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 Wolverine omnibus map for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll. Plus – Daken, Old Man Logan, & X-23!
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.
Wolverine is having another good year of omnis in 2026, keeping up his pace of three books per year – although they are technically spread across three different characters: Logan in Wolverine: Not Dead Yet [AKA Vol. 7], Akihiro in Daken: Dark Wolverine, and the Wasteland future Logan in Old Man Logan Vol. 1.
With Marvel keeping up an annual pace of release on Wolverine’s classic omnis, we’re only one book away from complete Logan coverage through 2003! However, that doesn’t mean we can relax. We still have essentially all of 2003 to 2008 to cover in omnibus, plus some key gaps in Marvel Now and Krakoa. Plus, there’s more to collect for Laura Kinney as Wolverine, plus Daken and Old Man Logan.
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 my Guide to Wolverine – Logan, Guide to Wolverine – Laura Kinney AKA X-23, Daken – Akihiro & Dark Wolverine, & Guide to Old Man Logan.
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:
- Wolverine (1998) in Omnibus
- Wolverine by Jeph Loeb (1995 – 2011) [Victims + various Loeb arcs/stories]
- Wolverine Vol. 8 – Return of Weapon X (2001 – 2003) [follows Not Dead Yet]
- Logan as Wolverine in the 2000s
- Wolverine: Marvel Knights Vol. 1 (2002 & on) [AKA Vol. 9, begins to collect 2003 series & minis]
- Wolverine Origins by Daniel Way (2005 – 2010)
- Wolverine & The X-Men: First Class (2008 – 2010) [retcon YA comics]
- Logan as Wolverine from 2012 to Present
- Wolverine: Savage Wolverine (2013 – 2014) [AKA Death of Wolverine Companion, could also include one-shots, mini, post-Aaron onoing]
- X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Wolverine by Benjamin Percy (2020 – 2023)
- Deadpool & Wolverine (1994 – 2025) [shared titles + major fights]
- Laura Kinney, Wolverine Omnibus Mapping
- X-Men: NYX by Quesada & Liu (2003 – 2008) [NYX & No Way Home]
- X-Men: ResurrXion Companion (2017 – 2018) [Astonishing by Soule, Red, Black, Gen X, Legion, X-23, & Cable]
- X-Men: From the Ashes – NYX, The Wolverine & Ms. Marvel Omnibus (2024 – 2025) [includes NYX, Giant-Size one-shots, Laura Kinney, Deadpools & Wolverines]
- Daken, The Hellverine Omnibus Mapping
- Wolverine: The Hellverine (2023 – 2024) [includes Weapons of Vengeance]
- Old Man Logan Omnibus Mapping
- Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 2 – Dead Man Logan by Ed Brisson (2017 – 2019)
- Wolverine: Old Man Logan Companion – The Wastelanders (2018 – 2022) [includes Old Man Hawkeye & Quill]
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.
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Wolverine Omnibus Mapping: Wolverine (1998) in Omnibus
We’ve come a long way since the astonishing 11-year gap between Wolverine Vol. 1 in 2010 and Wolverine Vol. 2 in 2021.
In large part thanks to a wager between the Uncanny Omar and Marvel Collected Editions chief David Gabriel, in 2021 Marvel tested the Waters with their first classic Wolverine omnibus in over a decade and it was an instant sell-out. Why all the caution? Because Wolverine’s original 2010 omnibus was a slow seller that was on clearance for years before it went completely out of stock.
That was a different time with fewer collectors, and the book as a peculiar hodgepodge of material. Now collectors want complete bookshelves, and Marvel has heard them loud and clear. We’ve had at least one classic Wolverine omnibus every year since 2021, as well as some truly surprising picks to get other Logan omnis on the shelves throughout the year.
That means we are now just ONE BOOK AWAY from completing his entire 1988 ongoing series, which would make it the third lengthy 80s X-Men ongoing to be completely in omnibus, alongside New Mutants (1983) and Excalibur (1988). See Guide to Wolverine – Logan for more details.
Wolverine Vol. 1-6 and Wolverine: Not Dead Yet [AKA Vol. 7] all fit here – Guide to Wolverine – Logan for collection details.
