Steve McNiven

Wolverine: Old Man Logan Omnibus follows an older Logan through a ruined future where survival has replaced heroism and the past refuses to stay buried. Mark Millar and Steve McNiven build the story as a western road trip through Marvel wreckage, with Wolverine’s silence carrying as much weight as his claws. For Wolverine collectors, the value is seeing violence treated as history rather than style: Logan’s body heals, but the stories keep asking what memory and guilt do with everything that remains.

Death of Wolverine Omnibus follows Logan at his most exposed: stripped of his healing factor, hunted by enemies who suddenly have a real chance, and forced to face what remains when survival is no longer guaranteed. It is a closing chapter built around mortality, legacy and the weight of a life spent as Marvel’s most relentless survivor.

Warren Ellis's Wolverine work collects his two acclaimed storylines — Not Dead Yet and Dying Time — along with associated material from his run on the character. Ellis brought the same cold, precise approach to Wolverine that had made his Iron Man Extremis arc so effective: stripping away the mythology to find the important character underneath, then using that distillation to construct high-concept action stories that worked as character studies simultaneously. McTeigue's Not Dead Yet storyline in particular is frequently cited as the best standalone Wolverine arc of the 2000s.