THE BALLAD OF HALO JONES Book 1-3 Set

Presenting comics legend Alan Moore and Ian Gibson's all-time classic feminist space opera, The Ballad Of Halo Jones! When Halo Jones grows bored with her life in The Hoop - a futuristic world where jobs are scarce and excitement nonexistent - she sets out to see the galaxy any way she can. Book One presented the eponymous Halo Jones as a young woman living in a floating ring-shaped conurbation called “The Hoop”, moored off the eastern coast of North America. The initial story took place over one day and followed the teenager’s tragi-comic misadventures on a shopping trip through her home city, ending with the murder of her best friend and the loss of another to a brainwashing (or in this case, -numbing) cult. These tragedies persuade Halo to emigrate from the Earth, accompanied by her sentient robot dog Toby, vowing never to return.  Book Two depicts a girl’s life as a stewardess on a year-long voyage through deep space, where she discovers that her robotic companion has killed her friend out of jealousy. This story also contains a clever prologue, revealing that Halo was destined to become a legendary historical figure, studied by future students and admirers. This explicit foreshadowing of the plot was, of course, copied with little acknowledgment by the American writer-producer J. Michael Straczynski for an episode of the Babylon 5 television show titled “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”.  Book Three of the Ballad is set ten years after the second, where Halo Jones has become a soldier reluctantly fighting in a seemingly pointless interstellar conflict against an insurgent enemy while being courted by a famous general, Luiz Cannibal. This downbeat story-arc ended with a cessation of hostilities, after which the violence-weary character commandeered a spaceship and deserted into unknown space, determined to take charge of her own fate. Out Of Print. Condition: Fine. Soft bumped corners. Book 3 has a larger cover bend on the top corner.