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Halo: Blood Line, formerly known as Halo: Spartan Black, is an upcoming four-part comic series about a team of stranded SPARTAN-II commandos before the Battle of Reach in mid-2552. ^[1]. It is set to be released in December 2009. It is written by Fred Van Lente and will be penciled and inked by Francis Portela as well as colored by Ulises Arreola.

Official Synopsis

"Blood Line is also a pre-"Halo: Combat Evolved" story, focused on a small Black Ops sabotage and intelligence fire team of Spartans assigned to the [[|Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]], the Office of Naval Intelligence. While on a top-secret mission in enemy space, their ship crashes on a remote moon along with a Covenant cruiser. When a mysterious entity that has lurked on the moon for millions of years threatens both groups, Spartans and Covenant have to forge an uneasy alliance to take down the common threat ... but not all humans and aliens can suddenly start treating the other like allies.."

— Fred Van Lente

Issue #1 Summary

Main article: Halo: Blood Line Issue 1

"Based on the Best-Selling X-Box Game! The Spartan team codename: Black is the top-secret unconventional warfare unit of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence, engaging in sabotage and assassination missions deep inside Covenant space. But when this quartet of super soldiers is shot down over a desolate moon along with a Covenant Cruiser, humans and aliens will have to forge an uneasy alliance against a common foe before an eons-old threat destroys them both!^[2]"

— IGN article

Appearances

Characters

"Team Black", a top-secret team of SPARTAN-II commandos.
Iona, an AI construct assigned to the team.
Thon, a Sangheili
Reff

Locations

Unnamed Moon

Vehicles

Trivia

The armor the Spartans wear in the series appears similar to the MJOLNIR Mk. VI, which was not in use by the time the comic takes place. As stated by Frank O'Connor, this armor is a "skunkworks prototype" produced in Songnam, Korea, explaining its unique appearance.^[3]

Sources

[1] NYCC 09: Halo Returns to Marvel

[re-2] ttp://comics.ign.com/articles/102/1027154p1.html

[3] ttp://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=941695

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-'''''Halo: Blood Line''''', formerly known as '''''Halo:&nbsp;Spartan Black''''',&nbsp;is an upcoming four-part comic series about a [[Blood Line|team]] of stranded [[SPARTAN-II]] Commandos before the [[Battle of Reach]] in [[2552|mid-2552]] <ref>[http://comics.ign.com/articles/952/952434p1.html NYCC 09: Halo Returns to Marvel]</ref>. It is set to be released in December [[2009]]. It is written by [[Fred Van Lente]] and will be penciled and inked by Francis Portela as well as colored by Ulises Arreola.
+'''''Halo: Blood Line''''', formerly known as '''''Halo:&nbsp;Spartan Black''''',&nbsp;is an upcoming four-part comic series about a [[Team Black|team]] of stranded [[SPARTAN-II]] commandos before the [[Battle of Reach]] in [[2552|mid-2552]]. <ref>[http://comics.ign.com/articles/952/952434p1.html NYCC 09: Halo Returns to Marvel]</ref>. It is set to be released in December [[2009]]. It is written by [[Fred Van Lente]] and will be penciled and inked by Francis Portela as well as colored by Ulises Arreola.
 ==Official Synopsis==
-{{quote|Blood Line is also a pre-"[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]" story, focused on a small Black Ops sabotage and intelligence fire team of Spartans assigned to the [[ONI]], the Office of Naval Intelligence. While on a top-secret mission in enemy space, their ship crashes on a remote moon along with a Covenant cruiser. When a mysterious entity that has lurked on the moon for millions of years threatens both groups, Spartans and Covenant have to forge an uneasy alliance to take down the common threat ... but not all humans and aliens can suddenly start treating the other like allies..|Fred Van Lente}}
+{{quote|Blood Line is also a pre-"[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]" story, focused on a small Black Ops sabotage and intelligence fire team of Spartans assigned to the [[|Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]], the Office of Naval Intelligence. While on a top-secret mission in enemy space, their ship crashes on a remote moon along with a Covenant cruiser. When a mysterious entity that has lurked on the moon for millions of years threatens both groups, Spartans and Covenant have to forge an uneasy alliance to take down the common threat ... but not all humans and aliens can suddenly start treating the other like allies..|Fred Van Lente}}
 == Issue #1 Summary ==
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 == Appearances ==
 ===Characters===
-*"[[Team Black]]", a top-secret team of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II]] commandoes.
+*"[[Team Black]]", a top-secret team of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II]] commandos.
 *[[Iona]], an [[Artificial Intelligence|AI construct]] assigned to the team.
+*[[Thon]], a [[Sangheili]]
+*[[Reff]]
 ===Locations===
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 == Trivia ==
-*On 21 September 2009, with early Marvel solicitations, it's was learned that the title of the limited series was changed from Halo: Spartan Black, to Halo: Blood Line.
+*The armor the Spartans wear in the series appears similar to the MJOLNIR Mk. VI, which was not in use by the time the comic takes place. As stated by [[Frank O'Connor]], this armor is a "skunkworks prototype" produced in [[Seongnam|Songnam]], [[Korea]], explaining its unique appearance.<ref>http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=941695</ref>
-*The armor the Spartans wear in the series appears similar to the MJOLNIR MK.VI, which shouldn't have been in use by the time the comic takes place. As stated by [[Frank O'Connor]], this is merely an aesthetic change and not a canonical appearance of the MK.VI as many have believed.<ref>http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=941695</ref>
 ==See Also==