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The Unofficial ARMAGEDDON
2002 Biography
In the world of 2030, Monarch is another word for menace! Though Earth's
future seems bright and wonderful and filled with technological advances
undreamed of by modern man, the citizens of 2030 pay a terrible price
for their utopia: their lives are ruled by the all-seeing, all- knowing
tyrant called Monarch! According to legend, this depraved despot was
once one of Earth's heroes-no one was sure exactly which one-and had,
by the and of the new century's first decade, turned evil, slaying all
of Earth's super-powered champions and declaring himself ruler!
Though most of Monarch's subjects are unhappy living under this potentate's
iron rule they have learned to quietly accept their fate. Only one man,
Matthew Ryder, has the courage to try to alter Earth's destiny-though
his scheme is madness! In an audacious attempt to change history, Ryder
volunteers for a perilous time-travel experiment that will hurl him
back to the year 1991! Lying to Monarch, Ryder swears to preserve the
series of historical events that originally led to Monarch's sovereignty,
but his actual agenda is to somehow locate-and exterminate-the hero
who will become Monarch!
Buffeted by the weird currents of the time stream, Matthew Ryder-now
Waverider-arrives in present-day with the power to unveil, at a touch,
a person's most probable future. Using this ability, he peers into the
tomorrows of all Earth's champions -and then turns to Superman and the
Justice League for help! Together, the world's greatest super-heroes
succeed in changing the future-but as a result they unwittingly unleash
tomorrow's Monarch into the world of today!
Text taken from DC Comics 1992 Series 1 (cards)--163 through 165 in a series of 180
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