The MOST POWERFUL DC Entity: The Presence!

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When it comes to powerful entities in DC Comics, its God reigns supreme, The Presence.
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The Brain Teaser, Bonnie Davies, Senita Mahoney, Jonathan & Megan Pierson, David Adler, Milton Appling, Ralph Braganzan, Ethan Dannen, Yoav Haimovitz, LookWhosFhtagn, LuHeDi, Casper Qvortrup, Andrew Shaffer, Talentless Hack, Vydal
Edited by Dylan Alexander
The song 'Jiro Dreams' was provided by LoFi Girl.
Tags: #Comics #DCComics #Lucifer

[@dylantempler7176]

I’ve always loved the theory that the one above all, the presence, and image comics version of god are the same being

[@Zaacdrums]

The presence and toaa is two different beings after watching this video. The presence is just God of the DC multiverse while toaa is just the writers avatar. Toaa literally writes marvel stories. If anything I would say the overvoid and toaa are the same thing

[@drackestalentorgen166]

they are the writer after all, arent they

[@kindle184]

@@Zaacdrums actually in DC even dream is above the writers and he has actually met writter once even written will die eventually but dream of endless ensure that concept of author will never die since it's dreaming that allow writer to write fiction and presence is above all of that. Presence doesn't just look after dc multiverse but all multiverses in overvoid and have his avatar in each of them via hands these hands like beings create multiverses and dc multiverse being one of them. Example perpetua is real creator of dc multiverse. And she is hand send by judges of the source. And source being presence.

[@kindle184]

@@Zaacdrums also overvoid isn't writer it's a canvas on which fiction is drawn. Imagine it a empty blank paper.

[@khalifajaber231]

@@kindle184 its basically the writers tool where all of creation in DC originates from if anything toaa and the writer are the one's who are similar

[@OwenLikesComics]

Fantastic video Drake, this was definitely one of your best yet. Thanks for letting me be a part of it!

[@ComicDrake]

You really helped make it special. Thank you so much for lending your voice and expertise on the script revisions!

[@RONIN1992]

OWEN WAS THE GUEST APPEARANCE FOR ONCE!! I LOVE IT!!

[@barryallen2569]

Damn guys, those monologues gave me chills like when I watched the first part of the CW 'Crisis' and heard LaMonica Garrett read the beginning. 🤌

[@Vibranium_man]

​@@ComicDrake can you do a video about what is the strongest metal in marvel?

[@RONIN1992]

@@alexlennen You were in the video too!! Haha I love that you did this Drake. It's my favorite part of Owens videos.

[@voiddevil6829]

Great vid. I'd honestly say the Presence was most consistent during Post Crisis with JMD and Alan Moore. Morrison spiralled it out of control with Final Crisis and DC just couldn't make up it's mind in the N52 and beyond.

[@rodrigobueno8652]

yeah i agree, dc cosmology went out of control after FC and that was before the continous retcons...my tip is jsut ignore mrrison retcons

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@rodrigobueno8652 Morrison's retcons can't be ignored. They're fundamental for the current DC cosmology.

[@uwotm8634]

However Death Metal established the Presence/Source as the top entities.

[@louiscyphre6021]

Uhhh… death metal ?

[@godslayer8894]

@@uwotm8634 yes but the great darkness is its opposite

[@thickpika2467]

“says he’s god. refuses to elaborate. leaves” had me dying on the floor

[@glassman7154]

This video is the exact reason why I love this guy! He tries to make sense out of the world of nonsensical, complicated and insane world of comics

[@mitchellhenkelman3827]

It's like every decade a new layer of convoluted lore expansion gets added to the cake that is DC comics shared universe. I commend any writer that even attempts the challenge of making everything try to work together as a cohesive whole. After Death Metal I just picked DC creation stories I liked best for my own simplified headcanon. A lot easier that way. The idea you had in the video about The Great Darkness sounded really good though. So I hope you do it!

