Nope, it's not just you. There's no consistency there with the whole Monitor / Anti-Monitor / World Forger / Perpetua thing.HalloweenJack wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 2:58 pmAres wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 6:02 am It also doesn't help that this is clearly building towards DC's next big crisis. I remember as far back as 2005 DC actually had a handle on this whole "branding" concept where books would be allowed to do their own thing, but would have tie-in-issues specifically to lead up to events, or better yet, use Annual issues to tie into events so as to not break up the narrative of the comic. Modern DC feels like you need to read every book to know what's going on, and that's ironically a sure fire way to make people not buy anything because they don't want to invest that kind of cash and don't want to only get half a story.
The whole Perpetua / Monitor / Anti-Monitor World Forger retcon again feels like someone deciding to just flip the script on the DCU again. This is something like the third or fourth different origin they've given the Anti-Monitor at this point. For all the problems the original Crisis caused, it's amazing how much more stable the DCU as a whole felt from 1985 to 2005, and how much of a mess it's become since 2011 to today.
also....Perpetua.....I'm not alone in hating that name am I?
The original Crisis on Infinite Earth characters were epic and with a clear goal. The Monitor and Anti-Monitor were both beings who represented the Material Multiverse and the Anti-Matter Universe, with the Anti-Monitor wanting to consume everything while the Monitor wanted to safe-guard existence. They were meant to exist for that one story.
Every time DC has brought them back, as well as other characters from Crisis like Harbinger, Pariah, Alex Luthor and the like, they keep over-complicating them and re-imagining them and making them worse with each revision. Everything from Countdown turning the Monitor into essentially a race of Watchers, Infinite Crisis making Alex evil for no good reason, and the Anti-Monitor being on his 4th or 5th origin by this point.
And of course, because the latest creative team need to outdo everything else, there's no someone who is even bigger than the Monitor and Anti-Monitor, adding in the "World Forger" as their "brother" and "Perpetua" as their mother. It's just . . . so stupid and pointlessly convoluted. The Anti-Monitor was Galactus if he ate universes instead of worlds and who was full on evil rather than fairly neutral about the whole thing. He was like a cosmic version of Ultron, and that's all you needed him to be as the greatest threat to the DCU.
But no, now we need to gear up and deal with a threat even bigger than the Anti-Monitor because his Mom is around and going to start causing trouble.