The final onslaught is on! Mutantdom's mightiest telepaths are forced to turn on one of their own, because Professor X's evil side won't stand for any more repression! The world's greatest hero teams gird for battle against one of their deadliest enemies, and when the smoke clears, not only will some of them not still be standing, they won't be there at all! The X-Men are left to take the blame for over a dozen dynamic disappearances, leading the man called Bastion to lay the groundwork for their next crisis! But even if Onslaught is purged from this world, can a reborn world say the same? Guest appearances galore, plus step-by-step details on where the turning point of the 1990s began and ended! Collects Fantastic Four #416, X-Men #56-57, Onslaught: Marvel Universe, Cable #36, Uncanny X-Men #337, Onslaught: Epilogue, Iron Man #6, and X-Men: Road to Onslaught.
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And it's over....,
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This review is from: X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic - Book 4 (v. 4) (Paperback)
So, here we are. The end of of a huge Marvel crossover that led directly into Heroes Reborn. (And maybe even was created solely for that purpose?) This thing went back a few years if you count all the hints they were dropping - even if they hadn't figured out the entire plot yet back then.
Fantastic Four #416 - Franklin's attempts to get help manifest as bad guys because Onslaught mucks about with them. This issue has no progress on fighting Onslaught... Awesome personal growth for Ben Grimm. Dr Doom is so awesomely bad ass! I love the way he talks and the way he speaks. It's so awesome whenever he's there. And this plus FF signals at least twice that they've had to join forces. Slightly pointless other than to gather all the heroes at FF Tower as more and more super heroes keep dropping in. X-Men #56 - We end up with strange bedfellows. Also, Rogue and Magneto continue to get close. This is kinda neat because it means that even though there are separate story reasons for why Rogue and Magneto are together in the current X-Men: Legacy story arc (starting at issue #250), it seems less contrived having read this storyline. Nate is added to Onslaught. AWESOME ending to that issue! Marvel Onslaught Universe - awesome battle! Love the way it was narrated by Uatu. The climax was awesome! And so the non-X-Men die for Heroes Reborn. This is what makes me think that either Onslaught was always meant to lead to Heroes Reborn or was coopted into it partyway through. Why? Because, coincidentally, only non-mutants can go on the suicide mission and only non-mutants were getting rebooted. I guess that Franklin will probably bring them back since he can alter reality. (Also, that's a crazy power to have. I'm curious how they keep it from being a balance breaker) Wow....there's so much more to this volume....How much story could they have left to tell? Cable #36 - dealing with Cable's virus. Cool resolution and now he is reset for future issues. Uncanny X-Men #337 - a bit of a pity party for Xavier. Haha, love that Creed is on Fox News. Also, looks like mutants are going to pay for Onslaught's destruction. The politics are REALLY against them now in a way they never were before. Interesting that in Marvel parlance, The X-Men aren't heroes. Heroes are the non-mutants. Love the way Beast Speaks. "A google thank yous" Love Cyclops, Ice Man, and Beast. It's great to have some more normal home-stuff for once. It was a part of comics that I always liked. I mean, I think that a comic that was only about the home-life of super heroes would be an interesting deconstruction, but that's not my ideal. It's just that these guys are people, too so it's nice to see issues where they just relax at home. (Especially after all they've been through) Some major fan service with Jean in her bathrobe! Love the lampshade hanging on Gambit's trench coat. Also loved the line "Gambit? No I'm James." Another hilarious lampshading. And a perfect ending. X-Men #57 - Another pity fest kicks it off. Charles is to be arrested? Yay for Beast in Washington Square Park and what he does there. J Jonah Jameson standing up for mutants? Awesome! And Charles must go to be studied? Onslaught: Epilogue - We find out what happened to Charles for accepting his fate. Let's just say, it's not what you thought. Pretty awesome overall. Epilogue - and as I knew would happen, Franklin was the one that kept the heroes alive to come back to the 616 universe. Great explanatory docs at the end. They do a good job explaining Onslaught's motivation. I'd say that, from the comics in the collection, they were like 85% successful in getting that across. Unless they changed their mind partway through? Overall, it was a GREAT set of stories. I really enjoyed seeing the X-Men and all the rest of the A and B-list Marvel characters go through that.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Epic win.,
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this book brings about the epin ending of the onslaught saga (or does it?). and as usual marvel even includes bonus material to get ya started. TWO THUMBS UP!!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
The imposible crossover,
By Dave X "X- Dave" (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This volume is the four part of the ONSLAUGHT crossover, and I think that this volume was unnecesary, because the story of Onslaught ends in the midle of the book, the rest is the beginning of BASTION of Operation Zero Tolerance, and again this crossover that are full of character are too difficult to structure and to concentrate in four issues, of course Marvel try very hard to explain all the previous circuntances that led to Onsalught, but even so the final issue was a real waste of money, but, thanks god that now Marvel Comics build a lot of new Events more organized, for example Civil War, Secret Invasion, Planet Hulk, etc.
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