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Reclaimer Comic Origins
Reclaimer Comic was started October 23rd, 2007 by super fan Jim Stitzel(TTL Demag0gue). Reclaimer Comic is a fan fiction based off of the best selling X-Box 360 game Halo 3 by Bungie Studios. Jim Stitzel does not work for Bungie Studios, but says that he "just a fan of Bungie and of the Halo franchise like you. Reclaimer is merely a different approach to fan fiction to create a different view on the Haloverse." When asked about his inspiration for the "Reclaimerverse" Stitzel stated:
"A long while back, somewhere around the time Halo 3 first hit store shelves, there was a Bungie news item showing off three or four screenshots taken on High Ground. The challenge was issued for readers to take those screenshots and make some sort of short comic from them (I’ve since gone back and tried to find that news post in the archives, to no avail). To my knowledge, no one ever did, but the idea of using Halo 3 screenshots to write a comic stuck in my mind. I love to tell stories, I love the Haloverse, and I love comics and the visual medium. The idea for a comic just sat in the back of my mind for a couple of months and percolated while the beginnings of a story began to form. I knew I wanted something that didn’t center around the Master Chief and Cortana, so I needed a way to create a new hero – and the idea for an alternate Haloverse was born where the Master Chief still exists but is off doing his thing. This left room for other challenges, other villains, and other galactic crises. The Reclaimerverse is my take on a Haloverse, if events had happened a bit differently. It’s still basically the same place, but with some key alterations to open up a way for the Reclaimer to step forward as a new hero."
The comic itself is created using Photoshop CS3 and the image capture feature within Halo 3. As to where the comics fit into the Haloverse, Stitzel stated:
"The Reclaimer storyline takes place just before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. In other words, the Halo network has not been discovered – yet. However, due to the conflict with both the Covenant and the Flood, human technology has advanced that the Reclaimer program is actually the Spartan VI program, and the Blackhammer (a.k.a. Viper) program was the Spartan VII program. In future story arcs, I may well explore the events of the Halo video games, but with the twist of events from the Reclaimerverse."
The Reclaimer Comic is frequently featured on the Bungie Blog at Bungie.net, and gets hundreds of hits per update. The comic is updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but the site has a dedicated forum with constant updates.
