different Marvel (2015 – 2017)
  • X-Men: Uncanny X-Men & Magneto by Cullen Bunn (2014 – 2018) [Magneto solo, UXM 2016, Civil War II X-Men]
  • X-Men: All-New, All-Different, Extraordinary X-Men by Hopeless & Lemire (2015 – 2017) [AKA All-New X-Men Vol. 2, All-New, Extraordinary, & IvX]
• X-Men RessurXion & Disassembled (2017 – 2019)
  • X-Men: All-New X-Men – ResurrXion & Extermination by Cullen Bunn (2017 – 2018) [AKA X-Men Blue AKA All-New X-Men Vol. 3]
  • X-Men: ResurrXion Companion (2017 – 2018) [Astonishing by Soule, Red, Black, Gen X, Legion, X-23, & Cable]
  • X-Men: X-Men by Matthew Rosenberg (2018 – 2019) [includes New Mutants, Multiple Man, Astonishing, Uncanny]
  • X-Men: X-Men Disassembled & The Age of X-Man (2018 – 2019) [event omni]

Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to make the books easy to find and to vote for. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific mapping. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.

Want to check out all of the other voting options for the 2026 Tigereyes Poll? Check out my 2026 Tigereyes poll overview page that explains the poll, how to vote, and lists every title that will appear – including links to all of the posts in this series.

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X-Men Omnibus Mapping: X-Men in the 00s prior to Deadly Genesis & Messiah Complex

The 2000s are our problem decade when it comes to X-Men omnibus coverage. See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (2001 – 2011) and Guide to New X-Men & X-Men (2001 – 2008) for the many titles this era includes and witness all of the gaps in the X-Men Flagships.

What we do have is a strong beachhead starting in 2001 with New X-Men Omnibus and X-Treme X-Men Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, followed by Astonishing X-Men by Whedon & Cassaday in 2004. There’s an argument to be made that those represent the main thread of X-Men plots and you don’t need anything else!

However, that means the two traditional X-Men flagships – Uncanny X-Men (1963) and X-Men (1991) – both have many years of material to collect to fill this gap. We have more omnibuses of X-Factor by Peter David from this era than we do of the main two long-running X-Men titles.

Get ready, folks. We have to do some heavy lifting to get this mapped.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men – X-Corps by Joe Casey (2001 – 2002) [AKA New X-Men Companion, could include Icons minis, Unlimited, etc]

Joe Casey’s run that kicked off alongside Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2001) has been previously collected as an X-Men: X-Corps paperback, which contained Uncanny X-Men (1963) #394-409 & Annual 24/2001.

Those are the core issues of this run. However, generally it’s up to omnibuses collecting Uncanny X-Men (1963) to maintain the line’s comprehensive coverage, so the omnibus version of that book would need pick up some other material that risks being abandoned.

Specifically, that has to include X-Men Unlimited (1993) #34-43 and Spidey/Marrow (2001) #1, both of which will be lost if we don’t include them here.

Also, we can pick up Omar’s most-complained-about miss in the X-Men line mapping, X-Men: Magik (2000) #1-4 – which fits just prior to this but was omitted from the X-Men: Eve of Destruction.

That’s 32 issues, which is a perfectly fine omnibus size! However, there is also a lot of other mini-series material that ran alongside Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2001) that could fit here – 47 issues in total!

Clearly, not all of that can fit into one book. But, you can choose your own adventure as to what you think is the most fitting here, versus what you are willing to leave behind for an eventual companion omnibus.

(If I’m making a pitch for any of that in specific, it would be for both Brotherhood (2001) #1-9 and Morlocks (2002) #1-4. They are grounded, grungy takes on the world of mutants that forms a fascinating counterpoint to Casey’s run.)

A vote for this book is primarily a vote to collect Joe Casey’s run of Uncanny X-Men (1963) and the accompanying year of X-Men Unlimited (1993). However, since that yields a relatively short omnibus, this could also act as a catch-all for a massive number of limited series that ran alongside Grant Morrison’s New X-Men.

This would primarily collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #394-409 & Annual 24/2001, X-Men Unlimited (1993) #34-43, Spidey/Marrow (2001) #1,

Also, we can pick up Omar’s most-complained-about miss in the X-Men line mapping, X-Men: Magik (2000) #1-4 – which fits prior to this but was omitted.

However, that’s not all that this book could collect! This could also pick up any amount of Brotherhood (2001) #1-9, X-Men Icon miniseries (Cyclops (2001) #1-4, Iceman (2001) #1-4, Nightcrawler (2002) #1-4, Chamber (2002) #1-4, and Rogue (2001) #1-4), including X-Men: Hellfire Club (2000) #1-4, X-Factor (2002) #1-4, Muties (2002) #1-6, and Morlocks (2002) #1-4.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Chuck Austen (2002 – 2005)

This much-maligned run is actually peak “X-Men as soap opera” comics, with a heavy Manga influence on the art/

Maybe getting it in omnibus would mean people would finally realize it’s not anywhere near the worst of the worst when it comes to X-Men… it just has a few unfortunate plot twists.

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.

However, it would need to also pick up a few more issues of X-Men Unlimited (1993) to complete the Uncanny omnibus line’s coverage of that series.

A vote for this book is a vote for all of Chuck Austen’s X-Men in one place… although. maybe it would leave off his writing on X-Men (1991), which might fit better with the Peter Milligan volume, below.

This book would collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #410-443, New X-Men (2001) #155-156, X-Men (1991) #157-164 (& #165, by Claremont), X-Men Unlimited (1993) #44-50, and maybe Exiles (2001) #28-30 (also by Austen).

However, there’s a chance that X-Men (1991) #157-165 moves into a separate omnibus alongside Peter Milligan’s material from X-Men (1991).

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men – Reloaded by Chris Claremont (2004 – 2006) [could include Excalibur (2004)]

If there’s any omnibus in the 2000s era that I’m surprised we haven’t seen yet, it’s this one!

An entire book of Chris Claremont writing Storm, Bishop, Rachel Summers, Emma Frost, & Betsy Braddock with Alan Davis and Chris Bachalo on art?! That is very easy to market.

