As CADMUS Industries evacuates its offices, a blue construct is ripping its way further into the secret levels. Clashing with security, this O.M.A.C. manages to fight its way to the central database and disappears. Afterwards, Kevin Kho awakens, disoriented, and promised by a strange voice that there is much they will discuss.
I picked up OMAC knowing nothing about it. It was a pleasant read, but raised several questions. The first place I landed was with Jack Kirby, who introduced both CADMUS and OMAC to DC comics. Project CADMUS was a genetic engineering project; OMAC was the One Man Army Corps, a story about a corporate nobody transformed by remote control. Expanded during the early 2000s, OMAC became the acronym of Omni Mind and Community and Observational Metahuman Activity Construct. Didio, Giffen, and Koblish’s Office Management Amidst Chaos seems to combine these stories to give us the current OMAC as both.
With the amount of research I had to do, I almost feel the book is Didio’s homage to what has came before. Didio, as co-publisher of DC Comics and editor of DC Universe, is certainly in position to do so. With such a brief story, its the art and portrayal of action that is the carrying factor of #1.
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