In his blog, Eric Trautmann notes that author of the "Armor Testing" story in the Halo Graphic Novel, Jay Faerber, will sign your stuff and answer your questions at Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, WA.

After that, there's a Halo tournament with prizes!

Today's Halo Babies comic looks at ways Microsoft could solve the Xbox 360 shortage. Thanks mrsmiley.

We've been unfortunately remiss in mentioning the last few updates from Halo Babies; namely the featured artist feature, of which the first subject was Andrew-Sama; comics # 112 and 113, the latter being the Thanksgiving comic, and the opening of the

Voting has now begun in HBO's Haloween pumpkin-carving contest. Go get started, and be sure to click on the thumbnails and look at all the large images.

Baby Chief tries to cope with the removal of the Bungie.net leaderboards in today's Halo Babies strip. Thanks mrsmiley.

There's nothing like impending fatherhood to make you hungry... for brains. At least, that's what we think the moral of the story is over at Penny Arcade, where Stubbs the Zombie, out for the Xbox this week, is one of four games Tycho is hankering for:

Visions of Peter Jackson's obsession with rings of power taking over the Halo film in the latest Halo Babies. Thanks mrsmiley.

Blayne writes on the Marathon Scenario News page that a new (admittedly small) desktop picture from the Where Monsters Are In Dreams scenario is up. The project, a prequel to the popular Rubicon scenrio, is still looking for people to help clean it up for release.

Kelli "Pinkuh" Davis has put up issue #1 of her gaming comic, Lost The Lead. It's not up on the site just yet, but there is a tidbit from it in the HBO forum.

(So far the only Halo-specific content is in the splash screen on the front page, but we're confident it will creep in there before too long--Ed.)

Halo Babies today wonders if similarly shaped devices will suffer similar fates.

The Halo Babies this week have to deal with unexpected consequences of Grif's stupidity from the first season of Red vs Blue. The strip was the runner-up in the red vs blue contest. Thanks, mrsmiley.

Chris Bryan has recreated what looks like a few seconds from the Halo 2 announcement trailer with what one imagine might be Halo 3 quality graphics-- entirely from scratch (no extracted content). HBO has versions in QT and WMV formats. It's a small download, but quite impressive and well worth it. Thanks Louis Wu.