Seeing as we're on a 2000ad binge - halo jones

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So here's mine. My absolute favourite 2000ad strip, and poss my favourite comic, supposedly a 10-parter, but Alan Moore got pissed w/Phleetway after 3 books, thus no more. But where could it go from the end of book 3? Halo FREE AT LAST, able to go wherever she wants....apparently at the very end Ms Jones flies off into the event horizon...pfff...whatever...It suddenly occurs to me that this is a fckng rubbish question, so ramble on about Alan Moo-er, Ian Gibson, & all that if it doth please U dear posters. In case U havent guessed, I have been imbibing strong drink ..... .. ... .. .

― Norman Phay, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Supposedly in Book 4 she becomes a space pirate.

The Toy/Halo "Best friends? Yeah, that's what I meant" scene in Book 3 was as moving and as bad for me as any Morrissey lyric.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

inability to pull same pathos off more than thrice = problem here, no? i preferred the first book, began to tire of HJ's wisp-in-the- wind fatalism after a while (like everything is everyone's fault but hers)

― mark s, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

double yoru pleasure with tow questions!

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big Tom's right about the Toy/Halo dialogue.

I think though, that it's good Halo Jones stopped where it did. I can't but think that the whole point of the strip was that ordinary people's lives can be fascinating, and to start covering the part of her life when she actually was a player dilutes this.

― The Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

This thread was not unanswered!

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I nearly sort of wrote a bit of a sequel to Halo Jones! When Pat Mills was running a 'choose your own adventure' comic he asked me if I'd do a Halo Jones story for it, probably because he knew I was good mates with Alan Moore then. I talked to Alan about my idea about how it could play, set during her early days with the space pirates as she tries to survive, and he approved (I think he didn't care what anyone did in what wasn't a proper story at all). I can't remember why it didn't happen. Possibly I felt too uncomfortable about following Alan, especially on such a great series, possibly it was cancelled too quickly

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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