The OMAC Project

The OMAC Project
Cover to The OMAC Project #1 Art by Jose Ladrönn
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date(s)	(limited series) June - November 2005 (Infinite Crisis Special) May 2006
No. of issues	6, with one special
Main character(s)	Sasha Bordeaux Maxwell Lord Batman, Brother I, OMACs
Creative team
Created by	OMAC created by Jack Kirby
Written by	Greg Rucka
Artist(s)	Jesus Saiz Cliff Richards Bob Wiacek
Collected editions
The OMAC Project	ISBN

The OMAC Project is a six issue American comic book limited series written by Greg Rucka with art by Jesus Saiz and published by DC Comics in 2005.

The book is one of four miniseries leading up to DC Comics' Infinite Crisis event. The series directly follows the Countdown to Infinite Crisis special, picking up the story where the special left off. The OMACs mentioned in the title borrow their name and general appearance from the 1974 Jack Kirby creation OMAC. However, the OMACs in this 2005 miniseries differ from the original in other ways, including the acronym that forms their name: in Kirby's stories, "OMAC" stands for "One-Man Army Corps", while in this mini-series, "OMAC" stands for "Observational Metahuman Activity Construct" (constructed backwards from the Kirby acronym as a form of backronym).

In the miniseries, OMACs are people scattered across the world who harbor invasive technology in their bodies but do not know it. When activated, the technology can be used to spy on the human hosts' surroundings, control their bodies or transform any of them into one of a visually identical set of remote-controlled superhuman beings. The human hosts of the OMAC technology act as unwitting sleeper agents for former Justice League associate Maxwell Lord.

The OMACs are guided by the "Brother Eye" satellite, as in the original 1974 Kirby stories. In this 2005 miniseries, however, Brother Eye differs from its 1974 inspiration. This miniseries portrays Brother Eye as an artificially intelligent spy satellite originally built by Batman, not to control the OMACs, but to observe the members of the Justice League. Before the beginning of the miniseries, Maxwell Lord has already secretly captured Brother Eye from Batman and turned the satellite toward the end of coordinating the OMACs that Lord now controls.