History ComicBook / TheBalladOfHaloJones

* LoveMakesYouEvil: At some point in time, Toby the robot guard dog brutally murders his owners in secret. When Halo listens to his old memory tapes and hears her friends dying, she asks herself why he did it. Whereupon he promptly appears in the room and says "Love, Halo. I did it all for love." Toby's owners had left him to Halo in her will and apparently the robot dog's love for Halo was powerful enough to override any programming he might have along the lines of "Hey, robot dog, don't kill your owners." Cos Halo is just that sexy, obviously. Anyway, Halo pretends to be pleased that he loves her that much, but Toby can tell from her heartbeat that she's hell terrified, so he attempts to kill her. And fails, of course.

* OrphanedSeries: The series reached a fairly satisfying conclusion, but only got a third of the way through Moore's original plan for the saga.

* BalladOfX
* BittersweetEnding

* TheEveryman: Halo.

* NeverTrustATitle: The series is actually incomplete. Moore left ''2000AD'' before finishing it.

Considered by some to be Creator/AlanMoore's magnum opus, and also his most famous incomplete work, Halo Jones is a trilogy of stories written by Moore and drawn by Ian Gibson that feature the life of a young working class woman who went on to become a legend.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'' was originally published in black and white (as was most of ''ComicBook/{{2000AD}}'' at that time). As of Rebellion's 2023 collected edition it's now in full colour, with Barbara Nosenzo colouring Ian Gibson's original 1980s art.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'' was originally published in black and white (as was most of ''ComicBook/2000AD'' at that time). As of Rebellion's 2023 collected edition it's now in full colour, with Barbara Nosenzo colouring Ian Gibson's original 1980s art.

* FutureSlang: So much so that some of the herdience can find it tricky to get into at first. Cheeses, though, it's worth the effort.

* BornLucky: This is what people say about Private Jupe, who only manages to avoid being killed several times because of her extreme ''un''luckiness.

Halo Jones is an 18-year-old living in futuristic floating housing estate on Earth called "The Hoop." The Hoop is filled with the poor, beggars, Proximans, and a strange cult called the Different Drummers (who have an implant which generates a perpetual drumbeat in their heads that occasionally make them violent). Halo, along with her friend and house-mate Rodice and mechanical dog bodyguard Toby, traverse the Hoop and get into various adventures in trying to buy food for their other house-mate Brinna, who shelters them. HilarityEnsues as they encounter various obstacles to getting home, but they finally get home in one piece...[[MoodWhiplash to find Brinna murdered]] and their other house-mate Ludy joining the Different Drummer cult. With no place to live, Halo announces her decision to go into space,

Considered by many to be Creator/AlanMoore's magnum opus, and also his most famous incomplete work, Halo Jones is a trilogy of stories written by Moore and drawn by Ian Gibson that feature the life of a young working class woman who went on to become a legend.

Planned to run nine volumes, with each volume skipping ten years in her life to show Halo at different points in her existence, only the first three volumes were completed and published in 2000 AD. The serial was abandoned due to disputes between Moore and the publisher over ownership rights to the characters.

Considered by many to be Creator/AlanMoore's magnum opus, and also his most famous incomplete work, Halo Jones is a trilogy of stories written by Moore and drawn by Ian Gibson that feature the life of a young working class woman who went on to become a war legend.

Planned to run nine volumes, with each volume skipping ten years in her life to show Halo at different points in her existence, only the first three volumes were completed and published in 2000 AD. The serial was abandoned due to Alan Moore's (failed) attempt to leverage his success in the US comic scene to force 2000 AD to cede ownership rights to the strip to him. 2000 AD refused, pointing out that Moore knowingly knew that he would not keep ownership of the title when he pitched to it, and accused Moore of trying to get special treatment over the other 2000 AD writers.

* FalesReassurance: Halo enlists in an army that assures new recruits that most soldiers never see combat. Later, when she's jumping with a parachute from a plane into the battlefield, she's told that if she's lucky, she will be one of the few whose parachute works.

* FutureSlang: "Isn't this mammoth?" "Ludy, that was blue-hot!" Nearly half of the first book is future slang.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Toby, sort of.
* OrphanedSeries: Because Alan Moore left ''2000AD''.
* RatKing: The heroine discovers the heart of the supercomputer directing Earth's war effort is a malevolent and superintelligent Rat King plugged into the network as its CPU.

Halo Jones is an 18-year-old living in futuristic floating housing estate on Earth called "The Hoop." The Hoop is filled with the poor, beggars, Proximans, and a strange cult called the Different Drummers (who have an implant which generates a perpetual drumbeat in their heads that occasionally make them violent). Halo, along with her friend and house-mate Rodice and mechanical dog bodyguard Toby, traverse the Hoop and get into various adventures in trying to buy food for their other house-mate Brinna, who shelters them. HilarityEnsues as they encounter various obstacles to getting home, but they finally get home in one piece...[[MoodWhiplash to find Brinna murdered]] and their other house-mate Ludy joining the Different Drummer cult. With no place to live and no boyfriend, Halo announces her decision to go into space,

