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.
    Special thanks to our Patrons for helping make this possible!
    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
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  • @dylantempler7176
    @dylantempler7176 Год назад +859

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

    • @Zaacdrums
      @Zaacdrums Год назад +58

      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
      @drackestalentorgen166 Год назад +9

      they are the writer after all, arent they

    • @kindle184
      @kindle184 Год назад +20

      @@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
      @kindle184 Год назад +10

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

    • @khalifajaber231
      @khalifajaber231 Год назад +2

      @@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
    @OwenLikesComics Год назад +481

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

    • @ComicDrake
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +71

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

    • @RONIN1992
      @RONIN1992 Год назад +9

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

    • @barryallen2569
      @barryallen2569 Год назад +3

      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
      @Vibranium_man Год назад +2

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

    • @RONIN1992
      @RONIN1992 Год назад +3

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

  • @thickpika2467
    @thickpika2467 Год назад +71

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

  • @voiddevil6829
    @voiddevil6829 Год назад +315

    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
      @rodrigobueno8652 Год назад +14

      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
      @driveasandwich6734 Год назад +27

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

    • @uwotm8634
      @uwotm8634 Год назад +5

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

    • @louiscyphre6021
      @louiscyphre6021 Год назад +1

      Uhhh… death metal ?

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад

      @@uwotm8634 yes but the great darkness is its opposite

  • @violacola
    @violacola Год назад +198

    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
      @marketgardener8957 Год назад +1

      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
      @AndreNitroX Год назад

      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
      @michaelkantner6420 Год назад +1

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

    • @suziepetersen4608
      @suziepetersen4608 Год назад

      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
      @Bobo_Hotdog Год назад

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

  • @mitchellhenkelman3827
    @mitchellhenkelman3827 Год назад +111

    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!

  • @glassman7154
    @glassman7154 Год назад +81

    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

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache Год назад +66

    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
      @Watch-0w1 Год назад +1

      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
      @l0sts0ul89 Год назад +2

      Pretty much for the most part

    • @vjrz8472
      @vjrz8472 Год назад +2

      Bros indian as hell

    • @creed8712
      @creed8712 Год назад +6

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

    • @xXLunatikxXlul
      @xXLunatikxXlul Год назад +1

      @@creed8712 exactly.

  • @ilveroAAZ
    @ilveroAAZ Год назад +25

    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
      @ilveroAAZ Год назад +3

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

  • @iap7597
    @iap7597 Год назад +152

    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
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +85

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

    • @swandive46
      @swandive46 Год назад +20

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

    • @devinkavanaugh1034
      @devinkavanaugh1034 Год назад

      That's just what they call it.

    • @UltraLuigi2401
      @UltraLuigi2401 Год назад

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

    • @harrietr.5073
      @harrietr.5073 Год назад +5

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

  • @silvasaurusrex
    @silvasaurusrex Год назад +38

    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
    @ShootingStar489 Год назад +59

    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

  • @ak-ub1ym
    @ak-ub1ym Год назад +16

    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.

  • @jalapenoofjustice4682
    @jalapenoofjustice4682 Год назад +77

    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
      @Watch-0w1 Год назад +5

      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
      @sorjonen8358 Год назад +8

      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
      @Watch-0w1 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @sorjonen8358 Год назад +6

      @@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
      @Watch-0w1 Год назад +1

      @@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 .

  • @insanemakaioshin
    @insanemakaioshin Год назад +27

    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.

  • @luigiboi4244
    @luigiboi4244 Год назад +86

    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
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +30

      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
      @kingn0ah377 Год назад +2

      ​@@ComicDrake keep going man

    • @JonggunPark1
      @JonggunPark1 Год назад

      Thanks

  • @IrugaZERO
    @IrugaZERO Год назад +24

    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
      @johnmorell7020 Год назад +1

      Surely the Presence IS Billy Batson!

    • @IrugaZERO
      @IrugaZERO Год назад +2

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

  • @TheAbbot92
    @TheAbbot92 7 месяцев назад +4

    The entity that Trigon and Dr. Manhattan call Dad.

  • @WinchesterxNL
    @WinchesterxNL Год назад +26

    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.

  • @user-km3db9mv1u
    @user-km3db9mv1u Год назад +23

    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.

