looks great for only 2 hours of work...really love your stuffs

Hehe, thanks Kitty =^-^=

Real sci-fi roman covers ipoke.... o.0

Heh, eventually maybe :3 looking at how the franchise has grown, I wish I had had the opportunity to work on Halo, book covers or otherwise X3

That would be wonderful... Hey, they NEED you !!!! ^^ ^^ ^^

HAH, I wish! XDDD

Hab das Buch nie gelesen, ich finde das Bild aber trotzdem klasse!

It's a great read, I enjoy reading it anyways :) So far all the halo books, except the second one, have had some great and thrilling stories.

Seconded, other than the "How the F### did Johnson survive Halo" subplot, I'd rather just play the game. Which I did... over and over and over and over etc...

Hahah, I think I have to play HALO1 and 2 again, too. I still have to buy the third game but I´m gonna buy other games before that... ^^

I'd advise you to buy Halo 3 some time soon, just for the epic ending on the story....although, well...who knows, it's probably not the ending after all X3 *hint, hint*

Marathon much?

Ah I see. I´ve never read books wich base on games. But if you say they´re good maybe I´ll read some day. (but I have to admit that I don´t read books often lol)

The second one suffered from re-itteration of the game, which is always difficult for a writer, without seeming like he's just re-telling the old story, so I can't say I fault the author for the failure of the book >.>

Not really blaming the writer, the parts not from the game were the only good thing in the book. It would have been better if the retelling of the game had been skipped altogether.

*shrug* There'd be better ways to write the game again, but I guess it's just they way it is >.>

I personally liked the scene where the author mentioned how that lone marine made it to the key index by himself with only a shotgun and a couple of grenades. Sad that he didn't make into the room though, but still... BY HIMSELF!

As for how Sgt. Johnson made it out in one piece, it's better shown in the Halo artbook/comic mashup from a few years back. That made more sense than the books did.

And you did this in two hours? What would you be able to do in like a whole day?

XD Yeah, that guy was kinda cool, but the rest of the book was kinda stale >.O

I'd have to find that stuff ... we austrians never get propper background stuff for our games :<

awesome work! could be a cover for the book!

Heh, it'd be a spoiling cover....to an extent. Thanks though :3

wow butiful work here ipoke

Thanks =^-^=

your welcome sorry for the typo ^^;

<3 that book. Looks fantastic.

Thank you :3 glad a fan can appreciate it

coolio

^^

Crazy beautiful work dude

Thanks Koh :3 how have you been?

Just hanging in, time are tough.

Haaa, love your MOvember meme icon! XD

Snowrose made it for me =^-^=

OMG! I read that book and loved it!

At first I was sceptical about it, but after having read through it, I was impressed by what Nylund managed to make of it

Dude, Ghosts of Onyx was such a good story, this art does it justice.

it's beautiful.

Thank you very much =^-^=

very very nice!

Read 4 books, huge halo fan here. Thanks for the pic

Read the first three and this one, gonna have to look around to find the last two, Cole Protocol and Contact Harvest

I didn't know you were a Halo guy. While I'm more of a Call of Duty guy, I still love Halo's original story. Nice work, I always wondered what happened to the Spartans on Onyx.

Heh, personally I'm girly like excited about CoD: MW2 coming out in a week XD

I like dhalo for what it was, designs, story, everything, but most of all I think I liked the universe it was set in...then again, personally I could do with Halo having the same amount of customizability that CoD4:MW offers X3

Yeah, I stopped playing Halo because Call of Duty just seemed a lot more realism, but Halo did have a good story for the most part. Super soldiers for the win!

XD You want realism, I'll point you twoards games like Project Reality or ArmA :3 PR is one of my personal favorites

Soldier: Oh look! I found Pokemon stadium!

XD the hell did that come from!?

Well the dome reminded me of the Pokemon Stadium dome XD

SPEE armor. Ghosts of Onyx is one of the better books. I loved it

So far, I felt Nylund wrote the best books of the series

Hands down.

