#kamandi blank

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

desperate for more info on Kamandi in your ‘verse. He’s my favorite D-List DC character of all time.

I was in the middle of reworking Kamandi's headverse history myself, so here's a handy-dandy flowchart for both of us

Kamandi Kho is split between multiple aspects across time and space; Jed, Tommy, and Kingsley are canon, I added the bit where Kamandi's the in-universe inspiration for the protagonist of Ultra Comics and by extension, Ultra's corrupted form as the Empty Hand. Empty Hand and Brother Eye tie into the King of Tears mythos as the Hand and Eye of Ultra the Hunter, who Kamandi is (possibly) a reincarnation.

The Kamandi who lived through the Great Disaster was a hero who united the surviving human population, the uplifted animals, and the BiOMACs (led by Ben Boxer) through the Cosmic Dark Age, eventually leading to the era of War Cry and the Electric Warrior rebellion against the Thorul Society and their Imperator Firestorm.

[cantsayidont]

April 1974. The KAMANDI, THE LAST BOY ON EARTH series says that a Great Disaster ended our world and brought about the rise of the talking animals, with surviving humans reduced (as in PLANET OF THE APES) to a bestial state. The original series never specifies exactly what the Great Disaster was, although in KAMANDI #16, Kirby does reveal how the animals became sentient: A Walter Reed physician named Michael Grant (whose diary is presented in the handwritten captions) had developed a "brain-enhancing" chemical called Cortexin, which was released during the Disaster. In this story, a gorilla doctor named Hanuman finds Grant's diary and notes and manages to recreate Cortexin, which is released again during an attack on Washington by the Tiger Empire. (Among those exposed is a group of feral humans, suggesting, as Hanuman's thought balloons imply, that history may again reverse itself.)

After Kirby's departure, DC attempted to fit KAMANDI into other future timelines, asserting that the Great Disaster was the great atomic war of ATOMIC KNIGHTS and that Kamandi himself was the grandson of Buddy Blank, the nebbish alter ego of OMAC. I don't think that Kirby intended any such thing (he certainly wouldn't have tied it to ATOMIC KNIGHTS except under editorial duress), and there's no indication that he had any particular plan to reveal the whole circumstances of the Great Disaster. Its function in the story (other than of course to set up Kamandi's future) is just to give Kamandi a goal, albeit an open-ended one, in his wanderings, and resolving it would limit its value as a plot device. Thus, the truth about the Great Disaster is a mystery that's not intended to be solved, which is a once-common storytelling conceit that now seems a little old-fashioned, and one I think modern creators have some trouble getting their heads around even where they aren't trying to rhetorically go to war with Kirby the way John Byrne is wont.

[megamindsupremacy]

The leader of the Centurions of Justice would be Braniac 5000 because I feel like a little bit of silver age goofiness. They're a time hopping super team, with each hero being a young version of a hero from a different century. He ALSO pulls a young Clark Kent forward in time, also erasing his memory of the team while he's not part of it, so Superboy in the Centurions is not aware of the Legion, nor is Superboy in the Legion aware of the Centurions, though Braniac 5000 is aware of Superboy being in the Legion. Completely stealing Iron Lad's schtick, a young Eobard Thawne is also a member, not determined to change his fate but determined to do some good before he is fated to do evil. I decided against Terry, the 21st century pick is Carrie, who will one day be Robin to Terry's eventual Batman. The earliest member is a young version of the angel who will one day be the Spectre, who at this point is still Eclipso's apprentice, as Vengeance has yet to supplant Wrath. Buddy Blank is also on the team, the young hero empowered by the mysterious Whiz and his satellite Brother Eye (Braniac 5000 manages to hit Buddy with the satellite's rays in whatever era they're in with his "time gun"). Kamandi is also there.

This is so fun, it's just picking up people from all over everywhere and putting them into a superhero team. What exactly does the team do- are they specifically focused on fighting time-related villains, or do they just kinda show up where they're needed and help out?

[memesusofsuburbia]

Jack Kirby by Dylan Horrocks

[docgold13]

365 DC Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

August 29th - Omac

The adventures of the hero known as Omac take place in the strange potential future of a parallel earth. On this other earth, The Global Peace Agency has created the powerful Brother Eye to protect the world. This is a sophisticated artificial intelligence housed in a powerful satellite orbiting the planet. 

To address specific threats, Brother Eye uses a molecular reconstructive beam to transform unassuming citizen Buddy Blank into the powerhouse superhero known as the One-Man-Army-Corps (or OMAC). As such, the hero is bestowed superhuman strength, speed and dexterity as well as the ability to generate explosive blasts channeled through him from Brother Eye. 