  • @driveasandwich6734
    @driveasandwich6734 Год назад +22

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

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад +1

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

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 Год назад +1

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

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад +2

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

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 Год назад +1

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

  • @hungrycrackpot
    @hungrycrackpot Год назад +10

    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.

  • @TheZamaron
    @TheZamaron Год назад +5

    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.

  • @ejc4489
    @ejc4489 5 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @ziadhulhok
      @ziadhulhok 4 месяца назад

      Well that's not the actual presence tho

  • @shadowofdakness
    @shadowofdakness Год назад +4

    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.

  • @Thenameless1
    @Thenameless1 3 месяца назад +2

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

  • @henrybrave2972
    @henrybrave2972 Год назад +4

    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!

  • @lukedelameter7961
    @lukedelameter7961 Год назад +10

    I would LOVE to see a DCosmology series!

  • @Nightwing1933
    @Nightwing1933 Год назад +8

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

  • @mohithhoney9630
    @mohithhoney9630 Год назад +4

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

  • @warioskapelli3100
    @warioskapelli3100 Год назад +10

    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.

  • @insanemakaioshin
    @insanemakaioshin Год назад +23

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

    • @go_go1
      @go_go1 Год назад +1

      Toaa is above everyone you mentioned

    • @insanemakaioshin
      @insanemakaioshin Год назад +10

      @@go_go1 He'sn't DC

    • @go_go1
      @go_go1 Год назад +1

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

    • @insanemakaioshin
      @insanemakaioshin Год назад +11

      @@go_go1 Debatable.

    • @go_go1
      @go_go1 Год назад +1

      @@insanemakaioshin not
      Toaa solos presence has no feats

  • @jdcrosier2682
    @jdcrosier2682 Год назад +5

    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
      @godslayer8894 Год назад

      No it didn't really

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад

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

  • @TeamSoraPresents
    @TeamSoraPresents Год назад +8

    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
      @sansthereaper755 Год назад +1

      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
      @TeamSoraPresents Год назад +2

      @@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___
      @Oblivion___ Год назад +1

      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
      @jermaknights9437 Год назад +1

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

  • @suba6639
    @suba6639 Год назад +11

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

  • @SalvadorTorres-nb2ik
    @SalvadorTorres-nb2ik Год назад +1

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

  • @Tor-jv8je
    @Tor-jv8je Год назад +2

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

  • @eingoluq
    @eingoluq Год назад +3

    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

  • @Megaloathyou
    @Megaloathyou 2 месяца назад +1

    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

  • @mjolnirfan
    @mjolnirfan Год назад +2

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

  • @sansthereaper755
    @sansthereaper755 Год назад +4

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

  • @squeethemog213
    @squeethemog213 Год назад +2

    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 😁

  • @justas423
    @justas423 Год назад +5

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

  • @mr_gl00m32
    @mr_gl00m32 10 месяцев назад +1

    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.

  • @Werewolf914
    @Werewolf914 Год назад +2

    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
      @OblivioNOvO Год назад +3

      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
      @godslayer8894 Год назад +1

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

  • @icetide9411
    @icetide9411 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @BKsunstar
    @BKsunstar Год назад +1

    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

  • @daelen.cclark
    @daelen.cclark Год назад +8

    We need more of Wally the God Kid.

  • @sorin-3510
    @sorin-3510 Год назад +3

    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."

  • @jakeharrison2148
    @jakeharrison2148 Год назад

    Thank you for letting me know about sandman act 3! Ive been waiting all year and this promotion was the first i heard about ot finally releasing!

    • @ComicDrake
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +4

      Keep an eye on the channel! There's a special announcement about me and act 3 that should be dropping any day now. 😉

  • @erikohman2294
    @erikohman2294 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @vkpotter260
    @vkpotter260 Год назад +12

    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
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +6

      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
      @vkpotter260 Год назад

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

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад +1

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

  • @castoffcrown
    @castoffcrown Год назад

    Great video. I'm relatively recently got into DC and Marvel and your channel, among others, has been so helpful. It's a daunting thing to get into at this point but you and your community make me feel welcome among the comics fandom. Grant Morrison is one of my favourite comics writers I've encountered so far and I had no idea they were non-binary (like me!) until this video. So thanks for including that, it made me feel good which is probably weird but wcyd.

  • @okpaghorosolution6590
    @okpaghorosolution6590 Год назад +1

    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..

