am I the only one that read original halo graphic novel? ONI did have war time propaganda officers.
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The collection is rounded out with "Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa", written by Bulletproof Monk and Winter Men creator Brett Lewis and drawn by another legend, Jean "Moebius" Girard, France's foremost comics illustrator, best known for his work on The Incal and Silver Surfer. The story is told from the point of view of a photographer working for the USNC shortly before the city of New Mombasa is attacked by the Covenant. He's got an interesting job: editing the forage of the war to make it look like the Coveneant isn't winning it, which at that point in the game series, it is.
Lewis' idea is fairly smart- show the mechanics of the war from a civilian/media perspective. The photographer thinks sugarcoating the war and creating propaganda is wrong, but from a strategic perspective as opposed to a moral one. Moebius' take on New Mombasa is the opposite of the barren world that appears in the game. It's a rainbow riot of colors, and its beauty accentuates the tragedy of its destruction by the Covenant. In fact, like "Breaking Quarantine", it suffers from being such a short story, because the photographer and his world are just interesting enough to explore further. Lewis' brilliant Winter Men was ostensibly a mystery series about a former Soviet superhero turned freelance detective, but the real meat of the story was the simple everyday life he lived in the collapsing modern Russia. "Second Sunrise" mines a similar vein, but it ends too soon, with a clichéd final twist. Still, it's a good story overall, and I wonder if it helped inspire the backstory the player uncovers throughout their New Mombasa travels in the excellent Halo 3 ODST.