I really wanted to like this more but it became clear about half way though that OMAC was never going to have much of a personality."Brother Eye, what's that!?!""OMAC, you'd better smash it!""Okay!"repeat

I didn't particularly expect to like OMAC, based on what I know of Kirby's work from reading New Gods, but I gave it a shot.Some thoughts:Issue 1: The book starts off pretty strong, promising a very Phillip K Dick sort of tale of robots blurring the lines between what’s human and not human. Unfortunately by the end the robots just turn out to be sex bot assassins along the lines of those comedic fembots in Austin Powers. If you had the infrastructure to build robots like this, wouldn’t you sell

OMAC's a fun little series. It's short enough that it never starts to feel repetitive, and it's hilarious that with Kirby leaving DC, the final issue's cliffhanger inadvertently suggests that Buddy Blank and Brother Eye both die! Each of the storylines are imaginative, and Kirby's "world that's coming" is chillingly prescient. It doesn't have the mythological underpinnings of the Fourth World, but OMAC's a fun ride. Kirby's art is excellent, as always, though I prefer Mike Royer's inking on issu...

Great post apocalyptic story by Jack Kirby, a comic artist master. Very recommended

I received a hardcover collection of Jack Kirby's OMAC from my pusher, a Kirby superfan (like most hardcore comics nerds), and, honestly, I did not expect to enjoy it nearly as much as I did, which was A LOT. From the ashes of Kirby's conception of a future Captain America and the spark of a contractual obligation to produce 15 pages a week came OMAC, the One Man Army Corps, an archetypal superhero with no discernible personality because he was created from an ordinary man named Buddy Blank via

OMAC. Another wonderful bit of creativity from Kirby. These futuristic stories offer up all kinds of dystopias, with criminals buying cities and young bodies and stealing up lakes and other waters. And OMAC is a dynamic and heroic force. (The only thing that really lets down his story are the faceless Peace Agents, who one constantly hopes will turn out to be evil, creating a real moral dilemma.)One wonders how much this was all influenced by Shazam!, since OMAC is similarly empowered by bolts f...

Here we have OMAC, one of Kirby's last efforts for DC. This one is really freaking out there though, even for Kirby. It tells the story of a dystopian future where the technology is so powerful and so great, it's actually become a threat to mankind itself. If two armies were to meet on the battlefield, it would mean the end of the earth! So the Global Peace Agency (GPA) is charged with keeping the peace. However they aren't allowed to use violence of any means, and trying to keep the peace witho...

This review originally appeared on my blog: Shared Universe Reviews .I had to learn how to like Jack Kirby as a creator. In a medium where he’s quite realistically dominated for several decades, its understandable why he’s known as Jack “The King” Kirby in comics circle. The sheer volume of output he’s had since he started making comics in the forties and the impressive versatility of genre he’s worked in. He’s also the co-creator of a significant portion of the Marvel Universe but despite all

OMAC: One Man Army CorpsAuthor: Jack Kirby, Mike Royer, D. Bruce BerryPublisher: DC ComicsPublishing Date: 2021Pgs: Dewey: Disposition: Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX=======================================REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERSSummary:In one of his last major works for DC, Kirby envisions a 1984-inspired dystopia starring corporate nobody Buddy Blank, who is changed by a satellite called Brother Eye into the super-powered O.M.A.C. (One Man Army Corps). Enlisted by the Glo...

Even geniuses have to eat. Even Kirby's grocery work has a few bits of genius.OMAC ("One Man Army Corp," as bad guys keep explaining loudly) is the fruit of Kirby's obligation to produce a crazy amount of pages to DC each week. He retasked an old pitch about a future Captain America and got OMAC, possibly the most boring hero of all time.Buddy Blank is a boring, picked on schmuck who is chosen to become the most powerful man in the world. All the drama and pathos this could be mined for is flush...

Perhaps Jack Kirby's strangest book I've read. Set in a dystopian future where there is no army except for one-man OMAC. Parts of the story don't make too much sense to me and the ending seemed a little rushed. I did however like the art as always. I like the idea of the character too. Heard about OMAC before this, so kind of helped me understand his character a little better.

