Storyline: Uprising 1 of 4
Date: October 2007
Price: $3.99 US / $4.75 CAN
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Alex Maleev

Synopsis: The Eisner Award-winning team of superscribe Brian Michael Bendis and artist extraordinaire Alex Maleev unleash an epic story of mankind’s struggle against the alien threat of the Covenant. Picking up from the conclusion of blockbuster video game Halo 2, the must-read issue reveals how the Master Chief, while onboard a hostile ship headed towards Earth, is battling against Covenant forces! Intertwined with Master Chief’s interstellar one-man-war is the saga of a great American city’s rebellion and downfall, two disparate lives’ collision and shared fate, and the Convenant’s hunt for an ancient relic of untold power and value. With hope dwindling and the fate of humanity hanging by a thread, is there any chance for a future? Read this debut issue to start the journey into the Halo universe!

Opinion: Sigh. So… one of the biggest publishing houses in the comic book industry puts together a comic book based on one of the biggest video game franchises in history made by the biggest software company owned by one of the richest men in the world; not to mention a writer with name power… is it wrong of me to expect a mind-blowing comic experience?

Maybe it was.

See for yourself - I am hoping this series is enjoyable overall. Problem is, in my opinion, mini’s absolutely need to be captivating from issue one to the end.

One thing about the art - the pencils are great, but somewhere along the line something got messed up bad on every panel. The colors look washed out and dull, and the shading and lines are pretty messy. It can most likely be summed up as “style”; but it’s certainly not appealing to me.

The female human character… um… did anyone perusing along the sketch concepts ask “wtf?” ? I know I did.

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