[@ilveroAAZ]

I love how that Drake in this video basically became like any philosopher in history trying to explain God and at the end he doesn't have a clear answer. For me The Presence is all of them and nobody of them at the same time, it doesn't need to make senso to us cause he is God , it works with different rules that beings different to him can't simply comprehend

[@ilveroAAZ]

also I saw a slightly change of style in this video , I love it

[@silvasaurusrex]

Holy sh*t. I've been a casual DC fan for decades and Lucifer is maybe my favorite comic series ever. I have always wondered what was up with God's portrayal as an old English dude. This video not only answered that question, but also connected a lot of dots for me about the DC universe in general. This video was a thread that tied a lot together for me. Great job.

[@ShootingStar489]

Videos like this make me so glad to be as deep in comics as I am, every strange detail or nonsense event is just another delicious flavor in the cocktail of madness! I'm always down for more videos in this vein

[@violacola]

I haven't read many comics that delve into this aspect of the universe, and I don't remember exactly where I first encountered the imagery of the hand of creation, but I've definitely interpreted it differently. I saw it as... well, as *my* hand. Or, I suppose, the hand of humanity as a whole. The hand of the writers and storytellers who create these worlds. Maybe this is an idea I got from somewhere else or maybe I came up with it myself. I'm not sure. But even hearing all this, I still like my version.

[@marketgardener8957]

It's all true, the Presence and your way of seeing it For elaboration, watch "what is the most powerful entity in DC" Both by imaginary axis, and some other guy

[@AndreNitroX]

First time I saw the hand of creation it was in the justice league unlimited episode where Batman and GL chase Chronos to the beginning of time. It is all shown in the GL animated series where Aya tried to recreate reality.

[@michaelkantner6420]

My first time seeing the hand is in the Crisis on Infinite Earths series. What an amazing series, I HIGHLY recommend reading it!!

[@suziepetersen4608]

Your version is the right one because I remember hearing about it too. It also makes all of us who make comics, write fanfic, make animated films or live action films the actual gods of dc. We are The Source.

[@Bobo_Hotdog]

I remember Krona seeing it and basically causing the creation of the antimonitor

[@iap7597]

14:38 that’s not the “Judeo-Christian” god. That’s just the Christian god, God in Judaism is just one omnipresent thing undivided.

[@ComicDrake]

Fair enough. I totally admit that I'm somewhat ignorant when it comes to Judaism. Thank you for the polite correction.

[@swandive46]

@@ComicDrake Seeing that golden Superman in the intro, I'd love to see you dive into DC One Million.

[@devinkavanaugh1034]

That's just what they call it.

[@UltraLuigi2401]

@@devinkavanaugh1034 "They" being Christians pretending their religion shares anything with Judaism (other than what they call the old testament).

[@harrietr.5073]

It's more Abrahamic God, since that title ignores the Muslim variation of Yahweh.

[@ak-ub1ym]

Gotta love how in a universe where some of the most horrific & powerful beings can exist and They make the most scary presence as a regular guy with a bowling hat kinda makes its hilarious like the most mundane things in RL are the most scary ones not something superpowered or cosmic.

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

I remember when people would day "But how powerful are The Endless. Are the Multiversal-level? Universal-level" and I always found that baffling. That's like asking "How much can Buddha deadlift" or "Can Rama Krishna beat you in arm wrestling". So to is it with, for all intents and purposes, the Abrahamic God in DC.

[@Watch-0w1]

Yeah they all just wave function of the universe. I hope they not like marvel. that everyone are power creep god. Every event the universe is ending and celestial eternities get kill

[@l0sts0ul89]

Pretty much for the most part

[@vjrz8472]

Bros indian as hell

[@creed8712]

To be fair we have legitimate feats for Sun Wu Kong among other gods in various pantheons.

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

@@creed8712 exactly.

