Secret Wars By Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Alex Ross Reed Richards Cover

by Jonathan Hickman

Collects Avengers (2012) #35-44, New Avengers (2013) #24-33, Secret Wars (2015) #1-9 and material from Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Secret Wars) #0.

Visionary writer Jonathan Hickman's Marvel Universe magnum opus! For Earth's Mightiest Heroes, it's all been building to this. One by one, the realities of the Multiverse have collided and been destroyed, leaving theirs as one of the last dimensions standing. Now the Final Incursion is here - and neither the Avengers nor the Illuminati will be able to prevent time running out on the Marvel Universe! And when the end comes, all that's left of the Multiverse is a single, patchwork planet where the survivors from the different realities that form it all bend their knee to its Doctor Doom! What strange creatures inhabit this Battleworld? Which familiar faces will return? And what happens when the planet's various domains go to war? The victors of the Secret Wars will determine what comes next!

Genres: Comics, Marvel

864 pages, Hardcover

Published February 4, 2025

About the author

Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Micah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recently reread this event in story order starting with New Avengers #23 and Avengers #39 along my collection of tie ins and events including the last days of Silk, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man, Black Widow, Loki: Agent of Asgard, Captain America and the Might Avengers, Punisher, and Silver Surfer. Really enjoy those leads ins to the main event, especially the Avengers vs New Avengers vs Cabal. Included Battleword, Secret Wars Journal, Old Man Logan, Spider-Verse, Infinity Gauntlet, Secret Wars 2099, Renew your Vows, Thors, Spider-Island, Captain britain and the mighty Defenders, Civil War, and Ultimate End to complete the set. Such a great event bringing together a great central plot and art in the main run combined with countless variants and excellent mini-series happening across Battleworld. Trying to create a movie version of this is audacious, we'll see if the MCU can stick the landing but this is a great read and I recommend it to anyone who loves Marvel or comics generally. You can also just read the main run and this omnibus is a serviceable collection of fun stories. To get the whole story though, you must go deeper!

[Mitchell Andreassen · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute epic.I don’t use epic lightly. An amazing marvel story with the best hero’s and the best villains…. And then there’s DOOM. One of my fav marvel stories. Took me a bit to know a couple of the characters as I didn’t read the events leading up to secret wars… sorry! But all in all an amazing experience. Highly recommend to any marvel fan out there getting into comics who love the movies!

[Gabriel Calderón · Rating 5 out of 5]

alright this is a masterpiece in my opinion.

This collects the final chapters of the avengers and new avengers runs leading up to the final incursion between the 616 and the ultimate universe and immediately picks up with the secret wars storyline, which was my favorite (I read it in 2 sittings cuz it was so good)

I LOVED the characterization of Dr Doom here and his transition into God Doom is so fucking cool man it gets me really excited with all the possibilities of what they can adapt when they do the Doomsday and Secret Wars films.

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Hickman’s Avenegrs run. And Secret Wars is no exception. However I have issues with how this omnibus is mapped. Secret Wars (9 issues worth of content) should have just been added on to Hickman’s Avengers Omnibus Vol 2. Especially considering this massively double dips with the content found in that Omni.

[RJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

The culmination of hundreds of issues of comics, I enjoy Jonathan Hickman's Marvel comics because they feel less like a conventional superhero narrative and more like a science fiction story that could be a prestige television series. Secret Wars is a crazy spectacle meant to reward long time Marvel Comics nerds and it delivers.

[Dylan Botelho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Didn’t realize this collects Avengers and New Avengers as well… that’s a lot of books so I’m logging it lol. Just an amazing story. Love everything in the build up before Secret Wars more than the event honestly. Avengers/New Avengers is fantastic. I have no fucking idea how the MCU is going to do Secret Wars justice without any of the build up those comics built and it makes me very worried.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting ideas that I've come to expect from Hickman. Solid ending. Recommended.

[Sam Ramirez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Secret Wars, 10 years later and it’s all erased but I remember… I first read this as it was coming out on a pirating site. It was the first big Marvel event I read as it was releasing, and I don’t think I fully understood what exactly was going on, I enjoyed it though. I like it a lot more knowing the full context that led up to it.
I actually like the lead up to Battleworld a lot more than the thing itself, but there are some truly fantastic moments here and there. Makes me want to read more of the Battleworld books but I’d need to have a physical copy and the Battleworld omnibus is just not worth it to me. Maybe someday.