As Omac, Buddy would go on to have numerous adventures, battling threats that ranged from the rouge dictator, General Kafka, to a series of android assassins disguised as beautiful women.  It has been intimated that Buddy Blank may be in some fashion related to the child who would go on to be known as Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth.   

A new Omac was introduced in the mainstream DC continuity. This hero was Kevin Kho, a researcher at Project Kadmus who was bestowed super powers in a manner similar to Buddy Blank. After experiencing some difficulties in controlling his new abilities, Kho became a hero and, some time later, and ally of The Blue Beatle.  A third iteration of Omac will potentially appear as a member of Superman’s new team The Authority.  

The original Omac first appeared in Omac: One Man Army Corps #1 (1974); while the Kevin Kho version first appeared in Omac Vol. 3 #1 (2011).

[the-overanalyzer]

Counting Down With Countdown - #1

The End

Countdown. Fifty-one issues, six writers, one year, and what did it all accomplish?

Well, Kyle Rayner, Donna Troy, and Ray Palmer end the book vowing to oversee the Monitors and keep them in line. None of this is ever mentioned again.

Jimmy Olsen recovers from having the New Gods’ souls inside him and settles into an increasingly rocky relationship with Forager. None of this is ever mentioned again.

Holly Robinson leaves Gotham shortly after Heart of Hush. She will not appear again until DC Rebirth. Her and Harley’s time as Amazons, their trip to Apokolips, and their empowerment by the gods, are never mentioned again.

Jason Todd goes right back to being a villain in Battle For The Cowl. With the exception of the Red Robin identity now existing in the mainstream DCU, his exploits with the Challengers are never mentioned again.

The Buddy and Tommy Blank of Earth-0 are rescued from Command-D by Brother Eye, who shields them from Bludhaven’s toxic environment and  transforms Buddy into a “prototype next-generation OMAC with limited free will”, looping the two of them back into their classic forms like Tommy becoming Kamandi on Earth-51. Presumably this version of the kid grows up to become Tommy Tomorrow. “Presumably” because, you guessed it, they’re never mentioned again.

Mary Marvel continues being an evil dumbass. This, DC will keep. Of course.

I asked at the start of this series what you could say about Countdown. I stand by everything I said in that first post. It’s a sloppily-written, disastrously paced, ill-conceived mess of a book. 

52′s strength was that it had a well-defined, empty period of time in which to tell its stories, and no need or space to latch onto anything else. Its creative team worked in close collaboration on every issue, and management mostly stayed hands-off. 

Every one of those decisions was inverted for Countdown, and the book suffered tremendously for it. The timeline was concurrent with the ongoing DCU, which made the whole thing feel incredibly drawn-out because tie-ins were the rule, especially in the first half of the series, and the pacing of a weekly has so many more pages to fill. The writers split off to write issues separately, leading to jarring changes in style from one issue to the next. And by all accounts, Dan Didio and the editorial department kept their hands firmly on the wheel. It was a perfect storm of terrible choices, and the end result couldn’t have been a clearer indictment of every one of them.

It’s easy for me to sit here criticizing, at a distance of almost 15 years, having never written a comic book in my life. But I’m not saying anything that wasn’t said back then, by people working for DC. The phrase “Don’t worry about Countdown” was inserted into an actual issue of Geoff Johns’ Booster Gold, while the series was still running. DC’s own books were actively encouraging readers to dismiss what was meant to be a flagship title, and while you could dismiss that as the grumblings of a 52 writer who resented editorial control, it’s hard to argue with how history has judged: One is a classic, one is crap.

Countdown is not the worst thing I’ve ever read from DC. All-Star Batman & Robin or Cry For Justice rank higher on my “Why God, Why?” scale. But bad miniseries are a dime a dozen in this industry. This was a year, fifty-one straight weeks, backed by multiple additional bad miniseries on top of it. It never got better, and wound up being almost completely pointless in the end.

A Great Disaster, indeed.

[blanddcheadcanons]

If they are gonna add more superheroes in the DC comics they should at least consider expanding the timelines between all the characters so that there are gaps filled between Batman Beyond time, Booster Gold’s time and even the Legion Of Superheroes time.

