Stuntmutt found a wealth of material in the Halo 3 Trailer – check out today’s One One Se7en for some of his musings.

Heh – DHalo points out a short vid over at G4TV.com, illustrating the brawl they expected to take place last week at E3. (Looks like they were pretty spot-on, actually.)

Wow – I hate neglecting stuff, though it happens all the time. Elnea has drawn a few new images (including along-the-way sketches)… and I simply let ’em go. No more, though – they’ve been corralled up and posted on her Gallery page here. You can find a powerful vision of the Chief (and an in-progress version), along with a poster made for a breast cancer run (and one, no two, progress sketches). Finally, there’s a fun sketch of her fellow RvB’er Oboecrazy, starring in her very own movie! Check ’em out.

A Jolly Old Soul sent along an interesting tidbit for your perusal – a comparison between the Halo 3 trailer and an older cinematic work. He clearly says he’s not accusing Bungie of stealing – but the visual similarity is definitely intriguing. Check it out!

Duo stopped by our forum to point out a new Halo-related w00tness – great art, and a nice WoW crossover! Go read.

DropShock Episode 15 is now avilable for download – an hour and a half of stuff like discussion of the Halo 3 announcement, Gravemind’s Poem, and the 2007 Halo marketing machine. Go listen.

After a really, REALLY long hiatus (Page 25 was released in November, 2004), SESpider restarted Miniature Halo – you can find Page 26 and Page 27 in our archives. (To be fair, 26 was actually posted on our forum 2 weeks ago – it’s just been a really, really busy 2 weeks.)

There’s a note on our forum about a tournament in Rahway, NJ coming up on June 10 – details (including directions, prizes, and the like) can be found in the post. It’s a Rumble Pit FFA with plenty of goodies to go around – check it out!

A relatively old face has reappeared and stepped into the shoes of previous forum posters with not only the inquisitiveness but the creative drive to help the community visualize the clues that Bungie has dropped. In this case, Geoff Chang (of POA infamy) has used Google Earth as well as his own creative skills to try to figure out just where the heck the Forerunner Artifact, the centerpiece of the Halo 3 announcement trailer, is located. We’ve been told by Bungie to not expect any Marathon imagery in the artifact’s structure, but regardless of that, nice work Geoff!

UPDATE: And another example of how the old regulars are truly worthy of being called ‘regulars’, Ape Man has come out of hiding to offer some corrections to Geoff’s musings. Regardless of how this all ends, THIS is what the forum is all about. Intelligent discussion that neither stretches credibility nor resorts to name-calling when folks are called on the veracity of their claims. We’re doing Hamish proud, I tellsya.

Back from E3, you would think we would be thanking the fine folks at Bungie for some awesome hookups, or the local guys in L.A. who helped us save on hotel and travel fare.

Well, you would think wrong. Who we should really thank is our partners who put up with our shenanigans during this crazy time of the year. So in no particular order, from all of us b.org folks that attended E3, we’d like to thank Dana, Frieda, Becky, Michelle (esp. her!), and an abused copy of National Geographic (think about it people).

Stuntmutt put together a special Sunday strip to celebrate a fun piece of news – check the One One Se7en page.

There are 8 billion other tidbits in our inboxes (and more on the forum)… but it’s Mother’s Day here in the US, and it’s time to spend some serious quality time with two important mothers in my life – the mother of my children, and the mother of ME – so Halo news is gonna have to wait. Don’t forget to tell your mother you love her. Meantime – one last tidbit today (check the next news post).

Laird noticed a new card for the Halo Graphic Novel at a local comic shop… according to the shop owner, interest is huge. I’m intrigued by the 99 cent preview comic, due out in a couple of weeks – I hadn’t heard about that!

Interesting… Red Leader decided he could hear definite similarities between Siege of Madrigal (a song Marty composed for Myth, and then included in Halo as an easter egg) and Unforgotten (a track on the new Halo 2 Soundtrack Volume 2). He overlaid them, roughly, tweaking the tempo a bit on Siege… but I definitely hear where he’s coming from. See if you agree!

Weekly Fanfic update is a couple of days later than usual, due to E3 and some really unpleasant experiences on airplanes – but it’s up now. 23 new pieces. Go read. (To the two idiots (you know who you are) who wrote to bitch that it wasn’t posted before now – keep a sharp eye on the content you DO submit; there might be some subtle editing in the future. No, not really – I’d never do that – but you guys really are jerks for not even bothering to read the front page to see if there might be a reason the update was delayed. And because of you, i’m instituting a new policy: Fiction updates will continue to be on Friday, unless something comes up that keeps me from being able to post. If the update is NOT on Friday, and someone writes to complain that their piece hasn’t been posted, not only will I delete the piece they’re asking about, but I’ll ban that username from posting to the section again. (This won’t keep you from changing your username, but it WILL stop you from continuing any ongoing series.) Seriously – you guys, as a group, are the biggest PITAs I’ve ever dealt with, anywhere. And that’s my rant for today.)

Home. Exhausted. Crashing. Before I go, though: if you go back and grab the Halo 3 Press Kit from Xbox.com, you’ll find that it’s grown in size from 70 mb to just over 100 – the added space is filled with Master Chief cutouts (the MC with no background image), Halo 3 and Bungie logos, and high-res versions of the storyboards up at Bungie.net. Awesome stuff. Thanks, Deimos. Now, bed…