A Malaysian blogs about comics and stuff because he doesn't know what else to do with his free time.
25 June 2008
In OMAC, Kirby Envisioned A Future Where You Can Own A Lifelike Sexbot
Creepiest panel in their entire book. And it's on the very first page. Oh sure, he called it a "Build-A-Friend" model. But we all know what they really were. A talking, walking, sex-bot. That Kirby was a visionary, wasn't he?
But OMAC was also probably the first comic to feature that "hero calmly walks away while everything goes all Kablooey behind him" scene that is so popular nowadays in movies starring Nicholas Cage:
Cool, huh?
Jack Kirby's OMAC: One Man Army Corps. Buy a copy NOW!
OMAC is probably my favorite Kirby creation, and that's saying something! I seem to remember John Byrne doing a good job with the character, too, but it's been a long time since I've read it.
Khairul H. was an avid collector of comics back in the early '80s up to the mid-1990s. His favourite superhero was Spider-Man. The Spidey Clone saga, however, so disgusted him that he began losing interest in the entire hobby. It wasn't until 2005 that he began to dip his toes back into the pool of comics in general and superhero comics in particular but now he collects them only in trade format. He has a wife who does not share his hobby and they have two small children whom he hopes will love comics as much as he does.
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OMAC is probably my favorite Kirby creation, and that's saying something! I seem to remember John Byrne doing a good job with the character, too, but it's been a long time since I've read it.
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