DCU Comic Book Reviews

THE OMAC PROJECT #5

...Long Live The King!

October 2005

Written by Greg Rucka

Pencils by Jesus Saiz and Cliff Richards

Inks by Jesus Saiz and Bob Wiacek

Cover by Jose Ladronn

Synopsis

Brother Eye confirms that Sasha Bourdeaux and Rocket Red are no longer threats.  It cuts off all communication with its creator, Batman.  Brother Eye then checks around the world for additional threats, but is interrupted in Russia by the arrival of the old Justice League (Guy Gardner, Fire, Booster Gold, Mary marvel, and Metamorpho) to help Rocket Red.  More OMACs come to help out and they systematically take each team member out of the way until they are left with Booster, whom they are ready to kill.  Rocket Red puts himself in the middle of three OMACs, detonating a bomb that kills them, but also him.  Back at Checkmate headquarters, Sasha is still alive.  She stands and plunges a knife into the OMAC’s chest before it can kill Jessica Midnight.  However, Sasha has been transformed into an autonomous nanobyte-derives prototype.  With her transformation she is able to hack into the computer to contact Batman and let him know that Brother Eye has activated all OMACs around the world.  The total number of units:  1,373,462.

Review

Right after I finished this issue, I put down and desperately wanted to read the next one.  Most of the time I can put down a comic and patiently wait before I read the next issue, knowing I have time to read and re-read the current one and let it sink in.  The OMAC Project has me hook line and sinker and I know that as soon as I finish with the last issue, I will go back and read them all again.  The final page to this issue, with all of the OMACs in the air was great; I just wish they had taken two pages instead.  The impact of all those OMACs on two pages would have really done the trick.  Not that this issue really needs it.  This series is amazing and it just keeps getting better and better.  And I can’t help but notice that Max Lord’s death actually made things worse.  And I can’t imagine it is going to get any better before the Crisis hits.

And I ask:  what kind of powers do the OMACs possess to have the ability to call down lightning and change Mary Marvel back to Mary Batson?

The only negative so far is the conversion of Sasha into, well, whatever it is she has turned into.  It is scary looking, to be honest, with the one huge eye so prominent amongst all that silver skin or metal or whatever it is.  I don’t have a problem with her being, well, whatever it is she is supposed to be, I just object to the look they gave her.  Isn’t there something else a little more pleasing than that eye staring out like that? A more important question is what are they going to do with her?  It is clear she is not an OMAC, so is she an upgrade or an earlier version.  Was this due to Max Lord or some other reason?  And is this permanent?

I could not but help to think of Annie Wilkes from Misery when I saw the first page (He didn't get out of the COCKADOODIE CAR!).  Last issue it looked as if they were dead, but in this issue they were obviously very alive.  Maybe in the next issue all those OMACs were really just a dream.-- MRB

 

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