Tangent: Superman's Reign #12 - DC

Finally . . the last issue of this series. This one dragged a little bit in the middle also. I'm telling you, I'm a firm believer that the 12 issue story-line is simply to long. I understand the marketing aspect of it, they're trying to sell more books. But from the readers point of view . . there's a lot of wasted space in the middle. And we all know that creators occasionally have deadline problems. It just seems that with a 12 issue series that something always pops up. There's more of a possibility that things could go wrong. And there's more time for things to go wrong. You know Murphy's law. Anyways, Dan Jurgens wraps up his cross-dimensional story-line this issue with the help of Carlos Magno on the pencils. Dan really throws everything the DC universe has to offer at Harvey, the Tangent Superman. I mean, we're talking heroes, villains, and anybody else who can pitch in and lend a hand. Batman's got this plan. Doesn't he always? They're going to do multiple attacks on Harvey, wearing him down, forcing him to expend energy. Then when he's at his lowest level, they send Lola in, Harvey's wife, to push Harvey even more and to release our Superman from his powers. Thereby allowing Superman to finish it off. Also they're attacking Harvey's links back to the Tangent Earth, the Ultra-Humanite, Orion and Power-girl. If they can get them to retreat . . they'll take Harvey with them. Long story short, they defeat him and all the Green Lanterns work in unison to send the Tangent characters home. But really, this just opens up a whole new story-line for this Universe. I mean, they've been under the thumb of Superman for so long . . . how are they going adjust that rapidly going from a tyrant's rule to democracy? I have a feeling the story of these Tangent characters is far from over. But the question is . . who's going to step up to tell the story? And when? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. But I really hope they don't squander all of these fantastic characters. It'd be a shame for them to all sit up on a shelf and get dusty.