X-Men: Road To Onslaught Omnibus Vol. 1 Joe Madureira Cover

by Scott Lobdell

Genres: Comics, X Men

912 pages, Hardcover

Published January 14, 2025

About the author

Scott Lobdell (born 1960) is an American comic book writer.

He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this story line, I just couldn’t get into the starjamers story. Otherwise it was completely cool but only had a small amount of onslaught mentioned in the story.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This era can be maligned as trapped by both legacy and editorial mandates (see Onslaught for the latter), but there’s still just something comfortable about this span. It is familiar but still stretching the characters within the walls of this status quo.

I cracked this as a comfort read and said need was met.

I had never read the Starjammers mini collected here. Ellis and Pacheco so pretty stellar pairing that makes for a… fine pairing.

[Christian Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Star hammers is an odd series to end this volume in, when Crimson Dawn would have made more sense.