Tomorrow Stories #4

The cover of Tomorrow Stories #4 (January 2000) throws a wonderfully chaotic protest scene right in your face — crowds waving signs, the First American and U.S. Angel caught mid-smooch in the foreground, a top-hatted figure gesturing dramatically, and even what appears to be a Frankenstein-esque figure clutching a "bare bag" at the edge of the crowd. Jim Baikie's cover art cheekily frames all four anthology features — The First American and U.S. Angel, Cobweb, Greyshirt, and Jack B. Quick — as targets of public outrage, turning the table of contents itself into a gag. Alan Moore's America's Best Comics anthology was clearly having a lot of fun with superhero satire in 2000, and this issue looks like a prime example of that irreverent spirit.