April 17, 2025 - THROWBACK THURSDAY - TANGENT COMICS
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Hello there,
Happy Thursday! I hope your day is off to a good start. It's #ThrowbackThursday. This is where I share a comic or story from the late 1900s and/or early 2000s. Today, it's #TangentComics and 5th Week Events.
Sometimes a month will have 5 weeks instead of 4, and comic publishers typically planned for 4 weeks of comics. So, when that 5th Week rolled around, comics shop shelves would be almost bare because very little product would ship during that 5th week.
Different publishers did different things. DC Comics once did an event where they published different takes of characters and called it Tangent Comics. It was pretty cool take of some of the characters and teams along with a different power set for them.
You could get all of the issues or just a couple. You could read them in any order and it didn't matter. But, it wasn't uncommon to read about "Event X" in one title and another title would go into more depth about "Event X", so you could choose to know as little or as much of the story as it's relevance pertained to you.
But, the whole thing is really cool!