British Update: Complete Future-Shocks Volume 1 and Charley’s War Volume 3
*Collected Editions: Two more from the Fleetway/IPC Archive this week: The Complete Future-Shocks Volume 1 collects the stand-alone sci-fi stories from 2000 AD weekly. These twist-ending short stories helped launch or establish the careers of many of Briitain’s leading writers and artists, including Alan Moore, Peter Milligan, Steve Moore, Brian Bolland, Kevin O’Neill and Brett Ewins. This initial softcover collects all the Future-Shocks from 1977 to 1981, new at £20. From 2000 AD’s companion title, Battle, we have the final volume of the acclaimed Charley’s War, by Mills and Colquhoun, seeing our protagonist through the last days of World War I. (The series did continue under other hands, but is generally less well-regarded.) This new softcover is also £20.