All-New X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis Omnibus

All-New X-Men (2012) (Collected Editions) #1-7

by Brian Michael Bendis, Stuart Immonen (illustrator), David Márquez (illustrator)

Superstar comic author Brian Michael Bendis collides the past and present of the X-Men in this thought-provoking and exciting era of Marvel's Mutants!

Brian Michael Bendis blazes a new trail for the original X-Men! It’s a blast from the past as Professor X’s original five students – Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel and Beast – are plucked from yesteryear and brought to the present day. But what they find – and the state of Xavier’s dream – is far from the future they dreamed of. How will these young, idealistic heroes react when faced with the crushing knowledge of what fate holds for them? And how will the embittered X-Men of the present day deal with their past coming crashing forward? The time-torn teens don new costumes, face life-changing revelations and undertake their first cosmic adventure alongside the Guardians of the Galaxy! Meanwhile, the Utopians hold a secret that will change the future of mutantkind – but who are the Utopians?! The All-New X-Men may regret finding out!

COLLECTING: ALL-NEW X-MEN #1-15 and #18-41 and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2013) #11-13

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Comic Book

1048 pages, Hardcover

Published August 12, 2025

About the author

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.

Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.

Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.

Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.

Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.

He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Reviews

[Frank Jarome · Rating 2 out of 5]

My review isn’t so much from story (although there were a few stinkers in here), as most of it was good. But rather, it’s for how the collection itself was put together. At four, count it, FOUR points in the book, I was greeted with a paragraph on a page telling me things that happened with these characters in other books that are not collected here but were important for the story. Seriously? THEN, when I get to the end, it reads “to be concluded in Uncanny X-Men #600,” which is also not in this collection. So the story doesn’t even end. There’s over 100 pages of cover galleries and scripts, but NO actual ending to the story. That’s INSANE for what these books cost. Hell, that’s insane in general. So sorry, Bendis, I love you, and there’s a lot of good work in here. But the bad review stands, because of the sheer BS of how the book is put together. Do better, Marvel.

[Crazyjamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve put several individual volumes of this run on my read list, but thought I’d tag this to review the whole run.

This run is largely unpopular as far as I can tell, and I do understand why that is. It starts with a mistake by a character that should know better, it has a crossover (Battle of the Atom) which largely exists to give a reason why the young X Men can stay in the present, and there is more time and multiverse travel than even I can stomach as someone who generally likes time travel.

But at the same time, there was a lot here that I genuinely enjoyed. Some of the team develop very little as characters, but Jean Grey has excellent character development and makes this run worth it in my view, particularly the way that her relationships with other characters develop. The Laura/Angel relationship is well done, as is Bobby’s character development. The stories of the young X Men possibly take centre stage over the others from the Jean Grey school when they shouldn’t do, not least because the Wolverine and the X-Men run showed how good those characters are, but still, I was satisfied enough with this.

I think part of the reason I did like this is because I really liked Uncanny X-Men (again, against popular opinion it seems), but I think the whole series of runs between Hope appearing, the Schism and then through to the end of Bendis’ Uncanny run is really strong, and whilst I don’t think this is essential, I do think it fits well.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bendis' ANX-M was (and remains) amazing. The idea of bringing the original X-men into the modern day is such a great one, and he really makes full use of it. I think the height is the future X-Men coming back to deal with the past X-Men (even if it feels it never gets 100% resolution of what was going on), but really every use of the classic X-Men throughout this volume is great.

The mapping gets a little flaky toward the end. Early on, the Battle of Atom issues are skipped over with a summary, which is perfectly fine, but for some reason Marvel takes a different tactic with the (vastly mediocre) Black Vortex volume, just giving us two incomprehensible crossover issues. Worse, the volume literally ends with the statement "To Be Concluded in UXM #600." Apparently I need to go dig up Uncanny X-Men Volume 6: Storyville for the finale to the story. (Basically, the volume would have been much better if they'd fully summarized the Black Vortex issues and used that space to not end on a "To Be Concluded.)

Mapping issues aside, this remains a terrific read.

[Lucas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A experiência com esse omnibus foi bem parecida com o que foi descrito aqui por outros usuários.

A história parece muito interessante, mas a coletânea foi feita de uma forma completamente irracional. Em diversos pontos, tive que voltar algumas páginas só pra ter certeza que não tinha pulado nada, simplesmente porque acontecimentos importantíssimos e desenvolvimentos drásticos de personagens principais aconteceram em livros que não foram incluídos nela.

Gostei da história até certo ponto, mas esse aspecto foi bem infeliz. Em algum momento no futuro, tentarei seguir algum guia de leitura dessa saga e irei atrás dos volumes soltos pra ver se consigo entender melhor o que aconteceu.

[Doug Mason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another miss by the people who put Marvel collections together. -1 * because of tbat

Art and story mostly well done, some odd issues that feel out of place, filler sort of.

But big issue is couple jumps the story takes with missing crossover issues at least twice

The jump after #15 to #18 is totally unacceptable as it changes whole arc of the story to that point.

And would someone explain 100ish pages of covers and other stuff of little import at the back, which is 5 comics that could have resolved the gaps I the story.

Full story first people!

[Norbert Földvárszki · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid 4 of 5. Not the best work of Bendis but I liked this book. I would highly recommend that this book is accompanied by the Uncanny X-men by Bendis omnibus, that book contains the crossover and the issue 600 where this book will conclude.
The art is beautiful and I enjoyed reading this, although it felt that it's almost all about Jean not about the X-men. The other 4 members didn't get as much attention and development as Jead did. But it's a fun easy and fast X-men read.

[Max Koh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm one of those who enjoy Bendis' writing and this was no exception. The conversations and action were fun and fast paced. I just didn't like the omission of some issues towards the end - which makes the reading very abrupt. I suppose that is what you get for a creator-focused omnibus. Art was excellent here.

[Terressa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the omnibus editions, so you're not tracking down individual comics. Some volumes are better than others, but overall I enjoyed it. That said, I was hoping to finally have some closure for the time-traveling X-men, but that does not happen here.