Marvel Comics

Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 2 is the collapse half of Hickman's Marvel architecture. Infinity, the Illuminati and Time Runs Out turn the Avengers from Earth's greatest team into people making impossible choices while parallel universes die around them. The book matters because it is the direct road to Secret Wars: cosmic scale, moral compromise and long-form science-fiction plotting inside the Marvel Universe.

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.