Halo gets new introduction

Hoagy · 10 January, 2013, 02:26:27 PM

http://www.2000adonline.com/news/10-01-2013/lauren_on_halo/

I'm so glad this is getting a re-release and with a shiny new endorsement from a female novelist, who herself has produced some cutting edge ideas on the female role in fiction.

I recently gave my copy to my daughter on her 15th birthday and she review it in satisfied tones. We don't meet up as much as I'd like so it's a joy when she likes something well enough to restore some of her memories of it with me. We talked about Glyph of course but she mainly enthused about the bomb that is used on the Hoop. And the shopping mall, heh. Kids eh?

A budding author herself I hope she will see the importance of the story of Halo not only the character and story but its event in comics, as Lauren pointedly remarks upon.

Steve Green · 10 January, 2013, 08:42:44 PM

Wonder how it's going to be presented? The Case File style size has its place, but I'd love to see this done along the lines of the ABC Warrior/Slaine hardbacks (even better if it could include the colour cover artwork from the old Titan and other previous collections.)

O Lucky Stevie! · 11 January, 2013, 12:09:57 AM

Lauren Beukes? Nice one Green Bonce1

Stevie's a huge fan* so that'll make this... let's see... the sixth format that he'll own this in.

*& her books aren't too shabby either**

**for a girl

Hoagy · 11 January, 2013, 12:41:33 AM

Wow Stevie! Is that all of them? I had a lovely hardback edition with a dust-cover. Black with rounded rectangular picture on it. Silver typeface too. Tre cool.

O Lucky Stevie! · 11 January, 2013, 01:26:10 AM

No not all.

Just

1)   The individual progs
2)   The Best of 2000ad reprints to save digging out the progs
3)   Titan's The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones paperback to sit on the shelf
4)   Titan's lovely The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones hardback with that dust jacket
5)   The Simon & Shuster edition with a couple of script pages from Book III

So, off the top of Stevie's head, that's missing

1)   The individual Titan paperbacks of each book
2)   The US Quality Comics reprints with the art distorted to fit the American format
3)   The DC/Rebellion trade
4)   The Rebellion trade

He's not strange or anything.

strontium71 · 11 January, 2013, 07:10:32 PM

Quote from: Hoagy on 11 January, 2013, 12:41:33 AM
Wow Stevie! Is that all of them? I had a lovely hardback edition with a dust-cover. Black with rounded rectangular picture on it. Silver typeface too. Tre cool.

Selling for just a tad now...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Complete-Ballad-of-Halo-Jones-2000-AD-Collectors-Edition-Alan-Moore-Acc-/330846338213?pt=US_Fiction_Books&hash=item4d07fa7ca5

Hoagy · 11 January, 2013, 08:47:54 PM

Just informed my dad to tell her to take very good care of it from now on! Wow. What a surprise!

dweezil2 · 11 January, 2013, 10:23:30 PM

Certainly pick up a new edition of this classic GN. Really hope Rebellion's got something special planned! :-)

Satanist · 12 January, 2013, 12:52:17 PM

I'll be all over this like ~~flies on shit~~ bees on honey if its a bit special. I already have a few copies but HJ is by far and away the wifes favourite comic, she just read it again a month ago.

I quite like it as well.

Skullmo · 14 January, 2013, 08:54:36 PM

I never really felt that Halo Jones was not finished at the end of Book 3. It just seemed like a good place to end for me.

Tjm86 · 15 February, 2013, 04:54:39 PM

Quote from: strontium71 on 11 January, 2013, 07:10:32 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 11 January, 2013, 12:41:33 AM
Wow Stevie! Is that all of them? I had a lovely hardback edition with a dust-cover. Black with rounded rectangular picture on it. Silver typeface too. Tre cool.

Selling for just a tad now...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Complete-Ballad-of-Halo-Jones-2000-AD-Collectors-Edition-Alan-Moore-Acc-/330846338213?pt=US_Fiction_Books&hash=item4d07fa7ca5

And picking jaw up from floor! To think I picked this up to replace the TPB three in one edition for less than a tenner!

Am I right in thinking that this was originally supposed to go on for much longer but Mr Moore was somehow offended and all future development got scuppered?

oshii · 15 February, 2013, 07:08:48 PM

Quote from: Tjm86 on 15 February, 2013, 04:54:39 PM

Am I right in thinking that this was originally supposed to go on for much longer but Mr Moore was somehow offended and all future development got scuppered?

I think you're right in thinking that about quite a lot of Alan Moore series

Professor Bear · 15 February, 2013, 07:18:47 PM

Though not about this one - Halo Jones was a flop with readers and it was cancelled.
It really only found its audience away from 2000ad and by then Moore commanded higher fees, then later was too invested in his stance on creator's rights to do work-for-hire. He offered various Thargs a follow-up, but in exchange for the rights to the character.

JOE SOAP · 15 February, 2013, 07:21:17 PM

Quote from: Quack Addict on 15 February, 2013, 07:18:47 PM
Though not about this one - Halo Jones was a flop with readers and it was cancelled.

Don't think that's true. Halo had gained huge popularity with fans by the time of Book III, the only reason we got no more was because Alan Moore fucked off to America and got paid more, and it's not really Halo without him or Gibson so it never continued.

Professor Bear · 15 February, 2013, 07:44:07 PM

Well, not "cancelled" in the sense that nothing in the prog is cancelled, it just goes on an indeterminate hiatus.