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Old Man Logan is Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's definitive post-apocalyptic Wolverine story — set fifty years in a future where the villains won, the heroes are dead, and an elderly Logan who has refused to unsheathe his claws since the night he was tricked into killing the X-Men lives as a broken man on a continent carved up between Hulk Gang territory and Red Skull's new America. The story uses the western genre's elegiac mode — the reluctant gunfighter dragged back into violence one last time — to tell the most emotionally resonant Wolverine story since the original Miller miniseries.

Death of Wolverine is Charles Soule and Steve McNiven's four-issue event series killing Logan after the loss of his healing factor — a premise that forced the question of what Wolverine actually is without the regeneration that made him unique.

Return of Wolverine is Charles Soule's five-issue miniseries bringing Logan back from the death established in Soule's own Death of Wolverine — completing the narrative circle of a writer who stewarded the character through both his end and his revival.

Tom Taylor's All-New Wolverine is one of the best Marvel solo series of the 2010s regardless of character — the story of Laura Kinney stepping out of Logan's shadow to wear the Wolverine costume and prove she's more than a weapon or a clone, told with emotional intelligence and consistent craft across 35 issues. Taylor brought genuine warmth to a character whose origin was defined by trauma, made the Clone Saga subplot (Laura's younger clone Gabby) into one of the most beloved supporting character introductions in recent Marvel history, and delivered a run that works on its own terms without requiring knowledge of Wolverine's wider mythology.

X-23 is the most fully realized Wolverine spin-off character ever created — Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost conceived her as a female clone of Wolverine weaponized from birth, used as an assassin by the Weapon X program offshoot known as the Facility, and their work establishing her origin in the animated series was adapted into the comics in one of the medium's most harrowing backstory sequences. The first omnibus covers her origin and early missions, establishing the psychological damage that Tom Taylor would later translate into Marvel's best all-ages superhero series.

Daken: Dark Wolverine collects Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu's work on Logan's son — a character who possesses all of Wolverine's physical gifts and none of his moral constraints, making Daken simultaneously the most dangerous and the most psychologically interesting Wolverine spin-off character. Way introduced Daken as an antagonist in his Wolverine run before Liu took the character into genuinely unexpected psychological territory, exploring what a lifetime of weaponized trauma produces in someone with Wolverine's DNA but none of his father's redemptive arc.

Benjamin Percy's Wolverine run reached its climactic confrontation in the Sabretooth War — a sustained arc pitting Logan against an army of Sabretooth variants led by the recently empowered original, using the Krakoa resurrection protocols as the engine for the most vicious iteration of the Wolverine/Sabretooth rivalry in decades. Percy built the Sabretooth War across two years of setup, which gave the payoff an accumulated weight that single-arc Wolverine stories rarely achieve.

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 essential 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.

Wolverine & the X-Men by Jason Aaron Omnibus is the X-Men school book after Schism, with Logan trying to run a place for damaged mutant kids despite being the least obvious headmaster imaginable. Jason Aaron and Nick Bradshaw build the series around chaos, comedy, grief and responsibility. Its value is tone and cast: Quentin Quire, Kid Gladiator, Broo and the students make the Jean Grey School feel alive, absurd and emotionally risky.

The Wolverine Goes to Hell omnibus focuses specifically on Jason Aaron's opening Wolverine storyline — the arc where a mysterious enemy sends Logan's soul to Hell while his body is possessed and turned against everyone he loves. It's an audacious premise that Aaron executes with total conviction, using the separation of body and soul as a way to examine the two sides of Wolverine's nature simultaneously: the berserker and the man. The Hell sequences have a texture and mythology that previous Wolverine runs hadn't bothered to develop.

Jason Aaron's first Wolverine omnibus collects the beginning of what became the definitive 21st-century Wolverine run — starting with Wolverine Goes to Hell and building through Wolverine vs. the X-Men and Wolverine's Revenge into a sustained examination of what makes Logan tick when his body and soul are pushed to their absolute limits simultaneously.

