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In a conversation between Bungie employee [[Martin O'Donnell]] and Hoffmeier on the ''halo.bungie.org'' forums, O'Donnell joked that "[...] Jun tripped and broke his neck on the way to escorting Halsey off Reach [and] he's dead." Hoffmeier then drew a short comic strip, named "FoA- THE END", depicting the event, and at the same time, referenced the difficulty of achieving the "If They Came to Hear Me Beg" achievement, as well as many players' confusion upon Jorge calling Halsey "ma'am" with an English accent, which sounds like "mom" in American English.<ref>[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1100508 '''HBO Forums''': ''Well since you outed me: FoA- THE END *IMG'']</ref> According to Levi Hoffmeier, he was approached by 343 Industries about publishing the graphic novel officially but they ended up putting the project on hold.<ref>[https://twitter.com/LeviWasTaken/status/575369373734412288 '''Twitter''': ''LeviWasTaken'']</ref> | In a conversation between Bungie employee [[Martin O'Donnell]] and Hoffmeier on the ''halo.bungie.org'' forums, O'Donnell joked that "[...] Jun tripped and broke his neck on the way to escorting Halsey off Reach [and] he's dead." Hoffmeier then drew a short comic strip, named "FoA- THE END", depicting the event, and at the same time, referenced the difficulty of achieving the "If They Came to Hear Me Beg" achievement, as well as many players' confusion upon Jorge calling Halsey "ma'am" with an English accent, which sounds like "mom" in American English.<ref>[http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1100508 '''HBO Forums''': ''Well since you outed me: FoA- THE END *IMG'']</ref> According to Levi Hoffmeier, he was approached by 343 Industries about publishing the graphic novel officially but they ended up putting the project on hold.<ref>[https://twitter.com/LeviWasTaken/status/575369373734412288 '''Twitter''': ''LeviWasTaken'']</ref> | ||
On December 11, [[2011]], Jessica Shea, as part of the Weekend Webcomic section on Halo Waypoint, posted the first page of ''Halo: A Fistful of Arrows'',<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/post/2011/12/11/Weekend-Webcomic-A-Fistful-of-Arrows-p1-.aspx '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Weekend Webcomic: A Fistful of Arrows p.1'']</ref> and it continued to appear intermittently since then. This, however, does not mean that 343 Industries has accepted it as canon material. 343 Industries franchise writer Jeff Easterling (the namesake of one of the ODSTs in the graphic novel) later made a reference to ''A Fistful of Arrows'' in a Canon Fodder blog post, stating that ''"the details of [Jun's] survival and escape from Reach remain buried under fistfuls of black ink and red tape".''<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/ | On December 11, [[2011]], Jessica Shea, as part of the Weekend Webcomic section on Halo Waypoint, posted the first page of ''Halo: A Fistful of Arrows'',<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/post/2011/12/11/Weekend-Webcomic-A-Fistful-of-Arrows-p1-.aspx '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Weekend Webcomic: A Fistful of Arrows p.1'']</ref> and it continued to appear intermittently since then. This, however, does not mean that 343 Industries has accepted it as canon material. 343 Industries franchise writer Jeff Easterling (the namesake of one of the ODSTs in the graphic novel) later made a reference to ''A Fistful of Arrows'' in a Canon Fodder blog post, stating that ''"the details of [Jun's] survival and escape from Reach remain buried under fistfuls of black ink and red tape".''<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-clarity-grace '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Clarity & Grace'']</ref> On September 14, 2017, on the seventh anniversary of ''Halo: Reach'', Easterling once again gave recognition to ''A Fistful of Arrows'' and mentioned that the graphic novel is ''"not technically canonical, but ONI has also covered up a whole lot of things that didn’t technically exist."''<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/infusion-invasion ''Halo Waypoint News - Infusion Invasion'']</ref> | ||
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