does anyone remember dc's tangent line?

[sgt.candy]

i was reading through some old wizard mag and i saw some preview on it and i remembered

anyone remember these and are they good reads?

[Ontir]

i was reading through some old wizard mag and i saw some preview on it and i remembered

anyone remember these and are they good reads?

Some of them are very good, particularly the Green Lantern!

I really liked the idea of these books. Unfortunately, they started out on a rather grim note, and most of them never shook that feeling. Still, I wish DC would do something with them, especially the mysterious woman who carries the Green Lantern, giving the dead one more chance to set things right!

[Babylon23]

Green Lantern was definitely the standout book from the first set of Tagent one-shots. Metal Men had some nice Mike McKone artwork. I remember there was the Secret Six, the Doom Patrol, the Atom and a few others.

Tangent was an interesting idea, but it obviously didn't sell well enough to continue. There was, I believe, a second set of books featuring more recognisable names (such as Superman and Batman).

[Kid Kyoto]

I remember the tangent Flash (go-go girl looking girl with light powers) was a lot of fun. Fluffy and light but fun.

[Toreador]

I thought Tangent was a great idea: the Flash - a teen age girl with light based powers, the Metal Men - an old Military unit or normal people, Joker - a heroine with mulitple indentities, Captain Boomerang - leader of a acrobatic air team, Nightwing - a mystical black ops group semi-working under the US intelligence umbrella and the JLA - a quasi-military group spying on the meta-humans.

DC did well enough with Tangent for them to come out with a second set of Tangent comics featuring Superman as black policeman with superior mental powers, Wonder Woman as an alien from a matriarch world and Batman as a cursed knight who can only leave his castle by his 'soul' inhabiting a bat-like suit of armor.

Too bad they didn't continue it but I don't think they ever meant for it to be a continued line. It was a special event much like the Elseworld annuals they did one year or the different JLA annuals (Justice League of Aliens, Justice League of Amazons, etc.).

[hondobrode]

I really liked the Tangent line, but my tastes and what sells more often than not are diametrically opposed :(

Imagine my surprise when the first series did well enough to warrant a sequel as Tangent II. It too was good, but not quite as good, if memory serves.

What really amazes me is that a lot of fans online have really liked the Tangent line and lamented its passing. I never would have guessed that.

The whole brainchild was Dan Jurgen's, who wanted to use established DC characters but rethink and re-envision them completely in a totally separate mini-series universe.

Yes, the GL one-shot was particularly great, esp with that great newcomer J. H. Williams III providing eye candy.

I remember really liking the Metal Men too with that awesome McKone art.

Flash was by Gary Frank IIRC and was quite nice.

The whole series was done really well actually. Highly recommended. I don't think DC has collected either series, which is sad really. Even tho neither is ongoing, the stories are stand alone and certainly entertaining. A foreward explaining the differences in character concepts would help to explain what where when why and the stories would at least catch the casual reader's interest to look further, I would think.

Maybe someday when I'm elected Reprint Editor...

[Forsaken_One]

Yeah, I loved the Tangent series and owned all of them back when they came out, even Wonder Woman, which I remember not being particualy fond of. Alas it ended on a cliffhanger that was never to be resolved, so I seriously doubt DC would ever give these the trade treatment.

Still, a great idea that I felt was a lot better than the Ultimate "same story, new attitude" universe that came later.

[jemini169]

Loved it! I especially like Nightwing and Doom Patrol. I know it was a stretch for DC, but I would love to see the series collected in TPB (and even return in a new limited or ongoing series).

...I can dream can't I?

[The Joker]

Loved it! I would love to see the series collected in TPB.

That would be a TPB I would definately wouldnt mind dropping some coin to get! :)

[sgt.candy]

i managed to find some issues, good stuff
i got the flash,the atom and green lantern books

im going back for the rest when i got money

[jadegiant77]

I can't find these anywhere, damn it all! there should be a trade. DC if u r listening make it so!

[Ontir]

What I liked about the Tangent Flash was that we finally got to see the character DC and Barbara Randall had promised us post-crisis.

Atom was really interesting as well. He was sort of a cross between Captain Atom, and Marvel's Hyperion.

If DC IS brining back the multiple Earths, the Tangent world shoud absolutely be one of them. Hey, maybe Power Girl is from Earth-T!

I think a big TPB of all the Tangent books would be an excellent idea!

[The Joker]

I think a big TPB of all the Tangent books would be an excellent idea!

Probably not, but hopefully someone is taking a note of this interest in a TPB of Tangent at DC.

That would be very nice.

[jam]

Oh yeah. Dan Jurgen's finest hour. Some top-notch creative teams.

Nice.

[Suzanne]

I've heard of Tangent but never knew what it was. Sounds very interesting. I like these kinds of stories, and I hope DC revives it or launches something similar.

[hondobrode]

Oh yeah. Dan Jurgen's finest hour. Some top-notch creative teams.

Nice.

I would probably agree with that.

Either that or the Death of Superman, which I really liked too. That's so huge that everyone remembers that, but the quality on the Tangent series was great.

I hope they revisit it someday.

I really hope the multiverse comes back in some form to the DCU with Infinite Crisis, and we can see these and other characters again. I think it would sell very well. At least well enough to be cultishly cool and build steam as the word gets out.

[Rod G]

I've collected the Tangent line.

My Faves:
The Atom
The Flash
The Joker
Secret Six


Some Tangents I wouldn't mind seeing :

Legion of Super Heroes : Every hero in the Tangent Universe joins forces against the UltraHumanite

Batman & Robin : the TU's cursed knight joins forces with a young woman named Robin Madison who sprouts wings on her back.

[sgt.candy]

i love the idea of nightwing being a group that manipulates the world. ive always played with that notion

or how hippie culture didnt exsist in the 60's so now its starting to emerge

[Indigo Al]

Me, I liked the Tangent Power Girl one-off. Interesting powers and character.

[stealthwise]

I wasn't buying comics at the time, but this sounds like a really intriguing idea. I'd definitely buy a tpb of these as well.

[Apathy Boy]

The Tangent line was the the way alternate universes should be done. These weren't just the same ol' characters with a new coat of paint; Jurgens and co. put a staggering amount of imagination and thought into creating a new universe with new characters. I particularly liked METAL MEN and GREEN LANTERN, though pretty much every book in the line was awesome.

How cool was Tangent? Even Warren "I hate superheroes" Ellis liked 'em (he cited them as an influence on his similarly cool Apparat line of books).