I really like Brian Michael Bendis’ Legion of Superheroes but I was so disappointed by his Millennium miniseries.  Each ministory was fun but he got the order wrong in the most basic sense.  The miniseries was supposed to be the definitive order of all the futures.  Now one thing we already knew was that OMAC’s era comes directly before Kamandi’s era.  Buddy Blank is Kamandi’s grandfather!  That is canon!  Although I do like the new future timelines in Future State.  They seem to pull a lot of elements from Grant Morrison’s writing. Solaris and the Superman Dynasty from All-Star Superman and the Hyperclan from JLA.  I’m all for it.  But yeah we need more future books.  Someone needs to take another crack at Atomic Knight.  Nuclear powered knights riding giant dalmations, what’s not to love?

[davidmann95]

What do you think of the OMAC/Kamandi retconned connection, with Buddy Blank being Kamandi’s grandpa that dies in the first issue (just as an idea)? And have you read that fan-made ninth issue?

No opinion and never heard of it, respectively.

[frankendykes-monster]

My second favorite Jack Kirby work? That would easily be OMAC #1 - 8 from 1974, the One Man Army Corps. This series was born when Kirby needed something new to work on for DC when he was in a position of being unable of meeting his quota of 15 pages drawn per week. OMAC is loosely descended from a concept Kirby had conceived nearly a decade earlier, of Captain America being in the future and comforting issues pertaining to "The World That's Coming!" OMAC is very much an update of the Captain America concept, only one designed for 1974 rather than 1941.

OMAC is the story of Buddy Blank, one of seemingly thousands of working class individuals who, in the world of OMAC, seem to have had all individuality stripped away from them by being worked to such extremes. Kirby was always working with the complete opposite of subtlety, and Blank is quite literally a blank slate, just another person that, if he were to disappear, the world wouldn't miss him, which makes him a great applicant to be turned into OMAC by the Global Peace Agency, specifically their satellite, Brother Eye.

OMAC is very much classic Kirby: some of the most poignant and relevant concepts handled in the most unusual ways. When Kirby claims that OMAC is set in The World That's Coming, he was not kidding. The first issue is all about Buddy actually working in a factory that produces lifelike sex dolls that can be used as murder devices, and subsequent issues would have him go up against opponents that weaponized genetic engineering and the privatization of natural resources. Kirby was always keeping up to date with latest news and scientific developments, but this is one series where he can tell us what happens next.

Much like Devil Dinosaur four years later, OMAC was cancelled by DC as soon as Kirby left the building and still languishes in relative obscurity, but it manages to be one of his most complete efforts. OMAC is very much the reader's viewpoint, as Kirby uses the series to platform any number of concepts he dreamt up that day. Something like The Mighty Thor, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk, or hell even The Fantastic Four or Kamandi can almost feel like an anthology series because Kirby always made his work up as he went along, he was concerned with the next focus of his story, the next character or concept. OMAC feels much more like a cohesive whole because it is rooted in a single setting, and works all the better for it.

[cantsayidont]

November-December 1974. One of Jack Kirby's last creations during his early '70s stint at DC, OMAC was a near-future science fiction series set in what Kirby called "The World That's Coming!" OMAC was an anonymous office drone, aptly named Buddy Blank, transformed into a superheroic "One Man Army Corps" through broadcast power transmissions from a sentient satellite called Brother Eye, created by the Global Peace Agency to resolve conflicts before they erupted into world war. Full of big ideas and breathless energy, the series was short on characterization and continuity to hold it all together, and with Kirby's departure from DC, it ended after only eight issues.

DC's subsequent revivals of the character have been worse than usual, beginning with misguided attempts to tie OMAC to the world of KAMANDI (which Kirby pretty clearly had not intended and would likely have handled quite differently if he had), followed by a morally indefensible John Byrne miniseries in 1990, and later the awful mess of INFINITE CRISIS (which asserted, bizarrely, that Brother Eye and OMAC were a project created by Batman that had gotten out of hand — the less said of which the better, frankly). Even the BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD cartoon show didn't seem to know how to handle OMAC, and I sort of wish they hadn't tried.

[megamindsupremacy]

Oh, also, I am moving Kamandi to be a replacement for Eo when he is kicked from the team, so Ekron would start his relationship with him with a lot of animosity and resentment, but over time they would bond over both being children who grew up in the aftermath of a great disaster, glad to see parts of the future that showed their people made it.

Oh, that's an interesting dynamic, because I'm sure Ekron is having a lot of strong feelings about Eo getting kicked and his role in that. Kamandi coming in after would definitely not help with all of that. I think Kamandi is the grandson of Buddy Blank in the comics- is he Buddi's grandson in this AU, or are they unrelated?

[wondrousyears]

Today in (Alternate) Futurity

A grandson is born to Buddy Blank, the man who was once OMAC, in a military bunker near the ruins of New York City known as “Command D.” As a teenager, the boy will roam the post-Great Disaster world and be known as Kamandi, Last Boy on Earth!

