History Comicbook / TomorrowStories

At the end of TheNineties, Creator/AlanMoore founded Creator/AmericasBestComics, an attempt to put a new twist on {{superhero}} comics from well before UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. ''Tomorrow Stories'', especially so. Where ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' started with mostly issue-length adventures, and ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' had a mystical adventure arc that eventually [[GoingCosmic went cosmic]], ''Tomorrow Stories'' was an AnthologyComic that brought back the 6-10 page stories common in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks. It was a superhero AnthologyComic long after the fashion had passed.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Andy Savannah in ''Indigo Sunset'' is clearly based on Roy Lichtenstein, the "pop artist" who painted blown up comic book panels without sharing the profits with, or even crediting, the original artists.

* DeathEqualsRedemption: Cobweb's ancestor La Toile [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascends to heaven]] after becoming bored with the debauchery of the underworld and realizing that life is meaningless. [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or something.]]

* StableTimeLoop: Temple Tempus discovers an experimental time machine while running from Greyshirt, and shoots dead a man who tries to stop him, barely looking in his direction and assuming it was the lab's night watchman. He travels to the future, but finds that by 2035 the entire police force has been replaced by robots modeled on Greyshirt. He goes back to 1999, but finds he arrived shortly ''before'' he initially traveled to the future. Naturally, he tries to stop himself... as is shot dead, assumed to be the night watchman.

* AuthorTract: Daisy goes on an in-universe rant about the superior quality of her work vs mainstream comics of the day while standing on soapbox and thumping a Bible.

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Daisy passes out from boredom listening to Splash's OriginStory and wakes up with an inky handprint on her chest, as Splash [[NotSoInnocentWhistle whistles in the background.]]

* RhymesOnADime: Splash doesn't have a catchphrase as such so much as a penchant for boastful rhyming turns of phrase (and, as mentioned, alliteration). He's energetic! He's poetic! He does this so much it's pathetic!

* DeathFakedForYou: Lapis Lazuli "put on quite a show" for the witnesses to her execution, but from the knowing smile she gave Greyshirt at her sentencing, she knew cyanide couldn't kill her. All she had to do was convulse and pound on the glass and beg for her life and finally play dead until a few hours after her burial -- she doesn't need air, either.

* DieselPunk: With the faux-interwar setting and occult elements and all. Rick Veitch has a CreatorCameo in ''ABC 64-Page Giant'' where he explains that everything runs on natural gas in Indigo City but this is mentioned ''once'' across all of Greyshirt's appearances.

* DeadAllAlong: The narrator of ''Indigo Sunset #3'', [[spoiler:Byron Lord, writer of ''Hoodlum Hit'' comics]], is revealed at the end to have been killed by a mail bomb. He's been waiting a while to tell somebody the story he heard from [[spoiler:Lips Lafayette]] immediately beforehand.

* FailOSuckyname: Daisy wonders if the name "Kaput Comics" isn't holding the company back, before learning it's the owner and editor's name.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In a story that had Splash go up against a white-colored doppelganger, after spending the entire story fighting, they dawn on an epiphany about co-operation and friendship... and then Splash disintegrates him. The moral? Don't bet on the white guy.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: This is explicitly stated as being one of the properties of Splash's four-dimensional ink body.
%% * NoFourthWall

%% * RhymesOnADime: He's energetic! He's poetic! He does this so much it's pathetic!
%% * ShoutOut: This time to ComicBook/PlasticMan.

* MatchInABombShack: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. [[MatchlightDangerRevelation The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DEPOT'.]] BOOM!

%%* CoatHatMask

%%* GrapplingHookPistol: Greyshirt's ClassyCane doubles as one.
%%* HeelFaceTurn: Integral to his SuperHeroOrigin.

%%* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DEPOT'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]]

* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).