The Complete 2000 AD By Alan Moore: Future Shocks & Other Stories

by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (Artist), Alan Davis (Artist)

Genres: Comics

256 pages, Hardcover

Published April 14, 2026

About the author

Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.

Reviews

[Oliver Bateman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mediocre early Alan Moore with mostly bad art (aside from one or two stories done by future top artists), but the EC style “twist ending” horror stories aren’t bad and show he always had the chops to write something like Tales of the Black Freighter. Abelard Snazz, the feckless “man with the multi-story mind” and the character on the cover, is pretty funny as well as a parody of some extremely unwise liberal scientist / technocrat. Not recommended, but you can see there’s something here

[Sticks Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

For my money, there are some real corkers in this volume. I was introduced to the genius of Alan Moore by way of 2000ad, as an 8 yr old in 1980. The first story I read back then was 'The Regretable Ruse of Rocket Redglare' which is a play on a washed up has been Flash Gordon type. It bowled me over. I didn't know comics could deall with these types of themes, in this way. I was later to read 'Pray for War', at the time this really confused me, why would you pray for something bad? After reading the story, it triggered a process that led me to question the whole nature of action/violence within our culture, very contemplative stuff. From that day on I was an confirmed Alan Moore devotee, either by accident or by design over time, I collected as much of his work as I could get my hands on.
This collection features some real gems; Dr Dibworthy, Old Red Eyes is Back, First of the Few and Red Planet Blues among them. The artwork is great; in a classic British Bronze comic book style - Dave Gibbons is one of my all time favourites and his artwork pops up frequently.
My only crticism of the collection is the presentation. There should have been a contents page. In the Thargs complete Future Shocks volumes 1 and 2, released a few years back, there was a detailed contents page thar was really useful.
Also there are a few introductions that appear in the earlier Titan releases of these stories from the 80's/90's that had notes on stories written by Moore himself it would have been nice to have these included - hence one star removed. Aside from that this is an excellent collection.

[Norman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loads of Alan Moore short comic stories from 2000AD gathered in one place and beautifully cleaned up art by various artists. I'm a sucker for stories like "Time Twisters" and "Future Shocks" - short tales of a few pages with a narrative that inevitably leads to a punch line. But Alan Moore is able to lead me down the path with such interest that I forget he's going to add that twist at the end. His characters' names in themselves tend to make me try to decode them. But I must say the time travel stories are brilliant. They do not just deal with the usual content of time travel stories but deal with the thorny issues which keep students up all night debating whether this is possible. The one story of a life lived backwards (think "Benjamin Button", if you are young, or Ilse Aichinger's "Story in reverse" if you've been around a while) still surprises with ideas despite being only a few pages long
A great and easy read which challenges

[Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of dozens of short, mostly black and white stories from the very beginning of Alan Moore's comics career. There are more than a few great ones in here, but the final page twist ending structure gets repetitive after reading a bunch of them in a sitting.

But they're also a fascinating look at Alan Moore as a writer before he became ALAN MOORE, WRITER OF SWAMP THING/WATCHMEN/V FOR VENDETTA/etc. It's a lot of fun to watch him learn to craft a tight comics story by doing it over and over. For those who only know Moore from his more famous major works, watching him start to become that writer adds another dimension to his body of work.

[Ray Smillie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit hit or miss but it was good to see a couple of my all time favourite Alan Moore stories in the Time Twisters section (loved this section). The Reversible Man, a tribute to the Philip K Dick classic, Counter Clock World and Chrono Cops. Chrono Cops predicting the future of an alliance between Labour and the Tories, which happened in the most recent Scottish council elections, where the two of them buddied up to stop SNP in several councils. No wonder they are both hated.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a fun series of short (usually a couple of page) sci-fi comics from the '80s. What I found most interesting was seeing the progression of Alan Moore's writing throughout the book (it isn't really until near the end that some of the stories become recognizable as a story by Moore), and also seeing early work by some of the best artists in the biz.

[Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

alan moore goated

[Colin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hit and miss, but interesting all the same.

[Gerard de Bruin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really top. Moore shows his talent but the artwork is rather primitive/lousy.