Greyshirt
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Greyshirt is a comic book character in Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, published by Wildstorm (a subsidiary of DC Comics), under the America's Best Comics imprint. The character was co-created by Moore and Rick Veitch. The character is a pastiche of Will Eisner's The Spirit.
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Publication History
Greyshirt originally appeared in Tomorrow Stories (1999), each issue consisting of a collection of short stories featuring a recurring cast of characters. These characters, like Greyshirt, were often inspired by pulp magazine and comic book archetypes, such as the boy genius and the masked detective. As such, Greyshirt's stories often showcased Alan Moore's take on the detective stories of such characters as The Spirit.
Greyshirt later appeared in Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset, a comic-book limited series and spin-off from Tomorrow Stories that was written and drawn by Veitch. The series explored the origins of the character, as well as showcasing contributions from Russ Heath, Al Williamson, David Lloyd, John Severin, Dave Gibbons, Frank Cho and Hilary Barta. The mini-series ran for six issues and has since been collected into a trade paperback.
Each issue was broken into four parts. On the inverse side of the cover, there would be a black-and-white "One-Pager." The comic then continued with "Young Greyshirt," which explored the character's life before Tomorrow Stories, and "Greyshirt," which featured short stories similar to those seen in Tomorrow Stories. The issue would conclude with "Indigo City Sunset," consisting of Indigo City's newspaper, featuring articles, comic strips, letters to the editor, ads and so on.
Character history
Eary Life
Franky Laffayette, the son of "Lips" Laffayette, was a young criminal in the "bottoms up" section of Indigo City. He and his best friend, Johnny Apollo, worked for a gangster named Carmine Carbone (who, unbeknownst to Franky, is his father). Franky and Johnny Apollo grew from young six year old boy playing with a stolen gun to young high school delinquents, selling tijuana bibles and stolen fireworks At one time Franke and Plato Plutarch a high school hounor student, worked to save Candice "Candi" Lovelace and go head to head with Stats Katz, at this time Plato call in a couple favors and give Franky a chainmail Greyshirt. As full-fledged gangsters, the team-up inspired a long running comic book series named "Hoodlum Hit", . However, their partnership collapsed when Johnny engineered an explosion that disfigured Franky's face and would've killed him had he not been saved by Rockefeller Patel, "The Buddha of Indigo City" a deeply spiritua nepalese monk with a keen sense of service and sacifice, lived under the old Indigo City Central Gas Station and the tunnels under the city.
Greyshirt
After recovering for two weeks and the cops thinking him dead, Franky decides to adopt the identity of Greyshirt, a masked private investigator, donning a red handkerchief and a chainmail shirt that protects him from blows, knife attacks, and can lessen the effect of bullets and bombs.
In addition to solving kidnappings like saving the city from "Baby Einstenin", fighting old enemies gangsters like "Chucky Frisco" and "Spats Katz", and encountering the mysterious monster named "The Lure" who lives in the jewel mines under Indigo City and stole Johnny Apollo's Soul. Greyshirt work with cops Greyshirt also has an extensive love life, having been involved with at least five women during his years as Greyshirt. A shopgirl Roseanna Creschndo who father Dr.Creachndo was his 2nd case. Explorer Pandora Siam. Singer Ella Bly who knows Franky before he became Greyshirt, Chuky give a "steam-iron facial". Lapis Lazuli a psychotic murderer and science villain. However, it was Cobweb, a woman he fell in love as a teenager well reading old Tijuana bible, who became his most significant romantic partner.