Tangent



Tangent Comics was a DC Comics imprint created in 1997-1998, developed from ideas created by Dan Jurgens. The line, formed from various one-shots, focused on creating all-new characters using established DC names, such as the Joker, Batman, and the Flash. Tangent Comics is notable as the only Fifth week event published by DC to be revisited for a second round. As with Alan Moore and the Watchmen saga, the Tangent Universe radically diverged from our own due to the appearance of metahumans/superheroes, such as the original Atom, whose interference escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis on his world into a limited nuclear exchange that resulted in the obliteration of Florida. The destruction of Florida played a pivotal role in the life of the Joker, and her home city, New Atlantis, on the Georgia shoreline, formed by the aforementioned obliteration of Florida. The Sea Devils were marine mutants who had undergone accelerated change and gained sentience in inundated Florida and Georgia, now undersea. The Soviet Union has survived, and was still a superpower in the late nineties, and the Metal Men intervened in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Furthermore, as in our own world, the Peoples Republic of China was an ascendant superpower and had its own entry in the metahuman arms race - Power Girl.

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