Halo: Blood Line

Halo: Blood Line is an upcoming four-part comic series about a team of stranded SPARTAN-II Commandos before the Battle of Reach in mid-2552. 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 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

Name Change
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.