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I'm reading this mostly because I've been an Omega Men fan from the beginning. However, somehow I missed the various deaths that occured during the Invasion debacle. To me, it's really not an Omega Men book without Primus and Kalista.
I do agree that the Omega Men are a team that needs a strong enemy. They're freedom fighters. Once they have freedom, they go home, right?
From: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: Nov 2003
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Anyone still reading this? I only flipped through it in the store, but why is Darkfire being called "WILDFIRE" again??
From: New York, NY | Registered: Jul 2003
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Re: the latest issue of the 'Omega Men' (#4) -
Let me get this straight - Andy Diggle practically single-handedly reinvents interest in the Omega Men with his deft and interesting take on them in the excellent 'Adam Strange' series. To this end he invents 4 or 5 new members who have astoundingly cool and unique visuals (thanks to all the hard work of the amazingly talented Pascal Ferry) and are ripe for characterisation.
Then along comes Anderson Gabrych who not only kills off (OFF-PANEL!) every single one of these cool new characters but a whole host of popular long-standing members of the team too - like Kalista, Harpis, Artin, Auron, etc. for seemingly no purpose.
He then brings back every one of these deceased members as an evil zombie, holding out the carrot of hope to fans of these characters that they can somehow be saved from their ignoble off-panel deaths, only to have every single one of them be blasted to bloody pieces by some new character of his own creation that he is trying to force onto the team.
Memo to comic book writers - you don't get people to like your characters by having them viciously kill off all the characters we already cared about.
WOW! Judd Winnick may have a rival at the top of my Most Hated DC Writers List - and that's saying something.
What are other Omega Men fans' opinions of this series?
From: Australia | Registered: Dec 2003
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Just looking through it, I've been too scared to actually read it. I know I'm not going to like any of it.
From: San Diego, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Just read issue 5. Way too much gore for my taste. The plot is a religioscientific eschatological sci-fi amalgam that's rather confusing. Vril Dox's characterisation is ok, and Tigorr's seemed consistent. Click Here For A SpoilerWhen he found Felicity alive, though, he'd do anything not to lose her again, but the Felicity who emerges from all that gory, bloody flesh is a twisted, dark version of her former self. Tigorr takes that completely in stride and all he thinks about is smoking a cigar!
The series is not bad all in all and the art is really good, except for all this blood and gore, but it doesn't really feel like the Omega Men.
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