I don’t know who loved the first Onslaught event, but somebody must have. This series marks 10-years since that event and so we’re going back to it. Sigh. And look! Captain America is on the cover to the first issue! So…This X-Men story is now a Cap story because the best thing Marvel is producing at this time is Ed Brubaker’s Captain America run. But that’s NOT Cap. It’s the Onslaught Reborn universe’s Cap.
Sigh again.
As a result of her “No more mutants!” spell, Wanda inadvertently revived Onslaught. He does bad stuff again. The worst thing he does is force me to look at another Onslaught event. Thankfully, it’s contained in these five issues. And nearly all the characters in it are alternate reality characters. So I’m not tagging them. Much less work for me.
In the Onslaught Rebornverse, there’s a Civil War.
And Iron Man seems to have armor capable of sneering
The heroes win.
Rikki Barnes—a version of Bucky that very few people know about and even fewer care about—dies. But then she’s back alive again and now she’s part of the 616. So, in a way, we all lose.
She also learns that Captain America is dead. I’m assuming this is just a nod to continuity to make it clear that this is a canonical story. And, again, to reference the best thing Marvel is doing right now.
Also at the end: Onslaught is imprisoned in the Negative Zone instead of being killed which, sadly, means that he can return some day.
The writing in this is terrible. Jeph Loeb is a good writer, but I’m guessing he wrote this in like five minutes or something. Liefeld’s art is fine. It’s definitely not the best he’s done, but also not the worst. If you’re a fan, you’ll be satisfied with it.
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