History ComicBook / OMAC

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: OMAC's universe has a lot of Orwellian overtones, the most blatant being "Brother Eye" (as in, [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour "Big Brother Is Watching You").]] Remember that Buddy is not just drafted into the job, his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory is erased]] and he's given a new, [=GPA=] approved set of ''parents.'' All of this is, of course, incredibly creepy and makes the [[DesignatedHero "good guys"]] who created OMAC look very suspect. But, maddeningly, the series was CutShort before we got to see where Kirby was going with any of it. The very last issue involves Buddy's old identity and memory being restored. How was he going to react when he realized what had been done to him? The world will never know. Sigh. (The business about OMAC's connection to Kamandi was a much later retcon.)

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: In the original comics, Brother Eye was a good guy, although one could interpret him as having Orwellian overtones. He's villainous in most of his modern appearances.

''O.M.A.C.'' ("One Man Army Corps") is a Creator/DCComics character, originally a superhero in a futuristic setting, although reinvented a few times since. The original series was created by artist Creator/JackKirby during his tenure at DC in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. He first appeared in ''OMAC'' #1 (September, 1974). The series only lasted for 8 issues, ending in December, 1975.

''O.M.A.C.'' ("One Man Army Corps") is a Creator/DCComics character, originally a superhero in a futuristic setting, although reinvented a few times since. It was created by artist Creator/JackKirby during his tenure at DC in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. He first appeared in ''OMAC'' #1 (September, 1974). The series only lasted for 8 issues, ending in December, 1975.

** The New 52 OMAC looks a lot like {{The Incredible Hulk}}, except that he's blue and has a mohawk.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: OMAC's universe has a lot of Orwellian overtones, the most blatant being "Brother Eye" (as in, [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour "Big Brother Is Watching You").]] Remember that Buddy is not just drafted into the job, his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory is erased]] and he's given a new, [=GPA=] approved set of ''parents.'' All of this is, of course, incredibly creepy and makes the [[DesignatedHero "good guys"]] who created OMAC look very suspect. But, maddeningly, the series was CutShort before we got to see where Kirby was going with any of it. The very last issue involves Buddy's old identity and memory being restored. How was he going to react when he realized what had been done to him? The world will never know. Sigh. (The business about OMAC's connection to Kamandi was a much later retcon.)
* WorldWarIII: Hinted at being the cause of the original Great Disaster.

** As well as the new 52 series. In a case of history unfortunately repeating itself, both series were cancelled after only 8 issues.

** One-Man Army Corps, Observational Metahuman Activity Construct, Omni Mind And Community, Omegatech Mechanoid Armored Cop, Outerworld Monitor and Auto Containment, [[Comicbook/DCOneMillion One Millionth]] Actual Clone, and One Million And Counting. See IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming for more.

* ShoutOut: Issue #1 of the New 52 has a couple of really clever ones.
** It features the sound effect "BARR-SOOM." "Barsoom" is the name of Mars used in Edgar Rice Burroughs ''A Princess of Mars.''
** Kevin Kho's cell phone ring tone goes "Dum da dum dum daaa," which is how you would transcribe the classic melody from ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.

*** One of the inventions from [[{{Motifs}} the world that's coming]] is a [[Film/TotalRecall1990 virtual memory adventure]] device. Kirby must've have Creator/PhilipKDick on the mind when he was writing the series ...

-->"OMAC lives... so that Man may live!"

'''O.M.A.C.''' ("One Man Army Corps") is a Creator/DCComics character, originally a superhero in a futuristic setting, although reinvented a few times since. It was created by artist Creator/JackKirby during his tenure at DC in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. He first appeared in ''OMAC'' #1 (September, 1974). The series only lasted for 8 issues, ending in December, 1975.

'''O.M.A.C.''' ("One Man Army Corps") is a Creator/DCComics character, originally a superhero in a futuristic setting, although reinvented a few times since. It was created by artist Creator/JackKirby during his tenure at DC in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. He first appeared in ''"OMAC''" #1 (September, 1974). The series only lasted for 8 issues, ending in December, 1975.