  • @johnnyboy90528
    @johnnyboy90528 11 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @waterking74
    @waterking74 Год назад +1

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

  • @jordanloux3883
    @jordanloux3883 Год назад +11

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

  • @lukaszrower7612
    @lukaszrower7612 7 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @Jay0Do
    @Jay0Do Год назад +1

    Definitely need that great darkness video

  • @johnmorell7020
    @johnmorell7020 Год назад +1

    "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

  • @VapaFish
    @VapaFish Год назад

    Another fantastic video Drake! Would love to see one on the Darkness you mentioned, solunds really interesting!

  • @WarrenValion
    @WarrenValion Год назад +3

    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.

  • @Egglover47
    @Egglover47 Год назад +2

    I would love to see a multiverse explained series!

  • @emanuelcruzcarrasco4277
    @emanuelcruzcarrasco4277 Год назад +3

    You should do the great darkness vid after dark crisis ends in december and should probably check out the dark crisis the deadly green one shot coming in october.

  • @harrietr.5073
    @harrietr.5073 Год назад +24

    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
      @marketgardener8957 Год назад +1

      What

    • @davidogundipe808
      @davidogundipe808 Год назад +1

      You watched the Lucifer show didn't you?

    • @harrietr.5073
      @harrietr.5073 Год назад

      @@davidogundipe808 No.

    • @harrietr.5073
      @harrietr.5073 Год назад

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

    • @davidogundipe808
      @davidogundipe808 Год назад +1

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

  • @frankbarrie6785
    @frankbarrie6785 Год назад

    Lol I seem to always give your vids likes. Def one of my most fav channels. Thank u for everything!

  • @CoolGuy-te1pt
    @CoolGuy-te1pt Год назад +3

    Will you break down the One Above All from Marvel?

  • @CyberSoulgem
    @CyberSoulgem Год назад +2

    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
      @changsangma1915 Год назад

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

  • @tdcamper7623
    @tdcamper7623 Год назад +3

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

    • @ComicDrake
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +3

      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. ☹️

  • @dragonetafireball
    @dragonetafireball Год назад +2

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

  • @xero1048
    @xero1048 Год назад +1

    Would love to see a video on the great darkness

  • @nicksmead577
    @nicksmead577 Год назад

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

  • @spongebobsquarepants4576
    @spongebobsquarepants4576 Год назад +1

    Thanks for the great video.
    What's the source (no pun intended 😅) of the coie comics pages with narration?

  • @creed8712
    @creed8712 Год назад +1

    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)

  • @zbeer570
    @zbeer570 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @robbvanderberry
    @robbvanderberry 23 дня назад

    "Dead cops and the Wrath of God" sounds like what Garth Ennis would create in the alternate timeline where he writes good comics

  • @monitor-mindtheover-void6712
    @monitor-mindtheover-void6712 Год назад

    I think you should make one video of Monitor as well. I think you've discussed about him in a video before, but a full video dedicated to Monitor would be nice.

  • @ProudOne
    @ProudOne Год назад

    which comic is it that dream says lucifer is the 2nd most powerful being in all of creation? The page I'm referring to can be seen at 11:35
    I've looked all through The sandman issue 1 through 4 and just can't find it. Does it happen later in the sandman or is it another set of comic books entirely? help is highly appriciated

  • @tiffanysmith4697
    @tiffanysmith4697 Год назад +2

    In my interpretation the source is just an energy, that many higher levels life form use, as well as the great darkness. While they've both shown signs of having a thoughts and feelings, I think this more has do with them being the retention of good and evil respectively and all the ideas that go with that. So when people interact with them, it acts like thought in their brains, creating the illusion of consciousness for the source and the greater darkness. The over monitor and once Hecate guard the sources use. The Empty Hand and Upside Down Man guard the great darkness. The workers for the source are the hands, great darkness the other kind. The mistake was Perpetua making her universe to be a weapon. The containment of the flaw sounds like the placement of the source wall, which is where Perpetua imprisoned. The Presence was just sent to deal with the mess Perpetua made, he didn’t make the universe, for according to the rules set up in Scott Snyder's Justice League he should've died or moved on as soon as he created the universe and created another universe. He did neither, therefore he either broke a shit ton of rules or just didn't have any role in creating the DC Universe. All living ideas types for obvious reasons are tied to either the source or great darkness. All other gods are just smoke and mirrors.

