The Ballad of Halo Jones Book 1 - Alan Moore

When a renowned writer has a number of huge successes behind them, it’s always interesting to go back and view their earlier stuff, and it’s especially satisfying to find out that their early work was actually really good. ‘The Ballad of Halo Jones’ was Alan Moore’s first prominent, long-running series for the English comic publication ‘2000AD’ following several years’ worth of mostly comedic one-off stories, most memorably featuring the extraterrestrial students D.R. & Quinch, and the double-decker-brained Abelard Snazz. Created and produced in collaboration with artist Ian Gibson, Halo Jones was envisioned as something of an antidote to the usual space age violence ...  Read the complete review