History ComicBook / FallOutToyWorks

* AllThereInTheManual: A good portion of background info merely glossed over in the comic (Baron's rise to power, the Toymaker's previous involvement in an anti-Baron smuggling operation/art collective, the Second Industrial Revolution, etc.) was mentioned on the comic's minisite. The section the information was included on is [[LostForever has been broken for a matter of years]].

After a rough start, the robot [[{{Fembot}} Tiffany]] (named after an old song called [[FallOutBoy "Tiffany Blews"]]) is activated. She needs to experience life in order for her programming to function properly. Baron, being the dominating figure that he is, won't be having any of that. Tiffany is implanted with other people's memories, averaged out to maintain a balanced. On top of the Toymaker dealing with a failing factory and a robot going through an existential crisis living with a man she might not even want to love comes another complication...[[PygmalionPlot The Toymaker has fallen in love with his creation]]. She might just feel the same. With Tiffany caught in the middle of the Toymaker and the Baron, who ''won't'' come out worse for wear?

The entire comic [[note]]with logoless/textless cover pages, the addition of a few additional pages in issue one and the absence of issue one's stinger and the final page of issue 5[[/note]] [[http://fallouttoyworks.keenspot.com/d/20120326.html is available to read for free online]] through Atomeka Press. The comic is also available through Comixology (with issue one for free) and through a trade paperback with bonus material. A Motion Comic adaptation is currently in DevelopmentHell. If and when it does get released, it'll feature the voices of Patrick Stump (as the Toymaker), Pete Wentz (as Crybaby), Creator/AnnaFaris (as Tiffany), and Jaime King (as Gravity Welles). DevelopmentHell isn't new for Fall Out Toy Works as in its initial run, the releases for the last three issues took much longer than expected due to the writer being in a coma and Fall Out Boy went on break around the end of the series run. Ouch. The series is intended to expand further into a multimedia franchise with toys, fashion, and animated movies.

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: The entire premise of issue 3.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Long before Fall Out Toy Works' conception, an announcement about a Fall Out Boy comic came from Del Ray Comics along with promotional art. This comic would have been a one-shot "graphic novel" with the band as characters in a fictional narrative. Sometime later, news came that the project was canned due to Creator/BongoComics (who had previously ran Radioactive Man comics featuring FallOutBoy's namesake and Simpsons side character Fallout Boy) not wanting people getting the comic based on the band mixed up with the comic based on the Simpsons character. People cried foul as Bongo had never released any actual Fallout Boy comics, nobody involved with the production of TheSimpsons or related spinoffs had any legal issues with FallOutBoy up to that point, and while "Fallout Boy" is copyrighted to Matt Groening, "Fall Out Boy" has been copyrighted to the band since its inception. Phew! Turns out the ''real'' reason was that FallOutBoy hadn't actually approved Del Ray's concept but Del Ray had gone through with announcing it anyways. Del Ray countered, claiming FallOutBoy hadn't said anything about rejecting it. Either way, it's not happening.
** Turns out the Del Ray pitch wasn't the only time FallOutBoy had been approached with a comic deal.

With a story that explores WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, the [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove nature of love]], whether or not love is any less real if it's programmed (into a human OR a robot), and a very, ''very'', [[GainaxEnding weird ending]], Fall Out Toy Works manages to be nothing (yet everything) one would expect from a comic book based on FallOutBoy. Much like MyFairLady [[XMeetsY meets]] Film/BladeRunner, but [[MindScrew weirder]].

** If one looks closely at the backgrounds, a billboard for the [[BladeRunner Tanhauser]] [[TannhauserGate Gates]] shows up.

** Baron's [[http://cdn.fallouttoyworks.keenspot.com/comics/fotw20120502.jpg "phone with personality"]] has the appearance of [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]] with wings and [[DragonballEvolution brown hair]].

* HeroicBSOD: In issue 4 and issue 5, when Mr. Moth reveals that the real world experiences that Baron had agreed to let her pursue were actually FakeMemories taken in the same fashion as those that had been initially implanted into her. This breaks her down to the point where she choses to hook herself into a machine that has FakeMemories ''mainlined'' into her.

