Blue Yonder is a Superhero Web Comic about Jared Davenport, Blue Yonder. In the prologue, he and his sister, Maiden Flight, are fleeing their enemies; in flashbacks, it is revealed that their parents, the rest of their superhero team, were taken out by the Cape Busters following them.
Then his sister sacrifices herself to allow Jared's escape, and he ends up at Claremont Apartments, a place on the Wrong Side of the Tracks and filled with washed-up "capes". Yuri, their leader, tries to talk some sense into him, but Jared, suffering from unusually realistic post-traumatic stress, is bent on finding his family.
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- After-Action Patch-Up: Lena treats Kevin's injuries after they defeat some enemies.
- The Bait: Jared's plan for getting his family
- Big Damn Heroes: The rescue mission from the apartments
- Bigger on the Inside: Jared thinks this would help make the apartments a proper base, but it doesn't have it.
- Bottled Heroic Resolve: When Jared is delirious, the hero who found him gave him a shot to get him going.
- Bullet Catch: One caper does this in the prologue.
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: Jared's eyes are still bright when his face is shadowed.
- Cat Scare: Lena scares off some attackers with a cell phone.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: And the first Cavalry rags on them for it.
- Chiaroscuro: Many of the apartment scenes.
- Close-Knit Community: Claremont Apartments
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: Jared is 16 when the Cape Busters come.
- Dark and Troubled Past: a former cop, thrown off the force
- Disturbed Doves: In a flashback to Jared's babyhood.
- Distressed Dude: Jared admits to being this in the past.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Yuri — after losing his wife, he works himself into the ground all day and drinks himself into a stupor at night.
- Eye Cam: When Jared comes to in the prologue.
- Famed In-Story: The capes at the apartments recognize Jared.
- Flashback Cut: Many, mostly Jared having actual Flashbacks
- Good All Along: Soft Serve turned out to be a mole for the good guys all along.
- Good Is Old-Fashioned: "outmoded concepts of morality."
- Good Parents: His parents, made clear in Flashbacks.
- Goofy Print Underwear: Worn by a caper in the prologue.
- Happy Flashback: Except for those to the final attack, all of Jared's to his family.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Lena faces Kevin down over his claim.
- I Work Alone: A villain described the Davenports as (collectively) like this.
- Jurisdiction Friction: Two sets of capes are annoyed that the other came to help Jared.
- Leave No Witnesses: Catch the capes, kill the civilians.
- Love Triangle: Kevin thinks he's in one with Lena (who's not his girlfriend) and Jared (whose attention is wholly on his family).
- Magnetic Hero: A villain describes Jared as this.
- The Medic: Someone in the apartments looks after the seriously injured Jared
- Missing Mom: Lena's mother is dead.
- Mother Goose: One villain derides Jared as "Little Boy Blue"
- Mundane Utility: The Davenports have vacationed on top of rainstorms.
- Mugging the Monster: Implied in the Backstory: thugs flee a little old lady who lives there.
- Odd-Shaped Panel: Superimposed mostly
- Ordered Apology: Lena demands that Kevin apologize to Jared.
- Parental Abandonment: Both his parents have vanished in the backstory.
- Pietà Plagiarism: Jared is unconscious and so carried into the apartments.
- The Promise: Jared, semi-conscious, is told they will go after his family; he asks for, and gets a promise.
- Romantic False Lead: Kevin thinks Jared is this because he does not realize that he is not her boyfriend.
- Single Tear: Jared over his family
- So Proud of You: One flashback shows Jared getting this from his father.
- The Spartan Way: Black Dog's training.
- Speech Bubbles: One Cape Buster talks in odd colors
- Straying Baby: In a flashback, Jared could fly while still young enough to have no sense.
- Superhuman Trafficking: The Cape Busters' purpose
- Taking the Bullet: Accidental effect of trying to knock him out of the way.
- Three-Month-Old Newborn: His mother is still in a wheelchair and complaining that the umbilical cord could have held Jared — who can sit up and fly.
- Wait Here: Maiden Flight tells this to her brother in the prologue.
- Wretched Hive: Jared is convinced it must be this.
- You Are Not Alone: Actually delivered to the villain about Jared
