Chorus of the Sphinx

[superboyprime]

Eclipso summons the Spectre to the moon.

He explains to Bruce Gordon that the recent White Lantern business has made him realize something about Earth. He points out the following facts to Gordon:

1. All of the Spectre and Eclipso's hosts have been human.
2. The Rock of Eternity is attached to Earth.
3. The Phantom Stranger limits his wanderings to the planet Earth, instead of roaming the whole universe.

Why?





So Eclipso's plan is to destroy the Earth, which will sever God's connection to the universe, which will kill God.

Comments

[arilou_skiff]

I'd kind of be surprised if Bruce hadn't read the Qu'ran honestly.

[thokstar]

Captain Atom's not going to be happy when he gets back from time.

[wizardru]

Dear Eclipso: TL;DR. Judas Priest, that's a lot of dialogue. Splash pages almost entirely obscured by MONOLOGUE? Are you planning on killing the Spectre and God by TALKING THEM TO DEATH?

[auggie18]

I think that that's how you're supposed to kill fairly omnipotent beings nowadays. Either through talking or rather large science-powered guns.

[nezchan]

Guns that fire EXPOSITION!

[grazzt]

That's...actually pretty awesome.

[karunya]

Yeah, I'd love to conceal an exposition gun under the pulpit for when the sermon goes flat...

[philippos42]

The Stranger doesn't go to other planets? Since when?

Gah, I hate DC's geocentrism.

[auggie18]

...okay, now I need to write something involving the phrase "geocentric".

[lorriek]

I was trying to figure out what the correct -ism would be. So, in the DCU, Earth really is basically the center of the universe? *rolls-eyes* I guess I didn't realize that, not being very interested those types of stories.

[okkult3000]

I thought Oa was the center of the universe? "Oacentric?"

[cricharddavies]

Right after Infinite Crisis, it was stated that Oa is the center of the universe, but Earth is the center of the multiverse. Then, during Blackest Night, it was stated that Earth is the source of all life in the universe.

Yes, I know that makes no sense, except possibly to Geoff Johns.

[glprime]

He's really getting his fan wank on, isn't he?

Because I only took two terms of astronomy and the brutalizing of cosmology in the DCU has been downright painful at times.

[arbre_rieur]

He might occasionally pop up on other planets, but he mainly hangs out on Earth.

Isn't geocentrism inherent when you're dealing with Judeo-Christian concepts? What with Judaism and Christianity being human religions? The alternative is to say all the extraterrestrial races know about God as well, which I think would be even worse.

[thanekos]

The answer to "What iiiiiif God was one of us", everybody!

[hoey]

Moon blowing up here will lead eventually to the same destroyed Moon Captain Atom witnessed in some future timeline after the Magog explosion?

[pyrotwilight]

Probably not related to it since the damage to the moon in that timeline was shown to actually have been caused by Captain Atom himself.

[hoey]

Really? Gonna have to reread the issue.

[pyrotwilight]

It wasn't in the same issue he was first flung into the future. It happened to him the second time where we see him meet the Justice League on its last mission in a later issue of Generation Lost.

[darkknightjrk]

Nope--that future that Atom saw with the cracked moon was resolved when Max murdered Magog.

[hoey]

Scans Daily - solving your comic doubts since inception!

Thanks both of you.

[pyrotwilight]

Well, I think it was actually resolved when they stopped Wonderwoman from getting killed (since they made a point of having future Powergirl say the war began when Max killed Wonderwoman).

[silicondream]

So when the Earth was destroyed in the Legion of Super-Heroes' Five Years Later era, God died? No wonder everyone turned gay!

[kirke_novak]

Is that Obsidian on the cover? IS THIS REAL LIFE?!

[feyandstrange]

Between the blah blah blah and the judeochristian blah blah, and the art not being anything great, I'm so not caring. I hope I care enough to remember to take it off my pull list.

[okkult3000]

Abrahamic, actually. They reference the Qur'an.

[feyandstrange]

I left that out because that was actually almost interesting.

[hivemindcomics]

Am I right in thinking that THE moon, as in the Moon orbiting Earth, is noe blowned up in the DCverse?
If so, thats pretty fucking cool.

[hivemindcomics]

I'd love it to stick for years as well, its hardly ever mentioned but in any night sky you see the two shards of the moon, and its occasionally referenced. And in 10 years our kids will be like,
"Pa, why is the moon broken in 2 in Batman?"
"Son, I have no idea..."

[silverzeo]

Wasn't there a Superfriend episode in which the moon held a giant dragon and Apache CHief had to go superbig in order to trap it?

[venatosapiens]

You know, Brett Booth draws a mean, mean dinosaur.

Doesn't make this art any prettier, though.

[pyrotwilight]

This only further confuses me on DC's Presence, Worldsoul and Entity/Trespasser/White Life Entity.

[arbre_rieur]

They don't have to fit together! That's the whole beauty of superhero universes! It's all one giant, inconsistent, messy hodge-podge of aliens, gods, and mystics, and who'd want it any other way?

[superfangirl1]

Isn't this the fourth time the moon been blown up? *lol*

[btravage]

What is this, Dragon Ball Z?

[recognitions]

WE LIKE THA MOOOOO--Oh.

Anyway, eh. Eclipso should still be Jean Loring.

[gamerguy]

Dear DC:

The Moon does not have a molten core.

Thank You,

[Signed] Someone who actually took a science class.

[superboyprime]

It's some magical heart-of-darkness thing that Eclipso's releasing from inside the moon, not a nolten core.

Is there where I write "[Signed] Someone who actually took a reading comprehension class"? The protocol for condescending snark can get so confusing, but you seem to be a bit of an expert.

[gamerguy]

Since it mentions nothing about such higgelty-piggelty in the post, one simply has to assume it's stupidity on the part of either the writer or the artist.