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43-485: The Tangent Universe tells the story of an Earth greatly influenced by the presence of super-powered beings. While the DCU Earth is essentially the same as our own, no more advanced in terms of technology or communications despite the existence of those qualities within the super-powered community, Earth Tangent is greatly influenced by all of that. Earth Tangent's economic, geographic and political landscapes are defined by

86-487: A convention. In 1984, Jurgens was the artist for the Sun Devils limited series (July 1984 – June 1985), with writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas . Jurgens would make his debut as a comic book writer with Sun Devils. He began scripting from Conway's plots with #8 (Feb. 1985) and fully took over the writing duties on the title with #10 (April 1985). In 1985, Jurgens created the character Booster Gold , who became

129-587: A member of the Justice League . Jurgens was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. His first work on Superman was as penciller for The Adventures of Superman Annual #1 (1987). In 1988, Jurgens provided pencil art for the Deadman short stories which were written by Mike Baron in the short-lived anthology Action Comics Weekly from issues #601–612. He then had

172-642: A new Superman title, Superman: The Man of Steel in July 1991 and assumed the writing/pencilling of the main Superman comic book with issue No. 57 (July 1991). He created a supporting hero named Agent Liberty in issue No. 60 (Oct. 1991) and then worked on the "Panic in the Sky" crossover in 1992. During his run on Superman , Jurgens created two major villains, Doomsday and the Cyborg Superman . Doomsday

215-552: A planet outside of time and space and "opening them for a great experiment to see what happens when all these folks meet". Notable during this event is the return of DC characters from before the 2011 Flashpoint story arc that led to the creation of The New 52 universe. The Kingdom (1998) revealed that the Tangent Universe was part of Hypertime , a fluid system of alternate realities based on splitting and re-merging timelines. Regular DC characters became aware of

258-497: A run as artist of Green Arrow with writer Mike Grell from 1988 to 1990. In 1989, Jurgens began working full-time on the Superman character when he took over the writing/pencilling of the monthly The Adventures of Superman . Jurgens was the penciller of the 1991 limited series Armageddon 2001 and co-created the hero Waverider with Archie Goodwin . Jurgens helped writer Louise Simonson and artist Jon Bogdanove launch

301-614: A warrior, Night of the Living Dead style, for the Ultra-Humanite". The history of the Tangent Universe radically diverges from the real world due to the presence of superheroes. The interference of the original Atom causes the Cuban Missile Crisis to escalate into a limited nuclear exchange that results in the nuclear obliteration of Florida and Cuba . The aftermath of the destruction of Florida shapes

344-523: A whole is dedicated to Julie Schwartz . Because the Tangent Comics titles were not linked to DC Comics' shared universe, they were free to make sweeping changes. In the Tangent one-shot issues published in 1998, a huge electromagnetic pulse disables all technology worldwide and an incredibly powerful being called the Ultra-Humanite begins taking over the world. The 12-issue miniseries revisits

387-419: Is "a female warrior" exiled to Earth for sins committed on another world. Seeking a twist to make her different from the original DCU character, David thought up Wanda's origin as "a symbol of what [her] world could be if [her people] were united". Combining two diverse aspects, she "seems distracted in any combat situation" and "would rather not fight", preferring "pondering some deep philosophical point". After

430-529: Is already filled by the Atom", and wanted to echo " Kafka 's metamorphosis where we actually see this likable, regular guy transform into a superhuman". Thus Millar took Jurgens' early idea "of the average Joe as the superMAN" and used artist Guice's "unique approach to the flashback scenes" (as seen in his Resurrection Man work) to create a different style than that used by Guice on his Action Comics work. The character and his storyline also draw influence from

473-507: Is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline " The Death of Superman " and for creating characters such as Doomsday , Hank Henshaw , and Booster Gold . Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman , Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics . At Marvel , Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America , The Sensational Spider-Man and

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516-654: Is revealed to be the Tangent Powergirl, lover to the Tangent Superman, and a fight ensues. The Tangent Manhunter is brutally murdered. The Tangent Superman takes Stewart's power ring and uses the ring, augmented by his psychic powers and the magic of the Tangent Orion, to travel to New Earth of the mainstream DC Universe. Meanwhile, Batman infiltrates the Core, the hub of information on Earth-9, and

