Tomorrow Stories #3 is an issue of the series Tomorrow Stories (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1999.
Synopsis for "Pet Theory"
Mrs. Quick was looking for the family cat, while Jack was performing an experiment on it.
Sometime before, Jack's parents gave him a pet cat after he used their dual-purpose grain/missile silo to launch a nuclear strike on their hen-coop. Jack named the cat Spark-plug. Jack's father told him not to experiment on Spark-plug, before the boy ran off with the cat to play. He was stopped by Mr. Johannasen, who revealed that the incident had caused his pigs to walk on two hooves and hold farming tools.
Then, he went to Murk's Dairy in Queerwater Creek, where he borrowed butter from Mr. Murk and rubbed it on Spark-plug, in an attempt to stop the cat from landing. However, Spark-plug began to fly in the air. Jack decided to rush to his home and clone Spark-plug. He went to his bathroom and used ingredients in toilet cleaner, aspirin, and his father's hermorrhoid ointment to clone Spark-plug, but used too much ointment and cloned many cats. Jack tried to sneak the clones outside of his window and saw Mr. Johannasen's pigs chanting and revolting against him.
After returning to Murk's Dairy, he borrowed more butter and used it to send all cats but one flying, taking the last one to his parents. He found his parents being held at gunpoint by Mr. Johannasen's pigs, then confessed that he had lost the original Spark-plug and cloned him. Jack's father knew that cats were tidy creatures and would lick the butter off of themselves. Moments later, cats fell from the sky onto the pigs. However, Spark-plug went to live with Old Man Schrodinger and was never seen again.
Appearing in "Pet Theory"
Featured Characters:
- Jack B. Quick
Supporting Characters:
- Mr. and Mrs. Quick
- Officer Pete
Antagonists:
- Mr. Johannasen's pigs
Other Characters:
- Mr. Johannasen
- Mr. Murk
- Old Man Schrodinger (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-ABC
- Queerwater Creek
- Murk's Dairy
- Queerwater Creek
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Eurydice: A Retrospective"
Eurydice Tollemand moved through the Indigo City sewers with mob money stuffed in her blouse and in a suitcase. When she realized that Cobweb was tailing her, she hit her pursuer with the briefcase, knocking her into water. After climbing back up, she found a frightened Eurydice talking to two gangsters. The gangsters opened fire on Eurydice, but Cobweb intervened and saved her, taking her underwater and they were carried away by a current. After surfacing again, the two shared a kiss and Cobweb revealed that she came to warn her about her boyfriend Marcello and not to arrest her. When Cobweb made their way up to daylight, she realized that Eurydice had disappeared.
Appearing in "Eurydice: A Retrospective"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Eurydice Tollemand
Antagonists:
- Marcello Torrio (Behind the scenes)
- Gangsters
Other Characters:
- Greyshirt (Mentioned only)
- Clarice Lakeland (Mentioned only)
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Peril of the Pediatric Perpetrators"
The First American went undercover in a juvenile detention center, as he was monitored by guards and U.S. Angel. The juveniles were released and afterwards, they bought guns and visited Don Tubbi.
Don Tubbi told their leader, Jimmy "The Bedwetter" Mulligan, that his first grade teacher Miss Finkelbaum hung his finger painting at the back of the class. The First American and the juveniles subsequently bursted into Miss Finkelbaum's classroom. However, she was ready for them and she defeated them with dust from chalkboard erasers.
Then, the First American revealed himself to be an adult and fought over a gun with Jimmy. The First American threw a tantrum, insisting that his codename should be Mr. Rubber, instead of Mr. Glue, then passed out. U.S. Angel and guards arrived to arrest the juveniles.
The First American woke up in a hospital bed, next to U.S. Angel. Meanwhile, a fetus named Duane was holding his oviparous twin Davinia hostage.
Appearing in "The Peril of the Pediatric Perpetrators"
Featured Characters:
- The First American
- U.S. Angel
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Juveniles
- Jimmy "The Bedwetter" Mulligan
- Miss Finkelbaum
Other Characters:
- Don Tubbi
- Joey Bazookas
- Duane
- Davinia
- Don Tubbi's mother (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-ABC
- Guns 'r' Us
- Macbeth
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Making of Greyshirt"
Franky Lafayette tipped off Captain Dan O' Riordhan and the I.P.D. to their location after his partner Johnny Apollo had betrayed him for sapphires. As the I.P.D. had them surrounded, Johnny shot at Franky, then turned on his lighter to see his former partner, but accidentally caused an explosion, as they were next to a fuel depot. The police believed the two to be dead.
However, Franky woke up in the hovel of Rockefeller Patel, who had saved him from the rubble. Franky decided to take advantage of the police believing he was dead and become the science hero Greyshirt. Stories of him were written in newspapers, as some criminals dismissed them as "baloney", only for Greyshirt to appear before them.
Appearing in "The Making of Greyshirt"
Featured Characters:
- Greyshirt (Origin)
Supporting Characters:
- Rockefeller Patel
Antagonists:
- Johnny Apollo
- Devil-cultists (In picture only)
- Dr. Heinrich Claw (In picture only)
- Ourang-atons (In picture only)
- Lapis Lazuli (In picture only)
Other Characters:
- Captain Dan O'Riordhan
- Pandora Siam (In picture only)
- Baby Einstein (In picture only)
- Skeeter Backenbeater (Mentioned only)
- Ricardo Veitichello (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-ABC
- Indigo City
- Rhajipur
Items:
- Devil Diamond of Rhajipur
Vehicles:
Trivia
- The restaurant that the First American and the juveniles visited Don Tubbi in "The Peril of the Pediatric Perpetrators", "Macbeth" is a pastiche of McDonald's.
- The name of the photographer for the article "Greyshirt: Mystery Man Makes News", "Ricardo Veitichello", is based on Rick Veitch's name.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Top 10 Recommended Reading
- America's Best Comics Recommended Reading
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume 1)
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume 2)
- Promethea (Volume 1)
- Smax (Volume 1)
- Terra Obscura (Volume 1)
- Terra Obscura (Volume 2)
- Tom Strong (Volume 1)
- Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (Volume 1)
- Tomorrow Stories (Volume 1)
- Top 10 (Volume 1)
- Top 10 Season Two (Volume 1)
- Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct (Volume 1)