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Paging Mr. OMAC. Brother Eye paging Mr. OMAC! Mr. OMAC, to the front of the mind! (And to the front of Season 2 of Brave and the Bold!)

When Brave and the Bold kicked off I was so happy with it I gave it great scores every week… then the episodes halfway through began to become stupider, and stupider, and stupider, and stupider. For personal reasons having nothing to do with the series I eventually stopped reviewing it for awhile, and as it turns out (going back over the episodes I missed)… I really didn’t miss nothing, did I.

So the last episode of the first season was in June, we’re in October and the series is back… though still listed as Season 1?!? What the… this is Season Two as far as I say and who cares what Wikipedia and the listings on youtube (my new friend in reviewing) say, it’s Season 2.

After taking the two worst people ever for a little alien war conflict resoultion (I.e. Hawk and Male Brother counterpart Dove… I so miss his female replacement… when is she ever going to show up… oh, wait, not in this series, next episode shows how horribly they treat female co-stars) it seems Batman is in trouble with a little known (I.e. little cared about) organization called the Global Peace Agency. Anyway they have this big job for Batman to handle and to do this delicate clean up duty, and to do this job that needs desperate rinsing and scrubbing and… oh, heck with it, they give Batman the janitor. Janitorial Operative Buddy Blank.

But that’s OK because when he’s bombarded with the power of orbiting satellite Brother Eye he becomes OMAC, the One Man Army Corps… a guy who knows zilch about subtlety and is basically a human tank with whatever for brains… and to think this is a character of the great Jack Kirby (don‘t know if he created him or was a vital talent who worked on him but… really? He doesn’t seem like a creation of a living legend)… no, really, if you told me this character was associated with legend Jack Kirby I’d not believe you for one second. Maybe it’s just the way he comes off in this series, or the fact his secret identity is a bad Hong Kong Phooey knockoff (a humble janitor who becomes a hero, though in Phooey’s case he is still his alter ego when he changes, and doesn’t become a completely different person when he becomes HKP). Either way me no like.

However the end game of the episode changed my mind about it all.
OMAC picked up a lesson from Batman and actually learned something.
OMAC’s other persona (Buddy) actually got to be abit of a hero himself near the end, and that was cool even if he was facing a character called Equinox (who as it turns out isn’t really a villain at all from what posts I read of the character, though not too heroic either… abit complicated, but all you who sat through Final Crisis already know the deal with Libra/Equinox).

So for not entirely being below my expectations, and having an ending that reminded me why I was so happy when this series first hit last year? I’m giving this episode 4 many happy returns to Brave and the Bold (Season 2) out of 5… Then next week’s episode came, and all my fears returned with a horrible vengeance. Thanks DC. Thanks a lot.

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