Tomorrow Stories Special #1

[laughing_tree]

Remember: There's not really a vehicle around now to carry on the innovations Eisner was reaching for. I mean, even Eisner doesn't do The Spirit anymore! There's really no vehicle around now where you can do those wildly experimental stories within that kind of framework. So that became something I enjoyed exploring, and continue to enjoy, with "Greyshirt." -- Alan Moore

Jack B. Quick in "I, Robert" -














Splash Brannigan in "The Big Seep" -













Greyshirt in "A Greyshirt Primer" -









Also, since I might as well include it here as anywhere, here's the Cobweb episode that was originally intended for TOMORROW STORIES but ultimately got pulled by DC over worry that the lawsuit-happy Church of Scientology would go after them for dissing L. Ron Hubbard. It was eventually published by Top Shelf, unchanged save for a name and palette swap for Cobweb for copyright reasons.

La Toile The Cobweb in "Brighter Than You Think" -

Comments

[alicemacher]

Brighter Than You Think became the title of a 2017 anthology collecting ten hard-to-find shorts by Moore.

[laughing_tree]

This actually reminds me of something I meant to ask about your post of "Come on Down." What's the significance of the first page you posted, with the background on the lead character's limp and the suicide jumper? I assume they're fairly relevant to rest of the story because you chose to post that page, but I'm not seeing the connection.

[alicemacher]

The limp was from polio which caused her to spend most of her childhood in hospital and thus to grow up friendless. On top of that, the jumper who nearly struck her on the way down precipitated an anxiety and depression from which she never fully recovered. Both factors made her part of the target demographic for the suicide-glorifying game show.

[laughing_tree]

Huh. That honestly sounds a little too pat for me. She experiences a traumatic incident, fair enough, but it being something as improbable as a suicidal jumper landing right in front of her? Though I haven't read the whole story so maybe it works better in context.

[crinos]

"Why look for artificial intelligence when we already have genuine stupidity?"

Truer words.

Also, my brother got me Alan Moore's Biography for Christmas, he told me he got it for me because I;m "Just like him."

I don't know whether to be flattered, insulted, horrified or to have an existential crisis.

[cygnia]

Relevant webcomic

https://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02132008.shtml