Wolverine by Jeph Loeb (1995 – 2011) [Victims + various Loeb arcs/stories]
I don’t see the point of recollecting these three disparate Wolverine runs into one book when we’ve had two of them collected repeatedly on their own AND they will all appear in other omnibus lines.
Some people just enjoy Jeph Loeb and want a complete shelf of his work. Personally, I’m hoping this book drops in the rankings this year so we can remove it from the poll.
This would collect Wolverine (1988) Annual 1996, Wolverine/Gambit: Victims (1995) #1-4, Wolverine (2003) #50-55 & material from 900, and Wolverine (2010) #310-313.
Wolverine Vol. 8 – Return of Weapon X (2001 – 2003) [follows Not Dead Yet]
We didn’t know if it was possible, but Marvel is going very big on the effective Wolverine Vol. 7 AKA “Not Dead Yet” out in June. At 1,392 pages it is the largest classic Wolverine omnibus yet by nearly a 100-page margin.
That map means great things for us as collectors! Last year before the book was announced we were not sure if the remainder of Wolverine (1988) could be collected in just two volumes. Now, we know for sure that will be the case.
This book weighs in at 936pgs from Epic Collection Vol. 14-15, plus another 248 pages of Wolverine: The Origin (2001) if they follow the Epic map and include it here with the full contents of its deluxe edition.
That leaves us at 1,184 – the size rank of past Wolverine omnis, but below the massive size of Not Dead Yet.
That means Marvel has the chance to include another 8-10 issues in this book. As it happens, there are seven two to five issue mini-series in this same period, many of which had an unusual indie-comics flare to them.
One of those series, Wolverine/Hulk (2002), was a Marvel Knights title and would be better placed into the next omnibus. Another, Wolverine/Doop (2003) #1-2, really only belongs in the X-Statix Omnibus, where it is already collected. And, Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive (2002) #1-4 has nothing to do with Wolverine, we’d just be following the convention of collecting an earlier Sabretooth mini in this line,
How do we decide between the remaining mini-series? Just pick the earliest two – Wolverine: Netsuke (2002) #1-4 and Hulk/Wolverine: Six Hours (2003) #1-4? By reading chronology, they are placed as follows:
- Logan appears in Wolverine/Hulk (2002) #1-4 [a Marvel Knights series] after Wolverine (1988) #182
- Logan does not appear in Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive (2002) #1-4
- Logan appears in Wolverine: Netsuke (2002) after Wolverine (1988) #186
- Logan appears in Hulk/Wolverine: Six Hours (2003) after Wolverine (2003) #6
- Logan appears in Wolverine/Doop (2003) after Wolverine (2003) #6
- Logan appears in Wolverine: Xisle (2003) #1-5 after Wolverine (2003) #6
- Logan appears in Wolverine: Snikt! (2003) after Wolverine (2003) #6
(Intriguingly, in reading order he appears in the later released Wolverine/Captain America (2004) prior to the Doop mini).
Based on that assessment, it seems clear that the two series to include are Wolverine/Hulk (2002) #1-4 (if it’s allowed, as a Marvel Knights series) and Wolverine: Netsuke (2002).
A vote for this volume is a vote to complete Marvel’s eight-volume collection of Wolverine from 1982 through 2003, which would make this line the longest complete line of omnibuses from Marvel for any title!
This would collect Wolverine (1988) #159-189 & Wolverine Annual 2000-2001 and possibly also Wolverine: The Origin (2001) #1-6 (because it was collected in the Epic Collection line, and these omnibuses follow Epic mapping).
In addition to the Epic mapping, Marvel could add any of Wolverine/Hulk (2002) #1-4 [Marvel Knights], Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive (2002) #1-4, Wolverine: Netsuke (2002) #1-4, Hulk/Wolverine: Six Hours (2003) #1-4, Wolverine/Doop (2003) #1-2, Wolverine: Xisle (2003) #1-5, and Wolverine: Snikt! (2003) #1-5
Both Wolverine/Hulk (2002) and Wolverine: Netsuke (2002) occur during the reading order of this omnibus, even though they were not included in the Epic Collection mapping.