    • @Watch-0w1
      @Watch-0w1 Год назад

      I first I was against it but maybe the presence is just the idea of higher being that lower sentient give form . No different from the endless. He is powerful because all believe in him to be the great father( even if they don't want).
      Like everyone hunger for meeting they creator.
      Only problem is what is Lucifer and the angels

    • @tiffanysmith4697
      @tiffanysmith4697 Год назад +1

      @@Watch-0w1 but who would believe he the great father, for barely anyone know he even exists, plus Dream has a list of God's based on belief and he rules over them, but Dream bows down to the Presence, implying the Presence is more than just a creature formed from belief.

    • @Watch-0w1
      @Watch-0w1 Год назад

      @@tiffanysmith4697 I mean most religion always make up a great creator of the universe.
      Maybe how we all wish to know where we come from, we all end up concluding to this great father( or mother) of creation.
      About dream , they have to be greater dream that lord of dream can't control. Like thousand cat dream, people dream the presence to be above it all, so he is.
      This is all guess.
      After recapping sandman. I notice that dream ( all other endless as well) where give personality base on how some would see them to be. Like dream being a emo uptight boy always seeking love. People is influenced by dream and dream is influenced by it dreamer.

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад +1

      @@Watch-0w1 he's already been confirmed to be more than just belief his power is literally what created the collective unconsciousness.

    • @godslayer8894
      @godslayer8894 Год назад +1

      The presence is just an alternate name for the source

  • @FancyGeeks
    @FancyGeeks Год назад

    I've been waiting for this one!

  • @googamp32
    @googamp32 Год назад +9

    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.

  • @Ashley.D
    @Ashley.D Год назад +7

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

  • @jamimuhammad3699
    @jamimuhammad3699 Год назад

    This video is legit a good movie 😮 DC is so proud man. Good job man. Keep up the good work.

  • @tristantaylorisatool185
    @tristantaylorisatool185 10 месяцев назад +2

    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
      @ComicDrake  10 месяцев назад +2

      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. ruclips.net/video/USyMxqlveFs/видео.html

  • @edgyspaceunicorn7215
    @edgyspaceunicorn7215 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @thecollectorsinged113
    @thecollectorsinged113 Год назад +3

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

    • @ComicDrake
      @ComicDrake  Год назад +2

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

    • @thecollectorsinged113
      @thecollectorsinged113 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @thecollectorsinged113 Год назад

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

  • @HappyBirthdayRoboto
    @HappyBirthdayRoboto Год назад

    Comic Drake, I would like to see the series of videos you hinted at, sounds like it would be very interesting. :)

  • @IkeOkerekeNews
    @IkeOkerekeNews Год назад +2

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

  • @johanneshaukanes4531
    @johanneshaukanes4531 11 месяцев назад

    19:07 Would be interesting to hear about the greate darkness and stuff.
    Hmmm...
    Maybe someone made a video about this?
    But would be interesting to hear yours anyway.

  • @bsabruzzo
    @bsabruzzo Год назад +1

    So the Great Darkness that you mentioned in the early part of the video... is that the same as the Great Darkness from the Dark Crisis? Is it the same as the one that the legion of Superheroes fought decades ago?

  • @fridayyb0y
    @fridayyb0y Год назад +1

    do a video about the great darkness would be so awsome

  • @PinBiohazard
    @PinBiohazard Год назад +1

    I just like the fact that Dogwelder was on this video

  • @capnbug
    @capnbug Год назад +1

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

  • @stevencooper564
    @stevencooper564 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @Snoopyni0h
    @Snoopyni0h Год назад +2

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

  • @aidansullivan551
    @aidansullivan551 Год назад +1

    I never realized Sir Toppam Hat was this powerful :0

  • @aaronreich7
    @aaronreich7 Год назад +1

    Cosmic entity series would be great!

  • @autotuner9722
    @autotuner9722 Год назад +2

    he looks like that monopoly character

  • @farqs4293
    @farqs4293 Год назад +1

    PLEASE do the video series on DC Creation!

  • @markthomas4472
    @markthomas4472 Год назад +3

    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
      @djpegao Год назад +1

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

    • @danield.d.d.daniels7292
      @danield.d.d.daniels7292 Год назад +1

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