Tomorrow Stories
TOMORROW STORIES
THE COMPLETE ANTHOLOGY
ALAN MOORE · VARIOUS ARTISTS
America's Best Comics / WildStorm · 1999–2006
🔴 12 ORIGINAL ISSUES · 2 SPECIALS · COMPLETE
Main Collection: 2 books · 336 pages
Additional Material: 2 specials · 64 pages each
Writer: Alan Moore
Artists: Kevin Nowlan · Rick Veitch · Jim Baikie · Melinda Gebbie · Hilary Barta · Dame Darcy · Joyce Chin
Editor: Scott Dunbier
Genres: Superhero Satire · Pulp Fiction · Science Fiction · Crime Noir · Comedy · Surrealism
Publication Status: COMPLETE — Original anthology concluded.
Universe: America's Best Comics (ABC)
📖 ABOUT THE SERIES
Tomorrow Stories is an award-winning comic book anthology created by Alan Moore for his America's Best Comics imprint.
Inspired by the classic American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, the series combines absurd science fiction, superhero parody, detective mysteries, surreal comedy, and experimental visual storytelling.
Rather than following a single narrative, each issue presents several independent short stories featuring recurring characters, with each character developed by Moore in collaboration with a different artist.
The anthology received the 2000 Eisner Award for Best Anthology and became one of the most playful and inventive publications in Moore's America's Best Comics line.
🎭 THE FIVE ORIGINAL FEATURES
JACK B. QUICK
Alan Moore · Kevin Nowlan
A brilliant but dangerously irresponsible young scientist living in the quiet rural town of Queerwater, Kansas.
Jack's bizarre inventions and experiments turn ordinary scientific principles into absurd disasters, often threatening his family, neighbors, and the laws of physics themselves.
Genre: Absurdist Science Fiction · Comedy
GREYSHIRT
Alan Moore · Rick Veitch
A mysterious masked crimefighter operating in the noir-inspired streets of Indigo City.
Drawing inspiration from Will Eisner's The Spirit, these stories explore crime, corruption, secret identities, and urban mythology through inventive visual compositions.
Genre: Crime Noir · Pulp Detective Fiction
THE FIRST AMERICAN & U.S.ANGEL
Alan Moore · Jim Baikie
An outrageous parody of patriotic American superheroes and the excesses of popular culture.
The First American and his partner U.S.Angel stumble through ridiculous adventures involving celebrity culture, political absurdities, consumerism, and superhero conventions.
Genre: Superhero Satire · Social Comedy
THE COBWEB
Alan Moore · Melinda Gebbie and guest artists
A mysterious and glamorous masked adventurer whose stories explore sexuality, fantasy, identity, and the conventions of classic pulp heroines.
The feature blends elegant retro aesthetics with surrealism, provocative humor, and psychological themes.
Genre: Surreal Fantasy · Pulp Mystery
SPLASH BRANNIGAN
Alan Moore · Hilary Barta
A sentient mass of living ink who escapes from the world of forgotten comic book artwork.
Able to transform his body into virtually any shape, Splash creates outrageous situations involving cartoon logic, visual gags, and the very nature of comic book storytelling.
Genre: Metafiction · Cartoon Comedy · Fantasy
📚 THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
01 — TOMORROW STORIES: BOOK ONE
Original Issues #1–6 · 1999–2000
Collected Edition: 2002–2003 · 176 pages
ISBN (TPB): 9781563899850
The first six issues introduce all five recurring features and establish the anthology's distinctive mixture of pulp adventure, scientific absurdity, superhero parody, and experimental comics.
Featured characters:
- Jack B. Quick
- Greyshirt
- The First American & U.S.Angel
- The Cobweb
- Splash Brannigan (introduced in #6)
02 — TOMORROW STORIES: BOOK TWO
Original Issues #7–12 · 2000–2002
Collected Edition: 2004–2005 · 160 pages
ISBN (TPB): 9781401201661
The final six issues continue the adventures of the anthology's recurring characters.
Moore and his artistic collaborators expand their experiments with narrative structure, visual composition, genre parody, and self-referential comedy.
The collection concludes the original twelve-issue publication.
✅ END OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES
03 — TOMORROW STORIES SPECIAL
2005–2006 · 2 Issues · 64 pages each
Writers: Alan Moore · Steve Moore
Two additional anthology issues featuring new stories and appearances by several original characters.
SPECIAL #1 — November 2005
Features:
- Jack B. Quick — I, Robert
- Splash Brannigan — The Big Seep
- The Cobweb — Doom Date of the Dusk Duo!
- Greyshirt — A Greyshirt Primer
- Jonni Future / Jack O'Nines
SPECIAL #2 — March 2006
Features:
- America's Best — The Lethal Luck of the Magister Ludi!!
- The First American & U.S.Angel
- Jonni Future
- Little Margie / Promethea
Collection Note: These specials are NOT included in Tomorrow Stories Book One or Book Two.
They contain additional material and should be retained separately.
🕵️ MAJOR SPIN-OFF
04 — GREYSHIRT: INDIGO SUNSET
2001–2002 · 6 Issues
Writer & Main Artist: Rick Veitch
Collected Edition: 2002–2003 · 168 pages
ISBN: 9781563899096
A six-issue spin-off focusing on Johnny Apollo, the mysterious Greyshirt, and the criminal history of Indigo City.
The story explores Johnny's childhood friendship with Franky Lafayette, their involvement in organized crime, and the events leading to his transformation into a masked vigilante.
Its innovative presentation includes fictional newspaper material, period-inspired artwork, and stories set during different stages of Greyshirt's life.
Status: COMPLETE
Collection Note: Not included in either Tomorrow Stories collected volume.
Recommended: A worthwhile additional collection for readers interested in the full history of the anthology's characters.
📦 COLLECTED EDITIONS
TOMORROW STORIES — BOOK ONE
176 pages · Issues #1–6
TOMORROW STORIES — BOOK TWO
160 pages · Issues #7–12
Together, these two books reproduce the entire original twelve-issue anthology.
TOMORROW STORIES SPECIAL
2 separate issues · 2005–2006
Additional stories published after the conclusion of the original series.
No verified dedicated collected edition containing both specials.
GREYSHIRT: INDIGO SUNSET
168 pages · Issues #1–6
Complete collected edition of the major Greyshirt spin-off.
🔗 CONTINUITY & RELATED WORKS
Parent Imprint: America's Best Comics (ABC)
Related Series:
- Tom Strong
- Promethea
- Top 10
- Tom Strong's Terrific Tales
These share the broader ABC publishing setting and occasionally feature crossover connections, but they are not required to understand the anthology.
Optional Additional Material:
America's Best Comics 64-Page Giant (2001) includes short stories featuring several Tomorrow Stories characters.
These stories were subsequently collected in America's Best Comics (2004).
A separate unpublished-at-the-time Cobweb story was later released in altered form as La Toile in Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions (2003).
Neither is essential to the main collection.
✅ COLLECTION SUMMARY
Original Publication: 1999–2002
Original Issues: 12
Additional Specials: 2
Main Collected Volumes: 2
Main Collection Length: 336 pages
Major Spin-offs: 1 — Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
Recommended Reading Order:
01 · Tomorrow Stories: Book One
02 · Tomorrow Stories: Book Two
03 · Tomorrow Stories Special #1–2
Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset can be read separately after becoming familiar with the original Greyshirt stories.
Original Series Status: COMPLETE
Last Additional Specials: 2005–2006
Recommended Collection: Book One + Book Two + Special #1–2
Optional Expansion: Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
Official Publisher:
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