Tharg's Future Shocks

Tharg's Future Shocks is a long running series of one-off short stories which has run intermittently in the pages of 2000 AD since 1977 (2000 AD prog 25), the first ever story being written by Steve Moore. Typically, these stories are four or five page science fiction shorts, usually comedic or semi-comedic and with a twist ending. They have over the years been an entry point into greater success in 2000 AD for a number of writers and artists who have gone on to bigger and better things, including Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman. Though the stories are usually unconnected, some have occasionally spawned sequels or even led to ongoing series for popular characters, including D.R. & Quinch and Abelard Snazz. The success of the Future Shocks series has inspired the creation in 2000 AD's pages of numerous imitator series, including Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales, Vector 13, Tharg's Time Twisters, Tharg's Terror Tales (a horror-themed series), Tales from the Black Museum (based in the world of Judge Dredd), Tales from Beyond Science (all drawn by Rian Hughes), Pulp Sci-Fi, Past Imperfect, Future Shorts (one page Future Shocks) and Tharg's 3rillers (three part stories).

Tharg, of course, is 2000 AD's alien editor, who occasionally acted as host to the early stories. The stories have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks.

People who have worked on Tharg's Future Shocks

 * Dan Abnett
 * Mick Austin
 * Jim Baikie
 * Eric Bradbury
 * Mike Collins
 * Alan Davis
 * Jamie Delano
 * Nigel Dobbyn
 * Richard Elson
 * Brett Ewins
 * Glenn Fabry
 * Jose Luis Ferrer
 * Neil Gaiman
 * Dave Gibbons
 * Kelvin Gosnell
 * Simon Harrison
 * Alan Hebden
 * John Hicklenton
 * John Higgins
 * David Hine
 * Peter Hogan
 * Kev Hopgood
 * Ian Kennedy
 * Barry Kitson
 * Garry Leach
 * Chris Lowder
 * Brendan McCarthy
 * Jim McCarthy
 * Mark Millar
 * Peter Milligan
 * Alan McKenzie
 * Alan Moore
 * Steve Moore
 * Grant Morrison
 * Paul Neary
 * Jesús Redondo
 * Hilary Robinson
 * Will Simpson
 * John Smith
 * Robin Smith
 * Ron Smith
 * Ramon Sola
 * Richard Starkings
 * Lee Sullivan
 * Bryan Talbot
 * John Tomlinson
 * Kevin Walker