(Variant cover to Kamandi Challenge #1  by Dale Eaglesham)

[dccomicsnews]

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[docgold13]

It was just always weird at how much Didio just....obsessed over The Kamandi/Earth-AD mythos during his time as EiC.

Take Countdown for example: A weekly series he dubbed "52 done right" & it & all the series tied-into it were surrounding the Great Disaster. Karate Kid being the carrier to the virus that would mutate animals into furries & cause the fall of man, Command-D Bunker being inside Bludhaven, Brother Eye's ever continuing presence long after his purpose in Infinite Crisis was done. Then there was Future's End which references Command-D & Great Disasters AGAIN.

As for The Kamandi/OMAC connection again in Countdown it was stated that Buddy Blank was The grandfather of Tommy. Both got swept up in the events on Earth-51 where Buddy became OMAC & Tommy was locked up in Command-D where he would eventually become Kamandi.

Wild.

So Jack Kirby did all these books for DC in the 70s and for the most part all of them pretty much bombed at the time. Yet the seeds planted in New Gods, Demon, Mr. Miracle et al would end up just fundamental to the larger contemporary DC Universe.

Perhaps Didio’s obsession with linking things to Kanandi was sort of like an effort to continue on that pattern.

[benito-cereno]

What If Jack Kirby Never Left Marvel?

This is a video I was commissioned to write for Comics Alliance, but it was never actually produced as a video for some reason (and consequently I never got paid for it). The premise was that it might start a new series of videos asking “What if...?” about various key points in comics history.

Anyway, I’ve got no home for this bad boy, so I might as well share it here.

What If Jack Kirby Never Left Marvel? By Benito Cereno

Jack Kirby! The King of Comics! Best known as the defining artistic vision for the early days of Marvel Comics and the co-creator of the Fantastic Four, Captain America, Thor, the X-Men, the Hulk, Ant-Man, Iron Man, the Avengers, and many others, Kirby rocked the comics world in 1970 when he pulled up stakes from the company he had helped make great and moved to its distinguished competition, DC. In this video, however, we will take on the role of Kirby creation Uatu the Watcher and ask: what if Kirby hadn't left Marvel in 1970?

Kirby left Marvel for a number of reasons, including lack of creative control, broken promises by the publisher, and a certain mustachioed showman—whether intentionally or not—receiving most of the credit for Kirby's creations. But let's say these things didn't happen. Let's say Kirby was given more control, more credit, and more satisfying working conditions, and so he never felt the need to leave Marvel's metaphorical bullpen. Kirby's defection to DC is one of the biggest moves in comics history, and one of the defining milestones that separates comics' Silver Age from its Bronze Age. If it didn't happen, how would comics history be different?

Firstly, many of the characters Kirby created for DC wouldn't exist. While some of these concepts would likely have found a home at Marvel—more on that in a second—there are many ideas that were created at the behest of DC editorial that Kirby would not likely have created unprompted. While there are some characters Kirby created in this period—Atlas the Great, the Dingbats of Danger Street, Manhunter, arguably his Sandman revival and even the otherwise beloved Kamandi—whose absence would not have a major impact on DC continuity, others would be more significant.

The Demon, for example, besides having multiple solo series, has also played a major role in such series as Swamp Thing, Sandman, and Green Arrow, was also the original home for Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Hitman, who would later get his own beloved and award-winning ongoing series.

Furthermore, Kirby's run on Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen saw the introduction of Clark Kent's new boss Morgan Edge, the revival of the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian, and the development of the scientific facility that would come to be known as Cadmus. Besides these elements playing a huge role in the Superman mythos from the '70s through the '90s, Cadmus and its related characters are central to major plots from both DC's Justice League Unlimited and Young Justice cartoons. Also, Kirby's DC-era aesthetic is a major influence on the art direction of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon. No Kirby at DC means a huge difference in DC's animated output.

On the other hand, it's not out of the realm of possibility that some of Kirby's DC concepts might have found a home at Marvel. Besides imagining the possibility of having Kamandi team up with Devil Dinosaur, a couple of Kirby's DC creations started life as ideas for some of his earlier Marvel properties.

The first of these examples is OMAC, the One Man Army Corps. A running motif in Kirby's career is that of the super soldier, running from his first major hit Captain America to the Guardian to the Fighting American back to Captain America to OMAC back to Captain America again and finally Silver Star. OMAC was originally envisioned as a Captain America of the future, perhaps fitting somewhere in the lineage of Captains America throughout history that Kirby envisioned in Bicentennial Battles, a special Cap story he did upon his return to Marvel in the mid-'70s.

