Tomorrow Stories #5

[laughing_tree]

With Cobweb, I've always thought characters like the Phantom Lady, the "glamour heroines," who really have no purpose other than to stand around in a skimpy costume looking glamorous. That was the reason why everybody bought those books. But at the same time... maybe because it was sort of a sexist '50s thing that has vanished with modern sensibilities, I miss that relatively innocent camp glamour girl of the '50s. Especially when you compare that kind of Vargas figure, with the sort of c*m-spattered porn starlet we have today. I thought that there was a charming innocence in it. - Alan Moore

Greyshirt in "Dr. Crescendo!" -







The Cobweb in "La Toile dans le Chateau des Larmes" -









The First American and U.S.Angel in "A Christmas Cop-Out" -

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[alicemacher]

Moore would later use "La Toile" as a substitute name for Cobweb when DC, despite its promise upon acquisition of Wildstorm not to interfere with its ABC titles, did just that with a piece Moore had intended for Tomorrow Stories. DC forbade the publication of "Brighter Than You Think," a Cobweb-narrated biography of rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, because it mentioned Parsons's longtime occult associate L. Ron Hubbard. It seems DC's legal department feared a lawsuit from the organization Hubbard founded.

Top Shelf subsequently agreed to publish "Brighter Than You Think" in its anthology Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions. To avoid copyright issues, Moore slightly altered Cobweb's costume and renamed her La Toile.