Jonathan Hickman

Secret Warriors Omnibus collects Jonathan Hickman and Brian Michael Bendis' espionage-heavy Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. saga.

Before Battleworld, there was the end of everything. Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers run introduced the concept of incursions — parallel Earths colliding and destroying each other — and built the philosophical and moral framework that made Secret Wars inevitable. This omnibus collects the prelude material that transforms the Illuminati into reluctant architects of extinction. Collects New Avengers #1–33 and Avengers #35–44, the core incursions storyline.

The second Hickman Fantastic Four omnibus concludes his landmark run, paying off the narrative threads seeded in the first volume while introducing the Future Foundation as the team's replacement — a school for the Marvel Universe's most gifted children, led by Spider-Man as a teacher, operating from the Baxter Building while the FF deal with the cosmic-scale consequences of the Council of Reeds conflict. The Kang/Doom confrontation at the run's conclusion is one of the most satisfying long-form story payoffs in modern Marvel.