Omega Men
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The Omega Men is 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 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.
The Omega Man made a return appearance in the Adam Strange mini-series. Still led by Tigorr, with veteran members Broot, Doc, Elu, Artin, & Harpis. They were joined by a group of new members who's names were given, but not identified in the artwork, so it was left to the reader to decipher who was who. It was in this storyline that the first Doc was killed by a Durlan assassin who masqueraded as him until discovered.
In the current Omega Men mini, it had been revealed that upon returning to the remains of Tamaran with Ryand'r (who wasn't part of the team in the Adam Strange mini), the Omegans were attacked by the Darkstar zombies of Lady Styx and all but five of them survived.
[edit] Membership
Omega Men has sometimes been compared to Marvel's Starjammers as a precursor to the introduction of space pirates in comics.
[edit] Current members
- Tigorr
- Broot
- Doc II (Apparantely from the same species as Doc I, with green coloring instead of purple)
- Elu
- Ryand'r (Darkfire)
- Felicity (Nebula, the very Felicity died during Invasion, refused to be converted in one of Lady Styx Darkstars and stayed in a limbo, from which she later came out changed in a new superpowered form)
[edit] Founding members
- Primus (Pren a telepath and telekinetic from planet Euphorix, died during Invasion storyline)
- Kalista (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, killed by Lady Styx's Darkstars)
- Demonia (sister of Harpis from planet Aello, mutated by Psions, betrayed the team, deceased)
- Felicity (last female of Tigorr's species, died during Invasion storyline)
- Doc I (bio-organic doctor from Aello, killed by Durlan assassin in Adam Strange mini-series)
- Shlagen (team mechanic, from planet Slagg, deceased)
[edit] Later members
- Elu (energy being)
- Ryand'r (brother of Starfire, from Old Tamaran, goes under the name Darkfire now)
- Auron (Lambien of Okaara son of the goddess X'hal, godlike energy powers)
- Green Man (ex Green lantern from planet Uxor, died during Invasion storyline)
- Artin (artificial intelligence created by the Psions who holds a recording of Primus' brain in his memory, destroyed by Lady Styx's Darkstars)
- Rynoc (male warrior from Okaara, deceased)
- Zirral (female from Old Tamaran)
- Ynda (Kallista's cousin from Euphorix, died during Invasion)
- Oho-Besh (a Changralyn priest, deceased)
- Uhlan (a Gordanian from Karna)
- Seer
- Cecilia
- Dark Flea
- Chantale
- Vandal
[edit] Deceased members
- Primus
- Kalista
- Harpis
- Demonia
- Felicity
- Shlagen
- Rynoc
- Ynda
- Green Man
- Doc I
- Seer
- Cecilia
- Dark Flea
- Chantale
- Vandal
