>>91678648Well, Manhattan has to be involved in some major way.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the big, big bad was indeed someone else. There's not much point in hyping up a mystery character if the reader already knows who they are.
Clearly the threat is gonna be, legitimately, the biggest, baddest fucker to ever appear in the DCU, and that's competing with some pretty bad fuckers: Darkseid, the Anti-Monitor, Nekron, Neh-Buh-Loh, Volthoom, Superboy-Prime, Alexander Luthor, and others.
Which is what makes Manhattan such a big deal in comparison. He's so big and bad he's not even of this Multiverse, past, present or future. He is crossing over from a completely other multiverse. It's as if he's walking out of a copy of Watchmen and into the DC section of a bookshelf.
The only character I can conceive of who could be as crazy a threat as that would be Empty Hand, and though I was against the idea of this at first, the more I think about the thematic use of Watchmen here, the more sense it makes in my mind. I'm sure someone else could explain it better than I could, but basically Watchmen was a critique of the very core of superhero comics and is still to this day having a profound effect on DC comics. Who better to benefit from using that than the personification of the cyclical nature of comics and the demands of the fanbase?
It's like the idea of Superboy-Prime being from "our" world taken up to eleven.
>>91678851Oh, fucking come off it. It's superhero comics. Even Watchmen is just a superhero comic. It's all for fun. You're not being poignant or smart for calling them repetitive because we all know that. You're like that one friend who goes with you to see Power Rangers and spends the whole time being a bitch whining about the "toxic masculinity" and what the violence and simplicity says about modern people and bullshit like that.
