TOMB

TOMB stands for the fictional, time-traveling adventurer team known under the name of the "Timeline Orderkeepers of the Message Boards." The first TOMB stories, like the early MBL, began on the JLA form on the old DC Comics Message Boards. It soon moved over to the Promethean City/Athanon Message Boards with the MBL and made its final bow on Rob's Damn Boards. TOMB has much in common with the MBL, including several members that were on both teams as well as a shared universe as a backdrop.

Like the MBL, TOMB began as little more than lighthearted message board banter, similar to that found in a chat room. It slowly formed into storytelling and, with new writers giving it more serious direction, became a series of mostly well-written stories. It also developed its own mythos, separate from the MBL, being based in the tiny, fictional European country of Mandelovia.

In a later story by writer Prometheus called "Heroes and Legends," he made the TOMB acronym more realistic, in order to fit the realistic tone of the later stories. TOMB now stands for the "Temporal Orderkeepers of the Multiverse Barriers."

This site will archive edited and/or rewritten versions of all the TOMB stories in chronological order. In many cases, especially for the later ones, the stories will need little editing. In other cases, scenes will need to be expanded, written, or cut in order to improve the quality of the story. So far, there are several in progress:

• • TOMB #01: Temporal Orderkeepers of the Multiverse Barriers (unedited)

  • TOMB #02: Time Bombs (unedited)

  • TOMB #03: Chew-Two and Beyond (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #04: Changes (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #05: Rhymer's Tale (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #06: The Next Chapter (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #07: The Hunt for Anninistrio'r (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #08: Malvana's Song (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #09: Return to Mandelovia (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #10: Conquest and Tragedy (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #11: Finale of the X (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #12: Under the Twelve-Star Flag (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #13: Journeys of the Heart (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #14: The Quest for Grynterne, Matter-Beamer 1011 (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #15: Return to X (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #15.5: A Very Time Trusty Christmas Special (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #16: Walrus Reborn (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #17: Rusty Visions (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #18: The Death of Lance (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #19: Fin-de-Siecle (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #20: One Sunny Day in Mandelovia (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #21: TOMB Forever (not yet archived)

  • TOMB #22: Out of Time (not yet archived)

  • MBL/TOMB/JAMB: Last Days of a Multiverse (not yet archived)

  • Vanguard #11.5: Heroes and Legends (not yet archived)