559-548: Is saved by the Tangent Batman while escaping, who is mounting a revolution against the Tangent Superman. The Tangent Superman and the Tangent Powergirl battle their New Earth counterparts, only to escape and destroy the White House . The Tangent Superman proceeds to kidnap the world's leaders, take power from them and detonate a nuclear weapon to distract New Earth's heroes. While on Earth-9, the heroes find and recruit

602-540: The Metal Men four-issue miniseries , which was a retcon of their origin story. Jurgens wrote and pencilled the crossover series Zero Hour and the Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey miniseries, both in 1994. Jurgens scripted and provided layout art for the Superman vs. Aliens miniseries. The story featured a battle between Superman and the aliens created by H. R. Giger (a.k.a.

645-748: The Nightwing series for issues #125–128. On Metamorpho : Year One , Jurgens was writer and penciller for the first two issues with Mike Norton drawing issues #3–6. Jurgens was writer and artist of the "History of the Multiverse" back-up stories in the weekly Countdown which appeared in issues #49–38. At the Los Angeles Comic Con in March 2007, DC announced a new, ongoing Booster Gold series written by Geoff Johns , pencilled by Jurgens, and inked by Norm Rapmund to begin shortly after

688-618: The DC Rebirth relaunch of 2016, Jurgens wrote Action Comics , with the series returning to the previous numbering, beginning with issue #957. He contributed to Action Comics #1000 (June 2018) and then became the writer of the Green Lanterns series. Jurgens is married and has two children, Quinn Jurgens and Seth Jurgens. Jurgens was awarded the 1994 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book. Supergirl Too Many Requests If you report this error to

731-560: The Firestorms : The Nuclear Men from issues #13–20, where the series was canceled. In 2014, he and Giffen together with Jeff Lemire and Brian Azzarello co-wrote The New 52: Futures End . In 2015, Jurgens became the writer for Batman Beyond , starting with issue #1 in June 2015. He was writer of the two-issue miniseries Convergence: Superman in 2015, and was the writer for Superman: Lois and Clark from 2015 to 2016. As part of

774-626: The Manhunter and the deployment of alternate Metal Men as a U.S. black ops squad. As a result of the Cuban War in this timeline, the Soviet Union still existed in the late 1990s and was still a world superpower. However, China was not involved in this nuclear exchange and has its own metahuman genetic experimentation program, resulting in the creation of Supergirl and Powergirl . Based on concepts created by Dan Jurgens, Tangent Comics as

817-556: The Xenomorphs ), from the titular film series . It was co-published by Dark Horse Comics and DC in 1995. In the same year, he gave up the pencilling duties on Superman . Also in 1995 he was writer/penciller on Solar with issue #46 from Valiant Comics wherein he worked with inker Dick Giordano and with penciller Tom Grindberg joining in with issues #51–54 after Jurgens relinquished penciller duties with issue #50. In 1996 Jurgens and Italian artist Claudio Castellini worked on

860-599: The Tangent Ultra-Humanite . The raging battle against the Tangent Superman weakens him, allowing him to be ultimately defeated by his wife, concluding the story. Convergence is a two-month weekly miniseries , published by DC Comics , that ran from April–May 2015. Convergence spins out of the final issues of the weekly series Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End . The story involves Brainiac trapping cities from various timelines and planets that have ended, transporting them in domes to

903-594: The Tangent Superman's last tie to humanity, his wife Lola Dent. The heroes on Earth-9 transport themselves back to New Earth, where the combined forces of New Earth's and Earth-9's heroes fight against the Tangent Superman, the Tangent Powergirl and a cadre of villains that the Earth-9 ruler has gathered from New Earth ( Lex Luthor , the Joker , Mr. Freeze , the Icicle , Black Manta , Poison Ivy and Felix Faust ), as well as

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946-513: The Tangent Universe 10 years later, both in reality and fiction. The series ran between March 2008 until April 2009 and was written by Dan Jurgens with art by Jamal Igle and Carlos Magno. The series was met with favorable reviews, noting strong character development and plotting. In efforts to aid an alternate-reality-displaced Tangent Flash (Lia Nelson), Green Lantern ( John Stewart ) and the Flash ( Wally West ) are inexplicably transported to Earth-9,

