Blue Yonder

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Blue Yonder is a Superhero Web Comic about Jared Davenport, Blue Yonder. In the prologue, he and his sister, Maiden Flight, are fleeing their enemies; in flashbacks, it is revealed that their parents, the rest of their superhero team, were taken out by the Cape Busters following them.

Then the sister sacrifices herself to allow Jared's escape, and he ends up at Claremont Apartments, a place on the Wrong Side of the Tracks and filled with washed-up "capes". Yuri, their leader, tries to talk some sense into him, but Jared, suffering from unusually realistic post-traumatic stress, is bent on finding his family.

Starts here.

Tropes used in Blue Yonder include:

• After-Action Patchup: Lena treats Kevin's injuries after they defeat some enemies.
• Bad Dreams: Jared has them. Apparently Yuri, too.
• The Bait: Jared's plan for getting his family
• Bigger on the Inside: Jared thinks this would help make the apartments a proper base, but it doesn't have it.
• Bottled Heroic Resolve: When Jared is delirious, the hero who found him gave him a shot to get him going.
• Cape Busters: In pursuit.
• Cat Scare: Lena scares off some attackers with a cell phone.
• The Cavalry
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: And the first Cavalry rags on them for it.
• Chiaroscuro: Many of the apartment scenes.
• Close-Knit Community: Claremont Apartments
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot
• Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday: Jared is 16 when the Cape Busters come.
• Dark and Troubled Past: a former cop, thrown off the force
• Differently-Powered Individual: "Capes"
• Dude in Distress: Jared admits to being this in the past.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Yuri—after losing his wife, he works himself into the ground all day and drinks himself into a stupor at night.
• Famed in Story: The capes at the apartments recognize Jared.
• Flashback Cut: Many, mostly Jared having actual Flashbacks
• Glowing Eyes: Jared
• Happily Married: His parents, apparently.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Lena faces Kevin down over his claim.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Maiden Flight
• Heroic BSOD: Unusually realistic.
• Home Base
• Jurisdiction Friction: Two sets of capes are annoyed that the other came to help Jared.
• Leave No Witnesses: Catch the capes, kill the civilians.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: See Cat Scare
• Love Triangle: Kevin thinks he's in one with Lena (who's not his girlfriend) and Jared (whose attention is wholly on his family).
• The Medic: Someone in the apartments looks after the seriously injured Jared
• Missing Mom: Lena's mother is dead.
• Mugging the Monster: Implied in the Backstory: thugs flee a little old lady who lives there.
• Odd-Shaped Panel: Superimposed mostly
• Ordered Apology: Lena demands that Kevin apologize to Jared.
• Parental Abandonment: Both his parents have vanished in the backstory.
• Pietà Plagiarism: Jared is unconscious and so carried into the apartments.
• Place Worse Than Death: Edinburgh
• The Promise: Jared, semi-conscious, is told they will go after his family; he asks for, and gets a promise.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Romantic False Lead: Kevin thinks Jared is this because he does not realize that he is not her boyfriend.
• Shout-Out
• Single Tear: Jared over his family
• So Proud of You: One flashback shows Jared getting this from his father.
• Speech Bubbles: One Cape Buster talks in odd colors
• Superhero
• Super Human Trafficking: The Cape Busters' purpose
• Super Speed: Kevin
• Taking the Bullet: Accidental effect of trying to knock him out of the way.
• Talking in Your Sleep: Yuri
• Teleporters and Transporters: How to deal with a fighter jet.
• Wrench Wench: Lena
• Wretched Hive: Jared is convinced it must be this.
• Written Sound Effect
• Wrong Side of the Tracks: the neighborhood