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Cable (1993) #32-33
X-Men: Prelude To Onslaught
Collects X-Men (1991) #50, Uncanny X-Men #333, X-Man #15-17 and Cable (1993) #32-33.
Onslaught unnerved the X-Men and their enemies even before he entered the game, leading killer mutants and mutant killers alike to start the fight for survival early! Already edgy from the Age of Apocalypse, good, evil and neutral wage war as the nemesis of the nineties rears his telepathic head! Guest-starring Cable, Domino and Nate Grey the X-Man!
Onslaught unnerved the X-Men and their enemies even before he entered the game, leading killer mutants and mutant killers alike to start the fight for survival early! Already edgy from the Age of Apocalypse, good, evil and neutral wage war as the nemesis of the nineties rears his telepathic head! Guest-starring Cable, Domino and Nate Grey the X-Man!
233 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 7, 2010
About the author
Scott Lobdell
1,649 books235 followersScott 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.
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.
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August 30, 2018
Updated during 2024 reread:
While certainly not a great Jumping On Point for new readers, it's a decent primer for the upcoming Onslaught event. Containing some whole issues of X-Men, Cable, and X-Man, it also has highlight sections of the other X-books that influence this event, going as far back as the 1991 relaunch story involving Bishop and Fitzroy.
You could conceivably start reading here and only be sort of confused about all of the continuity that feeds into this event, as opposed to completely lost.
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Original Review 2018: While the issues themselves weren't very interesting, the people most at fault for this collection's ineptitude is the series editor. This "prelude" is all over the place, hopping from slightly relevant to slightly relevant story.
The "Road To Onslaught" series offered helpful timelines, explaining each character's journey to this story, the prelude offers choppy one and two page flashback pages to supply context. It's a good idea, but it doesn't work at all. I had a difficult time following what was going on, and I have read all the titles leading up to this event in the last couple of weeks. I can't imagine how impenetrable this would be to someone who was reading this in real time, or having picked up this series without reading absolutely every volume that preceded it.
While certainly not a great Jumping On Point for new readers, it's a decent primer for the upcoming Onslaught event. Containing some whole issues of X-Men, Cable, and X-Man, it also has highlight sections of the other X-books that influence this event, going as far back as the 1991 relaunch story involving Bishop and Fitzroy.
You could conceivably start reading here and only be sort of confused about all of the continuity that feeds into this event, as opposed to completely lost.
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Original Review 2018: While the issues themselves weren't very interesting, the people most at fault for this collection's ineptitude is the series editor. This "prelude" is all over the place, hopping from slightly relevant to slightly relevant story.
The "Road To Onslaught" series offered helpful timelines, explaining each character's journey to this story, the prelude offers choppy one and two page flashback pages to supply context. It's a good idea, but it doesn't work at all. I had a difficult time following what was going on, and I have read all the titles leading up to this event in the last couple of weeks. I can't imagine how impenetrable this would be to someone who was reading this in real time, or having picked up this series without reading absolutely every volume that preceded it.
August 29, 2013
I decided to take a look at Onslaught because there were so many references in the Deadpool series I was reading. It seems "foundational," however, the event is scattered across way too many books and doesn't follow a coherent story pattern, the worst I've seen of such events. I keep asking myself if this is worth the trip down memory lane. I wasn't able to read X-Man, but I found all the rest.
July 9, 2026
Okay, so I've read the Onslaught event multiple times. I know what happens and I was still confused.
This book pastes together a couple of pages from a bunch of different comics and expects you to follow what's going on. But it's not possible. There isn't enough of any of the plot lines! (And sometimes they don't even let you know when they've switched books.)
If you want this book for the few whole issues, (like the X-Man ones that aren't collected in another paperback), go ahead. But if you expect this to help you understand the Onslaught event, look elsewhere.
This book pastes together a couple of pages from a bunch of different comics and expects you to follow what's going on. But it's not possible. There isn't enough of any of the plot lines! (And sometimes they don't even let you know when they've switched books.)
If you want this book for the few whole issues, (like the X-Man ones that aren't collected in another paperback), go ahead. But if you expect this to help you understand the Onslaught event, look elsewhere.
July 4, 2024
X-Men, like most Marvel Comics, sucked pretty hard in the '90s. Not every issue or every arc, mind you, but there was enough suckiness in sidebar titles like Cable and X-Man to wash away any good that may have occurred elsewhere in the X-Universe. The idea behind Onslaught wasn't that bad, merely the long-winded execution of it.
October 25, 2013
I read this so that I may be ready to read Onslaught in the near future. This volume contains excerpts from various X-Men comic series that allude to the existence of a mysterious villain called Onslaught. The collected excerpts, however, are not very cohesive, thus invoking confusion within readers. I just hope that Onslaught is a better read than this dragged out prelude.
September 9, 2012
Si no me equivoco, leí y poseo el contenido de todo este libro de las colecciones de Forum de los 90s. Ni bien lo corrobore en mi casa natal, seguro lo marque como "own a copy" y veo si me explayo más en la reseña.
March 1, 2014
Marvel really worked hard trying to make the Onslaught event look like it was planned in the volume...
June 19, 2014
I found this book really confusing. There were whole story lines that seemed isolated from the rest of the story.
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