narrative truth and reconciliation
I hope your calendars are marked for February 19th because we are just days away from the release of Halo: Renegades! We’re barely a quarter of the way into 2019 and we’ve already received a wealth of amazing Halo content – from the monthly releases of Anne Toole’s Lone Wolf comic series, to Cassandra Clarke’s deep-dive into the invasion of […]
Read More I Interviewed Kelly Gay! – A Primer for HALO: RENEGADESMIDNIGHT The ornate edifice of the Didact’s combat skin shook and sputtered as the pulse grenade overloaded his systems, and the Master Chief fell at the ancient Forerunner’s feet on the hard-light bridge. A moment lingered between them, from behind their cold masks – warrior-to-warrior, acknowledging that this battle was over, but the fight, their […]
Read More 343’s Growing Problem with Halo’s Endings“Brute chief, Jovus, believes himself the most dangerous brute in the galaxy. But Atriox’s fearsome legend has reached even the most distant UNSC outpost. When the two brutes come face to face, their clash shapes the future of the Banished.” Well, here we are… the final issue of Halo: Rise of Atriox has released, heralding not […]
Read More Rise of Atriox, Issue #5 – ReviewSixteen years… It occurs to me that Halo has been in my life longer than it hasn’t. I was seven when Halo 1 released and I’m twenty-three now. This series has been alongside me throughout the most formative years of my life. As I’m sure is the case for many of you, I simply cannot imagine what […]
Read More Celebrating 16 Years of Halo With 16 Obscure Lore Facts“Atriox looks to Decimus to find others who can help the Banished expand their tech and maintain their fleet as the number of Banished continues to grow. Decimus recalls a Kig-Yar scientist named Sig Raan who resides in a secret Covenant facility on the planet Otraak. Is Sig Raan still loyal to the Covenant or […]
Read More Rise of Atriox, Issue #3 – Review“Atriox, the legendary Brute under the command of the alien collective known as the Covenant, leads a Brute assault against a UNSC military outpost. Wave after wave of Brutes are lost attacking the human outpost defended by a group of UNSC marines, the ruthless Atriox soldiers on. As his comrades fall, Atriox’s hatred for the […]
Read More Rise of Atriox, Issue #1 – ReviewI don’t like Game of Thrones. I don’t like Game of Thrones and 343 wants Halo to last for thirty years. On its own, that sentence sounds extremely odd and the two things seem totally unrelated – and where exactly is Heinlein supposed to come into this? I’ve finally kicked it, gone off the rails; you […]
Read More On Halo and ‘Heinlein’s Premise’