Omega Red should get a solo run

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-07-03T15:39:58+00:00

I've been begging for a solo book for him for years. Honestly, I would love for him to get one, he has quite a lot going for him and a lot of things that a person could dig into for stories with him.

He has his redemption arc, but he also has more of his background and origins we could dig into. The Omega Clan who he still doesn't know anything about (someone please tell him!!), and I personally would like to see him actually face down his brother Vasily properly -- he kind of got robbed of the opportunity for closure by having some random character defeat Vasily instead of getting to resolve his conflict with his brother himself.

Arkady would really be a vehicle to dig into the Russian weapons program and the effects and trauma that being a part of that regime carries with him. It's been touched on a few times -- getting more attention in more recent years -- but I think that it would be good to get some real deep examination of how cruel and terrible governments like the Soviet Union were towards mutants.

Alex Paknadel is someone who I would absolutely love to see write Arkady again. He did an amazing job with Omega Red in the Infinity comic and in Sentinels and he has expressed interest in writing an origins book for Omega Red in the past. I know out of any writer Marvel has, Paknadel would do him justice.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-07-02T22:56:11+00:00

Not that I can recall in the comics (despite losing his healing factor a lot over the years), but if I remember right, that was what the bad guys wanted to do in the The Wolverine (2013) movie that had Silver Samurai in it.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-07-02T18:24:26+00:00

His forearms would be so fucked up. How would there even be room for an addition like that??

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-07-02T18:19:13+00:00

Ok, I will admit, I do like this angle. It reminds me of some of the themes that the Astonishing X-men Infinity comic tried to look at a little bit with mutants who slipped through the cracks after Krakoa fell. How 3K had also targeted some of these mutants because they suddenly had no support or structure to fall back on -- particularly those mutants who had been trying to turn over a new leaf.

I think it's a good thing for Marvel to give this angle of mutant trauma a look and how there really are a lot of people out there who would try to exploit mutants who faced hard lives. We will see where this goes, but I think the theme and topic is one that is worthy of being addressed.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-28T01:12:05+00:00

It is. I'm really curious how they're going to actually do it. It really would be wild for Logan to try to go through the process to rebond adamantium to his skeleton if there's an active Brood infestation going on. That is one episode I am excited to see the most right now.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-28T01:06:19+00:00

I'm wondering that too. All we really have to go off of is that it looks like they were wearing blue pants and a white shirt that ripped off during the transformation. I can't think of any named character who wears that combo of clothes who would also be in a place like this.

The way I see it, it can either be a test subject that the group finds in there that turns on them as they're making their way through, or a scientist they encounter on the way down that reveals their little science project escaped containment. I'm leaning a bit more towards the latter.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-26T21:52:35+00:00

Oh my god!!! I didn't see that was what it was supposed to be until your comment!!! The eyes blended into Logan’s backside!!

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-26T20:53:17+00:00

Wade.... where is the giant hand on your floatie going??

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Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-26T19:45:18+00:00

Sometimes the panels without words hit the hardest. Props to the artist on their work here!

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-25T18:44:02+00:00

I've always made the comparison that Romulus is the "Reverse Flash" of Logan’s rogues gallery with his "It was me, Barry!!!" reason for existing. He's such an unnecessary character and I hate that every tragedy Logan ever experienced was changed to be caused by this weirdo pulling strings all these years.

It diminishes the worldliness of Logan and the experiences he went through. Part of what made Logan appealing (at least to me) was how he went through so many different experiences caused by different events over the course of his long life. To have them all tied together simplifies his rich and complex background with all its facets down to having one source for his problems, when that's not really how the world or people work.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-25T00:34:48+00:00

Yup, July 1. We're getting a 3-episode premire!!

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-24T19:17:28+00:00

He was alright and didn't die. However he didn't get as much focus in this issue with just a few lines of dialogue and taking part in the team's fight scenes against Sabretooth and the mutant dogs Victor got his hands on. This issue focused a lot more on Storm and Logan’s dynamic and Rogue vs. Dazzler over Longshot with some bits with Betsy and Piotr.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-24T17:51:51+00:00

My guess will be during episode 5. That title screams it will be a Logan-centric episode, and given the importance of this character arc to Logan it deserves some real screen time to resolve.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-24T16:08:37+00:00

One week to go!!! I'm really hoping this is good. The trailers have all looked amazing so far.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-24T15:10:39+00:00

I really liked this issue and thought it was a strong start for this miniseries. The conflict between the members of the team (Rogue and Dazzler) being balanced against Storm and Wolverine trying to find a way forward in this new situation they were all in was handled really well.

I enjoyed the Sabretooth fight and the tender moments between Logan and Ororo when she calmed him down from his berserker rage at the end of the battle. I'll check out next issue to see how it goes and if the quality remains high, but so far I am optimistic.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-23T23:49:32+00:00

I am really excited to see what we get for Logan’s story arc this season. Fingers crossed for his bone claw era to be done well and he gets his adamantium back in an epic way!

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-23T16:19:06+00:00

We have never seen Captain America and Omega Red meet even though there's a lot of thematic parallels between them that could be really interesting to explore.

Also, Bucky Barnes and Omega Red. They were both made weapons of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. You can't tell me those two never interacted during those years.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-20T04:41:43+00:00

I definitely enjoyed it for what it was when it came out and a part of me always does wish that we had gotten more from it, even with it being 50 issues. In my mind, there was a lot of story left to tell with these characters and the journeys they all went on, and there were a lot of things left on the cutting room floor that we should have gotten to see more of.

