I got the deluxe hardcover of Multiversity a few days ago and just finished reading it. Has DC or Morrison done anything with the Gentry or the Justice Incarnate since then? I haven't been keeping up much with comics recently. Is DC still too busy with Doomsday Clock and that Identity Crisis 2 thing they've got going on to ever bring up this baddie?
I got the deluxe hardcover of Multiversity a few days ago and just finished reading it...
Kayden Rogers
Owen Smith
The Gentry made a cameo in Dark nights: The Wild Hunt, and Justice Incarnate appeared in Tomasi's superman run (it was a very bland and dissapointing arc), Snyder's Justice League annual and they are set to appear on the big multiversal event he's doing. The Empty Hand hasn't appeared yet.
However, it makes sense thematically for this arc to not be followed in a later book, since the Gentry and specially the Empty hand are supposed to embody the never ending story and villain power scalation. Big multiversal villains tend to outgrow the previous one, and the empty hand is supposed to be the infinite final villain of the never ending story, he isn't supposed to come back in full force until the end of everything, which might not even happen in our lifetimes and will not happen if dc keeps selling well enough. The Gentry are evil ideas and archetypes, as long as there are stories they will also be there.
Nicholas Howard
Just to bump this, would Cosmic Armor Superman be able to beat the Gentry/Empty hand?
Liam Campbell
>Is DC still too busy with Doomsday Clock
Yes. Even if they weren't, I wouldn't want them messing with the Empty Hand, it'd be given to someone who didn't get the story and you'd get a shitty Johns Crisis (or more likely King and Bendis since I can't imagine DC giving Johns an event again after Doomsday Clock's delays and fuckery) and no one should want that.
Carter Walker
>power levels
come the fuck on user
Easton Rivera
I don't think so since the Empty hand is actually fuels the story. He might be able to beat the gentry though
Tyler Walker
The Empty Hand is capitalism, actually
Jaxon Cook
The Gentry yes, the empty hand probably not. The cosmic armor is an inmensely powerful idea, a thought robot. Empty Hand embodies the reader as the ones who decide what ideas exist and which don't. Cosmic armor might be able to survive the empty hand but not flat out beat it. That said, It is many things. The landlord/corporations/capitalism is one of the most evident interpretations but besides that Morrison confirmed in post multiversity interviews how it is supposed to embody the never ending story and the perpetually growing big bad
James Carter
Yes.
Adrian Bennett
Depends how much of an optimist you are. I'd say yes.