According to DC Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras, just because OMAC, Hawk & Dove, Men of War, Blackhawks, Mister Terrific and Static Shock are ending with #8 doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the last of those characters:
[T]hose characters that are not going to be in their own titles will be appearing in other books as well. We are definitely dedicated to diversity. That’s not going to stop now. That’s an ongoing part and parcel to what we do.As I said earlier, those characters are not going away. They will be appearing in other books.
Some of those other books seem relatively easy to predict: Mister Terrific, after all, was launched in the Justice League family, and so will presumably turn up in that book at some point, and both Static and Hawk & Dove have histories with the Teen Titans franchise, and so might show up over there in the future (Dove, of course, is also a co-star in Justice League Dark right now, so it’s not impossible that Hawk might join that cast as well). But what about OMAC, the Blackhawks or Sgt. Rock? OMAC, perhaps, might end up in Frankenstein considering their recent crossover, but as for the latter two, I’m stumped. Are there other New 52 books that need these characters – and if so, what are they?
January 12th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Considering G.I Combat has been announced as one of the replacement books, I would think it most obvious the Blackhawks and Sgt. Rock would fit there.
January 12th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
I’m fairly sure, in ine of the recent DC Nation columsn at the back of DCU titles, it was said OMAC would be at least showing up in, if not joining, Justice League International.
January 12th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Can’t say I wasn’t surprised by Men of War or Blackhawks, but I wasn’t expecting Static or OMAC…atleast not yet anyway.
January 12th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Aren’t Blackhawks in Deathstroke right now?
January 12th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
They ought to do with OMAC exactly what Marvel did with the Hulk after his initial six-issue run ended in cancellation, and before the second series in Tales to Astonish–have him rampage across other books as a guest star, continuing to move the Brother Eye plot forward. As a straightforward basher, OMAC makes a pretty good one-off antagonist for any number of heroes.
January 13th, 2012 at 7:56 am
I think JLI would be a good place for OMAC.
January 14th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
OMAC in Frankenstein sounds pretty obvious on paper.