Dan Abnett

Following the original Annihilation wave, the Marvel cosmic universe faced a second devastating threat: the Phalanx, a techno-organic collective seizing control of the Kree Empire and everything beyond. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning crafted the event that would define cosmic Marvel for a generation.

When Annihilus led his Annihilation Wave out of the Negative Zone, the Marvel cosmic universe was never the same. Keith Giffen orchestrated a sprawling, brutal war story that swept away decades of status quo and repositioned characters like Nova, Silver Surfer, and Drax as serious cosmic powerhouses. This omnibus collects the complete Annihilation saga — the prologue one-shots, the Silver Surfer, Super-Skrull, Nova, and Ronan tie-in miniseries, and the main six-issue Annihilation event series.

Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning built the modern Guardians of the Galaxy from scratch in 2008, assembling a team from the wreckage of the Annihilation and Annihilation: Conquest cosmic events. The DnA Guardians — Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora, Drax — were a deliberately makeshift team held together by necessity rather than destiny. This run is the direct creative source for the James Gunn films. Collects Guardians of the Galaxy #1–25, the complete DnA run, plus key tie-in issues.

This companion omnibus to the core Guardians run collects the broader cosmic story material of the DnA era — the Tomorrow's Heroes material that shows the Guardians operating within a larger cosmic Marvel framework. Abnett and Lanning were simultaneously writing Nova, Annihilation, and the Guardians, creating an interconnected cosmic universe that had no real precedent in Marvel publishing.