The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks (The Alan Moore Collection) Paperback – November 15, 2011

Enjoyed most of the stories. Some of them are kind of meh, but the overall quality of the book is good. Really brings into focus how to tell a satisfying story in a tight space.

I started reading comics in the UK when I was about 9 yrs old. At first it was marvel reprints, then 2000AD came out in the mid 70's and everything changed. Every week, pure thrillpower would beam into my brain. The stories were variable, the art wide ranging in talent, but it was a breeding ground for some of the very best the industry has to offer. Alan Moore, what can I say? The man has produced incredible work that stays with me. I bought this hoping to revisit my youth, and was astonished at what I had forgotten, how much of the pithy shorter tales in 2000AD were from his pen. Receiving this volume was like owning a time machine back to my more naive days. The stories may be simple, or based on old canards in some cases, but the execution is fun, and shows a side of Alan Moore that many may think difficult to find. The man has a great sense of humor! I cherished re-reading the Abelard Snazz stories, I had flashbacks to more innocent times with the time twisters tales. Reading these stories dredged up forgotten memories from the depths of my brain. It was like a 30th years reunion with my own past. I loved it.Best of all, this is Alan Moore I can share with my nine year old, he can read them, and appreciate the stories as I did.This was a great buy.

This book, like most of the really early Alan Moore material, is for a Moore completest... Most of it is not up to par with Moore's Swampthing or later material. However, you do get to see the beginnings of his genius.Most of the material is sort of tedious (by modern standards), but every now and again a story will stand out (mostly in the middle of the book - the reverse time material).If you want great Moore material go for his run on Swampthing, Promethia, From Hell, Miracleman, Neonomicon, or The Watchmen... If you want to see early Moore then this is an OK source, but I think Halo Jones would still be better.

Not much to say. Monty Python meets Twilight Zone and Buck Rogers? Kind of like that and every bit as fun and ridiculous. Highly recommended.

enjoyable comic style .black and white. short sci fi stories with dark an sometimes humourous twist. light reading. in the vain of 2000ad

These days we think of Alan Moore as a master of the long form comic book. Back before his big break into the US market with Swamp Thing, however, Moore cut his professional teeth on the short, short story in the pages of 2000 AD. Each story in this collection is from that era and each story is an invention of economy and wit Tomorrow Stories and, in a way, his latest opus, Lost Girls, is a return to form. If black and white eight page one-shots are for you, it doesn't get any better than this collection!Here's the (incomplete, I believe) listing of artists from the inside cover. Mike White, John Cooper, Paul Neary, Ian Gibson, Brendan McCarthy, John Higgins, Gary Leach, Ron Tiner, Jose Casanovas, Eric Bradbury, Dave Gibbons, Jesus Redondo, Robin Smith, Alan Langford, Jim Eldridge, Alan Davis, Steve Dillon, Boluda, and Bryan Talbot.Note: This does seem to combine the two hard to find (I never found 'em) Titan collections (Twisted Tales and Shocking Futures) into one volume.

Terrible considering Alan Moore wrote

Get it from the library instead.

Future shocks takes me right back to the good old days, absolutely love it.

Unfortunately I was out of the country, and probably a bit too young, to read these the first time round. I'm aware of Alan Moore and his many works but haven't read most of them. I'm also aware of 2000AD but had never read an issue before the free comic book day 2012 issue. That's where I read my first Future Shock and I loved it.Coming across this book on Amazon the combination of Alan Moore and Future Shocks was too much to resist. I'm glad I didn't as the stories are really well written, a little bit dark and often funny. There are loads of good stories but "Last Rumble of the Platinum Horde", "Skirmish" and "The Wages of Sin" where an out of work repairman retrains as an evil galactic tyrant deserve special mention. If you like Alan Moore, Future Shocks or Twilight Zone style dark humour I'd recommend you buy this book.

Enjoyable slice of nostalgia.

For me this is all our yesterdays - before the name Alan Moore was of significance. I just absorbed all of the familiar sights and sounds of my 2000 A.D. youth - and recognised a few story lines I have come back to see elsewhere.I don't know if it's an essential look at the author's early work or a key stone to any Moore collection, but it is fun with some great and some quaint and cheesy old sci-fi stories.

I have purchased graphic novels before for my kindle and they worke great, this however was a different story. Very lazy whoever transferred it over to the kindle. Even with my reading glasses on I couldnt make out the words, just too small and too much hassle to click each box.So I dropped 2 stars off for that, I know the stories from old and they are great, how I wish they had been transferred correctly then a new generation could enjoy them, as it is a missed opportunity by the publisher. It has stopped me purchasing other 200ad products for my kindle,