I think reception for this run has always been soft because the trades were hard to acquire for a long time until a set of fatter paperbacks appeared in 2018-2019. At that point, any renewed love for this run was muted by the thrum of anticipation of Hickman on X-Men.

Or, maybe this run is just middling? I sure don’t think so – it’s actually one of my favorite runs of X-Men! Some of Claremont’s returns to the franchise could be wordy and discursive, but this one is tight and fun. He gets to focus on all of his favorite characters, plus he plays with Bishop for the first time.

This could continue the convention of collecting all of X-Men Unlimited (2004) along with the Uncanny X-Men line, but in this case I think it could be a better fit to include that non-Claremont material with an omnibus of X-Men (1991).

Instead, it would make a lot of sense to include Claremont’s Excalibur (2004) starring Xavier and Magneto here in full, which entirely a prelude to House of M (which happens during this book with an arc that, coincidentally, focuses on Captain Britain

This run ends with Claremont departing and Ed Brubaker continuing the plots of Deadly Genesis (2006) into “The Rise & Fall of the Shi’ar Empire.”

A vote for this volume is a vote for the some of the scant remaining in-continuity Chris Claremont X-Men material yet to see oversize coverage!

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.

This could easily pick up the entirety of Excalibur (2004) #1-14 by Claremont as a prelude to the House of M arc of Uncanny included here. Alternately, it could include all of X-Men Unlimited (2004) #1-14, which released alongside this run.

X-Men: X-Men by Peter Milligan (2005 – 2006) [could include X-Men Unlimited (2004)]

While Chris Claremont was writing Uncanny X-Men (1963), Peter Milligan took over for Chuck Austen on the adjectiveless X-Men (1991).

Milligan writes a somewhat somber take on the X-Men, although he also brings Apocalypse back for his first big arc in nearly a decade with “Blood of Apocalypse.”

This would collect the content of two Peter Milligan trades, Dangerous Liaisons and Blood of Apocalypse (2022 version). That’s just 25 issues of material, so there is some room to include more here!

One solution is to pull all of X-Men (1991) #157-165 up to here instead of collecting it in the preceding Chuck Austen omnibus.

Another is to collect all of X-Men Unlimited (2004) #1-14 here, which is a better tonal fit with Milligan’s material than with Claremont’s

Or, this could turn into a sort of “Astonishing X-Men Companion” to collect material that includes the core Cyclops/Emma team, since they star in this run at the same time as Whedon’s Astonishing.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect a minimum of all of Peter Milligan’s run in one oversize hardcover… but maybe a lot more than that!

This would collect a minimum of X-Men (1991) #166-187 and a direct crossover with Black Panther (2005) #8-9. Milligan’s trades of this run also include Cable & Deadpool (2004) #26-27.

However, it might make sense for this to simply begin with X-Men (1991) #157-165 so all of this period of the series is collected in a single book.

To that this could add all of X-Men Unlimited (2004) #1-14. Or, it could act as an “Astonishing X-Men Companion” and add Giant-Sized X-Men (1975 / 2005) #3-4, a story from Free Comic Book Day: 2006 – X-Men/Runaways, Phoenix: Endsong (2005) #1-5, Phoenix: Warsong (2006) #1-5, and Mythos: X-Men (2006) #1.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: Uncanny X-Men in the The Messiah Complex / 2nd Coming Era (2008 – 2010)

This is my favorite era of X-Men and in 2026 we finally have a pair of omnibuses to show for it.

One, Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen, is one of my favorite runs of X-Men of all time.

The other, X-Men: The Messiah Trilogy, is an unholy abomination that wasted a spot on the release schedule to collect a bunch of material we are going to see double-dipped in four other omnibuses.

I blame y’all for voting for it.

Even with those two tentpoles of this period established, this still remains one of the most complicated eras of X-Men to map into Omnibus. See Guide to Uncanny X-Men (2001 – 2011) for all the gory details.

Luckily, I have fellow X-Men lover JM21 still on deck to help with maps. He really perfect things for last year’s poll, and now we’re just tweaking them lightly. To help you see the light the way JM21 helped me, let me break down the logic of his mapping. First we’ll start with a pair of relatively uncontroversial assumptions:

• We know Marvel thinks of Fraction as starting at Uncanny X-Men (1963) #500 and not #495 based on his trades and ending at UXM #534 per the start of the new Gillen omnibus. That means we need a home for UXM #495-499. (This is actually pretty controversial with me, but I’ve learned to let it go.)
• X-Men Legacy (2008) by Mike Carey doesn’t especially benefit from being anthologized with Uncanny X-Men (1963) from X-Men Legacy (2008) #208 on, since it is so strongly focused on Professor X & Rogue. It’s only during Nation X leading into Second Coming where Rogue is a factor in UXM.

That means we have four very obvious post-Messiah Complex omnis – two volumes each of Fraction and Carey. Thus, we find ourselves with a distinct set of leftovers to deal with in the period immediately surrounding Messiah Complex:

• X-Men: Deadly Genesis (2005), which starts after the conclusion of Millgan’s run.
• Civil War: X-Men (2006), which occurs immediately after Deadly Genesis for characters on Earth.
• Uncanny X-Men (1963) #475-486 AKA “The Rise & Fall of the Shi’ar Empire,” which occurs immediately after Deadly Genesis for characters off of Earth. This leads into War of Kings.
• Uncanny X-Men (1963) #487-491, which highlights Storm while Astonishing X-Men (2004) was wrapping up.
• X-Men (1991) #188-204, AKA “Supernovas” & “Blinded by the Light” by Mike Carey, which is after Civil War: X-Men (2006)
• “Endangered Species” back-up stories, which happen immediately prior to Messiah Complex
• Messiah Complex itself, if it gets reprinted
• Uncanny X-Men (1963) #495-499
• Various Post-Messiah Complex minis prior to Fraction

Here is where I put my thumb on the scale a bit. I see two specific books in there – all of the stuff LEADING to Messiah Complex (which even if you ditch the War of Kings stuff is still at the very least Civil War, X-Men: Marauders material, + the never recollected Extremists), and then Messiah Complex (including Endangered Species) and a brief epilogue.

