![]() Of the three books, it is (as Kieron Gillen writes in the introduction) “the most radical to modern eyes”. ![]() Book 1 is (like a great many of Moore’s stories) told through a sort of Clockwork Orange-y argot that you just roll with and work out as you go. So what did we find? Well, the three books are all tonally quite different. This particularly outing is a full colour edition (like the rest of 2000AD, the strip was black and white once upon a time) and that may be the hook for long time fans – but for this reader (despite having read a great many other Alan Moore books) this was the first time we’d dabbled in Halo’s world. ![]() What we have here is complete enough to serve as an intended thing in its own right. Originally, it was intended as a nine-book series in which we check in with Halo throughout each decade of her life, due to a dispute between Moore and Fleetway (the publishers) we only ever got to see three volumes – but we are not looking at The Mystery of Edwin Drood. “that would complement the pervasive flavour of cordite and carnage and which would give the reader something to clean his or her palate with in between the meat courses.” Halo Jones was intended by her creators Gibson and Moore to be something of an antidote to the more usual 2000AD fare of “guns, guys and gore” – “something,” Moore explains in one of the afterwords included here: ![]() Let’s start (in the spirit of Dragnet) with just the facts, shall we? The Ballad of Halo Jones was a comic strip that ran in the comic 2000AD between 19, in a series of five page instalments. ![]()
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