| Welcome to the world of Tangent Comics — where you only know the names. Parallel Lines: A DC Comics Tangent Universe Podcast is a bi-weekly, issue-by-issue exploration of DC Comics’ Tangent Universe events, hosted by Shawn Engel and Michael Bradley.
“You’ll want a front row seat, I’m sure.”
The Secret Six have rescued the Atom, and more heroes from the DC Universe arrive in the Tangent Universe. Things seem to be going OK for the good guys, right? In the words of Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthor: Wrong! Plus, in the backup, a refresher on the Superman’s origin — and what happened after!
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Convergence has been over for a while by the time you read this, but I absolutely loved the Tangent presence in these books. I went out and actually shelled out money for them despite me not supporting DC for years post-new 52. That’s how I wanted new Tangent stuff, and I was very pleased that these comics did them justice. A couple of odd character writing here and there (especially with Diedre Dey/Doomsday in Teen Titans) but they were really great. I was relieved to see that the writers actually got them right!
Nightshade was indeed “destroyed” in the Ultra-Humanite thing (she just went kaput like a computer would) and Lola Dent was….of ambiguous ethnicity. Like half of Tangent, to be honest. (I personally thought she was white in some panels, biracial leaning towards Asian-American in others and then Asian maybe in one. Hurray for art consistency!) Oh, and (as I’ve understood) there /were/ still some Nightwing agents floaters even after Superman took over. They were just very good at keeping themselves underground, as you could assume from such an organization.