: This was one of the few Bungie-sanctioned comics, one-offs (similar to the
: one of MC and Sarge getting frustrated when the war is over and they're
: trying to live 'civilian life' and it's all funny and they realize they're
: meant to be fighting aliens). I think the mood in the studio back then was
: to let creatives be creative and if they could contribute something to
: make the fans laugh, go for it. I don't think there was more than 3 or 4
: of these strips.

: David Candland did this one you're describing and it's actually a
: 'recreation' of a moment between Joseph Staten and Marty. I think Joe is
: showing the animatics he created for the Halo 2 trailer and Marty's
: impatient with the length of the black between "I won't" and him
: floating through space grasping the bomb. It's a definitely 'inside' joke
: kind of strip.

: Yes, my attempts at locating it on the 'net was not fruitful. Search terms
: for it are tough because of the mass of bungie comics that have spawned
: over the years. I think it was revealed in a Bungie Weekly update, (and
: touted as the start of a 'scheduled' strip, but it became apparent it was
: not to be) but I'm pretty sure it was Max who was announcing such things
: back then, it wasn't Frankie. Or else it was simply a blog entry over in
: whatever incarnation of Bungie.net was around in the early 2000's.

: For all we know, Louis Wu in fact has a copy of it here on this old fart of a
: server... I got as far as checking the Misc Art page but turned up zilch.
: It's definitely out there somewhere... in the heavens...

: - M

This was enough to find a reference to it:

https://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=5274

Unfortunately, the link in that post is long gone, and Bungie.net's no-crawl policy means it's not available at archive.org. Bummer!

If there are any archives of this page, though, it's there:

http://www.bungie.net/site/0/site/bnet/comics/comics.html