* WhatMightHaveBeen: OMAC's universe has a lot of Orwellian overtones, the most blatant being "Brother Eye" (as in, [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour "Big Brother Is Watching You").]] Remember that Buddy is not just drafted into the job, his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory is erased]] and he's given a new, [=GPA=] approved set of ''parents.'' All of this is, of course, incredibly creepy and makes the [[DesignatedHero "good guys"]] who created OMAC look very suspect. But, maddeningly, the series was CutShort before we got to see where Kirby was going with any of it. The very last issue involves Buddy's old identity and memory being restored. How was he going to react when he realized what had been done to him? The world will never know. Sigh. (The business about OMAC's connection to Kamandi was a much later retcon.)

** PostCrisis, it was a plague.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The PostCrisis Brother Eye.

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* TimeTravel: Used by the PreCrisis OMAC to [[Film/TheTerminator stop a robot sent to the past to kill his ancestor]] with help from Franchise/{{Superman}}. It's also a central element of Byrne's miniseries.

* FanSequel: Due to [[FanonDiscontinuity widespread dislike]] of the post-Kirby OMAC revivals, in 2002 two British fans wrote and drew OMAC #9 for fanzine publication, in the style of Kirby, in order to wrap up the final story.

* CutShort: Jack Kirby's series.

** One-Man Army Corps, Observational Metahuman Activity Construct, Omni Mind And Community, Omegatech Mechanoid Armored Cop, Outerworld Monitor and Auto Containment, One Millionth Actual Clone, and One Million And Counting. See IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming for more.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Zig-zagged in the Byrne miniseries. [[spoiler:OMAC is retrieved from AfterTheEnd of the original series and is sent back in time to stop [[BigBad Mr. Big]] from backing AdolfHitler -- only to realize that this was what created the original decadent future he came from, and that it wasn't worth saving. He and Brother Eye develop a plan to make sure UsefulNotes/WorldWarII happens, which involves rewriting the ending of the battle with Doctor Skuba that caused the cliffhanger the original series ended with.]]

All of this was before the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths event changed the history of the DC universe. Afterwards, OMAC was reintroduced in a miniseries by artist Creator/JohnByrne that was, however, not considered [[{{Canon}} canonical]].

Around the time of the ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis miniseries, the OMAC concept was reintroduced as an army of humans mutated by {{nanotechnology}} and controlled by Brother Eye, which was now supposedly created by Franchise/{{Batman}} to monitor and control [[MetaOrigin metahumans]] (Observational Metahuman Activity Construct). Except the villainous Maxwell Lord reprogrammed it and used it to attack Earth's heroes instead.

During ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis it would be revealed that the actual creator of this Brother Eye was Buddy (who is a scientist now; Batman commissioned it from him.) A subsequent (and poorly explained) chain of events led to the destruction of an AlternateUniverse that then became Kamandi's world.

DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch introduced a new iteration of OMAC: Kevin Kho, a scientist at Cadmus Industries, found Brother Eye repeatedly transforming him into a hulking monster to serve as its agent on Earth. This series only managed to last eight issues before being cancelled again, and Kevin vanished into Comic Book Limbo for a time. He recently reappeared in the BadFuture of DC's Future's End, a series that also features Brother Eye trying to take over the world once more.

DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch introduced a new iteration of OMAC: Kevin Kho, a scientist at Cadmus Industries, found Brother Eye repeatedly transforming him into a hulking monster to serve as its agent on Earth.

In fact, Buddy was the old man who raised {{Kamandi}}, The Last Boy On Earth (another Kirby series) several years after the mysterious Great Disaster shattered the world. He died in the first issue, leaving Kamandi to roam alone the strange new world Earth had become.

DC's {{New 52}} relaunch introduced a new iteration of OMAC: Kevin Kho, a scientist at Cadmus Industries, found Brother Eye repeatedly transforming him into a hulking monster to serve as its agent on Earth.

* TheBlank: The Global Peace Agents wear masks that give them this look. FinalCrisis implies it was based on the mask of ComicBook/TheQuestion.