Writers and Artists: Dan Didio and Keith Giffen pretending to be Jack Kirby
I'll admit that I am no fan of OMAC from before. I think he was the worst thing Jack Kirby ever came up with and shouldn't have made it out of the 70s. It's a stupid name, stupid look, and everything around him was stupid. For some reason people love him, and Didio and Giffen are two of those people. Now this is not indictment on their works as a whole, just this god awful book.
The story is mostly OMAC destroying the Cadmus science labs and fighting everything weird Cadmus throws in his way. The shocking ending is that OMAC is really Kevin Khom, mild mannered Cadmus scientist, who has no memory of becoming OMAC. He's being manipulated by Brother Eye (who says eye instead of I, very annoying) into uploading said Brother into the Cadmus Mainframe.
I literally groaned everytime I turned the page. The book is filled with bad throwbacks to the original OMAC series. Build-A-Friends, Gobblers, and Dubbilex (I'm not going to even try to explain what they are, just google it if you really hate yourself) are all in their full glory. Kirby was really into doing weird for weird sake and this issue reflects it. The dialogue is laughable (I...am...OMAC!). The art is ok, but it tries to be Kirby so hard it's sad. I don't know if they were going for printed fan fiction, but this is what we have.
I would not recommend this book even for punishment of murderers in third world countries. My only hope is that it's cancelled in a timely manner.
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