[@jalapenoofjustice4682]

Father Time & Mother Night (the parents of the Endless) have always confused me. they seem to be situated below the Presence in the cosmic hierarchy, but I don't think it's ever been explained how they relate to everything. My personal headcanon is that they are aspects of reality that took shape when the multiverse was created, and their children were born simultaneously with the first sentient beings

[@Watch-0w1]

I agree with you 100%. But what does mother night really represent.? Maybe she's really just dark space. Similar to marvel infinity and eternity

[@sorjonen8358]

Mother Night and Father Time are both of them boundless and independant to The Presence. Father Time incarnates the possibility of everything and encompass every moment there is, he is not limited to the know stages of time that are past, present and future, since in his realm things like cause and effect are disconnected completely, but If happens something he is there. He is every event there is in everywhere, is stated that he also allows every creation there is to be possible, like the creation of The Presence and others that are outside of his reach, like the creation of Slik Man that was never made and existed before The Presence, or the creation of Lucifer that he made when he escaped from the plan of his father. His reach even encompass The Void, as is shown in Overture when Desire notices him when he travelled with Dream outside of creation, he states that Time was watching all of them from the "moments" in The Void and later he manifested himself in it when Dream returned the saeculum to him. The Endless are also mentioned according to Dream to be in The Void before the creations were a thing, so the first stage of Father Time was The Void (in Books of Magic the author also described The Void as Time before there was change), since The Void is an emptiess pf nothing (Father Time is not not quantifiable or meassurable, he is possibility) but where things can happen there and things can be created or destroyed since Father Time is present; Dream also stated that nothing can be offered to his father since he already has everything that it was, can be our could be since all of the things happens inside him. Mother Night is the absence of everything, she is an allegory of the non-existence, as is stated she is not a place and is her within non-space and non-time, nothing can happen there, there is no light, no though, not life, not concept of power or anything like it, not a presence, not events or possibilites at all, is also almost of impossible to reunite with Night since she was never part of the beginning of all things because she is herself by being nothing, the concept of "before" was not a thing and there was not yet the first thing or being and only would also be after the last thing stop existing. Only The Endless can visit her personification by coming back to their own origins since The Endless came to be as existencial conditions at the start of everything (When Dream tried to reunite with her he was literally being disolved in a frame of comic by the solitude since he was the only thing existing), and as Overture shows, if everything ends, her being that embodies everything that cannot be and would not be (paradoxical but true) is even going to claim The Void, since nothing more can happen. The only reason of why she is even a character is thanks of her being self-aware of her substance (lack of everything) thanks of all the things that The Endless incarnates that allows her to be a being, otherwise none would notice her since her true being cannot be shown, is nothing, Neil Gaiman made sure of that and avoid making some failure concept of nothingless like we have in other verses, If you remove the white page, she is that, or would be more accurately to say that she is not, that absolute isn't beyond the end where there are no mores afters.

[@Watch-0w1]

@@sorjonen8358 that hard to grasp. It took me a few time rereading to try and understand. So time is just "possibility" and mother of night is just "nothing"

[@sorjonen8358]

@@Watch-0w1 Basically, they are not aligned with none and nowhere for avoid putting them in some power-scaling or being attached to certain actions and beings regardless of how supreme. They are a more primal, deeper and better written versions of the concepts for justify things like for example, a character like The Beyonder that leaves the multiverse and then claims to be boundless and reaching a place outside space and time where there is nothing, but yet still somehows things are still happening on panel even with his own mighty presence all with comic logic, you have there Father Time.

[@Watch-0w1]

@@sorjonen8358 what I can understand after rereading is mother night and father time are opposite of each other. So how can they be "married" to each other. That a even interesting concept of what time is. Time is possibility that had happen. So both aren't created but became self aware after creation accord. Creation of multiverse , define them . I don't think presence or Lucifer can destroy the endless or the parent primal being. What bother me is that u say presence was allow by father time. I don't think they really have any saying. Also is just open more question of who have authority .

[@WinchesterxNL]

Yes, I would definitely love a series of videos that go deeper into the world of DC, and not just its people. All the things that are there, like The Green and The Rot. As well as pretty much everything you mentioned yourself as well. What makes the world of DC so intricate and so complicated? I'd seriously love all of that honestly! Also that mug is speaking to me like The Presence is to The Spectre. I need it.

[@luigiboi4244]

This is one of your best videos Drake. I can tell that many hours of hard work and determination went into this magnum opus.

[@ComicDrake]

Oh my magnum opus was the Miracleman video, but paying Auram to edit this one really opened my eyes on ways to elevate my usual style! I am super hyped for my future projects!

