Tomorrow Stories #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis volume collects the first eight issues of the quirky anthology series from DC's America's Best Comics imprint, featuring short stories by Alan Moore and a rotating team of artists. The book gathers the adventures of four distinct features: the retro-futuristic superhero team Splash Brannigan, the surreal Greyshirt (a spiritual successor to The Spirit), the oddball romance of Cobweb, and the bizarre First American. Each story showcases Moore's signature blend of humor, satire, and genre pastiche, with art from Rick Veitch, Melinda Gebbie, Jim Baikie, and others.
"Smalltown Stardom" kicks off with a delightfully absurd premise: when Jack’s mischievous streak leads to a pig uprising, his parents try a new approach by giving him a cat—only to find their pet quickly multiplies into a flock of anti-gravity felines, their backs coated in butter and floating above the town. Alan Moore’s quirky storytelling, brought to vivid life by Kevin Nowlan’s distinctive art and coloring (with Bad@$$ on colors), turns a small-town oddity into something wonderfully surreal, all culminating in a whimsical, physics-defying showdown with the original rebellious pigs.
In a building that holds echoes of decades past, Sonny’s life unfolds across four pivotal years—1939, 1959, 1979, and 1999—each floor revealing a different chapter. When the present-day Sonny encounters Greyshirt, a moment of quiet urgency pulls him into a moment that feels both inevitable and unfamiliar.
Li'l Cobweb, a pint-sized hero with a big sense of duty, sets out to stop what she thinks is a secret anarchist scheme—only to uncover a far more ordinary, and surprisingly sticky, situation involving Li'l Clarice and a policeman. With her tiny fists and bigger imagination, she’s determined to save the day, even if the real mystery is harder to web than she expected.
In "A Brief Geography of Time," Jack B. Quick builds chrono-clogs that let him step backward through time with every stride—until one misstep sends him spiraling into limbo, where the past, present, and future blur into a single, bewildering moment.
On Christmas Eve, the First American is visited by visions of comic book history—past, present, and future—and suddenly realizes the fate of the medium rests on his shoulders. With U.S.Angel, Buckley, Pickapokit of the Wallemon, Greyshirt, Jack B. Quick, and Cobweb all caught up in the holiday chaos, one man must decide whether to rise to the occasion or take a very literal cop-out.
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↩ Reprints Tomorrow Stories #1 (1999), Tomorrow Stories #1 (1999), Tomorrow Stories #2 (1999), Tomorrow Stories #3 (1999), Tomorrow Stories #4 (2000), Tomorrow Stories #5 (2000), Tomorrow Stories #6 (2000)
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