Mark Millar's Wolverine run is built around two back-to-back storylines — Enemy of the State and Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. — that function as a single complete narrative: Wolverine is captured, brainwashed by HYDRA and the Hand, used as a weapon against every Marvel hero he knows, then deprogrammed and turned loose to hunt down everyone responsible. The premise is engineered for maximum action spectacle and John Romita Jr. delivers one of the defining artistic performances of his career — the two-year run moved faster and hit harder than anything Wolverine-related published in years.

The sixth and final Hama Wolverine omnibus covers the conclusion of his marathon run, bringing Logan's bone-claw era to an end with the revelations that would lead to his adamantium restoration and addressing the accumulated mysteries about Logan's true origins that Hama had been layering across years of storytelling. No Hama Wolverine volume arrives without earned emotional weight — by this point in the run, Hama had spent nearly a decade building the supporting cast and ongoing storylines that made this one of Marvel's most sustained single-author runs of the 1990s.

Hama's fifth Wolverine omnibus covers the peak of his run — the period when the revelations about Logan's true past began to accumulate, the bone-claw Wolverine era began after Magneto stripped his adamantium, and the series navigated the most significant physical change to the character since his creation. Hama made the bone-claw period work by refusing to treat the powerdown as a tragedy, instead using Logan's raw, unenhanced state as an opportunity to demonstrate what made Wolverine dangerous had nothing to do with metal.

Larry Hama's Wolverine Vol. 4 represents the first omnibus of his defining run on the character — the period when Hama transformed Wolverine's solo series from Claremont's psychological introspection into a propulsive action-espionage book with a military precision that Hama's Vietnam veteran informed directly. Hama wrote Wolverine for over 90 issues across the 1990s, creating an extended run of consistent quality that rivals any single creative tenure on a Marvel solo title from that era.

The third Claremont Wolverine omnibus covers the series' transition period as the Mutant Massacre and Fall of the Mutants events reshaped the X-Men landscape, requiring Wolverine's solo book to operate in direct response to seismic changes in the main X-Men line. Claremont used this period to deepen Logan's physical and psychological wounds from the Mutant Massacre, explore his complex feelings about the Xavier Institute's direction under Magneto, and introduce new supporting characters that would define the solo series through the Hama era that followed.

Chris Claremont's second Wolverine omnibus continues the solo series that ran throughout the late 1980s, deepening Logan's Japanese connections and the complex web of relationships established in the original Miller-era miniseries. Claremont used the ongoing format to explore Wolverine's berserker rage psychology, his regenerative healing factor as a psychological burden as much as a physical gift, and the recurring tension between his civilized surface and the animal beneath. John Buscema joins as primary artist, bringing his classical storytelling strengths to the character.

Before Wolverine had his own ongoing series, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller defined the character in the 1982 limited series. This omnibus collects that landmark run alongside the key Uncanny X-Men issues that built Logan's mythology.

The Weapon X program created Wolverine — bonding adamantium to his skeleton, wiping his memories, turning a man into a weapon. Barry Windsor-Smith told that origin story in the legendary 1991 Marvel Comics Presents serial. Years later, the program returned: new directors, new victims, a new mandate. The Return collects both the foundational Windsor-Smith Weapon X story and the subsequent Weapon X series that expanded the mythology into a full ongoing conspiracy.

Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender Omnibus — Wolverine's secret black-ops X-team targets threats before they happen. Archangel as Apocalypse's heir, the Age of Apocalypse revisited, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Dark, central Marvel. Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force ran for 35 issues (#1-35 plus point issues collected here) and is widely considered one of the greatest X-Men runs ever published. Wolverine, Archangel, Psylocke, Deadpool and Fantomex operate in secret to kill threats before they arise. The Dark Angel Saga (issues #8-18) is a masterclass in long-form superhero comics — Warren Worthington III fully becomes Apocalypse, and the X-Force must decide whether to kill their friend. Jerome Opeña's art is career-defining.