[@kingn0ah377]

​@@ComicDrake keep going man

[@JonggunPark1]

Thanks

[@נבוהראל-ד9ה]

It was an amazing video, and you’re right about it. The DC cosmology/philosophy is so perfect because it is like any other philosophy/theology: you can talk about it endlessly, each and every one can have their own interpretation and it has some amazing philosophical ideas. I love a lot about DC’s stories and the cosmology concepts are some of my favourites.

[@TheZamaron]

I'm a Christian, so here's how my head canon for all this goes. In Transformers there it the TF Multiverse, in it are Universal Clusters, universes with great similarities. They make it that beings with the right capabilities can travel to other universe, but there is OUR universe, referred to as Quadwall, a play on Fourth Wall, it's dimensional barriers are impossible to break through for travel or to interact with. SO with this I figured that God or whatever religion or origin you beleive in created our universe, history plays out how you personally believe it did, a creation myth or evolution theory, from here the Omniverse forms from all potential thoughts life could have, all variations, within the Omniverse Multiverse form, often formed by aspects of life becoming cosmic entities, like in Transformers it would be Primus and Unicron, or gods in other multiverses, they form as creation- destruction, good-evil, life-death, light-dark, are conflicting forces, always at odds. Thus these "Hands" as you might call them then shape the Multiverses as they see fit, thus to me anything and everything we can come up with are canon, just often to their own universes. But with our universe being the source of it all we have an ability to spontaneously have glimpses of these universes and capture them as stories in any form. Thus all these Multiverse creation stories we see in this video can fit, I see the Presence as God himself, or at least the creator of everything, he could manipulate the Omniverse further if he wanted, but rarely does, and that handing off his power to his granddaughter thing, she is simply another cosmic being he created and he was simply passing his influence of that Multiverse to her. I see God as a being who influences our universe, but only where needed, thus why we rarely see miracles today as often as they happened on the past. He wants us to have faith in him, and with hw easy it would be to capture these miracles, he does them more subtly. To me God in these other universe just leaves it to other Cosmic Entities to handle.

[@insanemakaioshin]

Can you make a video on the in universe creation story? It was set up that the infinite multiverse was destroyed, then the new 52, but Prime was split into 3 by Pandora, creating the Old 52, until the Flash recombined them by accident during Flashpoint. That's just ignoring Manhattan's temporal manipulations.

[@hungrycrackpot]

I've always found the DC cosmology and over-lore to be fascinating and intriguing. It has enough to sink your teeth into, but leaves enough out to be mysterious.

[@driveasandwich6734]

A video on the Great Darkness would be great, specially since there's now some confusing lore about it being connected to Lucifer.

[@godslayer8894]

In one of the more recent issues it was confirmed Lucifer is an aspect of the great darkness

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@godslayer8894 yeah ik that's what I'm referring to

[@godslayer8894]

@@driveasandwich6734 yeah deadly green issue 1 dropped today and confirmed Lucifer is an aspect of the great darkness

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@godslayer8894 Oh damn, today? I thought it hadn't come up since the 2019 Lucifer volume

[@Peppers_mintus]

​@@godslayer8894which issues?

[@ejc4489]

I've just realized that the Presence dressed as a detective because DC means Detective Comics.

[@ziadhulhok]

Well that's not the actual presence tho

[@lukedelameter7961]

I would LOVE to see a DCosmology series!

[@henrybrave2972]

I think was most impressed me about this video is the leap in editing quality, the new transitions and use of images is really good!

[@Nightwing1933]

I would love more vids like this going in depth in the pieces and parts that make up DC's cosmology

[@sansthereaper755]

"but possibly not of the greater Omniverse." Yea cuz they decided to go with the Zero Point idea instead, lol.

[@IrugaZERO]

Does Shazam ultimately get his wisdom from the Presence? Billy Batson --> Shazam --> Wisdom of Solomon --> King Solomom --> God == The Presence. Also, now that the wizard Shazam has changed to Mamarangan: The Thunder God of the Dreamtime there a few links to the Presence or at least that area of the DC universe.

