It's taken 10 issues, but . . . with the series nearing it's end, the story-line has finally come down to the 'meat & potatoes'. This whole story revolves around Harvey Dent, Superman. Or I should say, the Tangent Superman. Basically, all he really wanted was to make his world a better place. A more equal place. His world was a place where a group of people wanted for food, while across the world they threw their surplus away. Some countries lived in daily fear of terrorist acts, while others tried to ignore what was going on . . pretending it didn't exist. That is until it landed on their doorstep. All he really wanted to do was to take that away. But, in the process, he realized you can't get rid of terrorists . . you can't get rid of tyrants . . you can't get rid of any number of other disparaging humans traits and weakness' . . without taking on a little bit of that trait yourself. After-all, if you want to catch a murderer, you have to think like one. So imagine what that can do to a man . . how it can twist his original altruistic vision until one day he wakes up and finds out that he's the tyrant . . that he's the terrorist . . that he's the person the world is most afraid of. But, since his vision is now complete . . how can he go back on any of that? The ends justify the means. Right? Anyways, there's only been one person that was an actual threat to him . . that had any hope of actually standing up to him . . his wife, Lola Dent. She saw the lines he was crossing and wanted out. But since he had given her a power level almost his equal, and I'm sure there was some love involved there, he couldn't just take her out like he did with the rest of the trash around the world. So they made a deal. She would go away and let the world think she was dead, while he would allow it . . as long as she kept her mouth shut and didn't interfere. The Tangent heroes never approached her because they didn't know she was still alive. It took our world's Batman to do some digging and put the pieces together. After convincing her to join their cause, they link up all of the Green Lanterns powers, as well as a boost from the Tangent Atom, to hone in on Guy's power-ring and create a portal to bring them all home. The Tangent Superman has found a new mission . . . he wants to bring the same message of peace to our world . . whether we want it or not. But now the Tangent heroes, alongside the Justice League . . and Lola . . have come back to try to put a stop to that. But Harvey has foreseen just such a complication and has started to assemble an army of his own . . . all the villains he can find on our world. I think that this is probably one of the best issues of this series that I have read to date. There's a whole lot going on, and we make some huge strides in the story-line. I'm also appreciative that new artist Carlos Magno is currently on board. Those issues with Wes Craig were . . . well, I don't need to throw rocks. Lets just say this final part of this series is a huge improvement. I was really beginning to wonder where Dan Jurgens was going with all of this, but . . it's getting to the point now where we can start to see what the payoff's going to be. Like I've said before, I think this is a great cast of characters and I think we've really only just begun to tap into their true potential. Is there something more for them after this? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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