Scott Lobdell

Red Hood and the Outlaws: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 follows Jason Todd, Arsenal and Starfire as a damaged trio trying to become more than a collection of loose cannons. The run is messy by design: Jason's trauma, Roy's loyalty and Starfire's outsider perspective give the team a combustible identity inside the New 52. Its shelf value is the Jason Todd angle, but the book works best as an anti-hero team piece rather than a solo Red Hood volume.

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.

X-Men: The Trial of Gambit Omnibus puts Remy LeBeau under the spotlight during a turbulent X-Men era, with Phalanx danger, Legacy virus pressure, Psylocke and Angel changes, and Maggott's arrival.

X-Men: Onslaught Aftermath Omnibus follows the mutant line after one of its biggest psychic disasters, when the team has to rebuild trust, direction and identity in a world shaken by Onslaught. The interest is not only what exploded, but how the X-Men keep moving after the explosion changes the shape of everything around them. This is aftermath material with real connective value. The team is not just recovering from Onslaught; the line is trying to understand what heroism means after trust in Xavier, leadership and psychic safety has been damaged.

X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught Omnibus brings the mutant line and the wider Marvel universe together around a psychic threat born from the darkest edges of heroism itself. Fabian Nicieza, Scott Lobdell, Adam Kubert and Andy Kubert give the event the huge crossover force of the 90s, with Xavier’s dream twisted into something terrifying. The appeal is the scale and the discomfort. Onslaught is frightening because he is not an outside invader in the usual sense; he is born from ideals, trauma and power twisted until the Marvel universe has to answer for them.

X-Men: Road to Onslaught Omnibus Vol. 2 moves the X-Men to the edge of Onslaught, with Mister Sinister, Apocalypse origins, Storm, Wolverine and multiple threads converging before the assault.

X-Men: Road to Onslaught Omnibus Vol. 1 begins the slow pressure build toward one of the 90s X-line’s defining disasters. Fabian Nicieza, Scott Lobdell, Andy Kubert and Joe Madureira keep the era busy, emotional and unstable, with the team still fighting ordinary battles while something much larger gathers behind them. It is very much 90s X-Men: crowded, emotional, visually charged and full of plot threads moving at once. That density is the point, because Onslaught only works when the line already feels overloaded.

X-Men: Blue & Gold – Bloodties Omnibus follows the 1990s mutant line through Bloodties, Scott and Jean's wedding, the Cyclops and Phoenix future and the looming Phalanx threat.

Excalibur enters its mid-90s era with a rotating cast of creators navigating the team through the aftermath of Fatal Attractions, the Phalanx Covenant, and the Age of Apocalypse. The roster shifts dramatically as Pete Wisdom joins (Warren Ellis' sardonic British spy creation), Colossus defects from the X-Men after Illyana's death, and Kitty Pryde takes on a more central leadership role. Scott Lobdell, Warren Ellis and Ben Raab each steer the series in different directions while maintaining the book's unique voice. This massive 1320-page omnibus also includes the Pryde and Wisdom limited series and key crossover tie-ins that connect Excalibur to the larger X-Men tapestry.

Excalibur Omnibus Vol. 2 continues the team’s strange corner of Marvel: British superhero absurdity, cross-time pressure and character drama that rarely behaves like a standard X-Men book.

X-Men 2099 Omnibus moves the mutant idea into Marvel’s future line, where identity, rebellion and corporate pressure replace the familiar school structure. John Francis Moore, Scott Lobdell and Ron Lim build a team that feels connected to the X-Men myth without simply repeating Xavier’s dream in another costume. For collectors, the hook is the distance from the mansion. The 2099 setting lets mutant conflict become cyberpunk pressure, with teams and identities shaped by a world that has already sold too much of its future.