[@johnmorell7020]

Surely the Presence IS Billy Batson!

[@IrugaZERO]

@@johnmorell7020 That sounds like the beginning of a line wide event! 🤣

[@TeamSoraPresents]

Some real mind-blowing stuff... Now I'm just thinking how it might be possible that multiple multiverses are existing within a shared omniverse, like the DCCU, MCU, Rick & Morty, DB, etc., all equally real/unreal, existing in separate bubbles of an infinite void, completely unaware of each other's presence.

[@sansthereaper755]

It's funny because all of those have met in The Loop of Fortnite, lol. The Place of the Creation of the greater Omniverse (that both Marvel and DC seem to agree with.)

[@TeamSoraPresents]

@@sansthereaper755 I REFUSE to accept that as real or canon. It's like saying all the character cameos in Ready Player One are a connected universe; they're /avatars/.

[@Oblivion___]

Not really, DC itself has already confirmed that these other multiverses in the omniverse belong to the Source, which is another aspect of the Presence, the old man we see is just a manifestation of the Source/Presence/God, as well as other entities like the Great Darkness, they are all just aspects of the same being, the overvoid itself is just one aspect of the Presence according to some DC writers.

[@jermaknights9437]

@@Oblivion___ in justice league incarnate #4 prove that the presence created the overvoid or omniverse

[@TheAbbot92]

The entity that Trigon and Dr. Manhattan call Dad.

[@suba6639]

The Presence: Oh those fools, still trying to figure out what I am. *takes a sip of tea*

[@warioskapelli3100]

Absolutely fascinating video Drake. Thanks for doing all this research! And yes, I’d love to see a dedicated video dissecting the concept of The Great Darkness. It’d be a great companion piece to the Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths event going on right now.

[@sorin-3510]

In a video of Imaginary Axis, Scott Snyder confirmed that The Presence and The Source are the same entity and that The Presence, Michael, Lucifer, and Gabriel from The Sphere or Gods are just emanations of the real ones who live above everything. Also, Grant Morrison confirmed that The Overvoid, The Source, and The Source are the same entity. "We used Mike Carey's view on God, Kirby's Source. The Void and The Presence are one person, and that's God."

[@Honeybee9630]

I think Fox X-Men's timeline was inspired by the DC continuity. They are more alike than you think.

[@AdahnFlorence]

I was so caught off guard, I genuinely didn't expect to hear the day that Drake mentioned Dogwelder.

[@jdcrosier2682]

Nobody tell drake about the new Justice League Incarnate line that just retconned nearly everything said in Dark Knights Metal and Dark Knights: Death Metal.

[@godslayer8894]

No it didn't really

[@godslayer8894]

Yes as the light/source/presence created the overvoid/Omniverse

[@justas423]

I'd actually really like a Cosmology Series. It's a depth that hardly gets explored on KZbin with a careful eye.

[@SalvadorTorres-nb2ik]

4:10 I love that panel and love how it is shown in Justice League Unlimited.

[@shadowofdakness]

I just go by Presense being the “physical” conscious of the greater omniverse Overmind. Him leaving was more him just returning and becoming one again until he is needed source and all.

[@Peppers_mintus]

I guess its just irrelevant for him

[@jordanloux3883]

"Continuity was an afterthought." Ah, the good old days... how do we go back to that?

[@mr_gl00m32]

The beauty of comics is that it's basically a battle to establish something as canon. Usually nothing happens until someone takes a big risk. So it's confusing until one person puts the pieces together for all of us.

[@Megaloathyou]

I love the idea that ‘the void’ exists almost like a nervous system and that ‘the presence’ is its limited manifestation of consciousness within a multiverse

[@insanemakaioshin]

Power scaling: 1. The Writers, like Grant Morrison's character in Animal Man 2. Over Void 3. Prescence/Source & Great Darkness

[@go_go1]

Toaa is above everyone you mentioned

[@insanemakaioshin]

@@go_go1 He'sn't DC

[@go_go1]

@@insanemakaioshin no I'm saying he solos these guys

[@insanemakaioshin]

@@go_go1 Debatable.

