The Ballad of Halo Jones Book 2 - Alan Moore

Alan Moore reveals in his introduction to the second Book of ‘The Ballad of Halo Jones’ that the general response of ‘2000AD’ readers to the first serialised story was lukewarm at best, and the sequel had none of the inevitability of anything Moore churns out today (to a consistently high standard, admittedly). Moore’s eighteen-year-old female protagonist inhabited a bleak and confusing fiftieth century world where a single shopping trip could lead to tragedy and even death, and her decision to escape the hopeless planet Earth as a crew member of the luxury liner Clara Pandy presented a hope for drastic changes from those who found the first story alienating or dull, and ...  Read the complete review