Aeolian Hope
New Member
Hey, everyone. Not sure why I didn't think to post this here before - I'm just so used to thinking of the 405th as just for props and costumes. Anywho, to the post!
I would like to invite you to begin enjoying Aeolian Hope, the fan-made Halo webcomic. This is an ongoing series written, composed and storyboarded by myself, and drawn by the very talented Brian Welker (who also happens to be my fiance's son). We are both huge Halo fans, so we decided to team up, combine our talents and produce something relatively new among the pantheon of Halo fan projects. Levi Hoffmeier produced the absolutely stunning Halo comic series, A Fistful of Arrows, but that was a finite, contained run whereas ours is an ongoing, serialized story. I am not aware of any other Halo fan-made comic books or webcomics that are story driven and not humorous (if you know of any, please share them!).
Aeolian Hope takes place in 2540, smack in the middle of the desperate Human-Covenant War. Almost all Halo games and official lore focus on the SPARTAN super-soldiers, which were actually a very rare sight during the long war with the Covenant. Since they were such an overpowering force, we feel that this dilutes an understanding of how very desperate the conflict actually was for humanity. Thus, we have decided to focus on some of the ordinary soldiers who fought and died during this pivotal era. Aeolian Hope explores themes of hopeful realism and unity. It is the story of those who aren't blessed by luck.
We're 14 pages into the 1st issue already, with page 15 due to release this Friday. We are just a few pages shy of being halfway done with the entire 1st issue, a milestone we're very excited for! Like any webcomic, we post each new page as it is completed. Currently it's about a two week production cycle per page, and the comic updates every other Friday (note: Our artist will be on vacation for the month of June, so there is a short but planned hiatus coming up).
In addition, we also recently started a section that spotlights other members of the Halo fan community with features on significant fan projects. I post one new one a month along with our monthly update, so this will eventually grow into a pretty neat little database of Halo fan projects.
We sincerely hope you'll give this a read. Hopefully you enjoy it enough to follow the story as it unfolds!
I would like to invite you to begin enjoying Aeolian Hope, the fan-made Halo webcomic. This is an ongoing series written, composed and storyboarded by myself, and drawn by the very talented Brian Welker (who also happens to be my fiance's son). We are both huge Halo fans, so we decided to team up, combine our talents and produce something relatively new among the pantheon of Halo fan projects. Levi Hoffmeier produced the absolutely stunning Halo comic series, A Fistful of Arrows, but that was a finite, contained run whereas ours is an ongoing, serialized story. I am not aware of any other Halo fan-made comic books or webcomics that are story driven and not humorous (if you know of any, please share them!).
Aeolian Hope takes place in 2540, smack in the middle of the desperate Human-Covenant War. Almost all Halo games and official lore focus on the SPARTAN super-soldiers, which were actually a very rare sight during the long war with the Covenant. Since they were such an overpowering force, we feel that this dilutes an understanding of how very desperate the conflict actually was for humanity. Thus, we have decided to focus on some of the ordinary soldiers who fought and died during this pivotal era. Aeolian Hope explores themes of hopeful realism and unity. It is the story of those who aren't blessed by luck.
We're 14 pages into the 1st issue already, with page 15 due to release this Friday. We are just a few pages shy of being halfway done with the entire 1st issue, a milestone we're very excited for! Like any webcomic, we post each new page as it is completed. Currently it's about a two week production cycle per page, and the comic updates every other Friday (note: Our artist will be on vacation for the month of June, so there is a short but planned hiatus coming up).
In addition, we also recently started a section that spotlights other members of the Halo fan community with features on significant fan projects. I post one new one a month along with our monthly update, so this will eventually grow into a pretty neat little database of Halo fan projects.
We sincerely hope you'll give this a read. Hopefully you enjoy it enough to follow the story as it unfolds!