“The OMAC Project” was part of DC’s “Countdown to Infinite Crisis” and came after their previous event “Identity Crisis”. A brief background note to understand this book: in “Identity Crisis”, Doctor Light, a super-lame villain, somehow manages to get into the JLA’s Watchtower without being seen or stopped by anyone and rapes the Elongated Man’s wife Sue Dibny who is conveniently on her own. Some members of the JLA walk in on this scene and are so shocked they decide to permanently alter Light’s...

I good event!It’s a bit dense at first, but the last act is very exciting and the resolution is interesting. Reminds me of an Ultron story, but with a bit more of a human element. I look forward to seeing how this flows into Infinite Crisis. Overall really fun!

We're on the road to Infinite Crisis!The OMAC Project essentially kicks off the Infinite Crisis event, known as the spiritual successor to Crisis on Infinite Earths and Identity Crisis. The OMAC Project lays the ground work for DC's epic of the era here and takes a look at the occurances that led up to the main event. Firstly, there's no getting around the fact that this is a tie-in book so I'd not recommened you go into this one without at least some prior reading due to its connections to Iden...

The death of the blue beetle is one of the sadder moments in any comic I have. Well, not so much the death scene itself, although that is brutal, but the way all his friends don't take him seriously as a hero and brush him off which is why he has no one watching his back when he finally figures out what's going on. His friends don't take him seriously and he dies alone trying to fix something that batman at the very least should have been on top of. The whole blue beetle storyline is how he is i...

Note: Also read all the other tie-ins... I think that's what made it even better then just reading this.. (Only didn't like the ones from Robin, not the story telling nor the artwork)Seeing the struggle from Superman.. Diana's decision.. the entire continuity of the story unraveling.. So many good things in here. Too bad it ended rather peculiar...

This book has one major flaw: it relies heavily on other material. There's a big chunk missing from this book, which contains the story "Superman: Sacrifice." In the spot where that story should take place during The OMAC Project, the editors have put in a short summary of what happens. I think it's an unnatural jump that very much throws off the flow of the story.Other than that, The OMAC Project was pretty good. Two of the main characters are B-list superheroes, which is always nice to see.The...

As part of the Countdown to Infinite Crisis, DC had Batman go even more ape-shit paranoid than usual. That's where the Blue Beetle and the OMAC Project come in, a 6-part mini with the Countdown to Infinite Crisis (and a key issue of Superman) thrown in as part of the deal in this trade.First off, I'm not a big fan of the Bats against the World idea. Not even Frank Miller did that in Dark Knight, where Ollie is brought in to help Bruce ride off into the sunset. That being said, if the goal is to

4.5 stars Re-read 2018I've had this one on my favorites list for a long time, so I wanted to do a re-read to see if it was as good as I remembered. After having read tons of shitty arc and events over the years, I feel like I have a better grasp on what constitutes a garbage comic or throwaway storyline. And like most everyone else, I've walked away from some of my favorites feeling a bit embarrassed that I'd been recommending them to other humans.But this?This was still fantastic.Ted crawled in...

To be clear, I’ve always been more of a Marvel fan than of DC.My youngest son and I play a game sometimes: Guess the character. The first question is invariably, DC or Marvel.It will go something like this:Q: DC or Marvel?A: DCQ: hero or villain?A: heroQ: Does he wear a cape?A: yesQ: man or woman?A: ManQ: color of uniform?A: predominantly … blue.Q: powers?A: severalQ: name a coupleA: super strength, flight, some othersQ: Superman?A: nopeQ: is he human?A: noAnd so on. But also to be clear, DC has...

Possibly what people remember most about Infinite Crisis is the death of Blue Beetle. Which doesn't actually happen in the main Infinite Crisis book, it happens here. In a way, you can see it coming. Ted does. But it is definitely a rough scene. Especially for his internal monologue in the previous scenes. But the story just gets moving with his death. It comes out that Batman has been conducting secret surveillance on Earth's heroes, because of the mind wiping revealed in Identity Crisis. It's

Infinite Crisis was a good solid read back when I read it a couple years ago or so, but lots went over my head and so the overall effect wasn't as positive as it could have been...What have I learned since?Infinite Crisis is like the final concluding pages to a great novel, and if you skip the build up, its still beautiful, but largely confusing.Recently I collected OMAC Project, and whoa what a Revelation that book was, instantly made me want to reread Infinite Crisis with fresh newly updated e...

Yes! Managed to find this out of print book at my LCS. It's been years since I read it, and I can't wait to rediscover it.

Blue Beetle is done so well here. The fact that he is looked upon as a joke. That he's really quite smart and intuitive. I really wish we'd gotten more of this Blue Beetle. The post Crisis Justice League International does not make out well here. I really like how they are all brought back and used here after being forgotten for a decade. Checkmate is awesome. Max Lord is scary. Wonder Woman is a badass. There's just so much to like about this series and it has repercussions throughout the DC un...

Countdown to Infinite Crisis. What better way to begin a sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths than with a big one-shot that highlights Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, two of the core members of the JLI, one of the most memorable and unique comics to come out of the original Crisis?And, Countdown is very much the intro to that sequel, Infinite Crisis. It's primarily a lead-in for The OMAC Project and Superman: Sacrifice, but it also touches upon the other two introductory series, Day of Vengeance an...

The OMAC Project was among the reading that I had to do before Infinite Crisis. And I was very surprised with how much I ended up liking the whole thing. I also picked it up because it follows threads from Identity Crisis which I also really liked.There is back story with Batman and his lady friend of the time Sasha, whom he became acquainted with when he was accused of murder, I have the whole storyline just haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I am familiar with it.The trade that I hav...

Excellent story and art. Nice surprising turn of events on some of the mainstay heroes of the DC universe. Very enjoyable read. Very recommended

I am not a avid comic book reader but I just read the Infinite Crisis novel and I wanted to know more about the events that led up to it. This collection's main arc is how Blue Beetle proceeds with an investigation that none of the Justice League give any importance to this investigation.Let me first start off by saying I thought the artwork was fantastic. These iconic characters leapt from the page and I was really impressed. The story itself was dark. I am not a fan of Blue Beetle but by the e...

3.75 Stars. Pretty good, I'm trying to read some of the big event books & the books leading up to them in the DC library. I read this one to get up to speed for Infinite Crisis. This was pretty good, & it had some good moments, but it wasn't that difficult to put down. Minor spoiler ahead: Wonder Woman snapping Maxwell Lord's neck & killing him was pretty awesome!

Before reading this comic, I had to read Identity Crisis, which ended up being one of the most unpleasant experiences when it comes to reading comic books. It was a murder mystery that seems to reflect on the horrible tropes in comic book history and even if the creators were taking cues from works like Watchmen, there is a grim note that is injected in DC’s well-established brightly-coloured superheroes that I found unwelcoming. Now that story is over, DC began a series of titles serving as a c...

I finally got around to reading this! I might be one of the few who loved the Infinite Crisis event, so why did it take me so long to get this? F**k knows, either way I enjoyed it. This take place after Identity Crisis, which is also amazing, when Batman finds out that his Justice League bros had given him a mind wipe back in the day. Bats is pissed as hell and designs Brother Eye, a mass surveillance satellite to keep an eye on all the meta humans. Turns out Max Lord, leader of the Checkmate or...