Halo Jones is an 18-year-old living in futuristic floating housing estate on Earth called "The Hoop." The Hoop is filled with the poor, beggars, Proximans, and a strange cult called the Different Drummers (who have an implant which generates a perpetual drumbeat in their heads that occasionally make them violent). Halo, along with her friend and house-mate Rodice and mechanical dog bodyguard Toby, traverse the Hoop and get into various adventures in trying to buy food for their other house-mate Brinna, who shelters them. HilarityEnsues as they encounter various obstacles to getting home, but they finally get home in one piece...[[MoodWhiplash to find Brinna murdered]] and her boyfriend joining the Different Drummer cult. With no place to live and no boyfriend, Halo announces her decision to go into space,

Book Three begins after another TimeSkip, showing various occupations Halo was in after she left the Clara Pandy. She ends up, ten years later, on the planet Pwuc "where the Catsblood never runs out but the dreams do." There, she meets Toy again, who persuades her to join the army, currently engaged in brutal guerrilla war in the Tarantula Nebula. As a part of Platoon B, Halo sees the horrors of war, as most of her platoon mates die, culminating in the [[TearJerker death of Toy]]. Halo quits the army after that, but with nothing to do and no job, she starts to go crazy and reenlists. And then gets sent to Warzone 1, the planet Moab, where the intense gravity does strange things to time, where the battles last [[YearOutsideHourInside five minutes and two months]], and where Halo meets General Cannibal. Here, Halo's brings the war to an end and is last seen buying a spaceship and crew to take her off to new adventures.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The ending of the series/book three. Halo boards a ship she has purchased, to continue to explore outer space and build upon the legend that we learn she will blaze through history at the end of book two.

Halo Jones is an 18-year-old living in futuristic floating housing estate on Earth called "The Hoop." The Hoop is filled with the poor, beggars, Proximans, and a strange cult called the Different Drummers (who have an implant which generates a perpetual drumbeat in their heads that occasionally make them violent). Halo, along with her friend and house-mate Rodice and mechanical dog bodyguard Toby, traverse the Hoop and get into various adventures in trying to buy food for their other house-mate Brinna, who shelters them. HilarityEnsues as they encounter various obstacles to getting home, but they finally get home in one piece...[[MoodWhiplash to find Brinna murdered]].

Halo decides to leave the Hoop and go away on the star cruise-liner the [[CoolShip Clara Pandy]]. Book Two has Halo working as a hostess about the ship, with fellow hostess and roommate Toy and the InvisibleToNormals Glyph, various events happen. The first hints of a war in the Tarantula Nebula emerge and it's revealed Toby killed Brinna because he [[LoveMakesYouEvil loves Halo]] and wanted to be with her. The book ends on a cliffhanger, revealing that Halo is destined to become a great war hero.

Book Three begins after a TimeSkip, showing various occupations Halo was in after she left the Clara Pandy. She ends up, ten years later, on the planet Pwuc "where the Catsblood never runs out but the dreams do." There, she meets Toy again, who persuades her to join the army, currently engaged in brutal guerrilla war in the Tarantula Nebula. As a part of Platoon B, Halo sees the horrors of war, as most of her platoon mates die, culminating in the [[TearJerker death of Toy]]. Halo quits the army after that, but with nothing to do and no job, she starts to go crazy and reenlists. And then gets sent to Warzone 1, the planet Moab, where the intense gravity does strange things to time, where the battles last [[YearOutsideHourInside five minutes and two months]], and where Halo meets General Cannibal. Here, Halo's brings the war to an end and is last seen buying a spaceship and crew to take her off to new adventures.

A 1984 piece of seminal comic work written by Creator/AlanMoore and drawn by Ian Gibson. First published in ''2000 AD'', it is divided into three books covering three parts of the main character's life. It was supposed to be [[OrphanedSeries nine books]], but Moore left ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' before that.

Halo decides to leave the Hoop and go away on the star cruise-liner the [[CoolShip Clara Pandy]]. In the year Halo works as a hostess about the ship, with fellow hostess and roommate Toy and the InvisibleToNormals Glyph, various events happen. The first hints of a war in the Tarantula Nebula emerge and it's revealed Toby killed Brinna because he [[LoveMakesYouEvil loves Halo]] and wanted to be with her. After she barely survives that, she ends up finding out her friend Rodice, whom she agreed to meet on the planet Charlemagne, never even left the Hoop.

Book Three begins after a TimeSkip, showing various occupations Halo was in after she left the Clara Pandy. She ends up, ten years later, on the planet Pwuc "where the Catsblood never runs out but the dreams do." There, she meets Toy again, who persuades her to join the army, currently engaged in brutal guerrilla war in the Tarantula Nebula. As a part of Platoon B, Halo sees the horrors of war, as most of her platoon mates die, culminating in the [[TearJerker death of Toy]]. Halo quits the army after that, but with nothing to do and no job, she starts to go crazy and reenlists. And then gets sent to Warzone 1, the planet Moab, where the intense gravity does strange things to time, where the battles last [[YearOutsideHourInside five minutes and two months]], and where Halo meets General Cannibal. Here, Halo's dream of escaping everything finally reaches its breaking point.

* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Toy. When she tries to perform a DyingDeclarationOfLove Halo fails to take the hint and thinks they're talking about their friendship. Toy decides not to clarify and dies soon after.

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A 1984 piece of seminal comic work written by Creator/AlanMoore and drawn by Ian Gibson. First published in ''2000AD'', it is divided into three books covering three parts of the main character's life. It was supposed to be [[OrphanedSeries nine books]], but Moore left ''TwoThousandAD'' before that.

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