Jerome Opeña

Jonathan Hickman's Avengers Vol. 1 launches his massive, interlocking Avengers/New Avengers run — one of the most ambitious sustained narratives in Marvel history, building across four years toward Secret Wars. This first volume establishes the Avengers as a planetary defense system responding to universal-scale incursion threats, while simultaneously in New Avengers the Illuminati discover that parallel Earths are colliding and destroying each other, a phenomenon called incursions that will eventually consume the entire multiverse.

Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender Omnibus is the mutant black-ops book built around the cost of doing terrible things for supposedly good reasons. Wolverine, Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex and the team move through violence, guilt and Apocalypse mythology with a sharp, tragic momentum. The edition adds value by keeping the mutant context together: team politics, continuity pressure and character fallout have room to build instead of being reduced to isolated plot points.