Something something 'toxic masculinity'... but look at those forearms!
His graying temples bespeak maturity; the rest of his full head of brown hair flaunts vitality. He’s been on Earth for hundreds, if not thousands of years and he’s only showing minor signs of aging—a superhero to make
proud. His mustache looks as much like it belongs on the bottom of a broom as it does pressed up against a guy’s torso in the back room of a bar. He is Super Daddy.Not to be all like, “drawings are hot,” but this drawing is. Add Omni-Man to the list of drawings that, whose first season dropped on Amazon earlier this year, looks very familiar while existing in a universe that is distinct from the Marvel and D.C. ones that take up the most cultural space.
Omni-Man is an alien uber-man—a Superman cognate with just a little more going on than benevolence for a people whose planet he’s passing through. He’s so familiar in his broad embodiment of masculine ideals that when he brutally murders a group of his hero peers at the end of the show’s premiere, it’s a shock.