X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Overview 

I gotta say, I kinda hate how this is all separated. To read the hickman saga, you need to read the house and powers hardcover. Read the the first half of the omnibus. Stop. Read the sword of x hardcover. Then go back to the omnibus, finish that. Then read inferno which is in yet another hardcover. Plus you might want to read the excaliber hardcover before x of swords if you really wanna understand what's going on. Oh! And read the new mutant hickman issues. That ties into xmen as well. Confused yet? Exactly. It's a mess.

Been waiting for this for SO LONG, bought it a year ago and it’s been delayed into oblivion. Just finished X of Swords looking forward to finishing up the Hickman run!

They need to collect all of Hickman's run in two proper omnibus editions. HOX/POX, X-men, x of swords and Inferno.

Very sad they didn’t include Hickman’s issues of New Mutants, those were integral to some of the stuff happening here

Talk about a long road to get here. I got the first trade when it came out, not knowing when something like this was coming, I waited till you finally annouced a OHC, then silence until the line shifted and then it became a omni, and now after so much delay it's finally here....what a winding road. Even if it's not a great concise story cover to cover for those not engrossed, I'll be stoked to have it on my shelf. Long live Hickman, may he return to the line

This was JUST sent out my way!!! Sooo excited!!!!!!

I'm slowly getting more into Marvel, thanks in part to this channel. I read HoX PoX because of your recommendation, Omar, and now I'm eying this omni. I help out at my LCS and we got these over the weekend, and I think I'm going to pick up one of those dm covers. I mostly read DC and indies but I wanna feel some of that X Hype as well!

You know what would be a nice video idea: For the Uncanny Omar to walk into any comic book shop and just look through the books they have to see how much of it he already has.

Funnily enough I was actually looking for just this review yesterday. excellent timing Mr Omar

I Pre-ordered this Omni Forever Ago from DCBS 😁 Can't wait to Read 😸 Big Thanks Omar for Giving Another Great Overview 👍💜

GREAT OVERVIEW!!! ESPECIALLY THE MARK BROOKS VARIANT COVER!!! AWESOME!!!! Thanks Omar, David Gabriel, and the folks at Marvel! 👍

About damn time. This book has been getting pushed back till the end of time.

Oh man, I hope my LCS has a copy on the shelf this week!

I pre ordered and had to go with the Dauterman cover! Can’t wait to get my hands on it

Adding this to my Hickman collection.

I'm pretty torn about this. I want the whole run to be collected in omnibus format in order, starting with House and Powers of X and collecting all the series, which would make this a waste to have in omni format, especially where they aren't turning the other complete series into omnis such as Hellions.

I’m rereading HoXPoX for the first time since I first got it. And wow does it hold up well. Such a classic. I haven’t read any of the other oversized books yet besides X of Swords as I was reading the mix tape trades with X-Men, Marauders, X-Force etc. But that just isn’t the same with that flimsy tiny paper. I want the oversized. So whenever one of these series is released as an omnibus or a DHC than I’m in. And I’m loving it so far.

I've been waiting on this video for so long.

god I love this run! Beautiful art and great content

I'm hoping that in a couple years they make an omnibus that includes everything Hickman X-Men together. An omnibus with HoX/PoX, X-Men, X of Swords, and Inferno all together. Don't even care if they split it into 2 smaller omnibus I just want everything together. As pointed out it makes no sense having to jump from hardcover to omnibus to another hardcover just to experience 1 continuous story. That's the entire point of buying an omnibus, so an entire run can be read and in the best order available.

Man i love the omnibus cover

So happy that it's not printed in Kentucky. Kentucky X-Men OHCs have had wavy pages for some reason. Can't wait to receive it and have a reread!!!!

Oh I can't wait for this. Thank you Omar.

Can't wait for my standard edition to ship! Looking forward to re-reading HoX/PoX then diving into this omni.

Thank you brother!

This really should have included House/Powers of X

Love that book design!

I’m just getting into Hickman’s saga starting with fantastic four and then avengers once that reprint comes out and then onto x men, it’s pretty confusing for a new reader but I’m just excited to learn

Wish they do a Dawn of X omni that has a reading order.

I can't believe that Marvel is the best selling company and, at the same time, the one that uses the cheapest paper. Shame on them.

My copy is on the wayyyy!!! Let's go! Organic Price Books 🔥🔥🔥

Can’t wait for the preorder to arrive!

Man these pages are see through

I preordered the DM cover, it really caught my eye 💙

I preordered the Dauternan cover but I think a lot of the artwork has been shrunk to allow for the title banner. Imak are printing more and more of the omnis so thinner paper stock seems to be the way of the future. Thanks Omar, Monday videos are always great to look forward to!

