The only article you’ll see today mentioning both Lobo and The Scarlet Letter.

[This post contains SPOILERS for the endings of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the Supergirl movie, and also one chapter of The Ballad of Halo Jones.] So one of my favorite incomplete works from Alan Moore is the science fiction strip The Ballad of Halo Jones, drawn by Ian Gibson, in which we follow the life and times of the titular character. Alas, a disagreement between Moore and the publisher truncated the comics’ run, and all we got is what we got. I bring it up here because I wanted to point out this sequence (scanned from Quality Comics’ 1988 reprint of the story, in which the art was “stretched” to fit a standard comic book page). In this sequence, Halo Jones is a member of the military, and while on patrol on this planet, they shoot and kill an enemy sniper, to which the team has this response: The obvious point here is that they can’t believe they just shot a child, and attempt to justify the incident by talking themselves into the idea that this wasn’t just a little girl, but…