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Every Missing Marvel 20th Century FOX Omnibus (+ Indiana Jones), Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 26, 2025 by krisis 1 Comment

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 20th Century FOX omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

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.

Marvel has already taken advantage of their ability to reprint classic FOX properties like Alien, Predator, and Planet of the Apes. But, there are so many more comics that they potentially have the ability to reprint in the wake of Disney’s 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox.

Not only are there more comics from all three of those franchises that Marvel might now be able to print, but also popular comics from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (& Angel), The Simpsons, and The X-Files!

Plus, while Indiana Jones is actually a LucasFilm property, we’ve included it here as well.

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!

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

April 26, 2025 by krisis 1 Comment

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 Star Wars omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

There’s always money in Star Wars, and in 2025 Marvel announced four omnibuses – two in current canon (Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: Friends & Enemies & Star Wars: Crimson Reign) and two in Legends retired canon (Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Vol. 2 & Star Wars Legends: The Rebellion Vol. 3).

While there remains an open-ended potential for omnis in current Star Wars canon, there’s a finite amount of Legends material. Ignoring the far-future “Legacy,” we need only six more Legends omnibus volumes to cover the remaining Dark Horse Comics material – plus however many we need to collect all of Clone Wars Adventures.

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!

New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – April 30 2025

April 26, 2025 by krisis Leave a Comment

Next week is the 18th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics April 30 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics April 23 2025 new releases.

This week in Image Comics: Copra dies, Wes Craig draws a silent Duke, DWJ’s Transformers gets deluxed, Feral wraps its first year, a new fantasy from Curt Pires, conflict finds the Rocketfellers, life after a death in We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: This is a hard call between an intriguing #1 and a #2 I am desperate to read, but I have to give it to Matthew Rosenberg’s We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us (2025) #2. Issue #1 was a perfect comic book – something I’ve been waiting to read from Rosenberg ever since being introduced to him in the absolutely perfect 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank nearly a decade ago. However, I am also extremely hype for Lost Fantasy (2025) #1 from Curt Pires!

This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on April 30 2025, plus collected editions. This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and comment on every series with a new issue out this week to help you figure out if they’re for you.

Plus, for some long-running series and Image Comics imprints, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Indie Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto Image Comics April 30 2025 new releases!

Every Missing Marvel Imprint & Alternate Reality Omnibus, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 25, 2025 by krisis 2 Comments

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 Marvel Imprint & Alternate Reality omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

This post covers all of Crossgen, Malibu Ultraverse, Marvel 2099, Marvel’s What If, & New Universe – plus many other one-off imprints and alternate realities. Note that some Spider-Man and X-Men alternate realities have been addressed separately in their posts.

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 Marvel UK Omnibus, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 25, 2025 by krisis 2 Comments

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 Marvel UK omnibus that does NOT exist – 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.

We have just two Marvel UK omnibuses so far – the massive Captain Britain Omnibus with all of his pre-Excalibur appearances and the subsequent Knights of Pendragon Omnibus (in which Captain Britain also appears).

For this post, we’re just going to focus on Marvel’s own Marvel UK material – and not licensed Doctor Who or Transformers material, which made up the bulk of Marvel UK original content prior to 1990. We’d only need another six omnibuses to collect this completely… but there might not be more than a few hundred people who want each one of these 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!