Bro, realized that when I was reading the issue. A primordial, darkness from the beginning of the universe who wants to snuff out all life in the universe, where have I heard that before? Now, I think Cates has done a great job with the execution, but Knull seems similar to other beings.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
Folks, Bob is not being killed off. xD
Traditional death is a minor inconvenience for him /at best/. xD
If I had to connect them, I woiuld have suggested that the Void is named itself for Bob having, thorugh his telepathy, 'sensed' Knull on a subconscious level. The Void is the Void, and its name is more of allusion to the emptyness of addiction, but if I *had* to connect them, that's how I'd do it. (And I'd suggest Bob's over the top kill of Carnage was from the same, an instinctive if not intellectual awareness of the same.)
I mean Knull is apparently a complete ripoff of Mikaboshi (except Mikaboshi had greater feats IMO & did multiple universes) and this story is starting off as a carbon copy of Chaos War. It makes no sense that the Gods of Earth are not intervening in an attack by an alien god. Not as impressed by this as most everyone else is apparently.