>>116367781There is no real consensus, BUT if I understand correctly, Empty Hand embodies ennui - the lack of any motivation or hope for something better, as well as the will to look for any.
IE, just wasting time, vapidly picking up comic after comic after comic while slagging them off online - the Empty Hand is the hand that has just dropped a comic book and is reaching for yet another.
His minions build the Oblivion Machine, the embodiment of nothingness, of bland, desperate nonproductive parasitizing which once meant the end of the Monitor civilization and which Flex Mentallo once saved his creator from.
>>116366440>>116366469Hmmm. Snyder probably was trying to suggest she and EH are both "Hands", but he's a rogue who doesn't create universes at all, but destroys them.
>Twist: that's not true either, Empty Hand was actually a good guy all along - he is basically a higher-tier version of Barbatos and he was trying to destroy the Multiverse because of Perpetua