John Byrne

The Thing Omnibus collects Ben Grimm outside the normal Fantastic Four frame, with solo adventures that show the humor, stubbornness and bruised heart behind The Thing.

John Byrne's Fantastic Four run is the second-greatest creative achievement in the character's history after Lee and Kirby's founding run — a systematic reinvention of the team that returned to their core dynamics while introducing major concepts including She-Hulk's substitution for Thing, the death and rebirth of Galactus, the introduction of Frankie Raye as Nova, and the extended Reed Richards trial before the Shi'ar Imperial Guard that is one of the most conceptually ambitious single storylines in 1980s Marvel.

She-Hulk by John Byrne Omnibus turns Jennifer Walters into one of Marvel’s sharpest experiments in form and comedy. Byrne lets her argue with the page, the narrator and the machinery of comics itself, while still keeping the superhero chaos playful, self-aware and full of personality. This edition works best when read as a study of anger with consequences: every transformation says something about fear, control and the people left dealing with the damage afterward.

The second Byrne Fantastic Four omnibus covers the conclusion of his major run, including Sue Storm's evolution from Invisible Girl to Invisible Woman, the extended Secret Wars connection, the Thing's return from self-imposed exile, and a major Doctor Doom conflict that reinforces Doom as one of the team's defining enemies.

Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus follows Canada's uneasy super-team after their first collision with Wolverine and the X-Men. Byrne gives Guardian, Sasquatch, Northstar, Aurora, Snowbird and the rest a colder, stranger identity of their own.

John Byrne, a defining Fantastic Four and X-Men creator, turns his attention to Spider-Man. Chapter One reinterprets Spider-Man's origin, while the rest of the volume gathers Byrne's wider work on the character into a single reading block.