The Empty Hand v.s. The Darkest Night

two uber cosmic villains.

who wins and why?

EH

Empty Hand.

Not sure
Empty hand seems insanely powerful but not much feats. He has a few overblown statements, which doesn’t mean much IMO

At the moment I’ll go with DK

Based on how the current Darkseid/Justice Incarnate run has played out…it would appear the Empty Hand is far more powerful than any prior threat, including Perpetua or DK.

Definitely did not expect DC to go the route they”re going with re-introducing the Empty Hand, but I”m happy they did.

^Disregard. Somehow I didn”t realize “The Great Darkness” referenced at the end of Infinite Frontier is the Great Evil Beast, not the Empty Hand. Looks like it will be a race between Darkseid, Eclipso, Nekron, Upside Down Man, and Empty Hand to control the power of GEB. Indicates GEB >>>>> any of the villains we have seen in DC

In the latest solicitations, it points out that Darkseid and JLI are working together to fight something even more powerful than Darkseid himself. I'm betting it's Empty Hand.

Why would the empty hand not be more powerful than beings like Perpetua and Darkseid? If that's the reader(us) I would think that would be the end all be all.

Darkseid didn’t say he was fighting something stronger

Yeah, no reason currently to think Empty Hand will be > Darkseid. Empty Hand likely isn”t going to be as grand a villain as Morrison intended him to be given Eclipso, Nekron, and Upside Down Man are the other “main side-villains” hunting for the Great Evil Beast”s power.

Spoiler:
Kind of like how Mandrakk and Thought Robot are not as grand as Morrison initially intended/portrayed them to be. 🙂

^^^

Here are the solicitations for issue 4:

Doctor Multiverse discovers there is a threat greater than Darkseid! Is the Justice League Incarnate’s only option to work with the Lord of Apokolips? Meanwhile, on Earth-7, Orion and Aquawoman lead the rest of the team to gain control of the Oblivion Engine! But by the time this issue is over…a member of Justice League Incarnate meets their end!

I'm guessing it's EH. Just a guess though.

Darkest Knight is far more powerful. Infinite Frontier puts Darkseid, Empty Hand, and Upside-down Man as rival chasing Earth-Omega.