There are other ways to map it – certainly Blinded by the Light also works as a prologue to Messiah Complex, but now we’re just shifting 5 issues back and forth between two books.

I’m not saying that JM21 & I are right and everyone else is wrong. There’s no clear right/wrong when it comes to X-Men mapping. But, I think based on collection trends from Marvel, the breaks in the material, and how people are voting, we have the right titles for moment until the new piece of it gets announced in omnibus. And, the titles are loose enough that if people want to think about moving a few issues from one to another in their personally preferred mapping, they don’t explicitly exclude that.

X-Men: X-Men – Road to Messiah Complex by Brubaker & Carey (2006 – 2008) [Deadly Genesis, Rise/Fall, Extremists, Supernovas, etc]

I don’t know why it took me so long to understand that this makes sense as the next sequential X-Men omnibus, but now that I see it I cannot go back.

This material has always had a combined trio of problems: it’s too significant, too popular, and too short.

Ed Brubaker’s X-Men material is relatively brief, and three quarters of it are already collected in the War of Kings omnibus line. The remainder of his run in “Extremists” in Uncanny X-Men (1963) #487-491 is a quick’n’dirty Morlocks brawl that doesn’t fit with any other material from this period.

Do we recollect the War of Kings material? I think we have to, since many more readers will buy an X-Men book than bought that trio of cosmic books.

Next, we know from above that Civil War: X-Men (2006) #1-4 has to fit here, because it’s happening in the middle of that Brubaker material.

Meanwhile, Mike Carey’s “Supernovas” and “Blinded by the Light” in X-Men (1990) are a pair of intense fan-favorite runs that people desperately want to see collected in omnibus. But, we’ve already had an oversize hardcover of most of them, and pushing them to be a part of an X-Men Legacy Omnibus line not only is a tonal mismatch, but also makes it less feasible to collect that entire line into two volumes.

Duh… why not just combine both of those runs into one place?!

This could optionally include all of the “Endangered Species” back-up stories, but I think it makes much more sense to include them along with Messiah Complex itself. However, if you look at the title of this and say “Hey, that should include Endangered Species,” I wouldn’t tell you that you were wrong.

Instead, if we want to get totally wild, we could also double-dip all of Brubaker’s material from War of Kings here with X-Men: Emperor Vulcan (2007) and X-Men: Kingbreaker (2008). That actually makes a ton of sense to me, as it gives more closure on Brubaker’s spacebound X-Men squad and gives readers a reason to seek out “War of Kings” as a follow-up instead of the abrupt ending of “Rise and Fall.”

However, I wouldn’t suggest collecting War of Kings (2009) here, which is not by Brubaker and no longer an X-Men story. At that point, I think you simply need to commit to buying that existing event book to follow the rest of the plot.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect the two flagship runs that lead up to Messiah Complex. They really aren’t a “prologue” to Messiah Complex. More like a couple of smaller roads that eventually feed into an X-Men super-highway.

This book would collect Ed Brubaker material from X-Men Deadly Genesis (2005) #1-6, “Rise and Fall of the Shi’Ar Empire” (Uncanny X-Men (1963) #475-486), and “The Extremists” (Uncanny X-Men (1963) #487-491).

It would add Civil War: X-Men (2006) #1-4, which takes place after Deadly Genesis.

It would also collect Mike Carey’s “X-Men: Supernovas” (X-Men (1991) #188-199 & Annual 1/2007) and “Blinded by the Light” (X-Men (1991) #200-204).

Optionally, this could double-dip further Brubaker material from the War of Kings omnibus line with X-Men: Emperor Vulcan (2007) #1-5 and X-Men: Kingbreaker (2008) #1-4.

X-Men: X-Men – Messiah Complex (2007 – 2008) [Endangered Species + crossover, could continue to UXM #499]

This is a straightforward map that fans have demanded for an eternity, since the Messiah Complex oversize hardcover has been out of print for 15 years now!

You have “Endangered Species,” a story told in back-ups across the entire line to summarize the dire straits of the mutant race and set up Messiah Complex, and then you have Messiah Complex – the first major direct crossover through the entire X-Men line in nearly a decade.

All done, right?

Well… in the spirit of expanding crossovers into full omnibuses, both JM21 and I think there’s a solid case that this could include an epilogue of the remaining Uncanny X-Men issues prior to #500 – which have never been collected along with the post-500 Matt Fraction material that follows this run.

If you think that some of Mike Carey’s preceding run from X-Men (1991) should also be included here as a prologue… well, great! We don’t agree, but this title doesn’t preclude that.

A vote for this book is a vote to gather the complete Messiah Complex saga into a single book for the first time… maybe with a little something extra.

First, this would collect the prelude of “Endangered Species” from X-Men: Endangered Species (2007) #1 and backup stories from X-Men (1991) #200-204, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #488-491, X-Factor (2005) #21-23, New X-Men [Academy X] (2004) #40-42.

Then, this would collect Messiah Complex from X-Men: Messiah CompleX (2007) One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #492-494, X-Men (1991) #205-207, New X-Men [Academy X] (2004) #44-46, X-Factor (2005) #25-27, Marvel Spotlight: Messiah Complex (2007) #1, and X-Men: Messiah CompleX – Mutant Files (2007) #1.

Finally, it could include epilogue material from Uncanny X-Men (1963) #495-499, X-Men: Divided We Stand (2008) #1-2, the “Get Mystique””arc of Wolverine (Wolverine (2003) #62-65, already collected by Wolverine by Jason Aaron, but a direct epilogue to this story), and the much-later Cable (2008) #25 AKA Deadpool/Cable #25, which is a direct epilogue to this story.

This book could also include Mike Carey’s initial run on X-Men (1991) #188-204, and Annual (2007) 1. However, that is also mapped into the “Road to Messiah Complex” Omnibus elsewhere on this poll.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Matt Fraction Vol. 1 (2008 & on) [includes full Utopia/Exodus]

Now that we finally have a good map of Messiah Complex as well as an official Marvel map of Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen, Matt Fraction’s era on X-Men kinda maps itself.

