History Comicbook / TomorrowStories

* AscendedExtra: Nearly every supposedly one-shot character from the Tomorrow Stories Greyshirt segments reappear in ''Indigo Sunset'', either for a cameo or revealed to have been more ingrained in Greyshirt's life than previously alluded.

* CoolBigBro: Greyshirt.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Averted and subverted. The covers of ''Indigo Sunset'' feature stories that, while they aren't the main focus of the issue, are featured as newspaper stories in the back. This is keeping in the theme that the title ''Indigo Sunset'' is the name of the Indigo City newspaper.
* DatingCatwoman: With psychotic serial killer Lapis Lazuli.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Spats Katz' longtime moll Candy sincerely repents in prison just before her execution. [[spoiler: An explosion in the prison allows her to escape, although it's implied that the district attorney, an old childhood friend of both Candy and Greyshirt, purposefully turned a blind eye to her escape.]]

* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Lapis Lazuli originally designed a ray that turned anything into sapphire. It accidentally hit her and turned her skin diamond hard and blue. It also gave her a form of immortality.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: People commented that his alter ego, Franky Lafayette, wasn't so much a bad guy as someone who was in for the adventure. Not like his former partner and friend, Johnny Apollo, who was a sociopathic nut.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Ella Bly, so-called "whore with a heart of gold". She actually sold Franky Lafayette out to Johnny Apollo in exchange for a start on her singing career, but upon realizing that Franky is the only man who has ever treated her decently informs him that Johnny is on his way. Franky escapes in time, but for her trouble Ella has her face disfigured with an iron by Johnny. On his part, Greyshirt has implied that he doesn't hold it against Ella.
* InsufferableGenius: Artist Andy Savannah, who made a living simply copying panels from ''Hoodlum Hits'', the comic that was about Franky Lafayette and Johnny Apollo.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Lips, Candy, and Ella.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ella Bly selling Franky Lafayette out.
* NoodleIncident: Greyshirt's adventure with Pandora Siam is one of the few exploits of his career that's never been fully explored upon.

* PetTheDog: Despite being a generally malicious and monstrous gangster, Spats Katz, in ''Indigo Sunset'', pushes his moll Candy out of the way of Johnny Apollo's car, crippling him for life.
* ThePowerOfLove: The fabled Star of Indigo sapphire, a giant sapphire which has the uncanny ability of uniting a man and woman together.

* SpinOff: Was the only character from ''Tomorrow Stories'' to receive his own spin-off miniseries, which not only incorporated everything from the previous stories but further expanded his backstory.

* AnythingThatMoves

* MultipleChoicePast
** AllThereInTheManual: ''ABC A-Z'' #2 revealed that the other incarnations of Cobweb and Clarice that have appeared in the 19th Century, the 1940s and 1960s were the ancestors of the current Cobweb and Clarice. It also revealed that the Cobweb of the 1940s was in fact the first heroic one, as all the previous ones were all debased and evil. Okay granted, Cobweb is still a bit debased.
* RoguesGallery: Money Spider, the Lost Housewives of New Jersey, Little Bo Peep, Dr. Phallocrates Phlange, and the Mongoose.

* WriterRevolt: While nothing confirmed, Melinda Gebbie stopped doing the artwork for Cobweb after issue seven. The story after that would've been the aforementioned Scientology story.

* Greyshirt: A former low-level gangster with an armored shirt, a {{badass}} kerchief, and a cool cane.

* ChurchOfHappyology: A story about Scientology got [[ExecutiveMeddling eighty-sixed]] by parent corp DCComics, much to Moore's displeasure.

* CassandraTruth: The first issue had Gerta trying to destroy the world because of a Jerry Springer-esque T.V. show, thinking the world deserves to be put out of it's misery. By the end of the story, F.A. and U.S.Angel concede that she may have had a point, as the show host is actually the front man for an alien invasion, only the audience actually ''sides'' with him when the truth comes out.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: F.A. marries a woman named "Blonde Woman", who's later referred to as "Blonde Transsexual" after she divorces him and has a sex change. Although their kids say her name's not Stella.

