The Ballad of Halo Jones

By the most successful comics writer of the past twenty-five years, Alan Moore, comes a celebrated but little seen graphic novel with one of his most memorable characters. Halo Jones is an ordinary, idealistic young woman living on The Hoop, a poverty-stricken housing project tethered off the point of Manhattan. Desperate for a better life, she escapes - and finds an extraordinary universe waiting for her as she goes from star-cruiser stewardess to frontline soldier...