Essential X-Men #18 was published by Marvel UK/Panini UK on January 1, 2018, as part of a series that began in 2016. Cullen Bunn and Jeff Lemire write, and art comes from Edgar Salazar, Eric Koda and Leinil Francis Yu. It features Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Beast and Jean Grey, among 44 characters cataloged on VerseDB.