He may as well make the damn movie XP

I'd hope he will, but I heard bad things about it >.<

They keep scrapping it for budget issues. Its lame

Which is weird...how can they have budget issues with a Halo movie when they managed to make a movie about GI Joe >.>

Cuz if G.I. Joe sucks no one cares. If Halo sucks the world will implode

Indeed X3

:O

This is absolutely fantastic. :D Huge fan of the Halo story, currently on the 5th book (which I need to find :B), myself and have the 6th one sitting on my window sill waiting for me.

I still have to look around for 5 and 6

Nylud is a master of the Halo'verse. Though I can't wait to see Greg Bear's take. Nice work!

We'll see, won't we X3

Thanks :3

Ghosts Of Onyx was probably my fav out of the series, then again, im still working on Cole Protocol XD

As I said before, Cole Protocol and Contact Harvest are still missing from my collection, but I enjoyed all the books by Nylund :3

Honestly, those books are only okay at best. Contact Harvest is one huge coincidence, however gives an interesting view into Covenant life within the ranks. Cole protocol is better, if you're into guerrilla spartan combat.

*chuckles* I'll read both, just because I want the back story for me...but what I really loved were the terminals in Halo 3 which essentially told you the story of the downfall of the forerunners

Halo drawing? Autofaved. High quality Halo drawing? Instafaved.

Anything with Halo in it is automatically good, even One One Se7en, as sad as that sounds.

The hell is that? >.>

One One Se7en? It's Stuntmutt's comic. three panels of Halo-based puns so bad even the characters in the comic know it.

Ah yeah, that thing X3 I kinda like strip 25 but I never really got into reading it

Forerunner architecture for the win, man. Looks great.

Thanks ^^

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
SO AWSOME

THANK YOU! 0°_°0

Heh and I was reading the book in the bathroom before watching this pic :D instant fav.
Probably needed a slight distant upwards curve in the horizon but still the pic is neat.
Needs more Spartan III's ^.^

XD Coincidence?

Well, considdering that the Dyson sphere would have a curve of one degree every 2.6 Million Kilometers, I don't think you'd be able to see the distance rising a lot with atmospheric distortion, vapor etc.

Nice job!

You really think the skies in a Dyson Sphere would be blue?

Thanks

And...well, mostly I went with the description in the book, but considdering that the Dyson sphere has an atmosphere we can breath (i.e. Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbondioxide - which is the same composition we have on earth) and our sky is blue because od refracted light in said atmosphere, yes I belive it woiuldn't be far from logic to asume a Dyson Spheres sky would be blue

See, the question I wonder more about is, how are you going to simulate a night in a Dyson Sphere, block the Sun ;3?

lol good point. Just get everyone to close their eyes I guess.

looks like frikin' halo XD

Uhhhh, not following you o.O

you're either teasing him or you seriously don't know?

2 hours? teach me master!

Find me a location >.>

Is washington to far away XP

*cries* i not started it yet spoiler >.<

naw only joking ipoke its a brillient piccy love the detail you seem to always put in even when doing a speed work ^_^

though i do have the book and am about to start it once i have finished wintersmith

Heh, don't worry, I didn't spoil much, at least nothing you couldn't figure out yourself if you've ever heard of the idea of the shield worlds ;3

if its anything like one of the cole manuvers from fall of reach i can kinda guess XD

Hmm, I imagine the sphere as being empty but that probably wouldn't make much sense if it's meant to be used as a safe haven.

*nods* No, it wouldn't...how would you survive on blank surface? ;3 I mean...technically, the Halo rings could be bare too, just the system, but the forerunner decided to cultivate it, so I figured it'd just be logical they'd cultivate their Micro Dyson Sphere(s) (disregarding that it was in the description anyway)

It's been a couple years since I read the book. I read it in one sitting so by the 8th hour I just wanted to finish it.

