Complex
Complex is the story of a decaying scientific community as it awaits a coming apocalypse, well aware that time is running out. It’s about what you do when there’s nothing left to do. It’s final proof that the end of the world is a scientific matter.
“It’s not just a thriller, it’s an intelligent, intellectual thriller.” – Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International Blog
“Complex is one of Douglas’s very best works, an intelligent, unsettling and rewarding piece of character-based science fiction.” – Andrew Cheverton, Angry Candy
“Bleak, funny, sad, and insightful, if you share my love of stories about the end of the world, this is one you should be sure to read.” – Alexander Danner, Comixpedia
You can also buy print copies of each chapter on the site: One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six.
- Complex Chapter 1
- Complex 1.01: A Beginning
- Complex 1.02: Up On The Roof
- Complex 1.03: The Blue Smoke
- Complex 1.04: Our Hero
- Complex 1.05: Panics I Have Known
- Complex 1.06: Meal Time
- Complex 1.07: Induction
- Complex 1.08: Exploration
- Complex 1.09: Questions Deserve Answers
- Complex 1.10: Science for the Young at Heart
- Complex 1.11: The Past is a Petri Dish
- Complex 1.12: A Gambler Waits with Open Eyes
- Complex 1.13: Going to the Fights
- Complex 1.14: Mano A Mano
- Complex 1.15: Referee’s Decision
- Complex 1.16: Girl Talk
- Complex 1.17: Job Descriptions
- Complex 1.18: In The Tunnels
- Complex 1.19: Thoughts of Tomorrow
- Complex 1.20: Boom
- Complex 1.21: In Which We Wake
- Complex 1.22: Bedside Manners
- Complex 1.23: Sickbed Stories
- Complex 1.24: The Girl One Bed Over
- Complex Chapter 2
- Complex 2.01: Up on the Roof
- Complex 2.02: The Silent Machines
- Complex 2.03: Running in the Corridors
- Complex 2.04: Apes Do As Apes Do
- Complex 2.05: Things Left Behind
- Complex 2.06: Careful Footfalls
- Complex 2.07: The Graceful Arc
- Complex 2.08: Games With Apes
- Complex 2.09: Okk. Awk. Ahhhh!
- Complex 2.10: The Day the Water Died
- Complex 2.11: Now Wash Your Hands
- Complex 2.12: Modern Uses for Science
- Complex 2.13: On Show
- Complex 2.14: The Machines Cometh
- Complex 2.15: The Man Machine
- Complex 2.16: Art Crit 101
- Complex 2.17: No Secular Speeches
- Complex 2.18: We Are Murderers
- Complex 2.19: Cruciform
- Complex 2.20: The Long Drive Away
- Complex 2.21: A Gambler Counts Only Wins
- Complex 2.22: The Joke that Broke Him
- Complex 2.23: Theories of Absence
- Complex 2.24: Cocktail Chat
- Complex 2.25: Nocturnal Perambulations
- Complex 2.26: Follow the Leader
- Complex 2.27: News of the World
- Complex 2.28: I Was A Scientist
- Complex Chapter 3
- Complex 3.01: A New World Coming
- Complex 3.02: Top of the Remaining World
- Complex 3.03: Unkind Review
- Complex 3.04: Advertising Material
- Complex 3.05: Cocktails are Served
- Complex 3.06: Unsurprising Role Model
- Complex 3.07: In the Frame
- Complex 3.08: Hopes of an Abandoned Future
- Complex 3.09: The Product of Despair
- Complex 3.10: Industry in Action
- Complex 3.11: Charts
- Complex 3.12: Where Went Thou?
- Complex 3.13: The Plane! The Plane!
- Complex 3.14: Mañana
- Complex 3.15: Roadtrip
- Complex 3.16: The Crash Site
- Complex 3.17: Theories
- Complex 3.18: Preservation Techniques
- Complex 3.19: Tonight’s News
- Complex 3.20: Passed By
- Complex 3.21: Bad Words
- Complex 3.22: In the Morning
- Complex 3.23: I’ll Show You Mine
- Complex 3.24: Filling in Spaces
- Complex 3.25: The Devil You Know
- Complex 3.26: The Devil You Know Best
- Complex 3.27: Playing Favourites
- Complex 3.28: Call On Me When You’re Due to Die
- Complex 3.29: The Clothes Show
- Complex 3.30: Off in a Huff
- Complex 3.31: What did you do?