** If one looks closely at the backgrounds, a billboard for the [[Blade Runner Tanhauser]] [[TannhauserGate Gates]] shows up.

** The toy robot attack on Baron's base features a toy that looks like a mix of the [[MyNeighborTotoro Catbus and Totoro]] and a KamenRider toy!

* MegaCorp: Baron's whole set up that has a production stranglehold on the city of Los Angeles

** Baron's "phone with personality" has the appearance of [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]] with wings and [[DragonballEvolution brown hair]].

All five issues are available in a trade paperback with bonus content and a Motion Comic adaptation is currently in DevelopmentHell. If and when it does get released, it'll feature the voices of Patrick Stump (as the Toymaker), Pete Wentz (as Crybaby), Creator/AnnaFaris (as Tiffany), and Jaime King (as Gravity Welles). DevelopmentHell isn't new for Fall Out Toy Works as in its initial run, the releases for the last three issues took much longer than expected due to the writer being in a coma and Fall Out Boy went on break around the end of the series run. Ouch. The series is intended to expand further into a multimedia franchise with toys, fashion, and animated movies.

Taking place mainly in a {{Cyberpunk}} version of Los Angeles, the comic focuses on a robotic toy maker called [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Toymaker]] who is barely keeping his company, Fall Out Toy Works, afloat. Years before, he was in the forefront of robotics technology, now he's being harassed by lawyers. In comes Baron, the man who has Los Angeles in a vice grip, controlling all forms of industry and even the local weather. He's prepared to pay the Toymaker handsomely if he manages to do the impossible: create a female robot capable of loving another being.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Long before Fall Out Toy Works' conception, an announcement about a Fall Out Boy comic came from Del Ray Comics along with promotional art. This comic would have been a one-shot "graphic novel" with the band as characters in a fictional narrative. Sometime later, news came that the project was canned due to BongoComics (who had previously ran Radioactive Man comics featuring FallOutBoy's namesake and Simpsons side character Fallout Boy) not wanting people getting the comic based on the band mixed up with the comic based on the Simpsons character. People cried foul as Bongo had never released any actual Fallout Boy comics, nobody involved with the production of TheSimpsons or related spinoffs had any legal issues with FallOutBoy up to that point, and while "Fallout Boy" is copyrighted to Matt Groening, "Fall Out Boy" has been copyrighted to the band since its inception. Phew! Turns out the ''real'' reason was that FallOutBoy hadn't actually approved Del Ray's concept but Del Ray had gone through with announcing it anyways. Del Ray countered, claiming FallOutBoy hadn't said anything about rejecting it. Either way, it's not happening.

All five issues are available in a trade paperback with bonus content and a Motion Comic adaptation is currently in DevelopmentHell. If and when it does get released, it'll feature the voices of Patrick Stump (as the Toymaker), Pete Wentz (as Crybaby), AnnaFaris (as Tiffany), and Jaime King (as Gravity Welles). DevelopmentHell isn't new for Fall Out Toy Works as in its initial run, the releases for the last three issues took much longer than expected due to the writer being in a coma and Fall Out Boy went on break around the end of the series run. Ouch. The series is intended to expand further into a multimedia franchise with toys, fashion, and animated movies.

* LoveImbuesLife: It comes out of nowhere in a series but makes sense [[spoiler: considering it was AllJustADream]].

All five issues are available in a trade paperback with bonus content and a Motion Comic adaptation is currently in DevelopmentHell. If and when it does get released, it'll feature the voices of Patrick Stump (as the Toymaker), Pete Wentz (as Crybaby), AnnaFaris (as Tiffany), and Jaime King (as Gravity Welles). DevelopmentHell isn't new for Fall Out Toy Works as in its initial run, the releases for the last three issues took much longer than expected due to the writer being in a coma. Ouch. The series is intended to expand further into a multimedia franchise with toys, fashion, and animated movies, although how much of this will be followed through while FallOutBoy is still on hiatus remains to be seen.

