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At the end of [[The Nineties]], [[Alan Moore]] founded America's Best Comics, an attempt to put a new twist on [[Superhero]] comics from well before [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]]. [[Tomorrow Stories]], especially so. Where [[Tom Strong]] started with mostly issue-length adventures, and [[Promethea]] had a mystical adventure arc that eventually [[Going Cosmic|went cosmic]], [[Tomorrow Stories]] was an [[Anthology Comic]] that brought back the 6-10 page stories common in [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]]. It was a superhero [[Anthology Comic]] long after the fashion had passed.
Each issue comprised four stories, with five features introduced overall. These were:
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Something of a staple in Greyshirt's [[Rogues Gallery]], most noticeably Johnny Apollo and Lapis Lazuli.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Johnny Apollo. The Lure reconstructed him using parts of itself.}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: And how!
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Ella Bly sold Franky Lafayette out to Johnny Apollo in exchange for help in launching her music career. Well, years later she's now a famous blues singer and pianist, but her face was badly burned by Johnny with an iron.
* [[Cool Big Bro]]: Greyshirt.
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* [[The Power of Love]]: The fabled Star of Indigo sapphire, a giant sapphire which has the uncanny ability of uniting a man and woman together.
* [[Punny Name]]: Vinnie Assapunto hates being the butt of jokes. Assapunto = ass + pun. Also, the title of his story is "The Butt Kicks Back", which is another rearrangement of his last name to "ass punt".
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Hit man Vinnie Assapunto goes on one after discovering that he's the butt of several jokes in Indigo City. The rampage is him tracing the jokes back to their original source, knocking off everyone he questions, until he finds out the source is really his psychiatrist.
* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Lady L.
* [[Shout-Out]]: to Will Eisner's ''[[The Spirit]]''
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* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: With Greyshirt. She's the one woman he could never have, and you can probably figure out why. Well, they had ''sex'', of course, but still.
* [[Legacy Character]]: The current Cobweb is not the first.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The "Li'l Cobweb" story. Only that could be applied to half of the story, as what Li'l Cobweb believes to be a case involving Russian anarchists is really her married neighbor having an affair with a police officer. The artwork shifts from intentionally cute while focusing on Cobweb and Li'l Clarice, to more adult oriented when focusing on the neighbor.
* [[Living Doll Collector]]: Phallocrates Phlange.
* [[Lost Tribe]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Lost Housewives of New Jersey.]]
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* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Characters comment that he's got a weight problem, but he's clearly illustrated with a [[Heroic Build]]. 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.
* [[Idiot Hero]]
* [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context]]: Gerta once tried to flood the world using the genetically engineered, giant eyeballs of Gwenyth Paltrow. Why? Because she's twenty pounds overweight and will never get married.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The relationship between F.A. and U.S.Angel shifts from her being a disrespected sidekick, to her barely putting up with him.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Teen Genius]] (Actually, twelve.)
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The townspeople have come gotten used to Jack's "meddling in God's domain", but still get annoyed when it disrupts their daily life.
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=== Splash Brannigan ===
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* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: 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.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Sidney J. Kaput, Daisy's editor and the owner of Kaput Comics, once went on a rant about his carefully controlled heroin addiction, and how he once stalked Flo Steinberg and Marie Severin.
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