>>115768655I think he is simply ignoring it.
I mean, Mandrakk IS the original Monitor, isn't he?
The original Monitor was created by the Overvoid, now called the Overmonitor, to scout out the Multiverse. Once inside, the division into good and evil that stories make caused him to be divided into the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor (who also called himself the Monitor). Stories, narrative, strongly affect the Monitor (race). He was pulled into the narrative and became trapped inside the Multiverse, being born into it on the moons of Oa and Qward (If it turns out even this is the fault of Krona I'll laugh). Now, I don't know, I can't make out, whether the World of Nil and the Monitors as a people already existed; but if I understand it correctly, when both the Monitor and Anti-Monitor died, ie, when their stories ended, both essences were reunited into their original form, which we know as Dax Novu. He brought 'treasures' from the Multiverse, and here is where it gets tricky: did the Monitors already exist, or did Dax Novu's return (he is stated to be the first and greatest of them) provoke, in the Overvoid, the creation of a whole new people, including backstory, like how a little crystal cast into a solution soon grows into a larger one? (A crystal growing in a solution is one of Morrison's favorite ways to describe universall creation).
Now, it is stated in 'Superman Beyond' that time passes immeasurably faster in the World of Nil than in the Multiverse (A reference to comic book time?) so billions of years could have passed between COIE and Final Crisis.
In any event, Dax Novu, who had been both the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, reawakens from his death-like slumber, hungry for stories and ready to drain the Multiverse dry as the ultimate vampire, Mandrakk.
Mandrakk currently resides in the Dark Multiverse, feeding on bad universes.
I would like it if Snyder had the decency to have Mandrakk face off against Perpetua. She IS like a bad universe.
