PsH Bling decided to make his Legendary Helmet a little more personalized; first her removed the plastic liner (so that it fit on his head), and then started in on the paint job (pic 1 | pic 2). He’s thinking about adding LEDs soon.(Louis Wu 14:52:26 UTC)

Here are the Halo-related comics we’ve heard about in the last couple of days:

• The Catfish released 2501 Episode 79 yesterday – thanks, urk.
• We mentioned Part 1 of the finale for Chaos Theory on Wednesday – since then, Adam Susskind has released Part 2 (Horizon’s Finale), Part 3 (Some Kind of Therapy), and today Part 4 (The End). The Finale is… final.

That’s it! Update: Bloogyo jumped in a little late with Rat’s Nest Episodes 22-1 through 22-4 (see his post for links).(Louis Wu 14:46:18 UTC)

Five new pieces are now up in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 14:37:51 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has not let Halo anime or new fan portals get in her way of bringing you fun pics to caption – it’s Friday, so go caption!(Louis Wu 14:04:17 UTC)

Willy stopped in to announce that CE United has interviewed Team Killjoy, the crew who won first place in Bryan Simon’s song contest. (Louis Wu 14:03:40 UTC)

2900d4u noticed some news at the Halo Wars site – looks like they’re changing up the Matchmaking buckets a bit. Swing by either his post or the HW front page for details.(Louis Wu 14:03:05 UTC)

For those hoping that Neill Blomkamp would use the upcoming District 9 as a springboard to relaunch his shelved Halo movie… sorry. /Film’s David Chen caught up with Blomkamp at Comic-Con yesterday, and asked about the possibilities… Blomkamp’s done with Halo. Go read the article for full details. Thanks, BARBARIC RAGE.(Louis Wu 13:06:22 UTC)

A quick link roundup relating to yesterday’s Halo panel discussion at the San Diego Comic-Con:

• The event was live-blogged by IGN and G4TV (thanks, 2900d4u)
• The trailer that showed on GTTV last night is now available online on GameTrailers (and elsewhere, of course, but since they’re all stealing it from GT, I’m just linking to the original)
• There’s Firefight play footage from the Microsoft booth at YouTube and GameVideos (thanks, Kibbles)
• NeoGAF’s Voltron64 wrote up his experiences of the day
• If you log into Xbox LIVE, and visit the ‘Inside Xbox’ section, the current ‘Major’s Minute’ feature has Major Nelson interviewing Frank O’Connor about both Halo Legends and Waypoint – a nice 60-second overview of the pair. (Thanks, Domino Theory.)

Our forum is chock-full of discussion about the Legends trailer, Waypoint, and the future of the Halo franchise. Funniest exchange of the night: Jayshum posted an image that summed up his (negative) feelings… and Frankie replied, Frank-style. Update: Gah, I totally forgot to include the multi-day coverage from Teabag Prevention’s Jake108! Swing by and see what he has to offer.(Louis Wu 13:01:29 UTC)

Jon Weisnewski is a test lead at Bungie – and it seems he likes to break people. Go check out the latest ‘Breaking In’ article on Bungie.net to see how he got where he is, and what he does when he’s NOT breaking people. (Louis Wu 22:33:27 UTC)

Looks like IGN is live-blogging the Halo panel at SDCC – in about two hours from the writing of this post. If you can’t be there, this might be the next best thing. (Thanks, CaptainTony.)(Louis Wu 21:33:59 UTC)

JeSteR 343 stopped in with word of the tournament held last weekend for the family of Megan Maxwell – over $1000 was raised. They’ve got some t-shirts left over (he’s got pics) – if you want one, you’d pay him for shipping (and whatever else you feel like donating), he’d send you one. He’s trying to find out if there’s enough interest to set this up. More details in the post!(Louis Wu 19:57:11 UTC)