{"id":664,"date":"2006-03-01T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2006\/03\/01\/omac-3-a-hundred-thousand-foes\/"},"modified":"2006-03-01T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T12:46:00","slug":"omac-3-a-hundred-thousand-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/664","title":{"rendered":"OMAC #3 [1975] &#8211; A Hundred Thousand Foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue opens with OMAC enjoying some virtual reality entertainment, battling a monster protecting the secrets of the giant talking skulls. He&#8217;s pulled out of the &#8220;movie&#8221; to get his official credentials to act as a One Man Army on behalf of the faceless Global Peace Agents, but before he goes on his first official mission he&#8217;s introduced to a couple applying to act as his parents, OMAC having forgotten his life as Buddy Blank. I&#8217;m always unclear on how creepy Kirby meant this stuff to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/OMAC-3-1975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3536\" alt=\"OMAC #3 [1975]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/OMAC-3-1975-697x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/OMAC-3-1975-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/OMAC-3-1975-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/OMAC-3-1975-624x916.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/OMAC-3-1975.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OMAC is then sent on his mission to take down Marshal Kafka, a tyrant who has put together his own army of a hundred thousand. His jet is shot at on the way down, leaving him fighting from his chair until that&#8217;s shot out from under him. He quickly gets through the Kafka&#8217;s forces until he finally reaches the Marshal.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, a bit of a creepy beginning, followed by a quick high-action story. Kirby was throwing out the ideas fast in this series, a lot of which are never returned to.<\/p>\n<p>D. Bruce Berry inks the cover and 20-page story.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1975<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue opens with OMAC enjoying some virtual reality entertainment, battling a monster protecting the secrets of the giant talking skulls. He&#8217;s pulled out of the &#8220;movie&#8221; to get his official credentials to act as a One Man Army on behalf of the faceless Global Peace Agents, but before he goes on his first official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}