Omega Men
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The Omega Men are a team of alien comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. Created by writer Marv Wolfman, they first appeared in Green Lantern #136 (1981).
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[edit] Publication history
After appearances in Green Lantern, Action Comics and The New Teen Titans, the Omega Men were featured in their own comics series which ran for 38 issues from April 1983 to May 1986. During its run, writer Roger Slifer and artist Keith Giffen created the mercenary anti-hero Lobo. Later creators included writers Doug Moench and Todd Klein (who also lettered later issues in the run), artists Tod Smith, Shawn McManus and Alex Nino, and inkers Mike DeCarlo, Jim McDermott and Greg Theakston. Members of the Omega Men have most recently appeared in the 2004 eight-issue Adam Strange limited series, as well as the 2005 Infinite Crisis lead-in 6-issue limited series, Rann-Thanagar War. And in 2006 will have their own six issue mini-series with Tigorr, Doc, Elu, Broot and Ryand'r - it will be written by Andersen Gabrych and Henry Flint will provide the art.
[edit] Fictional team history
The Omega Men hail from the Vegan star system, a star system with twenty-five habitable planets, which as of the early 1980s had been ruled for millennia by the Citadellians a race of warriors cloned from the First Citadellian the demi-godlike son of X'Hal.
The Psions also accidentally created the goddess X'Hal by mutating an Okaaran woman who gave birth to twin sons Lambien and the First Citadellian, her evil son the nameless "First Citadellian" would turn the peaceful Okaarans into the Warlords of Okaara, and later clone the Citadellian race from his own cells. The Psions also accidentally created Nimbus when they separated him from his Branx host.
All Branx possess an angelic shadow creature of living energy like Nimbus, which departs their bodies when they die and enters the body of a newborn Branx. It is possible that the Branx population has never grown past its initial numbers because of this limitation.
The Citadellians established a tyrannical regime based in a fortress moon known as the Citadel. The citadel then set about to conquer the younger races of Vega. Originally there were only two races in the Vegan star system, the primitive Branx and the warlike Okaarans, but the Psions used Okaaran dna to create the other twenty-three races of Vega such as the Tamaraneans, Euphorixians, Aelloans, Karnans, and the Changralyns.
The Omega Men was assembled as a group of renegades and representatives of conquered Vegan worlds to fight Citadellian aggression. Pre Infinite Crisis the team was based on the planet Kuraq. The Omega Men are important peacekeepers in their sector because the Green Lantern Corps is not allowed into Vegan space, due to a long standing agreement with the Spider Guild.
[edit] Membership
Omega Men has rarely been compared to Marvel's Starjammers as a rivatel precursor to the introduction of space pirates in comics.
[edit] Current members
- Tigorr
- Broot
- Nimbus
- Doc
- Artin
- Seer
- Cecilia
- Dark Flea
- Chantale
- Vandal
[edit] Founding members
- Primus (Pren a telepath and telekinetic from planet Euphorix, died during Invasion storyline)
- Kallista (widow of Primus, sorceress from planet Euphorix)
- Tigorr (Taghurrhu of planet Karna, last of his kind)
- Broot (super strong and invulnerable, born of a pacifist society on Changralyn)
- Nimbus (disembodied spirit of a Branx warrior, later elevated to godhood)
- Harpis (sister of Demonia from planet Aello, mutated by Psions)
- Demonia (sister of Harpis from planet Aello, mutated by Psions, betrayed the team)
- Felicity (last female of Tigorr's species, died during Invasion storyline)
- Doc (cyborg doctor from Aello)
- Shlagen (team mechanic, from planet Slagg)
[edit] Later members
- Elu (energy being)
- Ryand'r (brother of Starfire, from Old Tamaran)
- Auron (Lambien of Okaara son of the goddess X'hal, godlike energy powers)
- Green Man (ex Green lantern from planet Uxor)
- Artin (artificial intelligence created by the Psions who holds a recording of Primus' brain in his memory)
- Rynoc (male from Old Tamaran)
- Zirral (female from Old Tamaran)
- Ynda (Kallista's cousin from Euphorix, died during Invasion)
- Oho-Besh (a Changralyn priest)
- Uhlan (a Gordanian from Karna)
[edit] Deceased members
- Primus
- Kallista
- Harpis
- Demonia
- Felicity
- Shlagen
- Ynda
