Writer Moore and Gibson thought that 2000 AD could do with a female-led strip to counterpoint the comic’s generally testosterone-heavy violence fests, and co-created 50th Century everygirl Halo Jones, who just tries to get by in a dangerous future where going to the shops is a major trial. The original intent was to chronicle the heroine’s whole life but only three serials were completed before the strip was curtailed by the usual who’s-got-the-rights argument. The three stories find Halo as a teenager on that shopping trip, working as a stewardess on a spaceship and (grimly) fighting a Starship Troopers-type war in an all-female army. Halo is exponentially cooler than knock-offs like Tank Girl, mostly because she remains a fed-up real person amid the wild space opera of her universe.

FIRST APPEARED IN 2000 AD PROG 376 (1984)
CREATED BY ALAN MOORE AND IAN GIBSON