Weapon X: The Return spins out of this run, though it does not include much of Wolverine. See Guide to Weapon X.
Wolverine Omnibus Mapping: Wolverine in the 2000s
While we have a few Wolverine omnibuses from the mid-00s, they aren’t comprehensive collections of Wolverine (2003). And, actually, two of them collect the same thing! Wolverine by Mark Millar collects Millar’s two disparate arcs on that title, separated by a few years. And, Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 1 collects the second half of that omnibus before turning to the present day Adventures of Old Man Logan starting in 2016.
Things get a little clearer starting in 2009, where Wolverine by Jason Aaron Vol. 1, Wolverine Goes To Hell [AKA Aaron Vol. 2], and Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron [AKA Aaron Vol. 3] collect Wolverine through 2014.
Notice that I said “just about.” We have two (or three?) other omnis to add to this accounting beyond needing to collect all of Wolverine (2003). Let’s dig in.
Wolverine: Marvel Knights Vol. 1 (2002 & on) [AKA Vol. 9, begins to collect 2003 series & minis]
We left this title open-ended so it can be whatever you need it to be to complete your Wolverine shelf. That’s partly because this topic is so complex that we had a whole Map My X show about it… and came out with several different omnibus maps!
If this collection stuck strictly to the “Marvel Knights” banner, it could collect Greg Rucka’s whole run, as well as a number of miniseries printed around that time. The Marvel Knights banner ran until #39, but Mark Millar’s issues (#20-32) are in their own Omnibus, and the remaining issues (#0-39) are likely to start the Wolverine: Origins Omnibus (see separate entry).
Or, would this be an ongoing line collect of Wolverine’s 2003 title, which would need 2-3 omnibuses to complete depending on how much side material it stopped for along the way.
Or, it could potentially skip both Millar and the subsequent Daniel Way arc setting up Wolverine: Origins (2005) and then continue to collect Wolverine (2003) #41-61 (and material from #73-76) to meet the Wolverine by Jason Aaron Omnibus on the other side.
Or, it could be an omnibus line that collects all of Wolverine (2003) #1-65, 73-76, 900, & 1000!
Or… something else of your choosing. Who knows!?
A vote for this book is a vote to collect Wolverine (2003) #1-19 by Greg Rucka… and then some amount of other material that is hard to predict.
If Marvel follows their pattern of collecting all things Wolverine by publication date, this would collect Wolverine (2003) #1-19, Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer (2002) #1-3, Wolverine: Netsuke (2002) #1-4, Wolverine: Xisle (2003) #1-5, Wolverine: Snikt! (2003) #1-5, Wolverine/Doop (2003) #1-2, Wolverine/Hulk: Six Hours (2003) #1-4, Spider-Man & Wolverine (2003) #1-4, Wolverine/Captain America (2004) #1-4, and Wolverine/Punisher (2004) #1-5.
In this scenario, a Volume 2 would begin with Mark Millar & John Romita Jr’s blockbuster “Wolverine: Enemy of the State” in Wolverine (2003) #20-32 and then skip issues #33-40 (which would be in an Origins by Daniel Way) omnibus to continue to #41-49, Sabretooth: Open Season (2004) #1-4, Wolverine: Soultaker (2005) #1-5, Giant-Sized Wolverine #1: Blood & Sorrow (2006), Claws (2006) #1-3, What If…?: Wolverine (2006), What If…Enemy of the State (2007) and possibly Wolverine: The End (2004) #1-6.
If Marvel choose not to collect everything, they may chose to include Wolverine (2003) #20-32 and What If…Enemy of the State (2007) #1 in this Volume 1 Omnibus, along with some reduced amount of the mini-series from above.
Wolverine Origins by Daniel Way (2005 – 2010)
Logan regained all of his lost memories in a sudden rush in the aftermath of House of M, making it hard to separate individual events from each other and unravel the story of his past.
In the wake of that major character-altering revelation, Daniel Way launched a second ongoing Wolverine series to take us on a journey of discovery through Logan’s untold past… including meeting his estranged son Daken.
(Mostly, it doesn’t go very well for Logan.)