With that in mind, it's pretty easy to picture Buddy Blank taking orders from SHIELD, getting beamed enhanced powers from a giant, orbiting Captain America shield in the place of Brother Eye. But past that, it's pretty easy to imagine this future Captain America becoming home to some of the ideas Kirby brought to Original Recipe Cap in the mid-'70s, most notably the Madbomb and Arnim Zola. In fact, it's not much of a stretch to picture OMAC becoming home to many of the more satirical aspects that in actual reality found their way to the pages of the Fourth World, like Glorious Godfrey and Happyland, or Darkseid's Evil Factory. It's pretty easy to imagine Mokkari and Simyan working for Arnim Zola, honestly. And if you can imagine OMAC fighting Arnim Zola in the Evil Factory, you can probably see elements of the “Homo Geneticus” storyline from Silver Star finding a home in that book, too.

And speaking of the Fourth World...

Kirby's most lasting legacy at DC has been the characters and concepts he created for the group of titles that came to be known as the Fourth World, including the New Gods, Mister Miracle, the Forever People, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. Several of these characters have been key members of the Justice League over the years, and concepts such as the Mother Box and the Boom Tube have become inextricable parts of the DCU's DNA in the last four decades. But the biggest of the big contributions here is that stony-faced god of evil, Darkseid.

Kirby, however, originally envisioned the Fourth World as a Thor storyline. Two races of gods were meant to go to war ending in Ragnarok and the total annihilation of the current generation of gods, who would be reborn as, you guessed it, the New Gods. The first page of New Gods even opens with an “epilogue” to that untold story. The gods of New Genesis are literally meant to be reborn versions of the gods of Asgard.

If Kirby had done this story in the pages of Thor as originally planned, that would theoretically mean that Darkseid would have become Marvel's big bad, not DC's. This new god of evil would battle Thor, or maybe Orion, or maybe some mixture of the two.

What this would of course mean is that there would be no need for Jim Starlin to introduce Thanos in 1973, as he could have used Darkseid, or even Metron as he originally intended. Maybe Darkseid gets the Infinity Gauntlet in 1991 instead, and maybe Josh Brolin plays Darkseid in Avengers 3.

As a side note: if Kirby can freely develop the New Gods at Marvel, that means he probably won't need to introduce the Eternals upon his return to the company in 1976. Do the Celestials take the stage in the pages of New Gods, or maybe not at all? Would the Guardians of the Galaxy make their home inside a giant parademon head instead?

But the big question is, who becomes DC's biggest big bad of them all? Darkseid has been at the center of many of DC's major event, in comics, TV, and soon, movies. Without the Fourth World characters and concepts, there's no Great Darkness Saga, or Cosmic Odyssey, or Seven Soldiers, or Final Crisis. Justice League International would probably still happen, but it would be significantly different. That one story where Superman and Big Barda make a porno wouldn't have happened.

Okay, maybe it wouldn't be all bad.

But think about how different Justice League Unlimited would have unfolded with a different villain in Destroyer, or a different threat facing the live action Justice League. Who would it even be? Brainiac? The Anti-Monitor? Eclipso? Maybe the best guess is to imagine that Len Wein and Jim Starlin still create Mongul in 1980, and since he takes the role of “big space guy who can fist-fight Superman,” maybe Cyborg has to teleport him back to War World in order to form the Justice League.

These are just a handful of possibilities for things that could have happened differently if Jack Kirby had been satisfied at Marvel and never left. What is clear is that the King's influence to both companies' expanded universes has been incalculable. The question you have to ask yourself, reader, now that you've taken a peek into this alternate world, is which do you prefer: our reality, or the world of “What If?”

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Do you have any favorite lesser known facts about any of the “families” in DC

Buddy Blank AKA OMAC is Kamandi’s grandfather, linking the 2 futures.  Also Bendis fucked up and put Kamandi before OMAC.  Dumbass.

The Legion of Superheroes fought the monster Validus, with his mental lightning for years.  As adults, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl married and gave birth to twin boys, Garridan and Graym Ranzz.  At the moment of birth Darkseid teleported Garridan and mutated him into Validus and sent him back in time.  It was only years later Saturn Girl recognized him and managed to transform him  back.

The original Marvel family had 3 Lieutenants Marvel.  All named Billy.  They were called Tall Billy, Fat Billy, and Hill Billy.  Also Kid Eternity is Captain Marvel Jr.’s brother.