Pepe Larraz

No Surrender was Marvel's 2018 weekly Avengers event — a 16-part storyline published weekly across four months with rotating creative teams coordinating to tell a single continuous story. The Grandmaster and the Challenger wager on an Avengers-related game using Earth as the board and the Avengers as unwitting pieces, with the team simultaneously dealing with an escalating global crisis while their members fall one by one. No Road Home followed as a direct sequel, a nine-issue weekly series sending the Avengers into a mythological realm to recover a cosmic object stolen from Nyx, goddess of night.

Dawn of X Omnibus Vol. 1 is the first real test of Krakoa as a publishing line rather than a single Hickman idea. Marauders, Excalibur, X-Force, New Mutants, Fallen Angels and X-Men all ask different questions about the mutant nation: diplomacy, magic, intelligence, youth culture and identity. The volume works because the line feels unstable and ambitious at the same time, like Marvel trying to make the X-office feel genuinely new again.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa by Kieron Gillen Omnibus — Immortal X-Men and A.X.E.: Judgment Day. The Quiet Council of Krakoa, the Progenitor Celestial judging all humanity, Sinister's schemes from within. X-Men: Age of Krakoa by Kieron Gillen collects Immortal X-Men #1-18 and A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1-6 — Gillen's focused statement on the Krakoa era. The Quiet Council of Krakoa — Magneto, Xavier, Mystique, Emma Frost, Exodus, Sinister — navigating mutant politics while the Progenitor Celestial (reactivated by the Eternals) judges all of humanity and finds it wanting. The most philosophical X-Men story since Morrison. Gillen at the peak of his powers, with Lucas Werneck on art.

X-Men by Gerry Duggan Omnibus — Cyclops leads the X-Men from the Treehouse in New York City during the Krakoa era. Sunfire, Rogue, Polaris. The Gameworld arc and Dr. Stasis as the new villain. X-Men by Gerry Duggan (issues #1-35 collected here) follows Cyclops leading the most traditional X-Men squad of the Krakoa era from their Manhattan Treehouse. Sunfire, Rogue, Polaris, Wolverine (Laura), Marvel Girl and Jean Grey as a flagship team. The Gameworld arc — an alien gambling circuit that bets on Earth's survival — and the introduction of Dr. Stasis as a new Sinister clone hunting mutants. Duggan's run is the most accessible entry point to the Krakoa era, balancing the epic with the character-driven.