Written by PETER DAVID
Art & Cover by ERIC NGUYEN
NEW STORY! NEW CREATIVE TEAM!
Comics legend Peter David and up-and-coming artist Eric Nguyen bring a whole new HALO story to life! When the colony planet Ariel sends out a mysterious distress signal, it's up to the UNSC's elite, highly skilled special-ops Marines, the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers from the 105th, to find out what's happening. Also known as ODSTs or "Helljumpers", these soldiers are some of the toughest in the galaxy...and some of the roughest as well. When the distress signal comes, two Helljumpers will find themselves at the center of the mystery on Ariel, and before it's solved, they'll have to put their friendship-and their lives-on the line...
Date Available: 07/22/2009 BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS
Only a fan of video games that have playing cards (give me solitaire), I know nothing about Halo, the videogame. Yet I do enjoy, mostly, movies and comics about the games. Halo takes place in the future, where mankind is spreading across the galaxy only to find an alien collective called the Covenant that doesn’t like to share. A few special-ops shock troopers, the Helljumpers, get a mission to check out the Covenant on a distant planet. Sounds like it has been done before, but Peter David jacks it up with fisticuffs and plain ‘ol mystery. The art works, mostly, and the question about Covenant’s modus operandi, at the end, leaves a great cliffhanger. I’ll be buying #2.
