| 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.
“We saw Earth die! Nothing could be worse!”
Four adventurers from the future of 2030 travel back to the present with portents of doom! But will their time-traveling escapade prevent their future … or cause it? It’s good old-fashioned comic book wibbly wobbly timey wimey in a way that can be brought to you only by Dan Jurgens, Sean Chen, Kevin Conrad and Ray Kryssing in “Saving Time!”
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Backmatter from the issue (click to enlarge)
NEXT TIME: A literal Dark Knight kicks off the second wave in BATMAN #1!
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I want to say that I started listening to this podcast about a month ago and have finally caught up with all the episodes. I never read the Tangent books, or even heard of them, until I started listening to your podcast. I must say, Shawn and Michael, that what you have done here is amazing. You make me interested in hearing about comics I’d never read! So much so, that I went out and bought the Trade Paperbacks collecting these stories. I’m just “getting into” the stories, but I wanted to address a question you posed in this latest episode, about whether the “back matter” appears in the Trades. At least in Volume 1 (from Atom #1 to Sea Devils #1), the only “non-story” material included is, before each story, character sketches for that particular issue. For example, for the Atom story, there are sketches of the three generations of the Atom, and a sketch of “modern” technology, by Dan Jurgens. If there was more than this in the original comic, we don’t see it here.
I’m really taken with the defining concept of the series, of having only the names in common with the standard DC Universe. It really seems like a much more extreme version of the re-creation of heroes in the Silver Age, but in those cases, it was more than just the names they shared with their Golden Age versions. Your discussion of these books is truly engaging, and I’m looking forward to the ride as it continues. Thank you for your knowledge and passion.