>>92561421>I didn't understand a thing about ultra comics.the real world is being attacked by malignant memetic strain. The real world doesn't have flesh and blood superheroes, they can only make superheroes within comic books.
So they make a comic book engineered to be bait for the memetic strain, and then have that comic take place in a world with no past (no longer has pre-existing continuity that can be retcon'd) and no future (no sequels or follow-ups or anything) which they hope will be able to quarantine it.
at the climax, Ultra says that we shut need to not turn the page. While the memetic entity commands us to turn the page.
If the reader listens to Ultra and puts the book down there, then the trap works and the quarantine is effective. If you listen to the entity and turn the page, the quarantine fails and the memetic strain infects you, the reader.
Ultra Comics, the entire performance including the reader, is incarnated as the villain of Multiversity. The 'Empty Hands' who ALWAYS has to turn the page, has to keep reading, never lets a comic hero stay retired or dead until that hero has been so raped by the endless parade of cheap drama, retcons, betrayals, corruptions etc as they pass from writer to writer that they no longer resemble the character you loved, and just aren't entertaining to read anymore.
