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The Astonishing Mind of Alan Moore - Various Artists

Attention aspiring writers, any budding script droids, or comic creators of any description, if you study Alan Moore’s earliest 2000AD short stories they are perfectly penned pearly parables!

A lot can be learned from these one, two, three or more page short stories, just the right length, plenty of humour and usually with an unexpected twist or moral lesson.

Whilst at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic™, the Moore droid sharpened the tools of his trade, writing dozens of short stories: Future Shocks, Robo-Tales and Time Twisters, before venturing into some of the comic’s best-loved series: DR & Quinch, Skizz and, of course, The Ballad of Halo Jones - the story of an ordinary girl, with extraordinary dreams - undoubtedly some of his best work, as vital and resonant now as it was when it was written, over 30 years ago.

So, whether you’re already a fan, a frustrated script droid, or just a lover of tall tales, this is the introduction to one of the finest fiction writers of his generation - and he honed his career under the guidance of The Mighty Tharg at 2000AD - where else?!