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Warning : contains spoilers forJustice League Incarnate # 5 !
While many fans imaginedDarkseidwas the DC Universe ’s ultimate evilness , it turns out he pales incomparison to the Great Darkness . As DC Comics continues to expand and evolve its cosmology , the horrors lurking in the corner of the multiverse have grown exponentially more numerous and powerful . Newer threats have grow in the recent decade , such as the Empty Hand from Grant Morrison’sMultiversity , which endangers whole universes . Meanwhile , conversant foes such as Darkseid have only move up higher and higher , with the Lord of Apokolips immix all former variation of himself into his lawful , final form . However , thanks to revelations that have come out inJustice LeagueIncarnate , these two cosmic scourge have more in common than at first glance .
SinceInfinite Frontier , DC has reintroduced the " Great dark " - a mirror opposite word of the god - similar Presence which seeks the destruction of all existence . Previously , the Great Darkness and the Presence had get into an uneasy armistice afterCrisis on Infinite land , which then broke after the recreation of the multiverse inInfinite Crisis . InJustice League Incarnate # 4,Doctor Multiverse revealed the Great Darkness has been determine figures in the DCU to cause cosmic cataclysm after cosmic catastrophe such as Extant inZero Hourand Mister Mind in52 . DuringFinal Crisis , Darkseid attempted to use the Anti - Life Equation to get out the Great Darkness out of hiding to take its power for himself , but exit in the process . The Great Darkness was only beaten back by themultiverse ’s natural defense mechanics : superheroes .
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Realizing that superheroes were its true obstacle towards its goal of absolute nothingness , the Great Darkness corrupted Dr. Manhattaninto destabilizing the main DC Universe , while its right bridge player - the one that joined the Presence in a truce - became its own creature . The Empty Hand began test the terminus ad quem of the multiverse ’s heroes . Now , as the tack sub of the multiverse fight against the Great Darkness and its Empty Hand , only one being has the mightiness to dispute this terror : Darkseid . This challenge hits its crescendo inJustice League Incarnate # 5by Joshua Williamson , Dennis Culver , Andrei Bressen , and Jesús Merino . However , what the New God did not expect was that he was as much an instrument of the Great Darkness as the Empty Hand . In fact , whereas the Empty Hand is its correct hired man , Darkseid is its leftover hand . With this newfangled revelation , Darkseid and the Empty Hand have been discovered to be brother of a sort .
The issue does n’t make Darkseid and the Empty Hand biological brothers - as it is clean-cut that Darkseid ’s Kirby - era origins are still intact - but they do have a freshly revealed metaphysical linkup that bind them together as a pair . As the superheroes have become the rude antibodies of the universe , Darkseid and the Empty Hand expect to now be the instinctive viral agent for the Great Darkness . The issue stop with Darkseid strip of his will and back in the " soundbox " of the Great Darkness along with the Empty Hand , Nekron , Neron , Ares , Doomsday , Eclipso , the Upside - Down Man , and Pariah . Darkseid ’s new team finally receive the twohands of the Great Darkness reunify and work together .
As DC Comics ramps up toDark Crisis , it depend as though Darkseid ’s new part as the remaining hand to the Great Darkness is a two - border sword for the Lord of Apokolips . On one side , it invest Darkseid as , along with the Empty Hand , the first among the stupendous collection of cosmic horrors the Great Darkness has assembled to destruct all world . On the other , the notoriously narcissistic and megalomaniac Darkseid has now been divest of his agency and supremacy , little more than an onset dog for another force . How badly this bodes for the heroes will be revealed inJustice League # 75and on intoDark Crisisthis summertime , while will hopefully also explore howDarkseidrelates to a beingwho is his dependable polar turn in destruction .
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