- Complex 3.32: Things I Never Saw
- Complex 3.33
- Complex 3.34: Signs at Night
- Complex 3.35
- Complex Chapter 4
- Complex 4.01: The Foyer
- Complex 4.02: The Stairs
- Complex 4.03: The Mystery
- Complex 4.04: Things Left Behind
- Complex 4.05: Further Up the Stairs
- Complex 4.06: The Shape of Things
- Complex 4.07: Who Stalks the Stairway?
- Complex 4.08: Auld Acquaintance
- Complex 4.09: In The Room
- Complex 4.10: Hit Parade
- Complex 4.11: Memories!
- Complex 4.12: Flashback City
- Complex 4.13: You Can’t Lose What You Never Had
- Complex 4.14: So Sorry
- Complex 4.15: Rise and Shine
- Complex 4.16: The Haul
- Complex 4.17: In the Town
- Complex 4.18: The Sigh of Wind
- Complex 4.19: An Excursion
- Complex 4.20: The Engine of the End
- Complex 4.21: Flapping Plastic
- Complex 4.22: Silenced
- Complex 4.23: Under the Sky
- Complex 4.24: The Drive Back
- Complex 4.25: Home Again
- Complex 4.26: Down Stairs
- Complex 4.27: Question All Answers
- Complex 4.28: Flashbackin’!
- Complex 4.29: Hide Away
- Complex 4.30: A Moment I Remember
- Complex 4.31: Shoppers Beware
- Complex 4.32: Space Structures
- Complex 4.33: What do you see?
- Complex 4.34
- Complex Chapter 5
- Complex 5.01: The Man I Knew
- Complex 5.02: A Man of Theory
- Complex 5.03: You Poke Him
- Complex 5.04: Medical Instrumentation
- Complex 5.05: Fight!
- Complex 5.06: Not the Ear!
- Complex 5.07: Blade
- Complex 5.08: Faces of Death
- Complex 5.09: Making Plans
- Complex 5.10: On the Way
- Complex 5.11: Go Ape
- Complex 5.12: Experimental Brain Surgery
- Complex 5.13: Art Appreciation
- Complex 5.14: One More Day
- Complex 5.15: No Research
- Complex 5.16: Closer
- Complex 5.17: Broken Machinery
- Complex 5.18: The Book Group
- Complex 5.19: What Is It?
- Complex 5.20:It is Fine! Everything is Fine!
- Complex 5.21: Down To Business
- Complex 5.22: Loose Leaf
- Complex 5.23: What We Learned
- Complex 5.24: The Roots of Nostalgia
- Complex 5.25: Who Do We Know?
- Complex 5.26: Breakthroughs
- Complex 5.27: Where Did I Go?
- Complex 5.28: Two Words
- Complex 5.29: Past the Horizon
- Complex Chapter 6
- Complex 6.01: The Plane! The Plane!
- Complex 6.02: Notions of Sanity
- Complex 6.03: What’s He Building?
- Complex 6.04: Brick
- Complex 6.05: Opening Doorways
- Complex 6.06: Coming Soon
- Complex 6.07:Hello To You
- Complex 6.08: The Song of Death
- Complex 6.09: Back to the Gang
- Complex 6.10: F for Fake
- Complex 6.11: Theory
- Complex 6.12: Together
- Complex 6.13: Out the Window
- Complex 6.14: A Last Stand
- Complex 6.15: Maps
- Complex 6.16: Skins
- Complex 6.17: I Still Believe
- Complex 6.18: Threshold
- Complex 6.19: The Collapsed Roof
- Complex 6.20: Exit
- Complex 6.21: I Am Safe
- Complex 6.22: Old Friend
- Complex 6.23: Function
- Complex 6.24: Viewmaster
- Complex 6.25: The Shadow of Tomorrow
- Complex 6.26: Decisions
- Complex 6.27: An Occasion
- Complex 6.28: Another Door
- Complex 6.29: Nothing to See
- Complex 6.30: One Thing We Need
- Complex 6.31: Our Story
- Complex 6.32: An Old Trick
- Complex 6.33: In the Secret Lab
- Complex 6.34: Gardner 3.0
- Complex 6.35: The Returning Hero
- Complex 6.36: Another Return
- Complex 6.37: Back to the Crash Site
- Complex 6.38: How Soon is Now?
- Complex 6.39: Dancing at the End
- Complex 6.40: The End of the End