It wouldn’t be the worst thing to have to start this with Uncanny X-Men (1963) #495-499, which I’ve always considered to be the unofficial start of this run. However, it has never been collected with Fraction’s run before and there’s no reason to think Marvel would start now. I won’t keep fighting that losing battle.

Instead, this would start cleanly with the blockbuster Uncanny X-Men (1963) #500 and collect through the full Utopia/Exodus crossover with Dark Avengers.

It should also include X-Men: Secret Invasion (2008), which is by Mike Carey but doesn’t fit at all with his X-Men Legacy material since it’s about Cyclops in San Francisco.

This could include the X-Men Legacy (2008) #226-227 tie-in to Utopia. While it is not part of the direct crossover, it helps to give context on how Rogue becomes involved with the main team again, which becomes critically important in the issues that follow.

Where JM21 and I disagree is whether this should continue after Utopia. I think that the finale of Utopia/Exodus is an epic place to stop and I love the following “Nation X” arc, so I don’t want to split it up. JM21 has very thoughtfully decided to break “Nation X” in half so that the portion of it that has more to do with Utopia’s fallout appears here, and the rest appears in the next volume.

Either way, I think this is a good book that will please many X-Men fans!

A vote for this book is a vote for the first half of Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men, which includes the full Utopia/Exodus event!

This would collect a minimum of Uncanny X-Men (1963) #500-514 & Annual 2/2009, the “”Utopia”” crossover and supporting material (Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men (2009) Utopia & Exodus, Dark Avengers (2009) #7-8, X-Men Legacy (2008) #226-227, and material from Dark Reign: The Cabal (2009) #1), as well as adding material left out of the Matt Fraction Complete Collections, including X-Men: Manifest Destiny Nightcrawler (2009) #1, X-Men: Manifest Destiny (2008) #1-5, X-Men: Secret Invasion (2008) #1-4, Dark X-Men: The Beginning (2009) #1-3 & The Confession, and maybe all of Dark X-Men (2009) #1-5.

This might also collect some or all of Uncanny X-Men (1963) #515-519, Dark Reign: The List – X-Men (2009) #1, and Nation X (2009) #1-4. Or, that could all be in a second volume.

Then, the second volume would primarily collect Uncanny X-Men (1963) #515-534, the entirety of “Second Coming” crossover with #523-525 (from 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), all of the Second Coming mini-series and one-shots (from X-Men: Blind Science (2010) #1, X-Men: Hellbound (2010) #1-3, and X-Men: Hope (2010) #1), Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age (2010) #1, and X-Men: To Serve and Protect (2010) #1-4.

Optionally, it could also include “Journey to the Negative Zone” (Uncanny X-Men (1963) Annual 1/2011, Namor: The First Mutant (2010) Annual 1, and Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2010) Annual 1), since it is not in the Gillen omnibus. However, that might be better collected alongside Generation Hope.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: Astonishing X-Men & X-Men Legacy in the The Messiah Complex / 2nd Coming Era (2008 – 2010)

At the same time Matt Fraction was writing the center ring of the mutant race in San Francisco his run on Uncanny X-Men (1963), two supporting titles helped to add more mutant adventures with a wider, more global scope.

For more information on these runs, check out the Guide to Astonishing X-Men and the Guide to X-Men Legacy.

X-Men: Astonishing X-Men by Ellis, Way, & Gage (2008 – 2011) [AKA Vol. 2]

Astonishing X-Men tried to hang on to its identity as a prestige title with a run by Warren Ellis, but what it really wound up hanging onto is its trend of coming out very, very, very slowly. Ellis turned in two arcs, a supporting two-shot, and then a mini-series that was meant to be an additional arc than got spun off on its own.

Subsequently, after “Second Coming”, the title was revived to tell a pair of stories by Daniel Way & Christos Gage in alternating issues that wrapped up prior to Schism.

It makes sense to cut this book off there, since the remainder of it is by Greg Pak, Marjorie Liu, and then Liu crossing over with Pak. That means this is exactly the length of the first Astonishing X-Men omnibus.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Warren Ellis’s Astonishing X-Men in oversize format for the first time, with a little treat of the Way/Gage material at the end.

This would collect Astonishing X-Men (2004) #25-43, Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes (2008) #1-2, and Astonishing X-Men: Exogenesis (2011) #1-5

X-Men: X-Men Legacy Vol. 1 by Mike Carey (2008 – 2010)

In the wake of Messiah Complex, Mike Carey transformed his run on X-Men (1991) into X-Men Legacy (2008).

This title leaned into the “Legacy” part of its name by taking a deep dive into a pair of individual characters, unpacking their history, their personalities, and their powers.

It started with Professor Xavier in probably the most thrilling run of Xavier-focused comics until Krakoa. Then, it shifted focus to Rogue and began a multi-year rehabilitation of her character into the strongest and most-consistent version we’d ever seen to that point.

We don’t need any other Utopia or Necrosha material for this run to make sense, because Legacy stories in those events stood alone without crossing over to other titles. Even though this book is relatively short, it doesn’t make sense to push past “Second Coming,” because the status quo of Rogue and the X-Men is so wildly different after the event.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to finally collect this first half of this hotly-demanded Mike Carey material in omnibus for the first time!

This would collect X-Men Legacy (2008) #208-234 & Annual [AKA Giant-Size], X-Men: Odd Men Out (2008) #1, the “Original Sins” crossover (X-Men Original Sin (2008) One-Shot and Wolverine: Origins (2006) #28-30), and material from X-Necrosha [AKA Necrosha X] (2009) #1.

Then, a second volume would collect X-Men Legacy (2008) #238-260, 260.1, & 261-275 and all of of Age of X (Age of X: Alpha (2010) #1, New Mutants (2009) #22-24, and Age of X: Universe (2011) #1-2)

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: The Road to Schism & AvX

After Second Coming, the X-Men seemed united in strength… but really they were about to split right down the middle with the impending “Schism” between them.

We already have the flagship book in this period with Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen

X-Men: Astonishing X-Men by Ellis, Way, & Gage (2008 – 2011) [AKA Vol. 2]

As mentioned above, the latter half of this run occurs after “Second Coming” but before “Schism.”

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Warren Ellis’s Astonishing X-Men in oversize format for the first time, with a little treat of the Way/Gage material at the end.

