Covenant

Screenshot: MicrosoftAlthough they didn’t appear in the original telling of the Fall of Reach as seen in the 2001, Noble Team—a squad of next-generation Spartan-III supersoldiers, the successors to the Spartan II program—were the primary protagonists of the version of the Fall of Reach depicted in Halo: Reach. There were six members of the team—Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Noble Six, Reach’s customizable player character—and spoiler, but unsurprisingly so given everything you’ve read here so far, all but one of…

Even though the Covenant are the other side of Halo’s ongoing conflict, the first season of Paramount+’s TV series largely represented them through a human proxy named Makee. With the upcoming second season, the coalition of alien races is set to become a more prominent threat, and that means they’ll be getting more proper screentime.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie Talking to Collider, series director Otto Bathurst revealed there’d be a pair of main characters on the Covenant side of the war. Season…

The Covenant of Water has been a phenomenal success in the US. It’s got great reviews and it has been selected by Oprah’s Book Club. I’ve noticed it being talked about a great deal in India — especially (but not only) among Malayalis since it’s about three generations of a Kerala Christian family over seven decades. This is, of course, based only on anecdotal evidence, but I can’t remember the last time so many Indian readers were interested in a book. You were just at the Bangalore Literature Festival — how was the…

Screenshot: ParamountFew fans of the first season of Halo would call it an exactly faithful adaptation of Microsoft’s legendary sci-fi video game series. But the series is picking itself up for round two by taking on an iconic moment from the series’ battle for the fate of humanity: the infamous Fall of Reach.How Invincible's Omni-Man Joined Mortal Kombat 1Reach—a major world in humanity’s colonial ambitions and a nexus of military and production might on the practical intergalactic doorstep of Earth itself—appears to be…

Image: ParamountThe first season of Halo’s TV adaptation was sometimes interesting, but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some sharp divergences, shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren’t fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat Evolved.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedIn case you forgot how things ended, everything had largely broken bad for the humans: Halsey (Natasha McElhonne) escaped the UNSC and left Reach after trying to put the…

As a longtime reader of LySandra Vuong’s Covenant (as in, I have been reading religiously since the first episode was released in August 2020), I—and io9, by extension—am thrilled to show off the incredibly good, all-new cover for the graphic novel publication from Oni Press. The Webtoon has been one of the all-time most read comics, and the first of three volumes will be published in spring 2024. The exclusive Oni Press cover is revealed below.Teyonah Parris and John Boyega on Working With Jamie Foxx | io9 InterviewImage…

Another popular WEBTOON is making the leap from screen to page. Oni Press announced today that they will bring LySandra Vuong‘s Covenant to print in a series of three volumes, with the first slated to release in April of next year. Here’s how Oni Press describes Covenant: In a world where priests are decked out in holy tattoos and brandish machine guns in the face of demons, a powerful exorcist and a mysterious boy cross paths…in a college classroom. Erza’s faith is waning when God intervenes and sends him on a mission…

“The home… lies in Travancore, at the southern tip of India, sandwiched between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats… The land is shaped by water and its people united by a common language: Malayalam.”And so we enter the world of Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water. The year is 1900, and a 12-year-old girl takes a boat to get married to a 40-year-old widower. She goes on to become Big Ammachi, the matriarch of the estate of Parambil. Over the course of seven decades, she will be the unwavering centre of this land…

Within a year of raising high-cost debt from Goldman Sachs, India’s largest online pharmacy platform PharmEasy has breached its loan covenant terms after failing to raise equity, people aware of the development said.As per the terms, the company was supposed to raise equity of around Rs 1,000 crore, or about $120 million, linked to its burn rate velocity. It has failed to do that after trying for a year and postponing its initial public offering (IPO).However, PharmEasy has not defaulted on any of its payment obligations…

The physician-writer Abraham Verghese’s riveting, sprawling epic opens with a mother and her 12-year-old daughter crying. It is 1900 in Travancore, south India, today part of Kerala, and in the morning, the frightened girl is to marry a man who is 40 and a widower. She will do as she is told but she cannot imagine the future ahead. Her mother reassures her but soon her voice ebbs, her breathing slows, and then she is asleep, leaving her daughter awake. The body’s need for rest overtakes the mother’s anguish. And we are…