Could we cram all of Wolverine Origins (2006) into a single omnibus? It is a 51-issue series with a eight-issues of lead-in arcs by Way and five direct crossover issues, plus some other supporting works that we’ve seen collected in previous Daniel Way collections.
That puts it above the 60-issue rank, but we’ve seen Marvel collect some massive modern books recently. It is not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Daniel Way’s run on Wolverine, primarily from Wolverine Origins (2006), which might take two volumes to complete.
This would begin to collect Wolverine (2003) #33-35 [House of M] & #36-40 [“Origins & Endings]; Wolverine Origins (2006) #1-25, Annual 1, & #1 Director’s Cut; What If: Wolverine (2005) #1; the “Original Sin” crossover (X-Men: Original Sin (2008) #1 & X-Men: Legacy (2008) #217-218), and material from I (Heart) Marvel: My Mutant Heart (2006).
Daniel Way trade paperback collections have also included Sabretooth (2004) #1-4.
In total, whether it was in one book or two, to complete this material we’d need to continue to collect Wolverine Origins (2006) #26-50, a crossover with Dark Wolverine (2009) #85-96; and material from Wolverine (2003) #73-74.
Some folks feel that this ought to begin with Wolverine: The Origin (2001) #1-6 and Origin II (2013) #1-5. However, we have no precedent for them being collected with this Daniel Way material.
Wolverine & The X-Men: First Class (2008 – 2010) [retcon YA comics]
In the mid-00s, Marvel ran a pair of series called X-Men: First Class (2006) that was a YA-appropriate comics inserting school-focused continuity into the Silver Age of X-Men.
(Remember, unusual kids at weirdly supernatural schools were a big deal back then.)
In that same period, Marvel ran a similar series called Wolverine: First Class (2008). However, this wasn’t the adventures of a youthful Wolverine. It was more like a “Wolverine & Kitty Pryde: The Early Years” series to insert more stories about Kitty’s life at the X-Mansion into Claremont’s run.
Also, after the conclusion of X-Men: First Class Finals (2009), Marvel continued the YA approach to early Claremont X-Men with Uncanny X-Men: First Class (2009), which all occur just prior to the Wolverine series (since they occurred before the Dark Phoenix Saga). These stories are a little harder to reconcile with continuity, since early Claremont is plotted so tightly – especially with the addition of stories from Classic X-Men (1986).
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of these kid-friendly Claremont-era retcon tales into the same place for the first time.
This would collect Uncanny X-Men: First Class (2009) Giant-Size Special & #1-8, Wolverine: First Class (2008) #1-21, and Weapon X: First Class #1-3.
This could potentially also collect X-Men / Power Pack (2006) #1-4 and Wolverine / Power Pack (2008) #1-4, which have a similar vibe but exist outside of continuity.
FYI, there are many Wolverine one-shots from this period that might map into that Wolverine: Marvel Knights omnibus line depending on how Marvel handles it. Again, we had a whole Map My X show about it, so if you love this era of Wolverine you ought to stream it!
Wolverine Omnibus Mapping: Wolverine from 2012 to Present
This era begins with Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron [AKA Aaron Vol. 3], which started slightly before now and continues to collect Wolverine’s side of the X-Men team universe through 2014. Paired with Death of Wolverine, that collects nearly all of Wolverine until Krakoa!
However, we have two small gaps left to fill. And, after Death of Wolverine (which also includes his return), we only have one collection of Logan from Krakoa onward.
Wolverine: Savage Wolverine (2013 – 2014) [AKA Death of Wolverine Companion, could also include one-shots, mini, post-Aaron onoing]
Note: Yes, “ongoing” is misspelled “onoing” in the title. No we cannot fix it on the poll now.
Savage Wolverine (2013) was a Marvel Now launch title that kept up the trend of having three Logan ongoings at once – a solo book, a team book, and a continuity-lite book.
In the case of Savage Wolverine (2013), it was a chance to pull in high-profile creators to set a Logan story at any point in his history. With work from Frank Cho, Zeb Wells, Joe Madureira, Jock, Phil Jimenez, Gail Simone, Alan Davis, and more across just 23 issues it certainly fulfilled its brief!