This would collect Astonishing X-Men (2004) #25-43, Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes (2008) #1-2, and Astonishing X-Men: Exogenesis (2011) #1-5

X-Men: X-Men (2010) by Victor Gischler (2010 – 2013) [AKA Curse of the Mutants, could include Namor]

After Second Coming, Marvel wanted to break the X-Men out of their own bubble of continuity that kept them separated from the rest of Marvel’s books for all of the 2000s except for in House of M.

To accomplish that, Marvel relaunched an adjectiveless X-Men (2010) series by Victor Gischler that deliberately mashed the X-Men up with different characters from across the Marvel Universe in each arc.

You’ll note that we’ve definitively split this up from the Brian Wood material at the end of the run. That’s because all of this Gischler material is long enough and consistent enough to stand on its own, whereas the subsequent Wood series X-Men (2013) is not long enough to exist without the rest of his material from this run.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Victor Gischler’s run on X-Men (2010) in full.

This would collect X-Men (2010) #1-29 & 15.1, X-Men Giant-Size (2011) #1, and “Curse of the Mutants” AKA “vs Vampires” material from Death of Dracula (2010) #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, X-Men vs. Vampires (2010) #1-2, Deadpool (2008) #30-31, Namor: The First Mutant (2010) #1-4, and the epilogue series, Wolverine & Jubilee (2011) #1-4.

Realistically, we could simply collect all of Namor: The First Mutant (2010) #1-11 here so it exists in full within the X-Men line in addition to in Namor’s own omnibus line. Gischler also wrote Wolverine: Revolver (2009) #1, which could also appear here.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen Companion (2011 – 2012) [includes Gen Hope, Schism, X-Club, Not a Hero]

Now that we know what’s in the Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen omnibus, we have to deal with what is not in it.

There was one potential world where that omnibus was split across two volumes so it could incorporate all of Gillen’s Generation Hope (2010) as well as X-Men: Schism (2011). That would have been my preference, but now we have to work with what we’ve got.

A vote for this book is to collect all of Generation Hope (2010), as well as much added context for Kieron Gillen’s run from other supporting mini-series not penned by him.

This would collect the story of Hope and her team of Five Lights from Generation Hope (2010) #1-17 and “Journey to the Negative Zone” (Uncanny X-Men (1963) Annual #1/2011, Namor: The First Mutant (2010) Annual #1, and Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2010) Annual #1), unless that was included as the final material in Fraction Vol. 2.

This would also collect the context around Schism for Cyclops and his “Extermination Team” from X-Men: Prelude to Schism (2011) #1-4 (which can only fit in this book), X-Men: Schism (2011) #1-5 (which is by Aaron and currently only in his Wolverine omnibus line), X-Club (2011) #1-5, and Magneto: Not a Hero (2011) #1-4.

X-Men: Astonishing X-Men by Pak & Liu (2012 – 2013) [AKA Vol. 3; includes Pak X-Treme X-Men]

I used to struggle with how the remainder of Astonishing X-Men (2004) ought to be collected after the end of the Whedon/Cassaday/Martin run.

There wasn’t enough room in one book for all of Astonishing from Ellis’s start on issue #25 through the end of the series at #68 with the “X-Termination” crossover included.

Would that means shoving the crossover into a book with X-Treme X-Men (2012) and Age of Apocalypse? That wouldn’t sell very well.

Mapping Mintie JM21 cracked this problem in 2025 by doing something obvious… which is why it’s nice to have people to collaborate with, even if you both have similar knowledge.

He split the Astonishing book just prior to Greg Pak’s brief single arc from issues #44-47. Since that Pak arc starts after Schism and spawns his X-Treme X-Men (2012), we can now include that series in full here with a perfect excuse to include the entire “X-Termination” crossover – since two of its three titles are in this omnibus.

I am a massive fan of both of those runs. Liu took a team of B- and C-list X-Men (Karma! Northstar! Warbird!) and turned them into a messy family unit stuck in adventures spawned from their pasts while the major X-Men teams took care of flashier problems. And, Pak gave Dazzler her best material in years… if not decades… in a run that challenged her to be a pragmatic leader who had to make occasionally deadly decisions.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect the remainder of Astonishing X-Men (2004) by Marjorie Liu & Greg Pak into one book, which is also a perfect excuse to include X-Treme X-Men (2012).

This would collect Astonishing X-Men (2004) #44-68 & Annual 1, X-Treme X-Men (2012) #1-13 & 7.1, X-Termination (2013) #1-2 [AKA Alpha & Omega], and Age of Apocalypse (2011) #13-14.

That’s about 44 issues, so it could also optionally include a further 14 issues of Uncanny X-Force (2010) #19.1, Age of Apocalypse (2012) #1-12 and material from Point One (2011) #1. That would mean all three threads of the X-Termination crossover were contained in this book. Otherwise, the Age of Apocalypse material could wind up abandoned.

X-Men: Wolverine & The X-Men Vol. 2 (2011 – 2015) [includes minis, Amazing, W&tX (2014), etc]

I will never hesitate to point out that the Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron omnibus was one of Marvel’s all-time quickest omnibus turnarounds. The omnibus was released on June 17, 2014 and the final issue it contains was released on February 26, 2014.

That means it was solicited before the final issue was out.

In hindsight, Marvel could have done a better job with mapping it. The omitted an obvious pick-up of the mini-series Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha & Omega (2011), which occurred alongside the run. And, Jason Aaron had just leapt from Wolverine & The X-Men (2011) to pen Amazing X-Men (2014), the opening arc of which could’ve easily fit in with his omnibus.

However, that leaves us with a perfect omnibus worth of material to create a X-Men: Wolverine & The X-Men Vol. 2! This can collect Aaron’s arc on Amazing X-Men (2014) as well as all of the rest of Amazing X-Men (2014), plus two sequel series to Aaron’s school-focused ongoing.

There’s a chance some of this material would be better mapped alongside the scant X-Men (2013), but since this is almost all focused on Wolverine (or his absense) it feels like it makes sense collected in one place rather than alongside yet another X-Men ongoing.

