tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post3551228157748458127..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: X-MEN/AVENGERS: ONSLAUGHT OMNIBUSMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-78741467566256195522018-05-04T17:14:09.097-07:002018-05-04T17:14:09.097-07:00Just added to TimelineTools. Getting there slowly!...Just added to TimelineTools. Getting there slowly!SubJunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815819922576293286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-63797961995497015552015-11-02T11:28:54.109-08:002015-11-02T11:28:54.109-08:00The AoA Omnibus is really nice. It starts off with...The AoA Omnibus is really nice. It starts off with "Legion Quest" and then goes into X-MEN ALPHA, all the core AoA titles, and then X-MEN OMEGA. It doesn't include some of the secondary AoA material though, such as the X-MEN UNLIMITED replacement (CHRONICLES OF THE X-MEN)? and the UNIVERSE series that showed what all the other Marvel characters were up to during the AoA.<br /><br />Since I recently announced I'll be reviewing my X-Men hardcovers one per month, I should get to a full post on the AoA book someplace arounnnd... counting my books... checking my calendar... next October.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-12702467096887308542015-10-30T12:25:39.437-07:002015-10-30T12:25:39.437-07:00One, in single issue format, I really only ever re...<i>One, in single issue format, I really only ever read X-MEN and UNCANNY, so if a collection includes issues of NEW MUTANTS or X-FACTOR or X-FORCE or CABLE or whatever else, chances are I never read those.</i><br /><br />Ah, that makes sense. Unfortunately, I can't use that justification, as aside from stuff like Dazzler or Deadpool that I don't really consider X-books (and really new stuff, like all the various Wolverine series), I have pretty much every single issue of every X-related series from UXM #97 forward. <br /><br />I do really like the idea of having some of this stuff in one easy-to-read/lookup format though; I'm really considering getting the re-issued "Age of Apocalypse" omnibus coming out in a few months just to have that whole thing in one massive chunk, instead of spread out across all those single issues in my longboxes. <br /><br /><i>A lot of Marvel's old trades had ugly dot-matrix colors. I think they used the same separations as in the comics, but the trades were usually on better paper and you could practically make out all the individual dots in the colors.</i><br /><br />You're right about that - my old "X-Tinction Agenda" trade, which I still have mainly for the nostalgia of it being one of the first trades I ever bought, has terrible art reproduction, with the dots clearly visible all over the place. <br /><br />I really should replace it with a newer version, especially since much of that story isn't even on Marvel Unlimited, for whatever reason, so I've only ever read via the original issues or poor reproductions thereof. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-74148689642799998402015-10-29T13:47:16.917-07:002015-10-29T13:47:16.917-07:00I understand that -- I've rebought a few thing...I understand that -- I've rebought a few things I already owned in trade -- "X-Tinction Agenda", which you mentioned, is one of them. But generally Marvel includes enough additional material that I can justify it. Again, with regards to "X-Tinction", the hardcover they released a few years ago includes the original Claremont/Silvestri/Leonardi story as a lead-in, and at the time I don't believe that had ever been collected anywhere else. (Though it finally popped up in sequential order in the INFERNO PROLOGUE hardcover last year.)<br /><br />For the most part, though, I haven't had much trouble justifying the rebuying to myself for a couples reasons: One, in single issue format, I really only ever read X-MEN and UNCANNY, so if a collection includes issues of NEW MUTANTS or X-FACTOR or X-FORCE or CABLE or whatever else, chances are I never read those. And two, for collections, besides the extras and bonus features, there's also the coloring. A lot of Marvel's old trades had ugly dot-matrix colors. I think they used the same separations as in the comics, but the trades were usually on better paper and you could practically make out all the individual dots in the colors. It just looked ugly. Nowadays they reseparate (or re-color or whatever) everything, so it's much more attractive than either previous trades or previous single issues.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-61114556233256547172015-10-27T15:15:27.625-07:002015-10-27T15:15:27.625-07:00Yeah, I've definitely changed my buying habits...Yeah, I've definitely changed my buying habits and shifted to a more archival approach that simply buying stuff I don't have/haven't read, but for whatever reason, I still have a hard time doubling up on the X-Men stuff too much. Part of it may be that, on top of the single issues, I still have a lot of individual trades for stuff like "X-Tinction Agenda" and "Zero Tolerance", from back before Marvel's reprint output was as robust as it is now. So it's almost like tripling up. But still. Having "Onslaught" in one big collection wouldn't be a bad thing... <br /><br /><i>Because what kid doesn't want to read all the exact same stuff their dad did when he was their age?</i><br /><br />See, now you sound just like my wife. :) <br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-89963614014394881742015-10-27T14:28:37.833-07:002015-10-27T14:28:37.833-07:00Yeah, something was seriously lost in translation ...Yeah, something was seriously lost in translation from the original Onslaught plans and the final execution. I just don't understand how; it's not like the writer or the editor changed mid-stream. It was always Scott Lobdell and Bob Harras all the way through!<br /><br />It's funny; originally, when Marvel's trade/hardcover program really took off about ten years ago, I was only picking up collections of stuff I hadn't already read. But eventually my philosophy changed and I decided I would like to own really nice, archival versions of the stuff I had enjoyed growing up, both for myself and for my eventual offspring. (Because what kid doesn't want to read all the exact same stuff their dad did when he was their age?) Plus I stopped reading modern monthly comics entirely a few years back, and this is practically my only hobby, so I'm able to justify the money I spend each month that way.<br /><br />Nowadays it's almost reversed; I still buy collections of series/runs I never read, but I think I may actually be picking up more books of material I already own. And most of the "new" stuff is usually tangentially related to the stuff I remember anyway, like a Spider-Man mini-series I may have missed as a kid, or an X-ongoing I never read back then.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-49344218268645396902015-10-26T13:55:59.327-07:002015-10-26T13:55:59.327-07:00. ROAD TO ONSLAUGHT gave a lot of behind-the-scene...<i>. ROAD TO ONSLAUGHT gave a lot of behind-the-scenes details about the crossover's genesis and build-up, and was essentially Marvel broadcasting to the world that they had no idea what the heck they were doing when they put this thing together.</i><br /><br />Even more than that, what I always took from it was that their plans (according to the issue) were better than the actual story. There was more detail about what Onslaught was using the Sentinels for (which fit some of the "Road to..." scenes better), and the whole idea of his master plan being to use the inter-dimensional Morlock tunnels to spread his psionic essence (or whatever) all over the multiverse was loads better than his master plan (which was to...punch things, I think? And absorb Nate & Franklin?). <br /><br />I've yet to pull the trigger on any of these big X-books (since I already have all the single issues), but I really do appreciate the size and completeness of it, and I love that it opens with a teaser, followed by a narrative recap of what everyone is up to. That's all story-centric omnibuses (as opposed to ones just collecting a run in huge chunks) should start. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com