User blog comment:Paulsultimates/ONSLAUGHT/@comment-61022-20110317003005

I saw the new Onslaught series and I laughed my balls off. As a kid, I was hooked on the Onslaught saga and it was one of the "epics" of my teenage years. Going back and rereading it though, it kind of fell flat. I mean the concept of Onslaught being (sort of) Charles Xavier, and how he was the one that Bishop ultimately went back in time to stop from killing the X-Men (even though he was wrong) was good but the epic in and of itself was kind of sloppy.

It came at a time when the other "big" Marvel titles that didn't have "X" or "Spider-Man" in the title were doing poorly and they were going to do the Heroes Reborn reboot. So when you look at the non-X-Men stories, they were all kind of rush jobs. Because a lot of the other titles had loose ends and supporting cast that still had unresolved issues. A lot of characters ended up getting dumped into limbo after that.

The real meat of the story was in the primary X-books where the major event was actually happening. Most of the event was a big fluff piece, especially when it came to the "Impact" issues that usually had little to no direct effect on the primary plot.

Onslaught Reborn was a laugh as well. Because it was nostalgic fluff, and it was Loeb and Liefelds attempt to do "what they wanted to do" with the Avengers book before Liefeld left it, but it was so horribly crammed in with the major story it didn't really matter anyway. Also, Hawkeye secretly being Wolverine? Talk about HACK work.

This new series? I don't know about. I'm going to have to read it. But I'm going to have to agree, Onslaught is a bit of a meh moment. Kind of like the Phoenix. The guy is just way too powerful to be a regular recurring villain and every time they dreg him out and use him again, is just going to make him less and less sensational.

If they managed to do something revolutionary with Onslaught like they did with Marvel's cast of space characters (IE: Annihilation and so on) then maybe they might make him an interesting character again.