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Every Missing X-Men Solo Omnibus, Mapped – Cable, Gambit, Rogue, Storm, & more! | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 23, 2025 by krisis

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every X-Men Solo omnibus that does NOT exist (other than Wolverine) – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

For the next two weeks, I’ll be covering Marvel’s entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your Marvel oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot on Near Mint Condition on April 28, 2025.

What teams are we talking about? I’m so glad you asked! This posts includes potential omnibus volumes for Apocalypse, Bishop, Cable, Domino, Emma Frost, Gambit, Juggernaut, Kitty Pryde, Magik, Maverick, Mister Sinister, Mystique, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Sabretooth, Storm, X-Man – Nate Grey, and more!

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for a list of books vetted by a gang of the biggest mapping nerds on the internet with explanations from yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

Some of the mapping and research in this post was conducted by JM21, a major CK supporter and a massive, massive X-Men fan! JM21 is also a supporter of the UK charity Men Walking & Talking, which helps to create safe space for men to discuss their mental health and wellness. If you love this post and have a bit of extra comics cash you can spare consider donating the Men Walking & Talking today!

Every Missing Wolverine Omnibus, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 23, 2025 by krisis

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Wolverine omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

2025 brought us a pair of big gap-filling omnibuses for Wolverine’s most-popular mutant! Wolverine Vol. 6 gets us within maybe two volumes of completing Wolverine (1988) in omnibus. And, Wolverine: Return of Wolverine Omnibus collected just about all of Wolverine there is to collect from 2015 to the start of Krakoa.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

Every Missing X-Men Team Omnibus, Mapped – X-Force, X-Factor, New Mutants, & more! | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 22, 2025 by krisis

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every X-Men Team omnibus that does NOT exist (other X-Men themselves) – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

What teams are we talking about? I’m so glad you asked! This post covers Excalibur, Exiles, Generation X, New Mutants, New X-Men – Academy X, Weapon X, X-Factor, X-Force, and all of Krakoa’s non-flagship team books.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

Every Missing X-Men Omnibus from 2001 – Present, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 21, 2025 by krisis

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every X-Men omnibus from 2001 to present that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

To be very clear, this post only deals with books with “X-Men” in the title! Other X-Teams will be in one of my upcoming posts.

Just counting omnibuses with the actual word “X-Men” in the title, we’ve had a staggering ten announced for 2025 or early 2026. But, see if you can spot the pattern in these books: X-Men: Blue & Gold – Mutant Genesis, X-Men: Onslaught Aftermath, Cosmic X-Men, X-Men by Marc Guggenheim All-New X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis, Uncanny X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis, X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Dawn of X Vol. 1, X-Men by Al Ewing, X-Men by Gerry Duggan, X-Men: Fall of The House of X / Rise of The Powers of X.

Plus, a reprint of the House of X / Powers of X oversize hardcover – a rare occurence! And, without X-Men in the name but still collecting X-Men issues is Phoenix: The Death And Rebirth of Jean Grey.

All but two of those omnibuses focus on the period covered in this post! We suddenly have coverage for the orphaned Young X-Men (2008), a complete omnibus map of Brian Bendis’s X-Men, all of X-Men Gold (2017), half of the four major legs of Krakoan continuity from 2022-2023, and a Krakoa-era anthology line!!!

That’s a lot of X-Men books! But, weirdly, about half of them were not very hotly demanded – both on the poll and by fans in general.

I think that’s a good thing. It shows that Marvel is pacing themselves when it comes to X-Men books and that they know they still have some major, fan-pleasing runs to release in the coming years.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

This post would not be possible without research, mapping, and writing from JM21, a major CK supporter and a massive, massive X-Men fan! I have been mapping and re-mapping these books on my own for more than a decade and JM21’s fresh perspective helped me finally and for the first time land on a map of 2010 to 2012 that makes complete sense!!! JM21 is also a supporter of the UK charity Men Walking & Talking, which helps to create safe space for men to discuss their mental health and wellness. If you love this post and have a bit of extra comics cash you can spare consider donating the Men Walking & Talking today!

Every Missing X-Men Omnibus from 1963 – 2000, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 21, 2025 by krisis

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every X-Men omnibus from 1963 to 2000 that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

To be very clear, this post only deals with books with “X-Men” in the title – and only through 2000! Books from 2001 will be in a post later today. Other X-Teams will be in one of my upcoming posts.

Plus, plus a reprint of the House of X / Powers of X oversize hardcover – a rare occurence! And, without X-Men in the name but still collecting X-Men issues is Phoenix: The Death And Rebirth of Jean Grey.

Look at all of those books one more time and then try to spot the theme.

If you said “only one those collect newly-oversized material from before the year 2000,” you get a free milkshake!

Well, it’s not actually free. You’re going to have to buy it yourself. But… it’s a milkshake!

Only X-Men: Onslaught Aftermath collects previously non-oversize pre-2000 material. X-Men: Blue & Gold – Mutant Genesis collects some 90s X-Men in an outstandingly well-mapped way. And, Phoenix: The Death And Rebirth of Jean Grey does collect some newly-oversized mid-00s material (though I’d still want to see it elsewhere). But, Marvel’s attention in this slate of books is mainly on the period from 2013-2024.

That means we still have some major books to pick off to fully collect the rest of the two flagship X-Men titles through the year 2000, after which the line relaunched with New X-Men (2001) and X-Treme X-Men (2001). Plus, there are still many recollections of existing oversize material we could wind up seeing – including more classic Uncanny X-Men Masterworks omnibuses, more line-wide omnibuses, and two more volumes of Blue & Gold!

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

This post would not be possible without the help of JM21, a major CK supporter for the past decade and a massive, massive X-Men fan! I have been mapping and re-mapping these books on my own for more than a decade, and JM21’s fresh perspective got me unstuck on several persistent mapping annoyances in the X-line. JM21 is also a supporter of the UK charity Men Walking & Talking, which helps to create safe space for men to discuss their mental health and wellness. If you love this post and have a bit of extra comics cash you can spare consider donating the Men Walking & Talking today!