tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post159527691706533279..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: OMAC Vol. 1: Omactivate trade paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-32641396891469166912012-10-01T03:16:32.769-05:002012-10-01T03:16:32.769-05:00Sounds fun enough.
Perhaps aimless (and was this ...Sounds fun enough. <br />Perhaps aimless (and was this update even needed actually?) but fun enough. Like a fun tribute to an old silver age concept.Eyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05350758607787528425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-68995642961371867852012-09-25T17:56:36.888-05:002012-09-25T17:56:36.888-05:00Glad you posted this as I just read the collection...Glad you posted this as I just read the collection yesterday. I read a couple of the issues last year and was impressed enough with it to hold off until the tpb.<br /><br />I'll preface by saying I never read any New Gods stuff and my only exposure to these characters was in Final Crisis. So I didn't pick up of Sarge Steel having both hands as a prelude to losing one. I simply didn't know. Maybe I'm the target audience for this (I've only been reading comics since 07)?<br /><br />I personally really enjoyed OMAC. It was just a fun, simple, crazy sci-fi comic. Normally, as far as superheroes go, I stick to the street level stuff. But I like crazy idea books (such as Morrison's stuff) as well. As an aside, actually pretty much anything outside of super heroes is fair game for me (as my massive library attests to).<br /><br />It's too bad it was cancelled. The pacing actually feels right for the first 7 issues, and then the last one just closes things off without any real lead up. It just sort of happens. It feels like there should have been another issue or two before number 8.<br /><br />I talked to Dan Didio a month ago at Fan Expo. He says depending on the trade sales, him and Keith are ready to do another arc. Says they even had the story lined up. But even though he's the boss, no exceptions if the book is under performing. magmadragonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-48766764179192105642012-09-24T16:44:37.010-05:002012-09-24T16:44:37.010-05:00@Zach - I have been glad to see the Kevin Kho OMAC...@Zach - I have been glad to see the Kevin Kho OMAC isn't gone for good and is appearing in other titles -- not just because it justifies my purchase of the OMAC volume (whereas Man of War seems like something of a "waste" except for the enjoyment of the volume itself), but also because I like Kho as a character even if I don't think he was best used here (though DiDio's final OMAC volume was really quite interesting in its "profile of a loner" aesthetic). In general I'm glad the DC New 52 tends to keep characters even after their series end -- Mr. Terrific, Hawk and Dove, and Static are all characters I like and want to see more of, if under different creative teams.<br /><br />Good point on how OMAC might be a title that reads better monthly than as a collection. On DC Universe Presents #0, I'm hoping that issue is collected in the next DCUP trade.<br /><br />@Mark - Yes, when I saw that solicit about Green Arrow, I also thought it was another example of the same thing. Trite is a good word for it. <br /><br />I said at the outset of the DC New 52, if they want to rewrite the Teen Titans' origin or annual the Clark Kent/Lois Lane marriage, I won't complain too loudly -- things need freshening up once in a while, and fans went through the same thing after Crisis on Infinite Earths and the DCU was better for it, so I was willing to keep the faith. But, what I did not want was to read another re-hash of Great Darkness Saga a la Legion: Foundations -- if they want to tell new stories, fine and great, but I don't have patience for poor retelling of old stories that were better the first time. <br /><br />So far I haven't seen much evidence of that, but Sarge Steel losing his hand (and Mokkari working for Desaad) were big ol' red flags. If G. Gordon Godfrey takes to the airwaves, I'm going to start squawkin'.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-84882068776964399452012-09-24T16:15:55.554-05:002012-09-24T16:15:55.554-05:00I find your comments about the New 52 retelling th...I find your comments about the New 52 retelling the stories of the old DCU an interesting but largely unwanted idea. While I'm okay with the necessary re-establishing of each character's origins, introducing characters in the New 52 just to set them up to become the more familiar versions of themselves (such as a two-handed Sergeant Steel) seems...trite? I am okay with it generally when the media is different (for example, an animated or movie version of a comic character/team), but I hope the New 52 isn't going to be about retelling the same stories that long term readers were already familiar with. Speaking of which, I think I read in a recent solicit that (SPOILERS - MAYBE) Green Arrow was going to be losing his fortune - again. Even though I didn't really care for the first issue of the new Green Arrow series, at least they seemed to be going in a new direction (or, maybe, the "original" direction) with it.<br /><br />I would say the whole Clark Kent/Lois thing falls under the same umbrella. Everyone and their uncle feels that it's just a matter of time before that romantic triangle is restarted.<br /><br />At the end of the day, I guess I'm okay with it as long as the stories are "good" and interesting, in much the same way that we can watch The Dark Knight knowing that Harvey Dent is inevitably going to turn into Two Face. D. Mark Simmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16537028797086907873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-19168647039187301592012-09-24T08:12:40.091-05:002012-09-24T08:12:40.091-05:00OMAC was a real treat to read in floppies because ...OMAC was a real treat to read in floppies because it was a nice dose of enthusiastic nuttiness in the middle of my otherwise conventional pull list, but I can certainly see how its rhythm wouldn't quite work in a collection (and trade-waiters might be miffed to know that OMAC has a solo story in "DC Universe Presents" #0).<br /><br />It's hard to say how much OMAC got short-shrifted because of the cancellation, but with OMAC stepping into JLI (and DiDio co-writing the Annual finale for the series) I think it's safe to say that the Big Blue Mohawk isn't gone for good.Zach Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905320964723323391noreply@blogger.com