Excalibur Omnibus Vol. 2

The final chapter of the original Excalibur series, collecting the team's last adventures before the book's cancellation and relaunch. The roster continues to evolve with new members while classic relationships are tested. Bryan Hitch and Salvador Larroca provide dynamic art as the team faces threats from both the multiverse and closer to home. This omnibus also includes the Colossus one-shot exploring Peter Rasputin's grief after Illyana's death, New Mutants: Truth or Death, the Kitty Pryde Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. mini-series, and X-Men: True Friends — a Kitty and Rachel time-travel story by Claremont. It's a comprehensive collection that brings closure to one of the most distinctive X-Men spinoffs ever published.

Excalibur enters its mid-90s era with a rotating cast of creators navigating the team through the aftermath of Fatal Attractions, the Phalanx Covenant, and the Age of Apocalypse. The roster shifts dramatically as Pete Wisdom joins (Warren Ellis' sardonic British spy creation), Colossus defects from the X-Men after Illyana's death, and Kitty Pryde takes on a more central leadership role. Scott Lobdell, Warren Ellis and Ben Raab each steer the series in different directions while maintaining the book's unique voice. This massive 1320-page omnibus also includes the Pryde and Wisdom limited series and key crossover tie-ins that connect Excalibur to the larger X-Men tapestry.

Captain Britain, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers and Meggan form Excalibur, the UK-based mutant team that blended X-Men action with distinctly British humor and interdimensional madness. Chris Claremont and Alan Davis created something unique in the X-Men line — a book where the team might fight Nazis in one issue and get lost in a cross-dimensional caper through the multiverse the next. Davis' clean, dynamic art is perfectly suited to both the comedy and the action, and his design work for the Crazy Gang, the Technet and the many alternate realities is endlessly inventive. This first omnibus collects the complete Claremont run including the Special Edition, the Mojo Mayhem annual and the Weird War III graphic novel.

Phoenix Omnibus Vol. 2 follows the Phoenix Force beyond the Dark Phoenix tragedy, tracing how Jean Grey's return and the cosmic force's legacy ripple through the X-Men and the wider Marvel universe. The appeal is scale: resurrection, memory, future timelines and the sense that Phoenix is never only one story or one host. The Phoenix material is strongest when it treats cosmic power as an emotional problem, with resurrection, memory and identity carrying as much weight as the space-opera scale.