The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones (2000 Ad)

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Invisible to Normals: Glyph, who has so many gender switches that he/she had their personality erased and nobody can even remember them.

The first Book on the Hoop (a circular floating city) shows a welfare society with rampant unemploymeny, not unlike the familiar Mega-City One, and uncomfortable racial friction with the alien Proximans (who are themselves no saints). There are typically 2000AD concepts like the Different Drummers, a menacing androgynous gang/cult who are neurally networked with a hypnotic beat going through their brains. It’s a shame that there was never a fourth book or beyond for Halo Jones, because it feels like stories with her could have been endless. She’s also very unique in both 2000AD‘s canon and Moore’s catalogue. The Ballad of Halo Jones by Moore, Gibson, Potter, and Starkings is an enthralling adventure of a woman who just wanted out to go everywhere. Classic Comic Compendium: The Ballad of Halo JonesNow I've been a massive Halo fan since it first came out (I was just 16). I have the full graphic novel on my book shelf still. A galaxy-spanning story and comics' first bona fide feminist space opera, The Ballad of Halo Jones is the first true epic to grace the bibliography of arguably the greatest comic book writer the world has ever known. It must be because I first heard of Halo Jones in the 90s – can't for the life of me remember where (I also didn't connect the name with Alan Moore until recently) – so I assumed she was from the 90s too. But no, she was written in the mid-80s. Her character and look reminded me of my theory that Britain in the 80s was a great time as a kid to see fewer traditional stereotypes of girls and women than before or since (I once wrote, but never finished, a long blog post about this which included examples like Bananarama videos and Supergran). published "The Ballad of Halo Jones" in individual "Progs" between August and October 1986 and issued a more recent reprint, as a three-book collection. Written by Alan Moore (who wrote Watchmen in the same year) and illustrated by Ian Gibson on less than stellar form. Halo's facial expressions range from the pouty-grumpy to the pouty-surprised. The plot didn't grab me, and the main character is rather dull. Book 1 is Halo and flatmate going shopping. This sounds like the most boring book, but was actually the most entertaining. Book 2 follows Halo as she escapes the Loop for a waitressing job on a space cruiser. Book 3 has Halo join an invading army.

Planned to run nine volumes, with each volume skipping ten years in her life to show Halo at different points in her existence, only the first three volumes were completed and published in 2000 AD. The serial was abandoned due to disputes between Moore and the publisher over ownership rights to the characters. I knew going into this that it is only the first third of the 9 part story that Moore and Gibson planned to tell. So it was about half way through Book 1 (of the 9) that my heart broke. How could something so brilliant just remain incomplete after all these years? Fantastic Ghetto: New York has designated areas for the the Proximan alien refugees where humans aren't allowed. The title comes from The Hoop, a floating, hoop-shaped conurbation full of unemployed humans and Proximans that's tethered to Manhattan. Rat King: Halo signs up in the Army to fight a deadly war on an alien planet. She discovers the heart of the supercomputer directing Earth's war effort is a malevolent and superintelligent Rat King plugged into the network as its CPU.His work outside the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic includes The Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad, Star Wars: Boba Fett, X-Men Unlimited, newspaper strips and more, plus the designs for the TV series Reboot. Alan Moore (Writer) Ian Gibson (Artist) Barbara Nosenzo (Colourist) Steve Potter, Richard Starkings (Letterers) It doesn't end on a cliffhanger as such. None of the books do. But each of them ended in a way that made me want to dive straight into the next one to find out what Halo is up to in the next stage of her life. But 3 all we got.