989-566: The Tangent Universe's Green Lantern washed up on a beach. The Tangent Universe's Green Lantern, Flash and Atom appeared in Ion #9-10 (February–March 2007), in which they displaced Ion and the two children who had found the lantern. Ion found himself in the Bleed, where he encountered Captain Atom . Upon returning to Earth, Ion defeated the Tangent heroes, apparently by sending them back to their native dimension. During this appearance, everything said by

1032-407: The Tangent Universe, but did not interact with it. Infinite Crisis (2006) identified the Tangent Universe as Earth-97 , part of the recreated DC Multiverse . As Earth-97 was being destroyed in the chaos, the Tangent Universe's Green Lantern said that the heroes had to follow her lantern's light in order to survive. At the end of the story on New Earth, two children found the lantern belonging to

1075-697: The Tangent Universe, by the Tangent Green Lantern. The trio joins the Tangent Spectre and the Tangent Manhunter in freeing the Atom, leaving John Stewart captured by the Tangent Superman, ruler of Earth-9. While being interrogated by the Tangent Superman, John Stewart's ring is contacted by Hal Jordan's ring, which the Tangent Green Lantern uses to bring additional members of the Justice League to Earth-9. The rescued Atom

1118-629: The Tangent heroes was a repeat of lines from the original Tangent Comics run. The Tangent Universe's Green Lantern later appeared in Justice League of America (vol. 2) #50 (December 2010), where she fled to New Earth in order to warn its heroes of an impending attack by the Crime Syndicate of Amerika . During the issue, it was revealed that the Syndicate members had ravaged the Tangent Universe's Earth and killed many of its heroes in

1161-472: The artist of the new Green Arrow series with writer J. T. Krul and inker George Pérez . He became co-writer of Green Arrow with Keith Giffen on issues #3–6. DC announced in October 2011 that Jurgens would return to Superman, co-writing and drawing, the self-titled Superman series with Giffen. Their first issue was #7 (cover dated May 2012). During 2012–2013, Jurgens was writer and artist of Fury of

1204-410: The character conception, artist Gene Ha produced design artwork, initially of a bearded lady , but eventually merely "a very alien woman". Writer John Ostrander previously wrote Nightwing for the first wave of Tangent issues and for his second wave issue christened the team (Hex, Black Orchid and Wildcat) "Nightforce". Citing the benefit of the Tangent line as giving "a far greater freedom to sculpt

1247-573: The co-creator of The New Teen Titans served as inker for the series' first 15 issues. After 10 years working on the Superman character, Jurgens ended his run as writer with Superman vol. 2 #150 (Nov. 1999). Also in 1999, Jurgens was writer and layout artist for the tabloid -sized graphic novel Superman/ Fantastic Four , with finished art by his former The Adventures of Superman inker Art Thibert. Jurgens worked with Marvel Comics as writer on Thor vol. 2 with pencilling by John Romita Jr. and as writer/artist on Captain America vol. 3. Jurgens

1290-573: The end of 52 . He was the writer of Tangent: Superman's Reign limited series in 2008, revisiting the Tangent Comics characters and wrote and illustrated an issue of The Brave and the Bold vol. 2 No. 23 (July 2009), which featured Booster Gold and Magog . Jurgens was amongst the creative talent of DC Comics' The New 52 relaunch in 2011, becoming the writer of the new Justice League International series with artist Aaron Lopresti and

1333-681: The four-issue weekly miniseries Superman: Day of Doom (Jan. 2003), which marked the 10 year anniversary of " The Death of Superman " storyline from 1992. After a hiatus from comics, he returned to DC Comics, providing layouts for the lead story in the Infinite Crisis Secret Files 2006 special (April 2006) and provided art for the weekly series 52 and to the six-issue limited series Crisis Aftermath: The Battle For Blüdhaven written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Grey. Jurgens collaborated with writer/creator Marv Wolfman on

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1376-519: The highly publicized crossover Marvel vs DC . Jurgens was one of the many creators who worked on the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 which featured the title character's marriage to Lois Lane . Jurgens developed the Tangent Comics imprint for DC the following year. In January 1996, Jurgens was writer and penciller of the new Spider-Man series, The Sensational Spider-Man , at Marvel Comics . The title

