Marvel Comics

Punisher by Rick Remender Omnibus takes Frank Castle through Dark Reign, death and Franken-Castle, turning the Punisher into one of Marvel's strangest revenge stories.

Rick Remender's Captain America — one of the most creatively ambitious runs of the Marvel NOW! era, collected in a single omnibus. Remender stranded Steve Rogers in the dimension of Dimension Z for years of subjective time, aging him, breaking him, and rebuilding him in ways no previous writer had attempted.

Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers launched immediately after Avengers vs. X-Men as the flagship title of Marvel NOW! — a Unity Squad of Avengers and X-Men working together to fulfill Charles Xavier's dream of human/mutant coexistence, led by Captain America and Havok. Remender used the format to address the damage Cyclops's actions had done to the mutant cause, positioned Havok as a controversial spokesperson for a post-AvX mutant identity, and built toward the Apocalypse Twins storyline — a massive alternate future/time-travel epic where the villains literally won.

Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender Omnibus is the mutant black-ops book built around the cost of doing terrible things for supposedly good reasons. Wolverine, Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex and the team move through violence, guilt and Apocalypse mythology with a sharp, tragic momentum. The edition adds value by keeping the mutant context together: team politics, continuity pressure and character fallout have room to build instead of being reduced to isolated plot points.

Agent Venom Omnibus is the moment Venom stops being only Spider-Man's nightmare and becomes Flash Thompson's second chance. Rick Remender turns the symbiote into a black-ops weapon with a damaged hero inside it, built around addiction, military trauma and the desire to be useful. The run works because Flash is never simply cool in the suit: Secret Avengers missions, alien violence and the symbiote's hunger keep pulling against his attempt to control both the mission and himself.