They hurt my eyes just looking at them.

To draw an analogy, Liefeld's approach to "art" is akin to a lousy rock band that tries to compensate for its lack of playing ability by playing really, really loud. Sadly, he started a trend.

Uncanny #322 wasn’t Onslaught’s first appearence. He debuted in X-Men:Prime (written by Mark Waid IIRC)weeks earlier and attacked Mystique first, not the Juggernaut.

Nope. Mystique was attacked in X-Men Prime (actually written by Lobdell and Nicieza), but we never saw who it was - just someone in the shadows who slashed her across the chest. It may have been rolled into the Onslaught stuff later, but at the time it was just more Claremontian plot-dangling: throw in a mysterious reference with no idea of what it's going to mean, and it'll be there when you need it later.

Not all the time, of course. Just off and on. It's not like my entire adult life has been spent on a fruitless quest to learn the meaning of yet another Lobdellism that was meant to be cool-sounding but but was actually utterly meaningless and vaguely annoying.

Really, it hasn't.

Uncanny #322 wasn't Onslaught's first appearence. He debuted in X-Men:Prime (written by Mark Waid IIRC)weeks earlier and attacked Mystique first, not the Juggernaut.

So where did the Prime appearence come from? Was it a late decision after Lobdell intrigued everyone with the idea of Onslaught?

(Oh, and thanks for another great entry! Fridays wouldn't be Fridays without CBULR. Unless, of course, it's one of the times when it's published on Thursday. You get the point.)

Ha ha! I think all that crosshatching would blind anybody...

I can only assume that Marvel's editorial powers were required to put their eyes in a blind trust during the 90s.

It's kinda cool that the x-office let all the books have their "one issue" of creative freedom. Their was probably alot of pressure from other companies doing crazy things and Marvel lagging behind.

Yes-onslaught could have been much worse, since they didn't know what they were doing...but they came up with direction from artistic freedom. As opposed to O.Z.T. where they had a clear direction and didn't have the freedom to have any real reprecussions. Marvel needed a "get out of jail" card for Onslaught, Operation Zero Tolerance- filtered out because the writers could not take risks.

And i'm not talking about stupid risks like character death. My greatest memory of the X-Men is #66?? when you see Cyclops, Phoenix, Storm, Wolverine, and Cannonball neutralized/locked up with Bastion standing over Professor Xavier- telling him his dream is over. Underground X-Men is what I live for.