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X-Men Team Omnibus Mapping – X-Force, X-Factor, New Mutants, & more! | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

March 4, 2026 by krisis Leave a Comment

Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 2026 - X-Men Omnibus Mapping - New Mutants: Dead Souls (2018) #1Once 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 non-flagship X-Men team omnibus map for story material from 2001 to 2019 that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus.

What’s a non-flagship X-Men team? That means books like Excalibur, New Mutants, Generation X, Academy X, X-Factor, X-Force, and more!

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.

While Marvel has been spreading the omnibus love around every era of Flagship X-Men in 2026, when it comes to supporting X-Teams they have been laser focused on one thing: Completing existing lines!

In 2026 we’re getting Excalibur Vol. 4, which completes Excalibur (1988) in omnibus; New Mutants Vol. 4, which completes New Mutants (1983) in omnibus; and X-Factor: The Original X-Men Vol. 2-3, which completes the first half of X-Factor (1986) in omnibus.

That creates a fascinating cadence when it comes to Marvel’s omnibus release schedule, because we have the opportunity to kick off new lines of collection!

Will Marvel simply move forward chronologically to the next-oldest material to continue collecting X-Factor (1986) and X-Force (1991), while also kicking off Generation X (1994)?

Or, will this be a chance for Marvel to briefly shift their focus from the mid-90s to some other hotly-requested material, like Exiles (2001), New X-Men: Academy X (2004), and X-Force (2008) – all of which are perennial favorites on the Tigereyes poll.

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 Guide to Captain Britain, Guide to Excalibur, Guide to Exiles, Guide to New Mutants & Young X-Men, Guide to Weapon X, Guide to X-Factor, Guide to X-Force, Guide to X-Statix

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!

[Read more…] about X-Men Team Omnibus Mapping – X-Force, X-Factor, New Mutants, & more! | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Academy X, Collected Edition Mapping, Excalibur, Exiles, Generation X, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, New Mutants, Tigereyes, Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll 2026, Weapon X, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Statix

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

Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 2025 Generation X X-Force Omnibus MappingIt’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.

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 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.

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!

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

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Academy X, Collected Edition Mapping, Excalibur, Exiles, Generation X, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, New Mutants, Tigereyes, Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll 2025, Weapon X, X-Factor, X-Force

X-Men Team Titles Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

April 3, 2024 by krisis

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! It’s finally time, y’all… time to MAP MY X. This post offers maps for team X-Men series that were NOT “flagship” books with “X-Men” in the title – like New Mutants, X-Factor, X-Force, Generation X, and more.

Announcing Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot LIVE on Near Mint Condition

This post explains titles and potential X-Men Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

This post covers X-Team titles from New Mutants, Excalibur, X-Factor, X-Force, Generation X, Exiles, Academy X, Weapon X, & Marauders.

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for my explanations. Or, if you’ve already voted, learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including some of my mistakes and regrets as one of the editors of the options on the final poll.

Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period.

Over-the-top comics posts like this one are made possible via the support of Patrons of Crushing Krisis. For less than the cost of a single comic issue a month you can fuel my in-depth comics coverage, plus gain access to dozens of exclusive collecting guides & reading orders – including all of the Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics.

[Read more…] about X-Men Team Titles Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Collected Edition Mapping, Excalibur, Exiles, Generation X, Marauders, Marvel Comics, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, New Mutants, Tigereyes, Weapon X, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Men

Updated: Guide to Excalibur

January 27, 2023 by krisis

I’m excited to share this X-Guide update, not only because it contains my favorite comic of all time, but because it’s my first ever “normal” guide update! Updated today, it’s my Guide to Excalibur – including a complete Excalibur Reading Order and links to read every physical and digital collection of Excalibur ever released!

Guide to Excalibur

The Reading Order Guide to Excalibur - image from Excalibur (1988) #1

The Guide to Excalibur was the first 2010s guide that I rebuilt to my new style and standard in 2021, which means this is the first routine maintenance update I’ve done so far this decade.

Over the past year, Excalibur wrapped up its collection of the 2019 Tini Howard & Marcus To run in both trade paperback and oversize hardcover. Howard continued some characters and themes of that title into Knights of X (2022) with artist Bob Quinn, which was just five issues and collected in a single trade paperback.

(Howard is still writing Betsy Braddock, but now she has graduated to her own Captain Britain title!)

When it comes to past Excalibur collections, the two years since my last update brought us two major releases – plus some big news in the last month. [Read more…] about Updated: Guide to Excalibur

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Alan Davis, Betsy Braddock, Bob Quinn, Captain Britain, Epic Collections, Epic Marvel Podcast, Excalibur, Marcus To, Marvel Comics, Near Mint Condition, Tini Howard, Updated Comic Guide

Anatomy of a Comic Book Guide (and a comic book collection)

June 10, 2022 by krisis

Finally slaying the ancient dragon that was my Guide to Legion of Super-Heroes inspired me to keep track of all of the many steps and processes it takes to put together a new comic book guide.

I think more people making more great guides to consuming comics (and other media!) makes the internet better for all fans. I love Omar’s Near Mint Condition video Reading Orders, How To Love Comics’s guide to reading your first comic, ComicsXF Primers, and ComicReleases solicits roundsups. All of them overlap with what I’m doing a little bit, but they’re all helping people find the comics they might love, which is why I started doing this in the first place.

Below I’ve listed my process for putting together a comic guide, which is also how I build a personal reading list or new comic collection! When I get interested in a new character, author, or title for the first time, my approach is almost identical to guide-building, even if I don’t plan on making a guide.

Throughout the list, I used my well-established Excalibur Guide and my new Patrons-only Legion of Super-Heroes Guides as examples. I tried to share some interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets along the way for all of you process wonks.

Feel free to use this guidance to help you put together your own handy guides, whether that’s for personal use or on a website. I certainly have some “secret sauce” and proprietary tools that help me make my guides so definitive, but anyone could work through this checklist to figure out a comics property from top to bottom. It takes me anywhere from 4 to 30 hours, depending on the complexity of the character or title I’m researching.

Here’s the breakdown of my steps.

  1. Create a list of series or volumes
  2. Decide on scope
  3. Organize (but don’t over-sort)
  4. Research your series list (this will include narrowing and expanding)
  5. Compile a collected editions list
  6. Assemble the stuff
  7. Conduct a clean-up pass
  8. Consider the meta-data
  9. Enjoy! (No, really! Make a plan for enjoying this hard work.)
  10. Schedule your first check-up

Now, let’s dig in! [Read more…] about Anatomy of a Comic Book Guide (and a comic book collection)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Excalibur, Legion of Super-Heroes, obsessive collectorism

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