Damn, I wish I could do that well for two hours.

How was the Ghosts of Onyx anyway?
I read the Fall of Reach and rather liked it. I read "The Flood" and was not too fond of it.

Ghosts of Onyx was great, definitely in line with Fall of Reach in terms of level of writing.

The Flood sucked big time X3 First Strike was okay though...interesting tale of how they would get back to Earth

Ok, thanks. It is good to hear that the series gets better. I will give it another try.

I wonder what the sequel will be like, supposedly there's one in the making

I just finished reading "Halo: First Strike." You were right, First Strike was MUCH better than The Flood (Though still not as good as Reach in my opinion). Ghosts of Onyx is the next in the series right?

At least in terms of publication, yes...

Alright then, looks like its another trip to Barnes And Noble!

Nice to see someone else who reads the books. I Was in your stream earlier.

Yes, well, considering what I#ve read about the later books, I'm beginning to loose faith in the series :<

referring to Halo Glassed lands? or wich? I have them all except for the second forrunner book I need to pick that one up still.

Nah, the Forerunner set and the background it creates for humanity <.< I chose to ignore that entirely because it's just.... bleh

The games have made me mad story wise on several occasions OUTside of HALO 1 because halo 1 was perfect <_<but there just so many things story wise in the other games that makes me cannon rage. As for the new halo 4 I am not getting it. I have 0 faith in 343 and I dont trust them. The books where nice but too many of them lately have been getting into this LETS MAKE the Spartans, these already super legendary soldiers, more Human like. Lets give them more feelings and explore thier emotions. #$%@ that...Thats how you ruin characters like Samus in Metroid other M. I really feel they are going to ruin Master chief, he was in a nice place the total badass set to sleep. I also dotn want to see his face, that was chiefs appeal as the BLANK canvas you put yourself in..

..hm looking back at all i have typed not sure where I had all this pent up at.

XDD Well, we all have something pent up inside us, eventually we find a vent and it turns into a rantgasm

To be fair, I did not mind the spartan humanization of Fall of Reach or Ghosts of Onyx. What I do mind is the lack of S.III characterization in REACH and/or that we did not get to play as the remaining S.IIs during REACH. Noble team consisting primarily of S.IIIs wih the exception of Jorge is just a dump on the original S.III concept. There surely would have been more S.IIs to go around that could have been on or be brought to reach, but even so, considering the age of Carter and the other Noble Members, they would have needed to be involved in Operation TORPEDO of which we know only two survived... fuck retconning of that sort <.<

As for H4LO, I will get it, simply because I want to know where they take it, but my issue is more general than just that of Master Chief. Admitedly, if MC does take his helmet off and we actually see his face, I might just go homicidal, but I'll leave that up to the future. My issue is that I'm afraid they'll take it down the forerunner books path. From what I understand, the new book series has established that humans were already around for a lot longer than our history records and that we were defeated by the Forerunner and de-evolved. I think Greg Bear might have been high on some shit and chanelled too much DUNE when he wrote that, because that just throws it all straight out of balance. As much as I hate humanocentric points of view in sci-fi games, which is also an issue I take with the Mass Effect games, the HALO series up until H3 offered a nice place for humanity. We evolved as our history records and we are the technologcial lowpoint of galactic civilization, with the possible exception of the Brutes perhaps (which have also been deformed ever since H2 and H3). Now we used to be some sort of empire and we "just can't remember" who we used to be or some shit like that and it just takes the bite of it <.<

Talk about pent up, this shit just annoys me to no end. I don't mind if they want to take a look at how MC ticks, I mean, for all we know they might really characterize him the way his kind of training would... i.e. an inhuman warrior with possibly the slightest hint of emotional attachment to nothing but other Spartans and Halsey - but involving Humans in Forerunner development and making us the latchkey centerpiece that had them fail at beating the Flood is just fucking insulting.