#012: Face Time

[The Wooster]

Waitasecond!

Wouldn't this make more sense with just about any other shooter?

I loved the joke but Halo 1 kinda inverts both tropes as you play as pretty much the only "faceless" character, who wears a helmet that hides his face and Johnson is one of the few characters that survive the game.

Come here and let me school ya', boy.

Johnson actually dies in CE. They brought him back in 2 because he was a fan favorite. There's a little cutscene in Anniversary edition that references this.

 

[immortalfrieza]

The Irony Gods now dictate that Mr. Pendable will live the entire run of the comic, solely to subvert the myriad "this guy dies quick" tropes that this very comic is referencing.

 

[Enzbe]

Waitasecond!

Wouldn't this make more sense with just about any other shooter?

I loved the joke but Halo 1 kinda inverts both tropes as you play as pretty much the only "faceless" character, who wears a helmet that hides his face and Johnson is one of the few characters that survive the game.

Come here and let me school ya', boy.

Johnson actually dies in CE. They brought him back in 2 because he was a fan favorite. There's a little cutscene in Anniversary edition that references this.

He does? Well, I didn't know that, as I only really played 1 & 2.
Of course I know the "Hug"-scene from the legendary ending but I thought that was just some non-canon joke.

It wasn't realy explained how he escaped, which was referenced in that one conversation in Halo 2.

Spoiler

The same goes for the Chief, if I remember correctly

Doesn't change what I said about wearing a helmet, as proven by the next page.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

So, he's A-Pendable, then?

No, he's "Alex Pendable", as in, "All Expendable". Which is also why his friends call him "Mook".

Oh, you're right!