Jul 24, 2026 · 2 hr 33 min · 13 segments
This week on the Major Issues Podcast, the hosts revisit Onslaught Saga in celebration of X-Men '97 Season 2. As one of the most influential and controversial X-Men stories ever told, Onslaught marked…
George SerranoHostAlex GarciaHostOne, this was a massive event, and it's still considered a massive event in the history of comic books, period.
When I seen you put it on the schedule, I knew, one, that this is something you did not read when it was coming out.
And two, I knew I had to be a part of this because this is right in my wheelhouse.
I guess like a small time comic book collector to just collecting everything because this literally changed the landscape of the Marvel comic book universe at the time.
At that time, I was only mostly collecting Spider-Man, most of the X titles and maybe like a couple of DC books.
I knew nothing or almost nothing about the Avengers and all of that world because it was corny.
And it was the definition of they were just trying to be extreme and make them so appealing.
You know, you had this, you had the X-Men world and Spider-Man, you had the clone saga going on.
And then over in the Avengers side, you're trying to tell me, oh, yeah, like Cap gets an armor and, you know, Thor gets a bunch of extreme pouches all over for whatever reason.
It's so interesting how all the kind of, I mean, I guess when I say all, I mean the big two would eventually come to the same conclusion of like, we need to kind of hit the reset button on this and kind of figure out where we want the future of this to be.
One, this was a massive event, and it's still considered a massive event in the history of comic books, period.
When I seen you put it on the schedule, I knew, one, that this is something you did not read when it was coming out.
And two, I knew I had to be a part of this because this is right in my wheelhouse.
I guess like a small time comic book collector to just collecting everything because this literally changed the landscape of the Marvel comic book universe at the time.
At that time, I was only mostly collecting Spider-Man, most of the X titles and maybe like a couple of DC books.
I knew nothing or almost nothing about the Avengers and all of that world because it was corny.
And it was the definition of they were just trying to be extreme and make them so appealing.
You know, you had this, you had the X-Men world and Spider-Man, you had the clone saga going on.
And then over in the Avengers side, you're trying to tell me, oh, yeah, like Cap gets an armor and, you know, Thor gets a bunch of extreme pouches all over for whatever reason.
It's so interesting how all the kind of, I mean, I guess when I say all, I mean the big two would eventually come to the same conclusion of like, we need to kind of hit the reset button on this and kind of figure out where we want the future of this to be.
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