X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic - Book Two

For the most part Volume 2 of Onslaught: the Complete Epic is just filler. The first issue or two deal with the X-Men on their mission to deal with Onslaught. Reveals that Xavier is like Batman: crazy prepared! He has files on how to kill each of the X-Men. That was neat to see. The issue where Wovlerine talks to this Aboriginal mutant was pretty awesome. Esp the fact that such a guy exists. But the rest of the book just seemed like filler that could have been safely ignored.That's not to say it wasn't fun to read. While the X-Factor story was boring and just involved the Beast/dark Beast story, the Spider-Man story was a lot of fun. The only thing that sucked is that it was still during the time of the clones so we had Parker and Reilly both instead of just Parker. The Green Goblin issue was great because it was the same events of the Spider-Man book from Goblin's point of view.The X-Man and X-Force issues may or may not become relevant in future books.The only thing that bugged me is that no one in the Marvel universe outside of the X-Men (and their affiliates) seems to know about the sentinels. Now, this may just be because I've only seen the sentinels in the X-Men 1994 cartoon where everyone knows about them. They appear on the news. Senator Kelley campaigns on using them, etc. I understand that heroes that aren't mutants might ignore it because the sentinels are after mutants, but they should still know what they are. Perhaps someone can help me out in the comments and let me know if this is a valid criticism or not.

Volume 2 of the Complete Onslaught Epic moves the story forward only slightly. There's an issue of Wolverine that reveals a key detail about the nature of Onslaught. There are two issues of X-Factor that resolve the Dark Beast storyline. There's an X-man/X-Force crossover which gets Mr. Sinister involved with the proceedings. But other than that, this second volume mostly involves other Marvel heroes (Spider-man, The Punisher, and the heroic Green Goblin) battling Sentinels in NYC with little knowledge of what's really going on. In fact, the best written issues are those that involve non-X-men characters; they continue the regular storylines of those books, with the Sentinels just happening to be the "villain-of-the-month". In terms of production, the editors have done a solid job of including all relevant material. For instance, only the final page of an otherwise-unrelated Spider-man comic in which the Sentinels appear, rather than the entire preceding issue, is included in the trade, with the story resuming in the next issue. There are some text summaries included at the beginning of this volume to bring a new reader up to speed on storylines unrelated to Onslaught. There's plenty of action in Volume 2, just precious little of the actual Onslaught storyline. The quality of the artwork and writing varies (this was the 90s after all). There are Spidey issues drawn by the likes of Mark Bagley and John Romita Jr., but there's also truly cringeworthy dialogue from some criminal characters in the Punisher issue.

It can be pretty hard to follow from book one with everybody side stories and all but book 2 really clears everything up. Fun read, spiderman stories were awesome, x factor are bad asses and punisher story was action packed.

The onslaught epic is by far one of my favorite arcs in marvel Comics. Very well written, and super immersive experience.

Bought this as a Kindle book. All of these books are high quality. My comic Kindle library is substantial and I keep buying more!

Brought as a present and was in good condition and delivered well on time.. no complaints...

I am happy with this purchase, the cover wasn't like what is shown on the description screen, but the books condition is very good. I am happy with this purchase.

This book has the attack of the sentinels sended by Onslaught, and you can see Spiderman and the X-factor trying to stop the madness, this book has good art but I like the first volume more, but now I can't wait to read the third book. If you are a fan of X-men's crossover the you must have this one.

I absolutely adore the X-Men, and the Onslaught Epic was my favourite of all time. I bought this and Volume 3 thinking that it would be great to be able to see all of the cross-overs, like Spider Man, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Avengers, Thor etc etc etc... not just X-men. But the problem is that the story lines for Iron Man, Fantastic Four and (in particular) Spider Man are incredibly week. You shoud especially read the Spider Man story line, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who intends to read this Volume but seriously... I think between about four characters they take down like one Sentinel. It is just not that interesting, when you know that there is some seriously juicy story lines going on in the X-Men comics.. you know, Onslaught is (after all) Professor X and that is seriously interesting. I don't know, maybe it's just because I'm a hard core X Men fan but I found the cross over comics really quite dull in Volumes 2 and 3.

Recensione globale per tutti i quattro libri della collana: pensavo meglio, troppi personaggi, troppe sottostorie da seguire iniziate in precedenti collane, un casino... un pò come Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Good read.