[@go_go1]

@@insanemakaioshin not Toaa solos presence has no feats

[@erikohman2294]

Supergirl being an angel seems surprisingly non-random. Superman was allways connected to monoteism in general and judaism epsecially. Superman is the only son of the house of "El", sent to earth as some sort of ultrapowerful moral paragon. "El" is the word for "Lord" in hebrew - the language of jewish scriptures/the old testament. "Krypton" means "the hidden", in greek. The language of the new testament. That said I havent read those comics. Im sure they are crazy. The concept just makes sense from a language standpoint.

[@Ashley.D]

Really enjoyed this video. The narrow niche topics are fun but I love seeing a deep dive into a really grand concept like this.

[@daelen.cclark]

We need more of Wally the God Kid.

[@Werewolf914]

The way I always saw it was the Source is the Writers of the books and therefore the thing that's at the top of Creation with the Overvoid being over Omniverse, and The Presence being over the Multiverse. I don't know though it's very convoluted and confusing and I doubt we'll ever get a definitive answer and probably have to rely on our own head canon

[@OblivioNOvO]

No Source is an aspect of presence In dark crisis its revealed that great darkness predates everything and the light ie presence made overvoid which made great darkness scream and it withdrew from there . The presence made an aspect of itself ie source to make the greater omniverse who created hands and perpetua was one of them . She didn't created the main multiverse as source wanted so she was locked inside source wall and presence then created archangels to do the work . Source is an aspect of presence.

[@godslayer8894]

@@OblivioNOvO yes the source of the presence are one of the same they're the same entity

[@icetide9411]

My personal idea for the cosmetology comes from a mix of things both from DC and other mediums that I'm more versed in. The way I like to see it, is what the majority believes simply is. Because of this, the only answer, is the answer itself.

[@mjolnirfan]

Yes I would love to see a video series on DC cosmic entities

[@johnmorell7020]

"Do you think He watches programmes on survival? (His favourite band is Credence Clearwater Revival)" ~Lily Allen, from It's not me , it's you

[@tristantaylorisatool185]

I would definitely enjoy a multiverse series. I don’t really read comics because I just don’t have them available to me, so your videos are awesome because I get to understand their batshit insanity.

[@ComicDrake]

I totally get that, but if you're ever interested in giving them a shot, I have a great video on how to get great deals and often free comics. There are thankfully a lot of options, even for people in areas where they're not readily available. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4TcfqunoduYfNU

[@BKsunstar]

I still remember the 8 issue in the late 90s? 99? The Gods of DC / Marvel fought after their chosen champions finished their battle, and the one Access jumps in both universes 616/and earth 1

[@googamp32]

Yes. PLEASE do a video about The Great Darkness. I just now know what is, and must know all about it, but I'm far too lazy to do my own research.

[@johnnyboy90528]

I honestly wouldn't even be mad if God was just a tubby British man with a bowler hat and a sick mustache.

[@dragonetafireball]

Unfun fact there is more than one dog welder because it’s like a curse that passes from host to host

[@waterking74]

8:18 all this was in Alan Moores swamp thing? 😳 9:25 that supergirl run is one hell of journey to read.

[@lukaszrower7612]

The greatest god in DC is the readers themselves. Without it there was nothing.

[@Tor-jv8je]

Loved this video and your break down!!! I'd love for you to do everything you said at the end!!!

[@CyberSoulgem]

I guess what makes sense to me is a pseudo-meta explanation, if the overvoid is simply the blank of the page, I think it makes sense to interpret the “flaw” as a pen stroke and the “hand of creation” as the real life hands who draw and write these stories, I think this also makes sense with the Sandman story about dreams forming reality, because these stories are fiction that’s written and drawn, they are literally created from real world imagination.

[@changsangma1915]

The more i read this statement the more profound it start to look!