That would be a fine omnibus on its own, but while we’re dealing into anthology stories we have the chance to fix a few other omissions from this period.
Wolverine (1988 / 2010) #305-317 & Annual 1 have never been collected in omnibus. These issues feature two arcs from Cullen Bunn split down the middle by a Jeph Loeb story. Also Wolverine (1988 / 2010) #900 & 1000 fit into this continuity-lite anthology vibe as well, even though they were released in 2010 and 2011, as does Wolverine: In the Flesh (2013) #1 written by Top Chef contestant Chris Cosentino.
A vote for this book is a vote for an omnibus full of brief tales of Wolverine from an all-star lineup of creators.
This would collect Savage Wolverine (2013) #1-23, Wolverine (1988 / 2010) #305-317 & Annual 1, Wolverine (1988 / 2010) #900 & 1000, and Wolverine: In the Flesh (2013) #1. Also, this could collect Origin II (2013) #1-5.
It could also collect other anthology-style, continuity-lite, or otherwise abandoned material from 2010-2015 not yet covered in Wolverine omnibus, including Wolverine: Best There Is (2010) #1-12 (set during Utopia and now definitively abandoned), Wolverine: Debt of Death (2011) #1, Wolverine & Jubilee (2011) #1-4 (set during “Curse of the Mutants,” so could be collected with that period of X-Men), Wolverine/Deadpool: The Decoy (2010) #1, Wolverine/Hercules: Myths, Monsters & Mutants (2011) #1-4, and Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha and Omega (2012) #1-5 (set at the beginning of Wolverine & The X-Men).
Here you would read the first half of the Death of Wolverine Omnibus.
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.
Here you would read the back half of the Death of Wolverine Omnibus and Wolverine: Return of Wolverine Omnibus.
X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Wolverine by Benjamin Percy (2020 – 2023)
The big question for this book is if it would recollect Wolverine (2020) #41-50, all of which are in the Wolverine: Sabretooth War Omnibus.
I think they would be omitted here. While they stand alone just fine divorced from the two Sabretooth series collected there, this book already has another 10+ issues of additional material to incorporate in place of that final run. There’s no pressing reason to recollect it.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect the majority of Wolverine’s Krakoa-era solo material by Benjamin Percy into one place.
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
Wolverine (2024) by Saladin Ahmed was one of the X-Men titles to come back from the break for the “Age of Revelation” event with its numbering intact, so it is too soon to decide how we will map it!
Deadpool & Wolverine (1994 – 2025) [shared titles + major fights]
You might be surprised by how long it took Marvel to figure out they should start mashing up Wolverine with their Merc With a Mouth, given the wild success of seeing the two of them together on screen.
Despite a pair of early tales in Wolverine (1998) #88 and Wolverine Annual 1995, it wasn’t until the mid-00s that Marvel really caught on to just how fun this combination could be.
And, it wasn’t until 2024 that the pair of them finally started sharing series together, thanks to their MCU-adjacent film out that year. That didn’t just get one series – over the course of two years they got six series… though none of them ran for more than 10 issues.
As a result, that 2024-25 burst of togetherness accounts for just 19 issues of print comics, though a few of them are extra-length. That could account for a slim omni on its own, but it means Marvel could also add in the full contents of an existing 336 page Deadpool vs. Wolverine trade and still wind up with an omni of a reasonable size.
The one wrinkle in that plan is that the 10 issues of Deadpool/Wolverine (2025) are written by Ben Percy, who is also writing Deadpool’s new 2026 ongoing. That might mean next year we’re looking at mapping a Percy volume that would pull those 10 issues out of this book – or, maybe they’re just combined into this book.
This would collect Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII (2024) #1-3, Deadpool vs. Wolverine: Slash ‘Em Up Infinity Comic (2024) #1-6 [AKA (2025) #1), Deadpool vs. Wolverine: The Deep End Infinity Comic (2024) #1-4, Deadpool/Wolverine: Weapon X-Traction (2024) Parts 1-8, Deadpool/Wolverine (2025) #1-10, Deadpools & Wolverines (2025) #1-3
It could also add earlier material previously collected in a “Wolverine vs. Deadpool” paperback, which includes Wolverine (1988) #88, 154-155; Deadpool (1997) #27; Cable & Deadpool (2004) #43-44; Wolverine Origins (2006) #21-25; Wolverine/Deadpool: The Decoy (2010) #1; and material from Wolverine (1988) Annual ’95 and ’99.
