The Ballad of Halo Jones

Locations
Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Moore, Alan
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Moore, Alan	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally published in 2000 AD progs 376-385, 405-415, 451-466. Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Couldn't finish it submitted by eknapp on September 6, 2016, 3:13pm Future spacewoman Halo Jones, sick of life in her space-trailer park, sets off into the galaxy seeking excitement and space-adventure. I DNF'd after 17 busy, cramped pages.

The thick-lined black and white art is overdone, every page annoyingly crowded with ink. Take a step back and it looks like a book of those magic-eye hidden-image posters that were ubiquitous 20 years ago. Terry Moore this is not.

Halo Jones practices a certain dialogue convention in comics that drives me nuts. Two or three random words in every word balloon are heavily bolded for no apparent reason. It looks like simple emphasis, but too often emphasizing the bolded words makes no sense. And like the rest of the illustration, the bolding is overdone.

"I ought to BITE your squidgy little FACE off. And if she's played those TAPES, I think I WILL."
"Ludy's staying home to practice her DOTA. She'll SEED it for me to watch later."


Moore tries to future up the language--which I approve of--but does so with simplistic word substitutions. I found it grating.
*"Rearscene" for backstage
*"Blue-hot" for red-hot
*"Glombies" for zombies

I feel blasphemous saying this, but...I think I'm losing my taste for Alan Moore.