[@eingoluq]

What if God's various aspects are just anthropomorphic representations of a portion of his being. God made us in his image as such we have hands, a head, a mind, and a soul. As a higher dimensional being his body" is of a different sort. What if the Source, is that higher dimensional bubble that contains the entirety of his anthropomorphic being, but also all abstract concepts that form the basis of the universe. He has a mind which is "The Voice" He has a soul which is "The Presence" He has hands to create, which are Perpetua and their species. He has an infinite imagination and stage to create which is "The Overvoid" He has a will, which is his angels etc

[@edgyspaceunicorn7215]

This is the result of many different writers expanding the same mythos but going in with different interpretations and ideas. It’s gonna be messy.

[@PinBiohazard]

I just like the fact that Dogwelder was on this video

[@squeethemog213]

This was really interesting and fascinating man. Also the video about the Great Darkness sounds intriguing. I do hope you get to make it one day 😁

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

THE PRESENCE: DC was getting to convoluted. I'm going to Vertigo ME: They turned it into DC Black Label THE PRESENCE: Oh,my! Everything's got darker I should call myself instead "The Absence"

[@creed8712]

I maintain the most interesting thing Young Justice ever did was genuinely try to tie a characters religion with their superhero identity in Doctor fate and Zatarra (even better than what they did for Halo because that felt like a much more simplified endeavor to act as set dressing)

[@WarrenValion]

I've come with two possibilities based on my limited understanding. I believe that there either exists an all-powerful God in DC. And the Overvoid, The Prescence, and the Source are all different by comparable aspects/avatars that make up that God. My second thought is that these three different things are actually all the same thing, the same being, just perceived differently by different people. The Source is God perceived by the New Gods, The PRescence is God perceived by Humanity, and the Overvoid is God perceived by the Monitors. The reason for the contradictory information is that the understand of each group of people can only understand a part of God's majesty instead of the true whole.

[@CoolGuy-te1pt]

Will you break down the One Above All from Marvel?

[@vkpotter260]

Great video, Drake! The Presence is such an interesting character to cover and it’s concept is super fun to dive into. Also, quick question - isn’t Unwritten Leviathan technically the most powerful entity in DC (and Marvel) since it can erase not only a representation of writers like Overvoid, but the writer himself?

[@ComicDrake]

Thanks! To answer your question, Unwritten is not a book that takes place in DC Comics continuity. I understand it's confusing, but not all Vertigo books take place in the DC Universe.

[@vkpotter260]

@@ComicDrake Oh, that makes more sense. I also assumed that Unwritten was part of DC Comics. Thanks for clearing that up!

[@godslayer8894]

@@vkpotter260 even if it did it wouldn't be the most powerful

[@mattwo7]

2:42 Even Aries?

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

There's has to be a class on comic book cosmology in some theology department somewhere.

[@stevencooper564]

Growing up in a Southern Baptist church, I have to ask: Bibleman, when? Also: fuck, I love "Non-Binary Psychedelic Sorcerer" as a description for Grant Morrison, beautifully insane individual.

[@tdcamper7623]

At some point, I'd like to see you talk about Elfquest.

[@ComicDrake]

Honestly, after watching a bunch of interviews from the creator, I'm pretty interested in giving the series a shot. I just don't think it would bring in a lot of views. ☹️

[@thecollectorsinged113]

Can't wait to see The Presence in the Sandman Series, loved the series even with the cast.

[@ComicDrake]

That's probably not going to happen considering that he doesn't show up in The Sandman comics.

[@thecollectorsinged113]

@@ComicDrake just want to see Luci invade heaven and have a little snippets of God in a throne or wandering in the background would already be enough for me. Still waiting for my comic to arrive so I can read it, just bought Book One so I'm really excited for it to arrive.

[@thecollectorsinged113]

@Miki rin a fan can hope even when it's unrealistic

[@frederickthesquirrel]

Dog Welder... Somebody got paid who shouldn't have

[@harrietr.5073]

I wonder about Ms. Presence, like does she have meetings with her angels, Hands and lower Gods (remember: Presence is part Zoroaster)? Does she placate or try to work with Overmind? I'd like to see that. Don't know if we will.

[@marketgardener8957]

What

[@davidogundipe808]

You watched the Lucifer show didn't you?

[@harrietr.5073]

@@davidogundipe808 No.

