X-Men Legacy: Legion Omnibus

Background. David Haller is the son of Charles Xavier. He is also Legion — a mutant with possibly unlimited power and hundreds of distinct personalities, each controlling a different power set. When a new personality takes control and begins systematically absorbing the others, Legion must confront the question of whether he can ever be whole — and whether being whole is even something he wants. Si Spurrier's X-Men Legacy is the most psychologically sophisticated X-Men book of the 2010s.

What's inside. X-Men Legacy vol. 2 #1–24, the complete Si Spurrier run with art by Tan Eng Huat and Jorge Molina. The complete story of David Haller's journey from liability to something closer to hero — on his own terms. ISBN 978-1-302-96995-0.

Why it's worth reading. Spurrier writes mental illness with a specificity and humanity that most mainstream comics completely avoid. Legion's fractured consciousness — his various personalities as distinct characters who argue, scheme and occasionally cooperate — creates a narrative structure unlike anything else in the X-Men line. This is literary superhero fiction: it has something to say about identity, inheritance and what it means to exist in someone else's shadow, and it says it with genuine craft.

Edition details. Hardcover omnibus, approx. ISBN 978-1-302-96995-0. Original English edition (VO).