Omega Men 1 taps the "Darkstars" for religious Crusade.

[bennymatthewtaylor]

Omega Men #1 was a fair read and the art was 70's druggie counter culture which I found really fufilling, but like the templar knights Andersen is painting the Darkstar's as the martial arm of a pan galactic church gripping the Vega System... I got nothing against this, but I have been waiting for Kate to have a powwow with the Darkstars for sometime now. Either earth bound retireee's who explain to her how to "fly" or the administration because Kate meeitng up with who ever is in charge with the darkstars in my mind has been sort of in the same league as Hal Jordan meeting the Guardioans of the Universe for the first time...

Does this rerendering of the Darkstars change anything?

(Generally some one doesn't know what i'm talking about. Kate's super suit is alien technology. A body armour which mimics some obvious super powers and is the primary tool of a galactic peace keeping force called the Darkstars of which one Jon Stewart was a member after the collapse of the Green Lantern Corps in the early 90s.)

[Cardinal Braxiatel]

I seem to recall the Darkstars were pretty much wiped out and disbanded. Are the Omega Men Darkstars the same group or a recycled use of the name?

And the Darkstars were founded by the Controllers, who share an evolutionary past with the Oans and Zamorans. The Controllers are cold and callous puppeteers when it comes to promoting what they think is best for the cosmos. As the kinda sorta last Darkstar, I'd like to see if they have any designs on Kate Spencer.

And if the Controllers are the ones who create the Sun-Eaters, does that mean they were the source of Superboy Prime's prison?

[bennymatthewtaylor]

It's the same sigil.

But consider how the Roman Empire changed after they adopted christianity?

[Cardinal Braxiatel]

Changed or wiped out?

Never much cared for the original concept of the Darkstars so this would be great if explored. Weren't they supposed to replace the defunct Green Lantern Corps? The GLs have been wiped out a few times so I'm fuzzy on that. It never made sense to me for DC to decide the GL Corps concept wasn't worth publishing and then turn around and do the same thing under the name Darkstar. What I'm missing is any references to my favorite Omega Men era, the one that had the Green Man and all.

[bennymatthewtaylor]

That pedderass Jordan?

[Cardinal Braxiatel]

He was actually called the Green Man because he had no name and the storylines included WHathisname, their leader, sharing brain space with a computer and the wild secret of the Psions origin.

[Cardinal Braxiatel]

The latest Omega Men issue acknowledges that the original Darkstars are indeed dead and gone so this isn't just a sloppy use of an inactive property. I don't know how much panel time the Darkstars' transition will get but that leaves any Kate Spencer/former Darkstar interaction a possibility no matter what happens in Omega Men.