[@harrietr.5073]

@@davidogundipe808 Am I missing something very crucial? Full spoilers.

[@davidogundipe808]

@@harrietr.5073 just asking cause Ms presence doesn't exist in the comics. Or was it a joke?

[@aidansullivan551]

I never realized Sir Toppam Hat was this powerful :0

[@markthomas4472]

Theory: what if The Presence, One Above All, God (Spawn) and other versions of gods are the same being? That means one god created both the DC and Marvel Universe!

[@djpegao]

I don't think the Spawn version can be considered the same as the ones on DC & Marvel

[@danield.d.d.daniels7292]

Wouldn't the Mother of Existence make more sense to be the same being as Presence and TOAA?

[@Artista_Frustrado]

honestly i just love the idea that whatever the DC Omniverse considers to be God is so incomprehensible yet dependant of the Collective Consciousness. Which means it being utterly inconsistent IS the point, basically a giant Quantum Mechanic rule

[@autotuner9722]

he looks like that monopoly character

[@alikuwait3443]

10:28 True, but there is a very dark part in one of the issues, Wally was waiting with his Grandfather Noah in a hospital Because his grandmother was injured (or sick I don't remember) A officer walked in and they start chatting wally suddenly gets up and says: "Gramps, I'm sorry" In the next panel it turns out the that his grandma died (But Wally does resurrect her later on). Yikes for a comic relief character that's super DARK! 😨

[@Snoopyni0h]

Please do a video on Marvel Side "One Above All"

[@Egglover47]

I would love to see a multiverse explained series!

[@ya-kiri794]

Does anyone think the Presense kind of looks like a Walrus.

[@Jay0Do]

Definitely need that great darkness video

[@pathevermore3683]

9:49 Mae Danver, Matrix Supergirl video needed in life.

[@4B53NTPR1V4CY]

"Because comics..." i love it 🙌🤣

[@unlockman777]

And next time, maybe a video about One Above All?

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

Crazy thought. What if Ohma Zi-O serves both the Presence and TOAA and both are just one entity the whole time.

[@giornogiovannatheultimateb8553]

Ohma Zi-o would overpowered

[@zbeer570]

14:44 Just to clarify, the Christian God is broken up into three entities. The Jewish God is unified. So Judeo-Christian is a serious misnomer here.

[@kalebsullivan2357]

Can you do a deep dive into Bibleman for scientific reasons

[@farqs4293]

PLEASE do the video series on DC Creation!

[@aaronreich7]

Cosmic entity series would be great!

[@munjee2]

10:00 that's very dragon ball

[@capnbug]

Thats so funny. I was like "i wonder if he got alex to read smth" then like 2 minutes later he does

[@doginhat13]

If the multiverse exists in a franchise everything is canon

[@diGritz1]

Short version: The hand of creation reached out and...... Bitch slapped everyone into a state of perpetual confusion and chaos.

[@subzero2032]

Never commented about a sponsor but Act III of The Sandman is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. I’m 3/4 though it but it’s my favorite installment so far. They’re all great but this is my favorite.

[@Sabertooth898]

Wait a sec I thought He was the Monopoly man?.

[@eternaldepression5659]

I wish someone would make a video on the DC hierarchy. The overvoid, the source, the bleed, the great evil beast, Perpetua, world forger, the endless, Michael and lucifer, darkseid, the imps, new gods, spectre, phantom stranger, anti monitor, monitors, the lords of order, trigon, dr Manhattan, etc. Too many cosmic beings and I do t know where they fit

[@okpaghorosolution6590]

I always felt that the presence exists as sort of an emissary of the monitor mind or the overvoid or just the overvoid taken shape.. the source represents the energies of the omniverse derived from the presence who out of curiosity, created and commissioned several hands to create and shape creations.. That explains why the hands despite being created by a far greater maker, are oblivious to the existence of this maker although they come in contact with and use it's energy that is the source in their creations.. only the three great archangels created and made known of the existence of a greater being are therefore elevated above the rest in both power and consciousness..

[@nicksmead577]

Fun little surprise hearing the voices of these collaborators for this video. My favorite was Mattie from Watchtower Database