Jason Aaron

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.