The Ballad of Halo Jones, Volume 3

(The Ballad of Halo Jones #3)

eBook

English language

Published Sept. 18, 2018 by 2000 AD.

4 stars (1 review)

This third volume concludes Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s masterwork, coloured for the first time by Barbara Nosenzo.

Caught in the Web

Her dreams of escape dashed, Halo has ended up on a decaying ghostworld, where the drink is the only thing that hasn’t run dry. Having drifted from one dead-end job to another, her credits and hopes for the future have almost run out, but fortunately, the military is looking for new recruits. With no other way out, she enlists.

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Halo Jones is down and out, but she still wants to lead her own life

4 stars

The third book of the Ballad of Halo Jones, this one initially finds her down and out. Out of funds and options, she is now stuck on a nowhere planet and drinking to forget her sorrows. But change would come when the opportunity for a job comes along.

But the job offer would actually be enlistment (via the shipmate she met in the previous book) into the military conflict between Earth and the worlds of the Tarantula Nebula. She gets basic training and is assigned to patrol duty. She then gets to see first hand the conflict that is happening and wonders whether it is worth it.

When she gets sent to the planet Moab, a heavy gravity world that plays havoc with time, she begins to question the futility of war but gets involved in a relationship with the general in charge of the war. When the war winds …