There’s none announced other than “Mortal Dictata”. I’m sure there will be at least more novel release before Halo 5 comes out.
Not novels, but there is an ongoing comic series starting December 11th acting as a continuation of Spops, and the TV series.
Where are you getting that from Roberto?
I want more novels to readddd!
> Where are you getting that from Roberto?
>
> I want more novels to readddd!
If you mean about Escalation, I would say it is a continuation of Spartan Ops given how its advertising says the events of Halo 4 have impacted the Chief, Infinity and the galaxy, it seems to be after.
I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
> I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
> > Where are you getting that from Roberto?
> >
> > I want more novels to readddd!
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> If you mean about Escalation, I would say it is a continuation of Spartan Ops given how its advertising says the events of Halo 4 have impacted the Chief, Infinity and the galaxy, it seems to be after.
I thought he talked about the TV series… whoops.
I asked on twitter and they said yes. WooHoo!!!
> > I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
>
> Halo: Escalation
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Initiations was a huge disappointment for me. I will be tentatively hopeful it wont be as bad as Initiations.
At least the cover art isn’t as horrific as Initiations was.
> I asked on twitter and they said yes. WooHoo!!!
Source?
if i can figure out how to link ill link it.
> > if i can figure out how to link ill link it.
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> No worried, here it is.
Awesome, thanks.
And thanks OP for asking.
> > > I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
> >
> > Halo: Escalation
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> I’m not sure how I feel about this. Initiations was a huge disappointment for me. I will be tentatively hopeful it wont be as bad as Initiations.
>
> At least the cover art isn’t as horrific as Initiations was.
Oh dear god, please, please don’t let them turn the Arbiter into a damsel in distress that that bloody pathetic excuse for a Mary Sue has to go rescue… please… don’t do that to him…
> > > > I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
> > >
> > > Halo: Escalation
> >
> > I’m not sure how I feel about this. Initiations was a huge disappointment for me. I will be tentatively hopeful it wont be as bad as Initiations.
> >
> > At least the cover art isn’t as horrific as Initiations was.
>
> Oh dear god, please, please don’t let them turn the Arbiter into a damsel in distress that that bloody pathetic excuse for a Mary Sue has to go rescue… please… don’t do that to him…
Hopefully they also present Thel as being a bit more assertive in terms of what he intends to do about the current situation with the Covenant, how he intends to rebuild, how he intends to foster peace, etc. The way he was presented in Kilo 5 was kind of pathetic. He didn’t even appear to have any plans at all, let alone get a chance to voice them before Jul dominated him in front of all the Elders.
> > > > > I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
> > > >
> > > > Halo: Escalation
> > >
> > > I’m not sure how I feel about this. Initiations was a huge disappointment for me. I will be tentatively hopeful it wont be as bad as Initiations.
> > >
> > > At least the cover art isn’t as horrific as Initiations was.
> >
> > Oh dear god, please, please don’t let them turn the Arbiter into a damsel in distress that that bloody pathetic excuse for a Mary Sue has to go rescue… please… don’t do that to him…
>
> Hopefully they also present Thel as being a bit more assertive in terms of what he intends to do about the current situation with the Covenant, how he intends to rebuild, how he intends to foster peace, etc. The way he was presented in Kilo 5 was kind of pathetic. He didn’t even appear to have any plans at all, let alone get a chance to voice them before Jul dominated him in front of all the Elders.
Well, that’s what can happen when you hire an author to write your book series who openly boasts about not doing her research before writing for a franchise (as seen when Traviss turned Parangorsky into her soapbox avatar, soundly condemning Halsey for the S-II project, when said admiral was directly responsible for the S-III project, something with every single ethical issue of the S-II, plus a legion of others, and when Mendez also tried to condemn Halsey (when he was every bit as culpable) and tried to claim that the S-III project had no genetic selection criteria (something that is not only false, but that he would very much know was false, due to the fact that he was present at the meeting where said genetic criteria was decided upon)).
Realistically, Thel should be kept away from the fights by his bodyguards. He’s an important leader and Humanity’s greatest shield against the hostile covenant remnants (rather ironically) due to the fact that the Storm, Brutes, and the like, are also at war with him, and he’s got a much greater number of war assets at his disposal than the UNSC does (which makes ONI’s most recent attempts to more or less ensure that they reignite a war that the UNSC has no chance in hell of winning all the more baffling and makes one wonder if the inmates aren’t running the asylum at this point). However, while he should have a heavy guard and the first response upon attack should realistically be an attempt to get him out of the line of fire, in the event that is not possible, and the fight makes its way to him, what we should then see is a return of the Thel from Halo 2 and 3. That is to say, him hacking, blasting and slaughtering his way through his would-be assassins with some eloquent, warrior-philosopher variation of “You think you can take me down? I stared down the #%@%$ Gravemind kicked him in his metaphorical rear, and lived to boast about it! You are nothing but a warm up exercise to me!” and demonstrating why he was considered one of the few individuals in Halo that might have been able to make the Chief sweat in a one on one fight. Bonus points if an S-IV makes a remark about “being very glad he is on our side” or something to that effect.
I would like to see one leading up to the events of the next Halo game.
> > > > > > Well, that’s what can happen when you hire an author to write your book series who openly boasts about not doing her research before writing for a franchise
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> > > > > For the 3,078,875,976,401st time, she does do research, extensive deep research upon being signed on for a project, but she doesn’t allow herself to be familiar with a universe before hand to avoid any preconceived notions about that universe. Like this community.
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> > > > > She approaches it as a journalist, as impartially as possible. Her opinions are irrelevant, only those of the characters. Obviously this community can’t see that, but that isn’t her problem.
> For the 3,078,875,976,401st time, she does do research, extensive deep research upon being signed on for a project,
What does this extensive, deep research involve exactly? If it involves the methodology of treating every fictional universe as being the same through some fallacious analogy to treating every car as being the same due to the common parts with similar functions, then that isn’t research. That’s called being ignorantly presumptuous, before making a fool of yourself because you thought that Doctor Who was like WH40k in its thematic and tonal qualities, and that you could wing it with a factsheet and nothing more.
> but she doesn’t allow herself to be familiar with a universe before hand to avoid any preconceived notions about that universe. Like this community.
Reading the books and other source material cannot give you a preconceived notion about the fiction. If it were to be preconceived, then you would arrive at the conclusion having not read any of the source material first. If one’s research involved reading Halopedia or forum posts then that would be arriving at preconceived notions.
Did the author read the source material? No? So the preconceived notions would seem to be on the author’s part.
> She approaches it as a journalist, as impartially as possible. Her opinions are irrelevant, only those of the characters. Obviously this community can’t see that, but that isn’t her problem.
I think what the author does is less like a journalist interviewing multiple people for a more complete picture of the story and more like getting someone else to interview those people for them and then assembling a hodgepodge of third-hand information with all sorts of important pieces of info missing that they would have otherwise had because they didn’t conduct the interviews themsselves, and so couldn’t investigate the right issues and answers and so have no unique insight into anything.
Thus explaining the lack of sufficient details picked up from prior canon and the GAPING plotholes that one could fire a planet through.
> > I’ve been very busy so I must have missed something - but they’re continuing with another comic series next month?
>
> Halo: Escalation
Forgive me but… Is it just me or does that image is just lacking a unicorn in the background??