A five issue ComicBook miniseries written by Brett Lewis (co-writer of the BulletproofMonk comic and writer of The Winter Men) and with art by Imaginary Friends Studios. The initial concept was created by FallOutBoy bassist/lyricist/frontman Pete Wentz with illustrator Nathan Cabrera and fashion designer Darren Romanelli.

Taking place mainly in a {{Cyberpunk}} version of Los Angeles, focuses on a robotic toy maker called [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Toymaker]] who is barely keeping his company, Fall Out Toy Works, afloat. Years before, he was in the forefront of robotics technology, now he's being harassed by lawyers. In comes Baron, the man who has Los Angeles in a vice grip, controlling all forms of industry and even the local weather. He's prepared to pay the Toymaker handsomely if he manages to do the impossible: create a female robot capable of loving another being.

After a rough start, the robot [[{{Fembot}} Tiffany]] (named after an old song called [[FallOutBoy "Tiffany Blews"]]) is activated. She needs to experience life in order for her programming to function properly. Baron, being the dominating figure that he is, won't be having any of that. Tiffany is implanted with other people's memories, averaged out to maintain a balanced. On top of the Toymaker dealing with a failing factory and a robot going through an existential crisis living with a man she might not even want to love comes another complication...[[PygmalionPlot The Toymaker has fallen in love with his creation]]. And she might just feel the same. With Tiffany caught in the middle of the Toymaker and the Baron, who ''won't'' come out worse for wear?

* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Him Toymaker]]: Hoo boy. The comic synopsis for the second issue said his actual name was Jasper, one of the data files Mr. Moth brings up in the fourth issue has his name as [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Chris Toymakeras"]]. [[spoiler: The final page of the final issue reveals his name is actually Alistair and brings up the possibility of his last name actually ''being'' Toymaker.]]

With a story that explores WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, the [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove nature of love]], whether or not love is any less real if it's programmed (into a human OR a robot), and a very, ''very'', [[GainaxEnding weird ending]], Fall Out Toy Works manages to be nothing (yet everything) one would expect from a comic book based on FallOutBoy. Much like MyFairLady [[XMeetsY meets]] BladeRunner, but [[MindScrew weirder]].

All five issues are available in a trade paperback with bonus content and a Motion Comic adaptation is currently in DevelopmentHell. If and when it does get released, it'll feature the voices of Patrick Stump (as the Toymaker), Pete Wentz (as Crybaby), AnnaFaris (as Tiffany), and Jaime King (as Gravity Welles). DevelopmentHell isn't new for Fall Out Toy Works as in its initial run, the releases for the last three issues took much longer than expected due to the writer being in a coma. Ouch. The series is intended to expand further into a multimedia franchise with toys, fashion, and animated movies, although how much of this will be followed through while FallOutBoy is still on hiatus remains to be seen.

* GainaxEnding: Issue 5. Long story short: [[spoiler: Implanting false memories into a robot instead of allowing her to live life freely does not end well for all involved, especially when you're forced to see ''exactly'' how it affects her processing.]]

* NeuralImplanting: Of FalseMemories into Tiffany.

* RobotBuddy: Now in convenient cellular SnarkyNonhumanSidekick flavor, as seen with Mr. Moth.

** Baron's "phone with personality" has the appearance of [[DragonBall Goku]] with wings and [[DragonballEvolution brown hair]].

* ContemplateOurNavels: Infrequently throughout the miniseries and [[spoiler: for the better part of the last issue.]]

* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Him Toymaker]]: Hoo boy. The comic synopsis for the second issue said his actual name was Jasper, one of the data files Mr. Moth brings up in the fourth issue has his name as [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Chris Toymakeras"]]. [[spoiler: The final page of the final issue reveals his name is actually Alistar and brings up the possibility of his last name actually ''being'' Toymaker.]]

