Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #15 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:27:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Kirbydotter http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-64832 The Kirbydotter Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:26:45 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-64832 If OMAC was made into a movie it would have to be directed by Terry Gilliam! ONly he could make such a wacky satire of futurology and anticipation. By the way, for the first Anonymous poster, Omac wasn't throwing a prostitute on the first issue cover, it was a dismantled android. I remembered that cover really spooked me when I was an ad for it back when I was a kid (probably in an issue of Kamandi); I thought that Omac was throwing away a girl stucked in a block of cement! I just read (last week!) the complete run (which I recently got on Ebay for a ridiculously low price for such a Bronze Age classic! If OMAC was made into a movie it would have to be directed by Terry Gilliam! ONly he could make such a wacky satire of futurology and anticipation.

By the way, for the first Anonymous poster, Omac wasn't throwing a prostitute on the first issue cover, it was a dismantled android. I remembered that cover really spooked me when I was an ad for it back when I was a kid (probably in an issue of Kamandi); I thought that Omac was throwing away a girl stucked in a block of cement!

I just read (last week!) the complete run (which I recently got on Ebay for a ridiculously low price for such a Bronze Age classic!

]]> By: Greg Hatcher http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41831 Greg Hatcher Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:47:47 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41831 It is a tremendous pity Jack Kirby didn't live to see the love for these books that's still out there, with all the reprint collections and tributes and so on. Every time I think of the largely "huh-wha?" reaction they got at the time from publishers, and many fans, it makes me sad. OMAC, especially, always struck me as the one 70's DC series that really could have/should have been a movie. Think what could be done with today's CGI capabilities and the Kirby vision... production design with that Ken Adam <b>You Only Live Twice</b> chrome-and-rock look... aw, man, now I'm just making myself depressed. It is a tremendous pity Jack Kirby didn't live to see the love for these books that's still out there, with all the reprint collections and tributes and so on. Every time I think of the largely "huh-wha?" reaction they got at the time from publishers, and many fans, it makes me sad.

OMAC, especially, always struck me as the one 70's DC series that really could have/should have been a movie. Think what could be done with today's CGI capabilities and the Kirby vision... production design with that Ken Adam You Only Live Twice chrome-and-rock look... aw, man, now I'm just making myself depressed.

]]> By: The Dane http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41716 The Dane Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:31:20 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41716 He also started a chain of blow-ups. Which is also rad. He also started a chain of blow-ups. Which is also rad.

]]> By: Jacob Munford http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41647 Jacob Munford Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:07:58 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41647 "My body is REJECTING the bullets. I AM OMAC." My god, that was awesome. "My body is REJECTING the bullets. I AM OMAC."

My god, that was awesome.

]]> By: Bill Reed http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41315 Bill Reed Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:19:25 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41315 That is nice of you. And quite awesome. So I'll edit it into the links. Thanks! That is nice of you. And quite awesome.

So I'll edit it into the links. Thanks!

]]> By: Kevin Church http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41309 Kevin Church Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:34:39 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41309 You can read #1 <a HREF="http://www.beaucoupkevin.com/2006/07/kirby-saturday-omac-1.html" rel="nofollow">on my website</A>, which is nice of me. heh. You can read #1 on my website, which is nice of me.

heh.

]]> By: Joseph http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41307 Joseph Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:29:28 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41307 Well, this is definitely a winning testimonial. A terrific comic by Jack Kirby from the 1970s. And I like comics that end. They show you wonderful things for a little bit. Then it's over, you move onto other things, and you fondly remember and revisit that series. Well, this is definitely a winning testimonial. A terrific comic by Jack Kirby from the 1970s. And I like comics that end. They show you wonderful things for a little bit. Then it's over, you move onto other things, and you fondly remember and revisit that series.

]]> By: GarBut http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41302 GarBut Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:50:02 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41302 I dig OMAC for what/when it was, but the back-half (particularly the final two issues) were a bit short of the mark, feeling like The King had lost interest--or the path. (Or both.) Just my two cents. Agreed, though, some mind-blowing splashes. I dig OMAC for what/when it was, but the back-half (particularly the final two issues) were a bit short of the mark, feeling like The King had lost interest--or the path. (Or both.) Just my two cents.

Agreed, though, some mind-blowing splashes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/comment-page-1/#comment-41292 Anonymous Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:47:08 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/15/365-reasons-to-love-comics-15/#comment-41292 Hell yeah! I love OMAC. Too bad DC went and sullied how cool he was with that monstrocity that lead into Infinite Boredom. I'd like to see a nice little trade of the Kirby OMAC, like how Marvel's doing with the Kirby 70s work. Its some of his underrated work. And Buddy throwing a prostitute on the cover of the first issue..what's not to love? Hell yeah!
I love OMAC. Too bad DC went and sullied how cool he was with that monstrocity that lead into Infinite Boredom.
I'd like to see a nice little trade of the Kirby OMAC, like how Marvel's doing with the Kirby 70s work. Its some of his underrated work.
And Buddy throwing a prostitute on the cover of the first issue..what's not to love?

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