Pros & Cons
Pros
Alan moore's halo jones is a well thought out girl from the mind of alan moore. Ian gibson's art suits it well, too.
Though provoking story with surprises. I assure you that it picks up and the book gets great by halfway through.
Highlights
Quality
The characterization is very well done and you can practically hear the throbbing background music.
This is one of the best science fiction graphic novels a person can put their money into.
It's hard science fiction, cosmically emblazoned within the sharpened panels characteristic of 2000ad's art and galaxy building.
Yes, the writing's distinctly crafty as only moore can pen, but the pacing and thematic development of the ballad of halo jones... Read More
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If youre a alan moore you must give this a try
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If youre not an alan moore yet heres your chance
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Its several thousand years in the future and halo jones is an eighteenyearold who was born and has spent all her life on 34the hoop34 a huge floating habitat off manhattan
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Its also a ghetto for the economic underclass on welfare and the population is 70 female
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And then things begin to fall apart and halo just has to get out of there
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But then the job is gone and shes not going back to earth so she finds herself stumbling around on the margins of human civilization sleeping rough and nearly starving to death
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By the time shes thirty halos life has changed forever and shes a completely different person
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Not one you want to mess with either