Reclaimer – A Halo 3 Comic

Sort of. Krevil sent me this YouTube video the other day. Apparently he obtained a Gold Elite Assault exclusive model from McFarlane toys and decided to repaint it as everyone’s favorite villain. The lighting’s not optimal, but it’s still wicked cool to see a Reclaimer character in the hands of a fan.

The polls are open for the 2009 Best of Halo Awards, and Reclaimer is up for Best Fan-Made Contribution again this year. Wanna show your support? Go vote! You’ve got a week to help put Reclaimer on top this year!

My buddy and Reclaimer fan BeardedPhantom is here for a visit for a couple of days and snapped a couple of pictures of me working on today’s comic (complete with canine companion). For those of you who have always wondered what it looks like while I’m building your favorite addiction, this brief gallery is for you.

I’ve been doing some thinking and planning the last several weeks, and I thought I’d take a moment to let you all in on my ultimate plans for Reclaimer. Basically, what I’ve decided is that I’m going to end the Reclaimer series right where I’d intended to back when I first started this comic. What this means is that Reclaimer will not run indefinitely, as I had most recently thought and expected but will have a very definite ending point. Now, mind you, the series end will not take place for several weeks yet and will, in fact, more than likely take another few months to complete. There are still a lot of loose ends to be brought together, a couple of Cavalcada to collect, mysteries to be revealed, and a super-villain to be faced down (for good or ill). Right now, I’m thinking that Reclaimer will close out its run somewhere in the vicinity of Comic #300, but that is by no means a definite thing at this point, as I don’t have concrete scripting completed that far ahead. So, for those of you who are hopelessly addicted, you still have plenty of time remaining to get your fix.

That said, one of the main reasons why I plan to end Reclaimer where I do is because I want to move on to other things—defined as another webcomic. I have been drawing and sketching almost every day for the last several weeks now, and I have long had a desire to start my own hand-drawn, hand-lettered webcomic that is of my own intellectual property. I do not have the time to run two webcomics concurrently, so something has to give. Reclaimer is based on a Microsoft IP, and so I am unable to do as much with Reclaimer as I would like. By launching a webcomic of my own design, I can branch out and do a lot more creatively. This webcomic idea has been percolating in the back of my mind for well over a year now, so I’m excited to be able to finally start putting it into action. If you want to stay abreast of updates, head over to Starchips and sign up for email updates. I’m hoping to get it officially off the ground sometime early in 2010.

If, by some miracle, I find that I am able to run two webcomics concurrently, then I certainly have plotlines that could continue the saga of our hero for a long time to come. I guess we’ll just have to see how things play out.