OMAC reprint?

[Kid Kyoto]

Does anyone know if there are plans to reprint Kirby's OMAC? I thought I heard something about it being in one of the Showcase volumes but Wikipedia doesn't have it. Did I just imagine it?

[Aaron King]

There's a new Showcase coming out in a few months that reprints some Atomic Knighs, Kamandi, & etc. If this "series" continues, I'd expect it to contain some OMAC. Other than that, I've heard no official word.

[Sean Walsh]

It would have to be part of another SHOWCASE, as there aren't enough OMAC comics to warrant its own SHOWCASE collection (which are usually 20 issues or so).

- 8 by Kirby
- a story or 2 from KAMANDI, by Jim Starlin
- a bunch of WARLORD backups, also by Starlin, that continue Kirby's story
- some more WARLORD backups, forget by who, that were kinda lousy

[Kid Kyoto]

Maybe we can get Showcase Kirby with OMAC and the Demon?

[MWGallaher]

I've got a hunch the old-school Brother Eye satellite's going to be in Countdown, and based on that, I expect a TPB collection of Kirby's OMAC. And by the way, it's good stuff!

[Zero Hunter]

You know honeslty the John Byrne OMAC mini from many years back was not that bad either.

[scratchie]

You know honeslty the John Byrne OMAC mini from many years back was not that bad either.It wasn't that good, either. It was fairly enjoyable in and of itself, but he seems to have missed the point of Kirby's series entirely.

[Kid Kyoto]

It wasn't that good, either. It was fairly enjoyable in and of itself, but he seems to have missed the point of Kirby's series entirely.

Well he was telling a very different story. Byrne wanted a science fiction, time travel paradox thing and just happened to use OMAC. It could just as easily have been an original character or Tommy Tomorrow or whomever.

I liked it.

[scratchie]

Well he was telling a very different story. Byrne wanted a science fiction, time travel paradox thing and just happened to use OMAC. It could just as easily have been an original character or Tommy Tomorrow or whomever.I enjoyed it overall, but the thing I objected to was the fact that he made Omac's world an "alternate future". I thought Kirby was very clever in describing the setting of OMAC as "The World That's Coming", not "The World of the Future" or something like that. "The World That's Coming" makes it sound like (a) Omac's world is a direct extension of our own and (b) it's not too far off.

Also I thought the use of Zip-a-Tone for shading was very awkward in the book. There were frequently different "frequency" tones butting up next to each other, which looked really poor, IMO.

And also, while reiterating that I did enjoy the series for the most part, I should point out that Byrne himself blows a gasket any time any other creator has the audacity to tell a new, different story using Kirby's characters (or any other characters that Byrne considers sacred). If someone else took some other Kirby character and made it into a time-travel paradox story, you can rest assured that Byrne would have nothing but derision for it.