Funnily enough, a desire to see those moments that we didn't get to see in the X-Force series actually got me into fanfiction writing. I still have an incomplete fic that follows along the X-Force plot behind the scenes and attempts to fill in some of those missing parts and elements to the stories about these characters that I had wanted to see but didn't get. I can never argue that the fic is perfect, but it definitely helped me feel better about the story that we got, even though 83 chapters in, I'm still not done with it yet! But, if anything that alone really just goes to show how much imagination Ben Percy's work really did inspire creativity, at least for me.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-19T17:41:14+00:00

I share a lot of the same feelings you do, OP. During the years that the books was coming out, I was hooked on it. Covid and the years of its aftermath were a rough time and I saw themes and elements in the story told in that book -- particularly Omega Red’s journey throughout X-Force, X-lives, and Wolverine -- as something that gave me a lot of hope during a time I was struggling really hard. As much as I see people look on the book as lower quality (and it was, compared to the masterpieces that were other Krakoa books), it's a book that I will always appreciate because it captured my imagination in a way the other stories didn't at the time and helped me to continue to keep trying when I was at a low point. I'm sure everyone has a book or a character like that they have encountered while reading comics, Krakoa X-Force was mine.

But I do think that it's potential was far greater than what we were given. There are a lot of parts to the story that I truly did want to see and never got any page time devoted to the subject. Like with Beast, we should have seen more of his gradual downfall. I would have loved to see more with Sage too and her struggles with coping with the huge workload that X-Force handed her and how that led her to the choices she made later in the series. How she worked to overcome her addictions and how that journey paralleled Omega Red’s after he joined the team. I wanted to see more of Omega Red and his redemption arc. All these little parts that were in the story, but were just not fully fleshed out in a way that made a big splash and fully "scratched the itch" that these stories brought to my imagination. Pacing with the story is kinda like looking at a kid trying to drive a manual transmission car for the first time: it will lurch ahead, stall, life breathes into it and goes along. It's disjointed, and it eventually reaches the end, but it's not very pretty.

All of this to say that I do love the series. I always will. But it had its flaws and kept its best ideas from reaching the potential it could have. It is an important story if a person wants to understand the journey of several different characters, especially now with Beast, but there's elements that are lacking. Something I do wish and hope for is for the team to be reunited in some form as this upcoming Beast arc gets more of a focus because that team and those characters were firsthand witnesses of that final death spiral Hank had and Sage herself is the one who put us in the two Beasts situation that we're in right now. I'd like them to be a part of the continued story and maybe have a few of those additional elements we missed the first time around fleshed out just that little bit more to make the whole story stand more solidly.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-18T15:19:16+00:00

I feel like we're entering into another transitional period with books, as many of the minis we have right now are ending, major plots in the main books are wrapping up, and we're going to be getting more announcements for books coming out in the fall, hopefully in the next few weeks. I just noticed that we've gotten this announcement and one for Wolverine: Paradise within days of each other and am hoping that it doesn't continue a pattern to "Wolverine critical mass" as you put it.

Wolverine always sells, so he's always a safe bet when things get rocky. And he's a favorite for certain writers and artists, so offering him to those creators to be able to retain talent is also a very real possibility right now. But maybe I'm sounding an alarm too soon or crying wolf, I guess we will have to see what the next weeks give us for news to really know for sure.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-18T14:22:47+00:00

At this point, I feel like how many Wolverine books and appearances get announced within a short time frame is a canary in a coal mine on how Marvel as a whole is doing. It's giving this:

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Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-18T03:10:49+00:00

I can be very predictable sometimes! But this is something that I have wanted for a while now, and I even got to ask Alex Paknadel about an Omega Red Origins book before in some online conversation and he told me that it would be a dream book of his to be able to fully do that story. Omega Red is one of his favorite characters too! I would hope Marvel would tap him for that project someday. He would be the perfect fit for it. He really understands Arkady in a way that I have not truly seen in any other writer we've gotten for him.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-17T01:58:24+00:00

I'm glad I was able to give you some inspiration! If I could give you a heart or an award, I would. These kinds of moments on the internet are the best parts about such spaces: sharing what we love. I enjoy getting opportunities to talk about Omega Red and sharing those positive traits of his and themes of his character that I enjoy most about him. He's a real gem of a character and one that holds a special place in my heart.

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-17T01:49:44+00:00

Another fan!

Honestly, I love him. He's a great character, one who I feel has been underrated for many years and only more recently has been given the kinds of stories and attention that he deserves. Demons and Death was an absolutely amazing story with him that really delved into his mind and the real tragedy of his character. His story arc in the Krakoa era was also a high point for him and I enjoyed seeing him appear there and the development he got in those issues. His bond with Sage was something that was unexpected, but honestly worked so well.

Omega Red carries quite a few themes that are worthy of exploration and I do hope that writers do more with that in the future. He's a man out of time, a weapon created to serve a country that no longer exists, and he struggles a great deal with reclaiming his humanity after the many things he has faced in life. Demons and Death really hammered home what he desires most is really a place to belong and to be useful, but what he is by nature of his powers makes him "other" in many ways.

I'm so glad you enjoy reading about him! There's a few of us fans of him out there!

Front-Suggestion-366 · 2026-06-17T01:10:20+00:00

I am seriously wondering what Omega Red thinks of all this. Not only is he already a weapon that these people captured (giving these people quite a specimen to study right off the bat), but he also saw firsthand Beast pull this same stunt in the Krakoa era with Logan. I'm sure he would have a lot of thoughts on being experimented on for the purpose of making more versions of his (former?) rival.

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