Thursday, April 8, 2010

Amazing Spider-Man #627

This may only be the second strip, but I think it's going to be a while before I beat this one in terms of obscure references. If you were reading Marvel back in the early '90s, you might well remember the first big tease of the Onslaught event. If not, I think this cover speaks for itself.

Onslaught is interesting to look back on after the last several years of events - instead of one big miniseries telling the real story and the ongoings serving as backup, it involved only a couple huge one-shots to set up and conclude the story, and the whole rest of it carried across the relevant ongoing series. And it went on like that all summer.

The X-titles are still doing almost the same thing with their Messiah Complex and Second Coming events, so obviously this sort of structure hasn't been entirely forgotten; I wonder why the big Marvel events (and DC events, from what I've seen) never get done that way anymore.

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