* YaoiFangirl: His sidekick U.S.Angel enjoys writing ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' slash fiction.

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 ''{{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.

* DelicousFruitPies: As might be expected, First American included a parody of these ads.

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 ''{{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 TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks. It was a superhero AnthologyComic long after the fashion had passed.

At the end of TheNineties, Creator/AlanMoore founded Creator/AmericasBestComics, an attempt to put a new twist on {{superhero}} comics from well before TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. ''Tomorrow Stories'', especially so. Where ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' started with mostly issue-length adventures, and ''{{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 TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks. It was a superhero AnthologyComic long after the fashion had passed.

* ShoutOut: The story featuring Cobweb investigating a disappearnce in the fairy tale community seems to be one to ''{{Fables}}''. Or a TakeThat, depending on your perspective.

* ShoutOut: This time to PlasticMan

* PaintingTheMedium: The word "Greyshirt" would always appear among the scenery, because this feature was an homage to ''TheSpirit''

* ShoutOut: to Will Eisner's ''TheSpirit''

At the end of TheNineties, Creator/AlanMoore founded AmericasBestComics, an attempt to put a new twist on {{superhero}} comics from well before TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. ''Tomorrow Stories'', especially so. Where ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' started with mostly issue-length adventures, and ''{{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 TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks. It was a superhero AnthologyComic long after the fashion had passed.

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* LegacyCharacter: A story in ''America's Best Comics 80 Page Giant'') reveals that First American is the descendent of the First First American, who first came up with the idea of fighting crime in a costume with a funny name ([[RunningGag he had the funny name, not the costume]]). U.S.Angel quickly points out that this [[NoContinuity completely contradicts his established origin]].

* BlackComedy: He fails to notice that his cheerful meddling in {{things man was not meant to know}} drives his [[AmericanGothicCouple simple farming parents]] into depression and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. This is pretty much in the background.

* TeenGenius (Actually, twelve.)

* PaintingTheFourthWall: The word "Greyshirt" would always appear among the scenery, because this feature was an homage to ''TheSpirit''

* Jack B. Quick: A boy scientist given to experiments like putting buttered toast on a cat's back. (You see, toast always lands butter-side down, and cat's always land on their feet.)

* YouAreFat: Cobweb, after killing the Mongoose and his captive Astounding Woman by setting his hideout on fire, tells the press that she "was probably too fat to escape in time".

* HeroicSociopath: Cobweb. She discovers that her enemy the Weasel has come back from the dead (again) but has kidnapped ''another'' superheroine. Cobweb's response was to burn the building down with the two of them still in it.

* RoguesGallery: Money Spider, the Lost Housewives of New Jersey, Little Bo Peep, Dr. Phallocrates Phlange, and the Weasel.

* TooKinkyToTorture: If anything, her internal monologues while battling the Weasel reveal this. But Cobweb's very good at pretending otherwise.

* WomanScorned: Her so-called "relationship" with the Weasel ends this way.

* YouAreFat: Cobweb, after killing the Weasel and his captive Astounding Woman by setting his hideout on fire, tells the press that she "was probably too fat to escape in time".

* TooGoodToLast: Only twelve issues plus a couple of ABC (America's Best Comics) specials.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Specifically the story about Cobweb's ancestor, La Toile.
** That was a {{Homage}} to the real "collage novels" of the German surrealist Max Ernst.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The story about Future Cobweb and Future Clarice, even by Alan Moore's standards.

* DesignatedHero

* HollywoodPudgy: Characters comment that he's got a weight problem, but he's clearly illustrated with a HeroicBuild. However, in the ABC 80-Page Giant, one of the fake ads featured a superhero girdle meant to fake six-pack abs, with F.A. as the model. And on the cover of the first trade, Kevin Nowlan clearly drew him with a beer gut.

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