OMAC #8

One More Annoying Comic

This issue is called "Omit, Mutilate, And Cancel". It begins with Kevin Kho explaining how he is not OMAC. He just turns into that creature against his will. And then he states that this (The Narration Boxes?) is his last will and testament. Is he planning on killing himself because his life has become so out of control? Or is he going to try to scare OMAC out of him? Perhaps he'll threaten suicide until Brother Eye actually believes Kevin might go through with it. Then Brother Eye will be forced to remove OMAC from Kevin as host.

But I think none of that will happen. I'm pretty sure Kevin will come to terms with being OMAC and then go over and hang out with Justice League International as their bodyguard.

Kevin tells the story of his flight from Cambodia at six years old. His sisters were nowhere to be found and his mother was wounded. His father told them to keep running while he stayed back to protect them. Kevin never saw his father again. And then his mother died.

Maybe his father and sisters will come back as Massacres?

The narration boxes hang over scenes of OMAC fighting wave after wave of guards. He then begins to fight Sarge and Maribel (no sign of Knipper) as they try to contain him for Maxwell Lord. And in space, Max has sent some space vehicles to destroy Brother Eye's satellite.

OMAC destroys Checkmate Headquarters during the fight. Just the inside though! Don't worry, Mt. Rushmore is still standing.

More or less.

During the fight, the narration boxes sort of match up with the action in a metaphoric sense. But they're pretty boring and standard. "My parents gave me strength." "Life was hard." "I found my own way." "blah blah blah" At the end of the fight, he's destroyed all of Checkmate's big weapons and a monster sent from Cadmus before Brother Eye teleports him back to Metropolis (taking Sarge's hand with him. That teleporting is dangerous).

Kevin teleports into his house where Jody is waiting for him. She needs to know what's been going on and he says he'll explain just before the wall explodes outward. Checkmate has found him. And Brother Eye's hull was intended to be magnetized by Maxwell Lord's weapons and not destroyed.

So there is also a bunch of asteroids orbiting Earth as well as all the other shit nobody knows about. Maybe everything is hidden by the asteroids orbiting Earth. The asteroids are probably debris left over from when Peraxxus tried to upcycle the Earth.

Before Brother Eye is completely encased in Asteroid and loses contact with OMAC, he energizes Kevin one final time. This time he makes Kevin OMAC permanently. But at least Kevin keeps his own mind this time and doesn't talk like a retarded Hulk. Max calls off his men because he feels OMAC is no threat. The real threat was Brother Eye. And Jody doesn't know what to think now that she knows Kevin is OMAC. But it doesn't really matter because Kevin pushes her away and stomps off out of the comic series.

"The end?" See those quotes? That was in the comic. I wouldn't write that!

OMAC Issue #8 Rating: No change in Ranking. This comic was a really quick read. The battle wasn't exciting and the narration boxes seeming to go hand in hand with the action wasn't anything special. The narration boxes were trite and general and fairly cliché. What kept it from being a total disappointment was the way they kept their story open-ended. They left OMAC usable for other comics by giving him Kevin's mind and brain and his own free will. But they also kept from destroying Brother Eye and encasing him in solid rock so that he can still be a future threat. And Maxwell Lord is obviously going to continue to be up to no good. So OMAC may be over but I'm sure they'll find a place in the New DCU to tell more of his story. Or at least more of Maxwell Lord's story.