A vote for this book is a vote to finally complete The Marvel Now era collection of Wolverine’s time at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, gathering together a lot of abandoned content in the process.

This would collect Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha & Omega (2011) #1-5, Amazing X-Men (2014) #1-19 & Annual 1, All-New Doop (2014) #1-5, Wolverine & The X-Men (2014) #1-12, Spider-Man & The X-Men (2014) #1-6.

X-Men: Storm and the X-Men by Brian Wood & Greg Pak (2012 – 2015) [X-Men 2010 & 2013 by Wood + Storm (2014)]

This is a book where there is no “right” answer, which has led us to double dip some of its content into two different spots on the poll.

This book would collect the back third of X-Men (2010) starting with issue #30. The run was mostly by Brian Wood with Storm as the main character. It ran parallel to Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men (2011) and to Avengers vs. X-Men (2012) – though it never explicitly tied in with the event.

That’s only 11 issues! Why aren’t we adding them to the Victor Gischler book above here?

Because Brian Wood’s continuation into X-Men (2013) was just 26 issues, and we don’t need all of them in this omnibus. At the most, we’d have 24 issues, and possibly just 19 issues – since one arc after Wood left the book is collected in X-Men by Marc Guggenheim.

Now we have 30 issues. Is that it for this omnibus?

One argument is that this should absorb Amazing X-Men (2014) #1-19 & Annual 1 – another Storm-anchored run of traditional X-Men adventures that had a different tone than Bendis’s pair of flagships in this period.

Another argument would be the keep the focus on Storm and include Greg Pak’s spectacular Storm (2014) #1-11 here. However, we’ve also suggested that could be mapped with Uncanny X-Force (2013).

Ultimately, if this book performs poorly this year, we will likely eliminate it from the poll next year. It’s technically an ambiguous “map ahead,” which we are generally trying to avoid.

A vote for this book is a vote for all of Brian Wood’s run on X-Men in one place, which finishes collecting X-Men (2010) and collects all of X-Men (2013). The supporting material that gets added to that is up to your imagination.

This would collect collect X-Men (2010) #30-41 and X-Men (2013) #1-26, possibly omitting X-Men (2013) #5-6 (in Uncanny X-Men by Brian Bendis) and #18-22 (in X-Men by Marc Guggenheim). Then, this would continue to Storm (2014) #1-11 by Greg Pak.

Alternately, this could collect Amazing X-Men (2014) #1-19 & Annual 1 instead of Storm (2014).

Brian Wood also wrote Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha and Omega (2011) #1-5, which fits better into a Wolverine & The X-Men Companion but could also be placed at the start of this book. More essential, I think Marvel Knights: X-Men (2013) #1-5 fits very well here – it features most of this team.

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

Before 2025, we had barely a fifth of X-Men flagships in Marvel Now covered in omnibus. Our only book was Wolverine & The X-Men by Jason Aaron, which extended from the Heroic age into half of Marvel Now.

However, in 2025 Marvel announced a pair of books that cover the majority of the flagship X-Men gap in this period – All-New X-Men by Brian Bendis and Uncanny X-Men by Brian Bendis. Now, we have the entire core of flagship X-Men collected in this period! See Guide to X-Men (2010 – 2019) and Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men for coverage of all of those titles.

That means we’ve actually seen the other two books we need to complete the period already… they’re literally the prior two books in this list! But, for the sake of being comprehensive, let’s mention them again.

X-Men: X-Men (2010 & 2013) by Brian Wood et al (2012 – 2015)

The last book from the period above is actually the first book in this period too, since it collects X-Men (2013) – the first uncollected flagship material from Marvel Now.

A vote for this book is a vote for all of Brian Wood’s run on X-Men in one place, which finishes collecting X-Men (2010) and collects all of X-Men (2013). The supporting material that gets added to that is up to your imagination.

This would collect collect X-Men (2010) #30-41 and X-Men (2013) #1-26, possibly omitting X-Men (2013) #5-6 (in Uncanny X-Men by Brian Bendis) and #18-22 (in X-Men by Marc Guggenheim). Then, this would continue to Storm (2014) #1-11 by Greg Pak.

Alternately, this could collect Amazing X-Men (2014) #1-19 & Annual 1 instead of Storm (2014).

Brian Wood also wrote Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha and Omega (2011) #1-5, which fits better into a Wolverine & The X-Men Companion but could also be placed at the start of this book. More essential, I think Marvel Knights: X-Men (2013) #1-5 fits very well here – it features most of this team.

X-Men: Wolverine & The X-Men by Aaron Companion (2011 – 2015) [includes minis, Amazing, W&tX (2014), etc]

Similarly, we also need this book from above for its collection of Amazing X-Men (2014) and Wolverine & The X-Men (2014), which both count as flagships since they were main runs starring characters like Wolverine and Storm with “X-Men” in the title.

A vote for this book is a vote to finally complete The Marvel Now era collection of Wolverine’s time at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, gathering together a lot of abandoned content in the process.

This would collect Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha & Omega (2011) #1-5, Amazing X-Men (2014) #1-19 & Annual 1, All-New Doop (2014) #1-5, Wolverine & The X-Men (2014) #1-12, Spider-Man & The X-Men (2014) #1-6.

X-Men: X-Men by Brian Bendis Companion (2014 – 2015) [No More Humans OGN, Cyclops (2014), Black Vortex, Kitty Pryde in GotG]

Collecting the remainder of Marvel Now X-Men truly is an exercise in gathering a number of scraps left behind by other books.

In the case of this book, the main reason for it to exist is to capture the X-Men: No More Humans (2014) OGN by Mike Carey. As a sequel to the “Battle of the Atom” crossover, it is absolutely outrageous this was left out of Uncanny X-Men by Brian Bendis.

Then, we have the potentially orphaned Cyclops (2014) #1-12 by Greg Rucka. That book features not the adult revolutionary Cyclops, but the teen Cyclops from All-New X-Men (2012). Again, this would’ve been a great add-on to All-New X-Men by Brian Bendis. Alas, that book was exclusively Bendis material.

If we’re collecting Cyclops (2014) here, we could go whole hog and collect all of Black Vortex here as well, rather than trying to cram it into a Guardians of the Galaxy by Brian Bendis Vol. 2 omnibus. It’s as much an X-Men story as a Guardians story, so it makes just as much sense here than there.

