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Death to the Vampire God!

Inaugurate the Fifth World!

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Someone floated the question of who besides Darkseid would have been a good choice to kick off the Absolute Universe. After thinking about it for a couple minutes the answer is so obvious I'm now mad they didn't pick him: Mandrakk.

Snyder talked up how he wanted Darkseid to act as a stand-in for the people proclaiming the death of the superhero. Darkseid was advertised as "evolving" into something new and different, the Omega, who would bring an end to the very concept of the superhero. But Mandrakk is already exactly that! He's the Dark Monitor, the Destroyer of Stories, whose fight with the the Superman Thought Robot was literally the platonic concept of the superhero fighting against it's own ending! Oh and get this: what does Nix Uotan call him?

The Absolute Enemy! Destroyed by the usage of the Miracle Machine and a multiversal team-up! Mandrakk would have been perfect for this Absolute Universe, he was created by the Monitors getting infected by the stories they obsessed over, now he would have turning the tables and infecting the stories with his own essence, using the very machine which destroyed him to ensure his triumph. If I have one big criticism over using Darkseid it's that he rejects the idea of leading an army to destroy Earth 0 in favor of... leading a legion to destroy Earth 0. Nothing has really changed despite all the blabbing from Snyder about Darkseid evolving. I'm excited still for the individual Absolute books, but the Darkseid Myth arc I'm not that enthused for. For all his Morrison and Hickman fanboyism, Snyder doesn't have the big ideas to enrichen the big bombastic storytelling he wants to do.

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