Character-centered definitive runs
No. 138 — Longer term

Wolverine by Jason Aaron — Goes to Hell and Schism

Jason Aaron · Adam Kubert · Renato Guedes · Ron Garney · Daniel Acuna

Story era 10 · The Heroic Age and the Incursions

The Red Right Hand turns Logan’s revenge back on him, while Schism leads into the school-era Wolverine and the X-Men.

0 of 1 book owned984 pages37 full issues

Setup & reading order

  1. After The Schism portion of this omnibusBefore Wolverine & the X-Men (2011) #1

    Finish X-Men: Schism #1–5 before starting Wolverine & the X-Men #1. The later solo chapters can be read as a block without minute-by-minute interleaving.

Optional context & path

Path: Wolverine by Jason Aaron. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.

Useful background and earlier stops: Wolverine & the X-Men by Jason Aaron.

Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.

About these books · 4 sources

Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.

The books

Wolverine Goes to Hell Omnibus

Omnibus hardcover · 984 pages · Unowned

Book 1 of 1 · The Heroic Age and the Incursions

The Red Right Hand solo phase and Schism precede the Jean Grey School launch. Some later solo chapters continue alongside the first Wolverine & the X-Men stories.

See reading checkpoints
Released 22 Jul 2025 · 984 pages · Jae Lee cover9781302961381Planned edition
Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine (2010)#1–6
Wolverine (2010)#1–20, #300–304, #5.1
X-Men: Schism (2011)#1–5
Wolverine: The Road to Hell (2010) (partial — Falling)#1
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From Wolverine: The Road to Hell it takes only Aaron and Guedes’s story “Falling”; the X-23 material in that issue belongs to the X-23 omnibus.

Edition sources

Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.

Duplication across this project

These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.

No shared contents are recorded with other books in the plan.

Things to know
  • The opening Hell story and violent tonal swings are uneven. Selection rests on the consequences of the revenge arc, Kubert’s time-travel story and the meaningful Schism connection.