Finally, there’s the trio of specials that formed the “No End in Sight” mini-series, not penned by Bendis.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect any material starring the casts of the flagship Marvel Now X-Men books by Brian Bendis that was not captured in his pair of omnibuses.

This could collect X-Men: No More Humans (2014) OGN; the “No End In Sight” specials (Uncanny X-Men Special (2014) #1, Iron Man Special (2014) #1, and Nova Special (2014) #1); Cyclops (2014) #1-12; the full Black Vortex crossover (Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: Black Vortex (2014) Alpha & Omega, Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #24-25, Legendary Starlord (2014) #9-11, All-New X-Men (2012) #38-39, Guardians Team-Up (2015) #3, Nova (2013) #28, Captain Marvel (2014) #14).

Optionally, this could include more of Kitty Pryde’s story as a Guardians of the Galaxy, which spins out of All-New X-Men (2012) and features heavily through Black Vortex. That would double-dip a variety of Guardians material into this book, including Legendary Star Lord (2014) #6-8, Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #26-27, Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) #1-5, Starlord (2015) #6-8 and material from Legendary Starlord (2014) #1-5, Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) #6-12 & 19, Starlord (2016) #1 and Guardians of Infinity (2015) #5-6 & 8.

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men & Magneto by Cullen Bunn (2014 – 2018) [Magneto solo, UXM 2016, Civil War II X-Men]

I’ll talk more about this in the next section, since it doesn’t technically a flagship book from this period. However, it does collect Magneto (2014), which is a major title in this period and acts as a sibling book to Bendis’s Uncanny X-Men (2013).

This would collect Magneto (2014) #1-21, Uncanny X-Men (2015) #1-19 & Annual 1, and Civil War II: X-Men (2016) #1-4. It could also optionally collect the Secret Wars (2015) series House of M (2015) #1-4, by Dennis Hopeless.

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

Before 2025, the landscape of omnibuses for the period of X-Men from Marvel Now through Krakoa was bleak. Some side teams and characters scored their own books, like All-New Wolverine by Tom Taylor, but the main line of flagships had nothing. See my Guide to X-Men (2010 – 2019) for more details.

Now, we’ve got a solid third of the flagships collected in three books – All-New X-Men by Brian Bendis. Uncanny X-Men by Brian Bendis, and X-Men Gold (2017) in X-Men by Marc Guggenheim. But, that leaves us with a lot more material to collect from the flagship X-Men books!

X-Men: Uncanny X-Men & Magneto by Cullen Bunn (2014 – 2018) [Magneto solo, UXM 2016, Civil War II X-Men]

This book is primarily a collection of Uncanny X-Men (2015) by Cullen Bunn, which is one of three flagship X-Men titles in All-New All-Different Marvel Now, starting late in 2015.

That volume is only 20 issues, which makes it a collecting dilemma. Do we try to lump all three flagships into one massive 60-page book? If we did, we’d lose the flexibility to include anything else in there, including Civil War II: X-Men (2016), also by Bunn.

Luckily, having Bunn’s name attached to this gives us a very obvious set of additional material to include – Magneto (2014). This is another “too short for omnibus” run at #21 issues, so it makes a perfect omnibus combined with Bunn’s Uncanny.

Magneto’s first solo ongoing series existed to the side of Bendis’s run on Uncanny X-Men (2013) and it quickly turned into a sleeper hit – Bunn’s most-popular Marvel title to that point that didn’t star Deadpool! With Gabriel Hernandez Walta on most of the art duties, Bunn crafted a dark, personal, morally grey run that saw Magneto struggling with his dichotomy as heroic leader of the mutant race and villainous mutant terrorist and separatist.

Bunn continued those themes with Magneto into the much flashier run on Uncanny X-Men (2015) with Greg Land on most of the art duties. It featured a “slice first, question later” team of Betsy Braddock as Psylocke, a somewhat good Sabretooth, and an overconfident Monet.

The great thing about collecting all of this as one book is it makes a perfect two book set with Bunn’s next run on X-Men Blue (2017), which continues to feature Magneto.

A vote for this book is a vote to completely collect the first half of Cullen Bunn’s Magneto saga in one book, which will marry perfectly to an X-Men Blue omnibus on the other side.

This would collect Magneto (2014) #1-21, Uncanny X-Men (2015) #1-19 & Annual 1, and Civil War II: X-Men (2016) #1-4. It could also optionally collect the Secret Wars (2015) series House of M (2015) #1-4, by Dennis Hopeless.

XX-Men: All-New, All-Different, Extraordinary X-Men by Hopeless & Lemire (2015 – 2017) [AKA All-New X-Men Vol. 2, All-New, Extraordinary, & IvX]

With Bunn’s Uncanny X-Men (2015) out of the way in a book that merges it with his Magneto (2014), we’ve cleared the way to easily collect the other two flagships of this period.

I can already hear you starting to argue… “Why put these together? They don’t have anything to do with one another!”

To which I would reply: Au contraire, mon ami! Actually, these runs fit together perfectly.

Jeff Lemire drafts teen Jean Grey from the “All-New” squad into his Extraordinary X-Men (2015), which means if you want to follow up your read of Bendis’s All-New X-Men Omnibus you need to read both of these series to get the full story of his characters.

And Lemire’s book was anchored by Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Old Man Logan, but the stories actually mostly focused on younger X-Men – not only Teen Jean, but also Magik, Anole, Glob Herman, and others. Magik actually winds up being the featured star of the majority of the series.

Plus, both of these books leaned hard into the time travel elements of the “Apocalypse Wars” linewide theme, whereas Bunn’s book stayed in the present day.

Basically, this is All-New X-Men Vol. 2 by Dennis Hopeless & Jeff Lemire.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect the more youthful two thirds of the All-New All-Different era flagships into a single volume that also acts as a direct sequel to Brian Bendis’s All-New X-Men Omnibus.

This would collect All-New X-Men (2015) #1-20 & Annual #1 and Extraordinary X-Men (2015) #1-20 & Annual #1, as well as Death of X (2016) #1-4 and Inhumans vs X-Men (2016) #0-6 (both by Lemire).

