Larry Hama

Captain America Lives! — Ed Brubaker's triumphant conclusion to the Death of Captain America storyline, featuring Steve Rogers' return to life and the shield. This omnibus collects the Reborn miniseries and its aftermath, as Brubaker orchestrates one of the most satisfying character returns in comics history. The reunion of Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, and the supporting cast Brubaker spent years building pays off spectacularly, with Bryan Hitch delivering some of the most stunning Captain America artwork ever committed to the page.

Warren Ellis's Wolverine work collects his two acclaimed storylines — Not Dead Yet and Dying Time — along with associated material from his run on the character. Ellis brought the same cold, precise approach to Wolverine that had made his Iron Man Extremis arc so effective: stripping away the mythology to find the important character underneath, then using that distillation to construct high-concept action stories that worked as character studies simultaneously. McTeigue's Not Dead Yet storyline in particular is frequently cited as the best standalone Wolverine arc of the 2000s.

The sixth and final Hama Wolverine omnibus covers the conclusion of his marathon run, bringing Logan's bone-claw era to an end with the revelations that would lead to his adamantium restoration and addressing the accumulated mysteries about Logan's true origins that Hama had been layering across years of storytelling. No Hama Wolverine volume arrives without earned emotional weight — by this point in the run, Hama had spent nearly a decade building the supporting cast and ongoing storylines that made this one of Marvel's most sustained single-author runs of the 1990s.

Larry Hama's Wolverine Vol. 4 represents the first omnibus of his defining run on the character — the period when Hama transformed Wolverine's solo series from Claremont's psychological introspection into a propulsive action-espionage book with a military precision that Hama's Vietnam veteran informed directly. Hama wrote Wolverine for over 90 issues across the 1990s, creating an extended run of consistent quality that rivals any single creative tenure on a Marvel solo title from that era.

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Companion Omnibus widens the alternate timeline around Apocalypse’s rule, giving side stories, character angles and extra damage to a world where the usual X-Men moral map has been redrawn. It is companion material that matters because the setting is built from consequences everywhere. 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.

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Omnibus throws the mutant line into one of its most striking alternate realities, where Xavier’s absence lets Apocalypse reshape the world. The appeal is immediate: familiar heroes become desperate versions of themselves, and the whole X-Men myth is rebuilt under occupation, fear and resistance. 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.

Hama's fifth Wolverine omnibus covers the peak of his run — the period when the revelations about Logan's true past began to accumulate, the bone-claw Wolverine era began after Magneto stripped his adamantium, and the series navigated the most significant physical change to the character since his creation. Hama made the bone-claw period work by refusing to treat the powerdown as a tragedy, instead using Logan's raw, unenhanced state as an opportunity to demonstrate what made Wolverine dangerous had nothing to do with metal.