I noticed that the GEB is used a lot in the vs. forums, but few people seem to know much about him. So here I can post some scans and feats.
"Meddlers on Earth have succeeded in awakening a terrible primordial shadow that slept in the chaos beyond Hell. Informed sources expect the Darkness to advance across the afterworld upon the Place of Lights (Heaven) itself. Consequently, everyone has chosen sides, depending on whom they expect to win"
"You mean there's doubt?"
"Grave doubt, this is no fallen Angel or Leviathan heaven faces, this is the soul of darkness itself. A complete absence of divine light."
(this line confirms the GEB >>>>> Lucifer Morningstar in power)
All of Heaven's Angels join in the fight against the GEB, however half of the demons join the GEB's side. The threat is enough to cause Angels and Demons to fight together.
The GEB appears from "The Chaos Beyond Hell", and all of the demons and other supernatural beings are shocked and cannot even omprehend its sheer size and power.
Etrigan is chewed up and spat out by the GEB. In addition, we learn more about it.
"Before light, I was endless, without name or need of name. Then light came. Witnessing its otherness, I suffered my first knowledge of self, and all contentment fled."
"Absence of God's light, his shadow - partner, locked in endless fight".
This reveals that the GEB is in every way equal to the power of the Presence, but his opposite, who existed before Creation.
Dr. Fate asks some of the demons why they sided with the GEB, and they state that it will remake the universe and they can rule it. Dr. Fate blasts them, but then is sucked up by the GEB.
The sorcerors suffer another magical feedback which looks like it's going to kill Zatana, but her father Zatara casts a spell to sacrifice himself instead.
The Angels are swatted like flies as the Phantom Stranger stares on in horror, the most powerful angels like Metatron are less than gnats. Then the Spectre arrives.
The Sorcerors attempt to assist him by sending him more power, as he grows in size and gives the thing a bear hug. However, he's in for a surprise, as what was thought to be the entire GEB before was just its thumb!
Here's a cameo appearance of the GEB in another comic (not sure which one, I found the scan on the internet) where he appears as a horseman with elk antlers.
Here's another cameo appearance, as the GEB shows the Spectre a "shadow" of true Hell, and then true Heaven. The GEB seems more benevolent here since it has merged with the Presence and found meaning and completeness.
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Yeah, that's kinda the opposite of what was shown. The GEB is something that's beyond comprehension, but at the same time, so simple. It's the other side. DC has created a pattern that is a picture perfect example of Ying&Yang. There can be no good, without evil. Each is defined by the other. The Presence's light cannot shine without the darkness of the GEB to contrast it with. And the GEB cannot exist without the presence to shine on it. And in each, is a piece of the other. The two are intrinsically tied to each other. For this story alone, DC has my deepest respect and admiration. And nothing Marvel has done can equal the brilliance and spiritual understanding that I was shown here.
For every evil, there is abit of good. For every good, there is a bit of evil. That's the meaning of the little dot that mars the surface of the white side, and the black side. It's a cycle, and it's meant to come full circle.
And to think, all their effort, all their warring, all their combat, and all the GEB wanted was to understand itself and make peace with the Presence.
I realize you can't have had alot to work with, but you did an excellent job. Well done, Mike. Well done.
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well done. you managed to take an extremely interesting but underused and not well known character and get almost all of his appearances, and identify why each scan should give us respect for the GEB. good job.
The Great Darkness is Yahweh's dark side, the one that holds the cosmos in balnce, however, don't mess up Yahweh with the Presence.
Since Yahweh has a superior, the Presence don't.
Last edited by Astner on Feb 20th, 2007 at 04:51 AM