OMAC began, apparently, as a sort of revamped and updated Captain America years before the comic finally appeared. The story goes that Jack Kirby, the King of Comics, wanted to give his character Captain America a facelift, a nu-you look if you will. The result was a super-soldier set in the near-future who could take on whole armies by himself. What’s interesting, at to me, is that the character actually feels more like a revamped and updated Superman than anything else. When Superman first app...

One of Jack 'King' Kirby's lesser known works, and it's easy to see why.OMAC lacks the depth of Kirby's 1960's Marvel classics, or his Fourth World, The Demon and Kamandi efforts at DC in the 1970's. The book is brimming with great ideas, but unfortunately little else. It's basically a 'villain of the week' format with no character development or running sub plots.It would have been interesting to see just how - or IF - Kirby would have developed things if OMAC had lasted beyond it's eight issue...

Empowered by the Brother Eye satellite, weakling Buddy Blank becomes... OMAC!OMAC is the latest stop on my tour of Jack Kirby's 1970s DC output. This hardcover contains all eight issues, written and drawn by the King.Based in part on a "Future Captain America" concept that never saw print, OMAC works for the Global Peace Agency, an organization of faceless men protecting the world in a dystopian future. OMAC goes up against monsters, body thieves, and mad scientists in a world that is quickly go...

I don't know if Jack Kirby read Philip K. Dick, but he creates a very PKD-like future here. The supervillains are rich capitalists with schemes that involve privatizing the planet's water supply and renting entire cities to turn them into assassination theme parks. Our hero works for a benevolent-but-also-undeniably-creepy entity known as the World Peace Agency, which monitors the world through a super-powered satellite known as "Brother Eye." In terms of both artwork and pure, energetic imagina...

A collection of monsters and baddies that all look hewn from rock. Mohawks, faceless babes, action lines, EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! and ellipsis... I do not know, or apparently appreciate, comic book history enough to enjoy this collection from Kirby. Surely, there exist scores of examples of how this was visionary or innovative. Problem is, from an enjoyment standpoint, it doesn't hold up. The text is wildly repetitious, repetitious, repetizzz zzz... and I gave up trying to finish this 4/5th of the...

I am a new convert to the wild ideas and constant action of Jack Kirby, and his style is easy to appreciate. The trouble, at least in OMAC, is that the sci-fi future only exists to provide 1- or 2-page scrapes for tough guy OMAC to effortlessly overcome. There is plenty of fertile soil in Kirby's visions, but I hope these 8 issues are not the fruit of his orchard.

One of my all time favorite Kirby comics!Omac is basically the typical hero origin, normal schmoe is chosen by fate to receive great powers, similar to Captain America's. But then Jack piles on as many crazy futuristic ideas and gadgets as he can cram into the story.Very little in the way of deep issues or analysing the themes behind the mythology of the role of a hero. Just a guy with a freaking big blue mohawk, and a satalite for a sidekick taking out whole armies, the mob and several mad scie...

OMAC and a lotta cheese. 1974 and the main character has infinite strength and zero personality. The most interesting aspect for me were the predictions for the future, more Faith Popcorn than Criswell. OMAC's partner in crime-fighting is a satellite Thinking Machine called Brother Eye, way more Ray Kurzweil than Bill Joy.I'm guessing ideas were then ripped from quick scans of Popular Science, but Kirby has fun with them. Kinda like grabbing names for villains, Kafka and Skuba, and of course the...

Buddy Blank lives in a future in question. When he is empowered by Professor Myron Forest and his creation Brother Eye, Buddy is transformed into OMAC aka One Man Army Corps. OMAC has the power and strength to defend the world and teamed with the Global Peace Agency, he is the hero that the world needs. OMAC is taking on tyrants and warmongers, and with the help of Brother Eye, the Earth might stand a chance!Written and illustrated by Jack Kirby, OMAC: One Man Army Corps by Jack Kirby is a DC Co...