Louise Simonson

Superman: Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 3 is the huge Reign of the Supermen volume: Steel, Superboy, the Cyborg Superman, the Eradicator, Coast City and the black-suit return all sit inside the weekly Superman machine. The appeal is not just size; it is watching Stern, Jurgens, Simonson, Grummett and Bogdanove keep four titles moving like one serial after the Death of Superman changed the line forever.

X-Men: Inferno Omnibus is the crossover where private trauma becomes supernatural disaster. Madelyne Pryor, Jean Grey, Cyclops, baby Nathan, Magik and Mister Sinister all collide while New York turns demonic around the X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants. The horror works because the demons are almost secondary; the real damage comes from secrets, abandonment and family betrayal.

Three X-teams face separate apocalyptic challenges in the Fall of the Mutants crossover. The X-Men sacrifice themselves on live television in Dallas battling the Adversary, only to be resurrected by Roma and choose to operate in secret. X-Factor battles Apocalypse in Manhattan as Angel is reborn as Archangel. The New Mutants lose one of their own. This omnibus collects all three storylines in one volume, showing how Fall of the Mutants reshaped the entire X-line and sent each team in dramatically different directions.

Second volume with the central arcs of the Triangle Era experiment: the time when editorial coordination between the four Superman titles was at its creative peak, with weekly crossover sagas and consequences that spanned months. The heart of an entire decade of the character's history, culminating in the run-up to the Death of Superman. Roger Stern, Dan Jurgens, and Louise Simonson write complementary threads that reward reading in publication order. The most ambitious Superman publishing experiment ever attempted.

Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 1 begins DC's 1990s weekly Superman machine, where Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Superman and Man of Steel function as one coordinated reading order. The numbered triangles turn the line into a continuous serial rather than separate titles. Jurgens, Ordway, Stern and Simonson build the dense ecosystem that leads toward Death of Superman and the most interconnected Superman publishing era.