I have this on order and am looking forward to it, as I've not read any of it yet. Have deliberately held off as I wanted to read the main storyline and not all the "fat" outside of it. Though I do have Hellions trades to read (nothing but good things heard) and the first Marauders one as well

Thanks for this amazing review Omar, thank you so much. Since you have the contact, please pass on some feedback to the guys in MARVEL, tell them we really need OMNIBUS which are having a whole Era, Arc, event, and to have them label as Vol 1 o Vol 2, I appreciate having the creator name on it, but is really disappointing if we do not get the whole event, what is the point on calling the book as OMNIBUS if is not containing everything related to the Arc/Event?. Again thanks for your review Omar, keep up the great work you do!!

I just got my Mutant Massacre Omnibus today and I'm tempted to get the Hickman X-Men omnibus but I'm not sure if I felt the same way I felt reading it as I did reading the X-Men of the 80s but my dad was gonna get me the Excalibur vol 1 but it went out of print so it's sad because he passed away in February & he got me interested in reading comic's and it was so sudden that it's just hard because I didn't expect that to be the way my year was gonna start He would always talk about Comic's he liked from the late 80s and I felt grateful for his interest in the X-Men and Iron Man also the Avengers because that really shaped me when I was younger and the X-Men cartoon really made me want to seek out the Comic's My Dad really will be the only person I could talk to about Comic's without judgement and he himself loved the media so it's been pretty rough these last few months because he was like my friend who I felt like I could talk to about anything and it's just strange & unfair because we had so much planned for this year, it just seems like nothing goes the way I thought it would in life witch is a damn shame 😔

So excited for this book, had it preordered for so long

Good Lord is Marvel selling this "omnis" along with a magnifier ... those spines are getting tinnier and tinnier ...

I really like the current X-Men era but I think I'll skip this omnibus, Hickman's X-Men run works better alongside the other books for me and not so much on its own. I'll stick to the Dawn of X and Reign of X trades. I hope Marvel decide to eventually release Dawn/Reign/etc. of X omnis with everything in reading order.

All of the Hixmen era is being collected as OHCs except for ... Hixmen! Interesting approach. An idea what the spine for the DM looks like? I'll probably have to get a custom DJ made anyways though 😮

Dammit. I just bought Hickman’s Fantastic Four Vol. 1! I forgot this one was coming.

Omar, I’ve been collecting Dawn of X and Reign of X. I don’t think this is a necessary book to purchase. All of these issues are collected in the separate volumes if I’m not mistaken. I do like hardcovers but don’t like double dipping.

This is such a weird omnibus. Hickman's X-Men was basically an anthology book with a bunch of little one-and-done stories building out the world of Krakoa (in large part). This isn't a bad thing, but it's not like it's one complete story from front to back like some other omnibuses, so why not collect everything X related that Hickman wrote including HoXPoX, his New Mutants issues, Inferno, etc. Well it's obvious why but still.

Should I pick this up? I’ve never read X-men but I really like Hickman. just started his FF run which I’m really enjoying. I’m new to marvel and comics but Hickman’s dope and feels like the marvel runs I should get into.

I don’t really follow releases so messed up. Only have the omnibus. Going to suck having to buy that again, hopefully i shouldn’t need to. I wouldn’t mind the X oversized to come back. Got hooked on Hickman with his Image trades and instantly went for his FF & Avengers omnis. I forgot about East of West and would like to finish that in oversized…

As much as I want this omnibus I already own all 16 issues of Dawn of X paperback plus Hickman’s X-Men vol. 3 paperback and the Hellfire Gala paperback. So I just can’t justify the expanse.

Jason Aaron's Thor omni review please!

When does this release? Another great overview. Thanks Omar!

They should have include HoX/PoX, Inferno, New Mutants 1-4, X-Men: Empyre 1-5.

+near mint condition is this Omnibus a good start for reading X-Men

What books should i read before hox/pox and this. New x-men & Astonishing x-men omniboos, House of M trade...anything else?

Just started reading the dawn of x volumes. I’m so confused but it’s cool. Am I missing something ?

I hope we get a house of x power of x reprint

If someone wanted to read and know the full Hickman X-men world are these the essential 4 books? 1. HoX/Pox, 2. Xmen (Omni- this review) 3. X of Swords 4. Hellfire Gala thanks!

The dm has the trade dress across the front like the standard. I would ha w liked it to be the virgin cover like what was advertised.

The tiny font uglyness now affects modern Omnis too (and again without any regard whatsoever for design adopted in previous collections of the very same run). Maybe one day we will find out who in Marvel upper management is so in love with micro-fonts and changing trade dress mid-run. 🤬

I have ordered the Dauterman DM cover. I don't like the Standard cover at all. I am loving the Hickman run.

As an X-Men reader since the 70's, I'm treating this period like an alternate reality. The characters went from trying to live and blend in with humanity to deciding to take a page out of Magneto's concept of Genosha and all agree to live on an island for mutants only. That just seemed like a radical mindset change for everyone all of a sudden. The scene in House of X where they are all resurrected and at Xavier's feet sent cult vibes to me. I followed ( am following) this run thanks to my local library having all the trades to borrow but I can't see myself ever wanting to revisit this period of X-Men ever again. The Omnibus does look nice though.