1419-656: The immense amount of group planning and constant changes of ideas and directions and took this as the last straw, resigning from the title. In a past interview several years after his Spider-Man run, Jurgens stated that he would like to have another chance on the character, since his run was with the Ben Reilly character during the Spider-Man Clone Saga , and not Peter Parker. Jurgens wrote and pencilled Teen Titans (vol. 2) for its entire two-year, 24-issue run (October 1996 – September 1998). George Pérez ,

1462-468: The lives of several characters. The city of New Atlantis is created out of the remains of the city of Atlanta and is later the birthplace of the Joker . A group of sea creatures are mutated by the radioactive fallout into humanoid form and become known as the Sea Devils . The other major event to have repercussions is the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, which leads to the creation of

1505-415: The new 52 alternate universes. DC's official list of the current known multiverse lists the Tangent Universe as Earth-9 . DC Comics reprinted the Tangent Comics one-shot issues and the miniseries Tangent: Superman's Reign in a series of five trade paperbacks : Dan Jurgens Dan Jurgens ( / ˈ dʒ ɜːr ɡ ə n z / ; born June 27, 1959) is an American comic book writer and artist. He

1548-427: The process. The Tangent Universe's Green Lantern later became instrumental in the ensuing battle by temporarily resurrecting Alexander Luthor Jr. of the original Earth-Three and by the end of the story, the Tangent Universe had been restored to its former state. The "History of the Multiverse" backup stories in the 2007–2008 series Countdown to Final Crisis established that the Tangent Universe now exists as one of

1591-516: The story The Reign of the Superman written by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster prior to the creation of their iconic character. The Tangent Universe's Superman utilizes the name of DC villain Two-Face (Harvey Dent) rather than the name 'Clark Kent'. Superman's powers, according to his writer, are that "his brain is evolving at an accelerated rate" thanks to a 'god-force'. Writer Peter David worked from Jurgens' concept that Tangent's Wonder Woman

1634-549: The superhero community, whereas in the DCU those aspects exist unaffected by the superhero community. According to Dan Jurgens , the reconceptualization of Superman "went through many permutations". An early idea eschewed powers altogether and revolved around highlighting the "man" in "Super man ", and making him "a cop, or a doctor or something different. A guy with no powers but tremendous character who fights on behalf of his fellow man". Writer Millar noted that "the classic Superman role

1677-425: The world in any fashion we want", Jurgens said that for the second wave he hoped to "see Earth totally and completely subjugated". As the Tangent Universe's premiere covert team, much of the "mammoth task" of staging a pivotal Tangent event fell to Ostrander, who installed an undead, vampire Stalin as head of a Soviet Empire. Ostrander also revealed the "Dark Circle", whose members could be killed and "resurrected as

1720-468: Was initially conceived to be the flagship showcase for the new Ben Reilly Spider-Man. The initial seven issues (#0–6, January–July 1996) were written and pencilled by Jurgens. Jurgens pushed strongly for the restoration of Peter Parker as the true Spider-Man and plans were made to enact this soon, but Bob Harras , the new Editor-in-chief, demanded the story be deferred until after the " Onslaught " storyline. Jurgens had by this stage become disillusioned with

1763-674: Was the debut writer of the Tomb Raider : The Series comic book series licensed to Top Cow Productions and Image Comics , which in 1999. The debut issue of Tomb Raider was the number one selling comic book of that year. Jurgens was writer of the series until issue #21. In 2000, Jurgens was the writer and provided layouts for the four issue prestige miniseries Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes: Universe Ablaze , with finishes provided by Phil Jimenez . Jurgens wrote Aquaman vol. 3 from issue #63 (Jan. 2000) until its cancellation with issue #75 (Jan. 2001). In November 2002, he wrote and pencilled

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1806-525: Was the main antagonist in " The Death of Superman " storyline which saw the iconic hero killed in an issue consisting entirely of splash pages . The Cyborg Superman was an existing character which Jurgens reintroduced in The Adventures of Superman #500 for the "Reign of the Supermen" storyline. Jurgens wrote and drew Justice League America (#61–77 April 1992 – July 1993) and in 1993 pencilled

1849-452: Was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995. After graduating from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1981, Jurgens' first professional comic work was for DC Comics on The Warlord #63 (Nov. 1982). He was hired due to a recommendation of Warlord creator Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens' work after being shown his private portfolio at

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