Jonathan Hickman

Near Mint Condition announced a Marvel omnibus for May 2027 that sticks with Marvel’s dedication to quickly collecting runs by their hottest creators as soon as they’re completed… plus, a hotly demanded reprint for June 2027: announcing Avengers by Jed MacKay Omnibus plus a reprint of Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 1!

These two books are the absolute peak of modern day Avengers in two different ways. If you are a fan of Avengers on film, these are the sorts of blockbuster runs that will resonate with you as as a comic book reader.

Avengers by Jed MacKay Omnibus collects the complete run of Avengers (2023). This was a familiar, back-to-basics Avengers cast with a very modern sensibility drawn from two big DC flagship teams: Justice League & The Authority.

Like the Justice League, MacKay’s Avengers spent much of this run headquartered above Earth so they could rapidly respond to incidents anywhere around the globe. And, like The Authority, this was a hyper-powerful team who was fighting for the very survival of Earth itself as they try to beat back a series of “Tribulation Events” … predicted by Kang!

I loved absolutely everything about this blockbuster run, which eventually brought Storm back into the fold as an Avenger and broke artist Farid Karami to widespread acclaim. While I appreciate street-level superheroes, I like my flagship superteams big, bold, and fighting for the very survival of the human race!

I don’t quite love absolutely everything about this omnibus, though. That’s because it should absolutely double-dip MacKay’s Blood Hunt (2024) event series in its entirety. The event was effectively a full arc of Avengers (2023), complete with the entire cast! Blood Hunt was absolutely one of the many Tribulation Events that Kang warned the team about, and this book will feel weirdly incomplete without it included.

That said, it’s still a terrific omnibus of strong modern material, including art that absolutely demands to be seen in oversize format (even if the coloring was a bit shit).

Meanwhile, Marvel is also back to print for the second time with Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 1, just four years after a prior reprint in 2023 (which was six years after the first printing in 2017). [Read more…] about Marvel Omnibus Announcement: Avengers by Jed MacKay Omnibus (plus, a reprint of Hickman Avengers!)