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At this past week’s New York Comic Con 09 (February 8, 2009), Marvel announced that it will have two new Halo comics in store for fans this year. Neither of which will feature Master Chief but, instead, focus on expanding the overall Halo universe.

The first of the two planned mini-series, titled Halo: Helljumpers, is based on the upcoming stand-alone expansion, Halo 3: ODST (Recon), which will center on the elite Orbital Drop Shock Troopers that have regularly been featured in past Halo Xbox titles.

Halo: Helljumpers is planned as a five-issue series and will be written by Peter David (Dark Towers/She-Hulk), with illustrations by Eric Nguyen (Heroes Graphic Novel).

The second Halo series is known as Halo: Spartan Black. This series will focus on a squad of elite Blacks Ops Spartans. This four issue mini-series will be written by Fred Van Lente (Hercules) with art by Francis Portela (Wolverine: First Class).

Back in August, 2007, Marvel Comics released Halo: Uprising, a four-part miniseries that was meant to be a prequel to the September 2007 release of Halo 3. While sales for Uprising were high, the final issue has yet to be released.

Halo 3: ODST, the game is due to be released in September, 2009, while the book is slated for a Summer 09 release (hopefully the whole thing will be released before the game). Halo: Spartan Black is due to be released sometime winter 2009.

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