Marvel Collected Editions

[TomSlick]

I don't think so, but it's left suitably vague. I don't think there's anything that would directly contradict this view though, if it's an idea that takes your fancy.

The editors seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of explaining lazy continuity as 'oh, it's a slightly different version', 'time is broken', e.t.c. at the minute.

I thought the Hyperion from the 80s run eventually had to wear a special kind of glasses?

[DrGregatron]

Only about 6 weeks until we finally get the long awaited Onslaught omnibus. My 1997 self would have been in pure heaven. I know the whole thread has been waiting for this for years, especially Gregatron with his zany love of the 90s.

But seriously, I am actually buying this.

You misremember, friend. Mine is a zany hate of 90s Marvel. For shame, Cap! Save your money and buy your boy some Scooby Doo Team-Up TPB or yourself another Hellboy Library Edition (that's some good 90s comics)!

[SJNeal]

Only about 6 weeks until we finally get the long awaited Onslaught omnibus. My 1997 self would have been in pure heaven. I know the whole thread has been waiting for this for years, especially Gregatron with his zany love of the 90s.

But seriously, I am actually buying this.

Me too. It's going to look lovely right next to my copy of Avengers: The Crossing.

[TomSlick]

I can't until next year when I buy a zillion of those crappy Onslaught omnibus books during a $20-$25 fire sale and then flip them for more than $150 each a few months later.

This will be another Inferno, AOA, etc.

[Captain Planet]

You misremember, friend. Mine is a zany hate of 90s Marvel. For shame, Cap! Save your money and buy your boy some Scooby Doo Team-Up TPB or yourself another Hellboy Library Edition (that's some good 90s comics)!

I have them all already! Having great books like Hellboy helps balance out the self loathing from enjoying books like Onslaught. While I don't have Scooby I do have Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge for my kid.

And I'm pretty sure you love 90s X-men. I distinctly remember you saying how much you LOVE 90s X-men every time anything even tangentially related comes up.

[FlashingSabre]

So what's the average going price of the first 2 Claremont X-Men omnis?

[DrGregatron]

So what's the average going price of the first 2 Claremont X-Men omnis?

Do you mean the two good ones with John Byrne or the two lame ones with Jim Lee?

[Trigganosis]

Page 1,000!!! Ohhh yeaaaahhh!!!!

[Trigganosis]

By the way, does anyone have pictures of the new Cap by Bru omni?

[legion_quest]

Me too. It's going to look lovely right next to my copy of Avengers: The Crossing.

That is one of those books that I understand goes for dirt in America, but never seems to be cheap in the UK.

If I ever saw it really cheap, I think I'd buy it out of pure morbid curiosity

[grahamgg]

I remember reading Onslaught in the 90s and it single-handedly turned me off X-men for years. If anyone ever asks for an example of why the 90s is so universally panned as the worst decade of comics, I always tell them to read Onslaught.

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Onslaught crossover. It was published in summer '96 just as I was graduating HS and gearing up for College, the Olympics were in town and the Braves had just won the World Series the previous fall. So my recollections of reading those stories is tinted heavily with nostalgia and memories of what I was doing and where I bought each issue as it came out, what was going on in my life, etc.

Story-wise, I remember the lead-in X-Men issues were quite good. Most were by Lobdell and Mark Waid also wrote one of the titles for a while. For a year or so, there had been a mysterious build up to some unseen foe "ONSLAUGHT" who kept working behind the scenes threatening the X-Men. Ultimately, to kick off the crossover, Xavier is revealed to be the mysterious "X-Traitor" Bishop came back in time to stop. At the time, I thought that was pretty much mind blowing.

The problem with Onslaught was that around this time Marvel had also agreed to farm out the Avengers and FF titles to Lee & Liefeld for Heroes Reborn but they had no idea how or what they were doing so that event got shoehorned into Onslaught and the whole thing ended as a bloated mess. When it started as an X-Men centric event it was good. When they tied every other book into the story it became a mess.

Just my 2c.

[Avengers1986]

I enjoyed the onslaught story more than inferno and will get the omnibus. Also 1,000 pages, that's a lot of omnibus talk.

[gearsofcrabs]

Ultimately, to kick off the crossover, Xavier is revealed to be the mysterious "X-Traitor" Bishop came back in time to stop.

But hasn't like half the X-men, including Bishop himself at one point or another been the"X-Traitor"?

[SJNeal]

The problem with Onslaught was that around this time Marvel had also agreed to farm out the Avengers and FF titles to Lee & Liefeld for Heroes Reborn but they had no idea how or what they were doing so that event got shoehorned into Onslaught and the whole thing ended as a bloated mess. When it started as an X-Men centric event it was good. When they tied every other book into the story it became a mess.

Just my 2c.

Nearly 20 years later, and they still haven't learned their lesson concerning crossovers and "events"...

[FlashingSabre]

Do you mean the two good ones with John Byrne or the two lame ones with Jim Lee?

The Byrne ones for now. I like Jim Lee well enough though.