narrative truth and reconciliation
“They say that they want to help, but they only say it to themselves. Don’t we have a say in our salvation?” I’ve never been much of a fan of Halo: Reach. At the end of 2016, when the game went backwards compatible on the Xbox One, I reinstalled it for what I thought would be […]
Read More Remembering Halo: Reach – Why I Love ‘The Assembly’…It’s More Likely Than You Think! Something I still often hear when Halo 4 is discussed is: “You have to read The Books™, and if you didn’t read The Books™ then you require a protracted ‘filling-in’ lesson that sounds a lot like George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones commentaries.” As a matter of fact, […]
Read More Understanding Halo 4… WITHOUT the Books“In her final confrontation with the rogue scientist Dr. Chen, Spartan Linda-058 and her AI companion find themselves in a race against time to end the threat posed by the disenfranchised doctor and evacuate the endangered civilian settlement before Covenant forces overwhelm them all.” Last week, the final issue of Halo: Lone Wolf released and I […]
Read More Halo: Lone Wolf #4 – Review“Didact, if the Composer is our final hope to defeat the Flood… no Promethean would resist.” Let us consider an unfortunate truth: The Didact probably won’t be in Halo Infinite. We last saw the Didact in the The Next 72 Hours arc of Halo: Escalation, which, puzzlingly, concluded with him being Composed – despite stating […]
Read More Why the Didact CAN be Composed and WON’T be in Halo InfiniteOh, hello! It’s been about a month since Halo: Renegades released and Kelly Gay’s latest foray into the Halo universe has given the lore community plenty to discuss. As such, Dave and Dani of Forward Unto Dawn invited me onto their podcast (again!) to discuss some of the intriguing developments that came from this story – mysteries […]
Read More FUDcast #28 – Halo: Renegades, ‘Forerunner Dynamite Fishing’ (feat. Me!)“With Covenant forces closing in on their location, Spartan sharpshooter Linda-058 must rally the human settlers under a single essential cause: protect an AI that contains the bulk of human history. As new threats rise, the legendary supersoldier sees her mission parameters shift and finds that she will need help from the very man she […]
Read More Halo: Lone Wolf #3 – ReviewToday, Halo: Renegades – Kelly Gay’s sequel to her 2017 novella Halo: Smoke and Shadow – has finally released! Let me distill the essence of everything I’m about to say into less than a dozen words… This is the best Halo novel since Silentium.
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