Originally conceived in 1990, it took three years for the line to be released, which led to an industry-wide perception that it was created to capitalize on the speculator mania of the early 1990s.
First appearance: Dark Horse Comics #8 (intro of X) It is a city of corrupt officials and organized crime.
The story followed a group of searchers from the Reaver Swarm coming to Earth to track down the Heretic.
Each issue also featured a one-page prologue detailing the Heretic's experiments on Earth during the 1930s and 1940s, which ended in an accident that resulted in the metahuman activity on the planet.
Titan, following his exit from Golden City, goes to work for the United States government and comes into contact with all the major characters of the line.