* ShoutOut: As expected with a comic based on a FallOutBoy song, there are FOB lyric references galore (most obviously to "Tiffany Blews"). Most obscure reference would have to be to their debut EP with issue 2's title: "My Evening Out with Your Girlfriend"

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Long before Fall Out Toy Works' conception, an announcement about a Fall Out Boy comic came from Del Ray Comics along with promotional art. This comic would have been a one-shot "graphic novel" with the band as characters in a fictional narrative. Sometime later, news came that the project was canned due to BongoComics (who had previously ran Radioactive Man comics featuring FallOutBoy's namesake and Simpsons side character Fallout Boy) not wanting people getting the comic based on the band mixed up with the comic based on the Simpsons character. People cried foul as Bongo had never released any actual Fallout Boy comics, nobody involved with the production of TheSimpsons or related spinoffs had any legal issues with FallOutBoy up to that point, and while "Fallout Boy" is copyrighted to Matt Groening, "Fall Out Boy" has been copyrighted to the band since its inception. Phew! Turns out the ''real;; reason was that FallOutBoy hadn't actually approved Del Ray's concept but Del Ray had gone through with announcing it anyways. Del Ray countered, claiming FallOutBoy hadn't said anything about rejecting it. Either way, it's not happening.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before Fall Out Toy Works' release, an announcement about a Fall Out Boy comic came from Del Ray Comics along with promo art. This comic would have been a one-shot "graphic novel" with the band as characters in a fictional narrative. Sometime later, the project was canned due to BongoComics, which had previously ran Radioactive Man comics featuring on FallOutBoy's namesake and Simpsons side character Fallout Boy, not wanting people getting the comic based on the band mixed up with the comic based on the character. People cried foul as not only has Bongo not released any comics based primarily on the Fallout Boy character, nobody involved with the production of TheSimpsons or related spinoffs had any legal issues with FallOutBoy up to that point, and while "Fallout Boy" is copyrighted to Matt Groening, "Fall Out Boy" has been to the band since its inception. Phew! Turns out the real reason was that FallOutBoy had actually not approved Del Ray's concept but Del Ray had gone through with announcing it anyways. Del Ray claimed that FallOutBoy hadn't said anything about disapproving it. Either way, it's never going to happen.
** Turns out the Del Ray pitch wasn't the only time FallOutBoy had been approached with a comic deal that they rejected.

* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Tiffany and Mr. <oth are somewhere between grade 3 and 4, Crybaby and some of Baron's suitwearing MechaMooks are grade 3, and the rest of Toymaker's creations and Barons MechaMooks are grade 1.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Shown and lampshaded in issue 4 of ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'' with Tiffany having a cooldown smoke after an argument with Baron.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Shown and lampshaded in issue 4 with Tiffany having a cooldown smoke after an argument with Baron.

* ShoutOut: As expected with a comic based on a FallOutBoy song, there are lyric references galore (most obviously to "Tiffany Blews") Most obscure reference would have to be to their debut EP with issue 2's title: "My Evening Out with Your Girlfriend"

* SlidingScaleofRobotIntelligence: Tiffany and Mr. Both are somewhere between grade 3 and 4, Crybaby and some of Baron's suitwearing MechaMooks are grade 3, and the rest of Toymaker's creations and Barons MechaMooks are grade 1.

** In issue 5, the Toymaker combines with trope with CuteMachines to storm Baron's compound.

* RobotBuddy: Now in convient cellular SnarkyNonhumanSidekick flavor, as seen with Mr. Moth.

* MechaMooks: Has several, including one he changes into a MechanicalMonster [[spoiler: in Toymaker's dream sequence in issue 3.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The art looks like something out of a Disney movie and features colorful toy robots including a teddy bear boy and a moth that doubles as a smartphone. The book waxes philosophical about the nature of romantic and platonic relationships, there's frequent cursing, and the opening of issue three [[spoiler: features Tiffany and the Toymaker having sex]] in a dream sequence.

* WhatTheHellHero: Directed by Gravity to Toymaker, accusing him of RevengeBeforeReason and disapproving of him going to all that length for Tiffany for [[{Robosexual}} less than pure intentions]].