Wolverine Omnibus Mapping: X-23, Laura Kinney Omnibus Mapping
X-23 Vol. 1 Omnibus has one of my favorite runs of modern Marvel material. Every one of Laure Kinney’s early solo series form 2005 to 2012 was a total knockout.
Every year voters ask us, “Can you add a X-23 Vol. 2” to the poll. In fact, one year I did it by mistake! However, due to Wolverine: Return of Wolverine being 50% a Laura Kinney omnibus, now a theoretical Vol. 2 would need to collect through Krakoa and continue into “From the Ashes,” and we have no precedent for a book doing that yet.
If I had to map it, I would say that book would include X-23 (2018) #1-12, X-23: Deadly Regenesis (2023) #1-5, X-Terminators (2022) #1-5, Blood Hunt: Laura Kinney the Wolverine (2024) #1, NYX (2024) #1-10, Laura Kinney the Wolverine (2024) #1-10, Wolverines & Deadpools (2025) #1-3, and the currently ongoing Generation X-23 (2026).
That’s a hefty volume, but it not only breaks the “crossing Krakoa” boundary, but it collects “From the Ashes” era NYX (2024) without pairing it with other Ms. Marvel material, which feels like it’s going to cause double-dipping in the long run.
Let’s see if there are other ways we can collect the un-omnibized Laura Kinney material. See Guide to Wolverine – Laura Kinney, X-23 for more details.
X-Men: NYX by Quesada & Liu (2003 – 2008) [NYX & No Way Home]
This would be a very brief omnibus collecting NYX (2003) #1-7 and NYX: No Way Home (2008) #1-6, since neither were collected along with X-23’s solo material. Due to the mature nature of this material, it could not be collected along with NYX (2024) #1-10.
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).
X-Men: From the Ashes – NYX, The Wolverine & Ms. Marvel Omnibus (2024 – 2025) [includes NYX, Giant-Size one-shots, Laura Kinney, Deadpools & Wolverines]
Laura Kinney doesn’t quite have enough solo material for her own second volume of an omnibus at this point, but there’s an elegant solution to that: We can pair her with the mutant-era of her NYX (2024) teammate Kamala Khan – Ms. Marvel!
A vote for this book is a vote to collect the younger side of post-Krakoa X-Men all into one volume.
This would collect Blood Hunt: Laura Kinney the Wolverine (2024) #1, NYX (2024) #1-10, Laura Kinney the Wolverine (2024) #1-10, Ms. Marvel’s “Giant Size” storyline from 2025 (Giant Size X-Men (2025) #1-2, Giant Size Dark Phoenix Saga (2025) #1, Giant Size Age of Apocalypse (2025) #1, Giant Size House of M (2025) #1, X-Men: Hellfire Vigil (2025) #1, and Wolverines & Deadpools (2025) #1-3. It could continue to collect the currently ongoing Generation X-23 (2026).
This could optionally add the first two “Ms. Marvel as a Mutant” titles, Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant (2023) #1-4 and Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace (2024) #1-4, which set up this run. However, they were both part of the Krakoa era, and we have yet to see a book collect Krakoa content alongside content from before or after Krakoa.
Wolverine Omnibus Mapping: Daken, The Hellverine Omnibus Mapping
In a completely shocking turn of events, my cherished pansexual murder son Daken AKA Akihiro AKA Dark Wolverine is getting his own omnibus in April with Daken: Dark Wolverine.
I keep pinching myself to make sure it’s real and it keeps hurting, and I feel like Daken would enjoy that.
Daken never headlined another book after the material in that omnibus… until 2024! See my Guide to Daken for more details.
Wolverine: The Hellverine (2023 – 2024) [includes Weapons of Vengeance]
Some folks were surprised to see the Ghost Rider by Benjamin Percy Omnibus arrive weighing in at 32 issues when there were an obvious additional 14 issues that could have been included.
