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Halo Graphic Novel In the Works
A new chapter in the Halo story was announced this past week, and it's not going to be a videogame this time. Marvel comics will be working with Bungie studios on a Halo graphic novel. The tome will include four short stories and a bevy of art from concept artists. Joystiq has overall impressions and some artwork, while Gamespot has details on the deal with Marvel. From the Gamespot article: "Marvel has said they will feature signature characters and weapons and be set against a backdrop involving the alien races of the Covenant and the Flood. Perhaps more interesting to comic fans is the roster of talent secured to put words and images on the page. Beyond renowned French comics artist Moebius, the Halo graphic novel will also feature the talents of Phil Hale, Ed Lee, Tsutomo Nihei, Jay Faerber, Andrew Robinson, Simon Bisley, and Lee Hammock."
So the second issue will finish halfway through without resolving anything?
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Could have sworn it said "holo-novel" and was very confused...
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I read this title as "Holographic Novel In the Works". Now, that could be sorta cool.
(Although the classic Illuminatus Trilogy comes close, in that cutting the book in half loses surprisingly little information, which as you may recall is one of the characteristics of a hologram. But real holograms would be even cooler.)
Instead of the ad-laden websites of Joystiq and Gamespot, go directly to the source.
/. get some sort of kickback for sending people to see ads?
Why the dancing around these middleman sites that contain no additional information or insight? Does
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Is it going to be in the third-person or first person shooter perspective?
Or my favorite new euphamism, "American manga" ::snickers::
("No, comic books are for children, this is an American manga, so it's OK for adults to read.")
This may be taken as a troll, but- What did I miss out on that everyone else seems to have found? I've played Halo for the PC and found it enjoyable, sure, but the amount of praise given to it seems far overblown. Was the Xbox game that different?
The Halo novels were great! Personally, I didn't like the video game, but I really liked the story and the three novels (I think that's all there is) were fantastic. I have high hopes for these "comic books." As far as the semantic difference between a graphic novel and a comic book, as one other poster asked, is about 100-200 pages.
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
Seems like a good time to mention the great animation done using Halo over at Red vs Blue:
http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php
... the Doom comic?
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/
That one sets a pretty high bar. I can only hope a Halo is half as good.
Isn't Red vs Blue a Halo graphic novel?
Man, this project would be too easy. You'd be able to just repeat the same pages several times over each chapter until the characters move onto a different terrain type.
I have to admit, the first book was ok.
After that, I got 30 pages into the 2nd when I felt like I had a morman parrot sitting on my shoulder, telling me morman-ism was the way to god.
0_o Im not religious at all personally. That whole deductive reasoning thing and all.
Anywho, a book about Halo? I'd much rather watch that video of that kid playing halo throw a fit when he dies.
i thought the same thing when hearing the crap about the bidding for the Halo movie: wtf? Halo, while fun to play, has a very flimsy story. but even worse for expansion into movie/novel/comic/whatever, is that the main character is one-dimensional... at best. he's got to be the least interesting character ever. basically no back story, no motivation, no personality, no vulnerability. i mean, he doesn't even really have a name! he's just a cyborg warrior who unceasingly is ready to fight and occasionally spits out a painfully dumb platitude. despite his technological advancement, he obviously lacks a cliche detector... his cheezy voice acting seems to be a synthesis of every war b-movie actor ever.
when i first heard that Halo was so amazing, i assumed it would have a deep, interesting story with an actualy human element, like most games do now. Halo is way behind the times in that regard. ever since at least Star Wars, mostt robots have had more personality that the Master Chief does.
the job of translating him into a movie or book or whatever is a writer's worst nightmare.
there is only the door, the door, the door.
HL2 right now is special, but give it a year or two and it'll be run of the mill
Exactly.
So many games now have taken the good ideas from Halo that Halo itself isn't as great as it used to be, relatively. The same can be said for Doom.
But, Halo did a very good job on gameplay and weapon balance, and was actually fun to play. The same can be said for Doom.
And, I still believe the Halo campaign was a work of art.
Of course, the main complaint is that it's repetitive -- you know what? That isn't always so bad. If you're going to give me a room that I can stealth through and melee everything in it without alerting them, it helps to have some other nearly-identical rooms so that I can get good at them before moving on.
But, take it in its context to understand how good a game it was. There really was nothing like it at the time. Not on the PC, either.
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You're right. You know why?
PC games don't assume you're retarded. They assume you can learn a little something about servers and ping times.
At least the other things that make Halo so accessible to morons don't get in the way. The constant "Press Y to dual-wield" messages don't prevent me from just holding Y as I run over the weapon. But the multiplayer element makes it impossible for me to find and remember specific servers, or find a server playing a specific map, or to find a group of people playing a 3 on 4 game, so that I can join next round for a 4 on 4 game.
Oh, and it charges me $5/mo for the privelage of being so restricted.
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Now correct me if I'm wrong (everyone usually does) but Halo bears a very close resemblence (at least in the game) to Larry Nivens Ringworld story. I don't know it there was an explicit connection and he was paid or whether the whole ring-word/Ringword thing was pure coincidence. I can however see a very close resemblence to a contemporary courtcase being undertaken by one Dan Brown.
I must be old. I thought "Graphic Novel" was the term people used when they weren't comfortable admitting they read comics.