15 Wildest Character Reinventions from DC’s Tangent Universe

In 1997, DC Comics released a slew of one-shots introducing readers to the Tangent Universe. The Tangent Universe, or “Tangent Comics,” was populated by radically different versions of some of DC’s biggest icons. The Tangent characters lived on an alternate Earth (later cataloged as Earth-9) where the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to war, and New Atlantis is one of the planet’s biggest cities. Every character in the Tangent Universe was a complete, “from the ground up” reimagining, and here are the 15 wildest.