About this title: It begins here! The saga that literally remade the Marvel Universe of the 1990s is collected in chronological order across four volumes! The psionic force of nature known only as Onslaught sprang forth from the fractured psyche of mutant mentor Charles Xavier and the genetic terrorist called Magneto. Powered by his progenitors' rage, Onslaught ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780785128236ISBN:0785128239
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 256 pages. The psionic force of nature known only as onslaught sprang forth from the fractured psyche of mutant mentor charles xavier and the ge*n*e*t*ic terrorist called mag*n*e*t*o. powered by his progenitors' rage, onslaught laid siege to humanity-touching off a catalysmic conflict destined to deprive a world of its most revered icons! chiefly col. illustrations part v. 1 (Paperback) read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780785128236ISBN:0785128239
Description: New. The psionic force of nature known only as Onslaught sprang forth from the fractured psyche of mutant mentor Charles Xavier and the genetic terrorist called Magneto. Powered by his progenitors' rage, Onslaught laid siege to humanity-touching off a ca... read more
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"This is an event that gets judged more for it's effects than itself. Just reading this story alone is at least entertaining. Potentially confusing considering the massive amount of titles and characters that crossover on it. But honestly it does what a crossover event needs. Then unfortunately they decided to turn the event into a gimmick to restart a bunch of their classic characters that needed new life. And things went downhill from there. But that is more the effects on things outside this story itself. Just reading this collection gives you some entertainment, a spattering of characters, some decent artists, nothing too spectacular on the writing side. Though the conclusion actually worked better for me than I remembered.
Anyhow, in and of itself, I feel Onslaught is entertaining. The aftermath in Heroes Reborn and the precedent they set in screwing up continuity that had been holding solid for some 45 years were just kicks in the gut to all the fans who had been following these series, and it would take them a long time to rebuild the mess they created. It's like Crisis on Infinite Earths except it screwed up the continuity more than fixed it.
There's some needless titles in here. And some of these issues are gonna give you stories that you just won't care about cause you weren't following what happened before. But again, finally getting the whole story really did make for an entertaining read. I won't necessarily recommend paying for it, however...
Decent artists you can see herein: Joe Madureira, Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert, Carl Pacheco, Mike Wieringo (but before he had solidified his style, and an issue that is mostly unnecessary), Chris Bachalo (!), and umm, many many others."
"I'm only reading this because Warren Ellis was listed as one of the writers (minimally, and only in Volume 2) but I'm starting to feel like it's a waste of time. Nothing but deception, chase sequences, and trash-talking, all in the most cliché ways. I'm seeing more and more why so many readers of comics - presumably the ones who like to actually learn from them - lost interest in Marvel in the '90s."
Okay Jordan, you may hate me for this one, but I re-read the opening salvo of this saga (after reading it for the first time over 10 years ago) and parts of it still stuck with me as being creepy. The build-up to who/what Onslaught is remains suspenseful. I'm still a sucker for Madureira's the Kuberts' art. Does that mean I'm officially a 90's reject??
That being said, I could do without all the ancillary titles that Marvel shoehorned into this crossover, which of course led into Heroes Reborn. Bleh."
"I absolutely adored this decade of x-men comics growing up. Sadly, this collection doesn't begin to hold up to the excitement of my youth. Far from being complete it begins with a very cursory summary of the storyline, which had been building up since the appearance of Bishop in UXM#283, so unless you already have a good handle on how the how thing unfolded you are lost from the beginning. On top of that several issues are reprinted as one page excerpts of "relevant text" rather than full issues. In short whoever compiled this basically killed its shot at getting an audience, since informed readers will be ticked off at the random inconsistencies of inclusion and new readers are excluded due to a lack of backstory."
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