Igor Kordey

The biggest Phoenix stories of the 21st century collected in one epic 1352-page omnibus. Grant Morrison's New X-Men delivers the devastating Here Comes Tomorrow arc, followed by the Phoenix: Endsong and Warsong limited series that explored the cosmic force's obsession with the Grey bloodline. The centerpiece is the complete Avengers vs. X-Men event, the seismic twelve-issue war that saw five X-Men possessed by the Phoenix Force and fundamentally changed the Marvel Universe. Then comes Dennis Hopeless' Jean Grey solo series, the Generations one-shot bridging past and present, and the triumphant Phoenix Resurrection that finally brought the real Jean Grey back to life. This omnibus tracks how Morrison, Jason Aaron and a generation of writers kept reinventing the Phoenix myth while honoring its emotional core.

X-Treme X-Men by Chris Claremont Omnibus Vol. 2 is the payoff to the Destiny diaries era, with Storm's team pushed through political intrigue, mutant prophecy and the consequences of operating outside the normal X-Men structure. The book works best as the closing half of a specific Claremont experiment: less school, more field operation; less nostalgia, more global pressure. Larroca and Kordey give the volume a textured early-2000s look that separates it from the classic Uncanny shelf.