The tricky thing is that those fourteen issues don’t focus on Johnny Blaze at all. Or Danny Ketch. Or any other existing Rider knowing to readers. Instead, the issues branch out of the “Weapons of Vengeance” direct crossover that Percy penned for Ghost Rider and Wolverine while he was writing both titles, as well as picking up a plot thread from the “Sabretooth War” story that ended Wolverine (2019).
Just 14 issues wouldn’t make sense in their own omnibus. However, they almost certainly need that “Weapons of Vengeance” story to help set them up, which adds four issues. And, thematically it could be an excuse to include the similarly-titled Hellhunters (2024), although that is by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and stars a different Rider during WW2 (although it does feature Wolverine!).
Realistically, we might need to wait for another solo series featuring Hellverine or another Rider series that extends his story to have a fully formed omnibus here.
A vote for this book is a vote to hurry up and release an oversize collection of Benjamin Percy’s continuing run on an all-new and very different Ghost Rider.
Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance Alpha (2023) #1, Ghost Rider (2022) #17, Wolverine (2020) #36, Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance Omega (2023) #1, Hellverine (2024A) #1-4, and Hellverine (2024B) #1-10. It could optionally add Hellhunters (2024) #1-5 and/or Spirits of Vengeance (2024) #1-5 and Spirits of Violence (2025) #1-5.
Wolverine Omnibus Mapping: Old Man Logan Omnibus Mapping
In another 2026 surprise, in the final group of Marvel omnibus announcements for the year, we learned that Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 1 is finally going to become an omnibus with an absolutely perfect map. It starts with Millar, continues to Bendis, and collects all of Jeff Lemire’s run from All-New All Different Marvel.
Now we need just two more books to collect the remainder of Old Man Logan and his continuity. See my Guide to Old Man Logan for more details.
Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 2 – Dead Man Logan by Ed Brisson (2017 – 2019)
Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 1 ends in the perfect spot. It not only collects all of Jeff Lemire’s run on Old Man Logan (2016), it also finds Old Man Logan somewhat at peace with his return to the modern era and how it forces him to be a part of the X-Men family, no matter how painful that is for him.
Of course, that means it was time to shake up his status quo, and that’s exactly what Ed Brisson did starting in the next issue. Brisson writes a relatively brutal 27 issues that see Old Man Logan going up against a bevy of old foes – both from our present and his future.
That rolls into Dead Man Logan (2019), also by Brisson, which gives Logan a surprisingly satisfying finish that ties his present and future continuity up neatly.
A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to keep a brisk pace on this two-volume set so we can have a full collection of Old Man Logan on our shelves by the end of 2017.
This would collect Old Man Logan (2016) #25-50 & Annual 1 and Dead Man Logan (2019) #1-12, plus Declan Shalvey’s Deadpool vs. Old Man Logan (2017) #1-5 (which occurs near the beginning of this run).
Wolverine: Old Man Logan Companion – The Wastelanders (2018 – 2022) [includes Old Man Hawkeye & Quill]
Thanks to the success of Old Man Logan in All-New All -Different Marvel, Marvel tried their hand at spinning out other characters as their “Old Man” versions in the same dystopian future continuity.
Both Hawkeye and Peter Quill got 12-issue maxi-series out of the deal – two issues longer than current Marvel series! Plus, Marvel then assembled the “Avengers of the Wastelands” into a mini-series and a series of follow-up one-shots.
That puts this Companion omnibus at a surprising 30+ issues!
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of that Old Man future into a single place, which picks up seamlessly from the end of Mark Millar’s original “Old Man Logan” story in Wolverine (2003).
This would collect Old Man Hawkeye (2018) #1-12, Old Man Quill (2019) #1-12, Avengers of the Wastelands (2020) #1-5, and the Wastelanders one-shots (Wastelanders: Black Widow (2022) #1, Wastelanders: Doom (2022) #1, Wastelanders: Hawkeye (2021) #1, Wastelanders: Star-Lord (2021) #1, Wastelanders: Wolverine (2021) #1).
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