Some of this book’s cast participates in Civil War II: X-Men (2016) #1-4, but that is written by Cullen Bunn.

X-Men Omnibus Mapping: X-Men RessurXion & Disassembled (2017 – 2019)

We went from zero omnibus coverage of RessurXion in Omnibus to having one big hunk taken care of in X-Men by Marc Guggenheim, which mostly collects X-Men Gold (2017). See Guide to X-Men (2010 – 2019) for details.

That means we need roughly four more books to collect all of the “X-Men” titles from this pre-Krakoa period.

X-Men: All-New X-Men – ResurrXion & Extermination by Cullen Bunn (2017 – 2018) [AKA X-Men Blue AKA All-New X-Men Vol. 3]

This is the easiest book to map in this period now that we’ve found a good solution for mapping the All-New X-Men content that fits between Bendis and Bunn.

A vote for this book is a vote for a comprehensive collection of the final chapter of the All-New X-Men’s time in the present day, which is written entirely by Cullen Bunn except for the final story, Extermination (2018), by Ed Brisson.

This would 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).

It could optionally add all of Jean Grey (2017) #1-11, already collected in Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of Jean Grey, but also part of the overall All-New X-Men storyline.

X-Men: ResurrXion Companion (2017 – 2018) [Astonishing by Soule, Red, Black, Gen X, Legion, X-23, & Cable]

Here’s the skinny: X-Men ResurrXion was a status quo that ran from early 2017 to the launch of Krakoa in mid-2019. Despite lasting just a hair over two years, it was packed with X-Men comics – especially because many of them double-shipped.

So far, from this period we have collected just X-Men Gold (2017) and Jean Grey (2017). However, it’s clear that some other material in this period fits together well – X-Men Blue (2017) with Extermination (2018), Weapon X (2017) with Weapon H (2018), X-Force (2018) with Gail Simone’s pair of Domino series (and maybe also Cable (2017), and all of Matthew Rosenberg’s material other than perhaps Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey (2017) (which doesn’t fit in with the rest of his saga).

That leaves us with an uneven amount of remaining material to handle.

Those leftovers are primarily anchored by a blockbuster arc by Charles Soule on Astonishing X-Men (2017) that brought back Professor X, and Jean Grey’s return (by Matthew Rosenberg) and subsequent team in X-Men Red (2018) (by Tom Taylor) after 15 years away.

Those two runs make for a perfect omnibus together – the return of Profession X and Jean Grey! However, that book is still a somewhat slim at 30 issues. There is a host of other material from this period – 70 issues worth – that have no obvious home in an omnibus.

Rather than try to force those books into ambiguous maps, we’ve just combined them all into one “Companion” volume – and you can decide for yourself what you think it ought to contain versus what is better collected elsewhere. One specific run in there is X-23 (2018) #1-12, which would make a lot of sense with those 30 issues because Laura is in Jean’s X-Men Red squad around the same time as her run.

A vote for this book is primarily a vote to collect all of Astonishing X-Men (2017) and X-Men Red (2018) in one place, but there’s a lot more it could include!

This would primarily collect Astonishing X-Men (2017) #1-12 by Charles Soule (but not Matthew Rosenberg’s Astonishing X-Men (2017) #13-18), Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey (2017) #1-5, Astonishing X-Men (2017) Annual 1 (a lead-in to Red), X-Men Red (2018) #1-11 & Annual 1

It could also include some amount of Generation X (2017) #1-9 & 85-87, Cable (2017) #1-5 & 150-159, Legion (2018) #1-5, X-23 (2018) #1-12, Iceman (2017) #1-11, Iceman (2018) #1-5, Legion (2018) #1-5, Mr. and Mrs. X (2018) #1-12, & X-Men Black (2018) #1-5 (really, a series of villain one-shots for Magneto, Mojo, Mystique, Juggernaut, & Emma Frost – with a back-up story for Apocalypse).

X-Men: X-Men by Matthew Rosenberg (2018 – 2019) [includes New Mutants, Multiple Man, Astonishing, Uncanny]

Matthew Rosenberg wrote an ambitious multi-title run of X-comics with themes that continued from title to title and that eventually culminated in a brutal, often joyless run of Uncanny X-Men (2018).

Little did we know at the time that “brutal and joyless” was on purpose, to set us up for the delight of Krakoa bringing everyone back to the family.

Does knowing about the existence of Krakoa excuse how cruelly this run treats many X-Men characters? I don’t know. It has so many sad endings for various X-Men that it really feels like the end of the line. Some people might really enjoy that, but others will find it upsetting since this book ends on a downer note without the foreknowledge of what Krakoa is about to bring.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Matt Rosenberg’s entire entire multi-title X-Men epic into one place for the first time.

This would collect 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) #13-17 & Annual 1, Uncanny X-Men (2018) Annual 1 & #11-22, and War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men (2019) #1-3.

We could include Uncanny X-Men (2018) #1-10 here, which was co-written by Rosenberg with Kelly Thompson and Ed Brisson. However, it’s almost certainly required to introduce an Age of X-Man omnibus, so it’s up to you if you’d like to see it double-dipped.

X-Men: X-Men Disassembled & The Age of X-Man (2018 – 2019) [event omni]

This would begin with collecting the weekly “X-Men Disassembled” arc that launched Uncanny X-Men (2018) and then collect the full “Age of X-Man” event that it spawned, in a very similar collection map to the original X-Men: Age of Apocalypse omnibus.

Because Apocalypse is a major player here, it might make sense to also collect the X-Men Black (2018) one-shots as the prologue to this book.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of the Age of X-Man in one book for the first time, including its 10-issue prelude in Uncanny X-Men (2018)

This would collect Uncanny X-Men (2018) #1-10, 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.

It might also make sense to collect X-Men Black (2018) #1-5 here (really, a series of villain one-shots for Magneto, Mojo, Mystique, Juggernaut, & Emma Frost – with a back-up story for Apocalypse).

Don’t worry, I’m not done with X-Men maps! Come back tomorrow for the Age of Krakoa and the first mappings of From the Ashes!