Great overview, as usual! Since Marvel doesn’t typically reprint OHCs, any thoughts on how/when we might see HoX/Pox in oversized format again?

Really bummed that hickinferno isn’t in this omni though :/

I have the direct market cover coming

Any idea when there'll be like Maruaders, Excalibur, X-force, etc get an omnibus vol 1? Or maybe got a list of Dawn of X era hardcovers?

I’ll wait until they make one big omnibus like they did with inferno.

I kinda wish we got to see the dressing on the covers :(

Any word if Marvel will print these in a single omnibus mapped out chronologically? Not sure if I want to hunt down X of Swords OHC when something in the future is coming out

Do you think there will ever big a huge omnibus of Hickman's run that will include this small omnibus?

My dm is on the way 🥳

Will Marvel ever reprint/restock HoX/PoX and X of swords? I was collecting the single issues but wanna get the collected hardcover editions but can’t find those 2 anywhere

If the only thing I've read from the current X-Men era was Wolverine 2019 #1, how readable would this omnibus be to me?

So if I have the house and powers of x deluxe hardcover then this one comes after it? .

I preordered this thing in June of last year. Amazon is saying the arrival date is May 2022, but the actual release date is April 2022? I don’t know what’s true. All I know I want to read this damn thing.

I was gonna buy tye omnibus but it was cheaper to get the trades

I would say they should have just made a Jonathan Hickman Xmen Omnibus set. Book one with House of X powers of X and 3 quarters of the Xmen omnibus now up to X of swords 3 issues. Then the second omni with X of swords other half hell fire gala and inferno and the rest of the Xmen omni to finish it off.

Did David mention if future modern X-Men omnis will exclude the X of Sword issues as well? Just wondering if I should buy that OHC now for future reference.

If I buy this, what do I read before and after, just so I know, isn’t tying to find my way to Hellfire Gala, trial of magneto and Inferno and don’t even know how to get there

ima get the direrct market cover off of chep graphic novels.com

The amazon reviews say the paper quality is poor and there is ink bleeding through the thin pages. Is that true?

I’m baffled why this didn’t include Hox/Pox, with those setting off the Hickman era, one would think they would be included for content’s sake and so Hox/Pox are in omni format and ohc

Hey Omar ! I’m tryna fast track to judgement day . After Hoxpox there is a lot of x runs and it’s a little overwhelming lol … which ones would u say are must reads or worth keeping up with ?

Thanks Omar looks like an easy miss for me too many loose ends and incomplete stories I'd anyday go for a 1200+ Omni that has everything connected, even if it is more expensive

Omar, what's the deal with the small font of the titles on the spine? I thought that was only for Silver Age reprints? Just got my Hulk Peter David Vol. 1 reprint and the logo on the spine is smaller than what's on Vols. 2 & 3. You think this is a printing error or is this what we can expect going forward for both new books and reprints?

How do you the reading the hardcovers vs the DoX trades?

So... If I'm really only buying omnibus - Would i have to wait for an omnibus that includes House of X and X of swords before reading Hickman's X-men?

Nice video. Thanks for telling were to read x of swords. Were does inferno fit in?

"If" we ever get a Dawn of X omnibus, do you think they'd include these X-Men issues, or just the rest of the X titles like Excalibur, New Mutants, Marauders, etc? I mean, how could a Dawn of X omni be even mapped? It would be huge, I guess

Will you still get a good experience from reading this if you don't read house of x and powers of x? I wish they'd keep more hardcover stuff in stock for newcomers.

I'm disappointed at 16:23 that the awesome issue 11 Magneto cover was just a thumbnail 💔

I hate the cover design 😩

I’m picking this up, I’m enjoying the era as a whole, instead of cherry picking “Hickman” only titles and just speedrunning an era

Whoever designed that cover needs to be fired

Awesome

So X of swords and that other oversized hardcover is not in this book??

Happy to add this one to my collection although I find the reading order confusing, given that a few issues in the run are left out and appear elsewhere! I have been buying the Dawn of X collections digitally and will have to figure out what order in which to read them alongside this omnibus. Marvel don't make it easy sometimes.

Awesome. That spine though, yikes. I

Would this be a good jumping on point for this era of xmen? thinking of picking this up

I’m a big fan of this era of x-men but not so much of this omnibus. The x-men line here was mostly world building and I think I’d rather collect it in a Dawn of X omnibus that follows all the series in issue release order. Also if it required a few exposition pages it would have nice to collect the X of Swords issues too

So still no Thor by Jason Aaron omnibus review?

Unfortunately this run leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Knowing that it never was able to finish with the vision Hickman had for it.