Reception
Halo: Uprising was a commercial success. The first issue sold out within 24 hours, leading Marvel to reissue the installment. The collected hardcover edition was the best-selling hardcover graphic book for the week ending June 13, according to The New York Times.
Reception to the miniseries varied. Reviewer Kevin Powers for Comics Bulletin and Richard George of IGN praised the action sequences and Maleev's visuals. The balance between action and story was also positively noted; Powers said that the first two sequences of the opening issue "masterfully capture the spirit of the game". On the other hand, IGN's Jesse Schedeen, reviewing the second issue, stated the series' appeal was mostly superficial: "try as they might to replicate visceral moments, Bendis and Maleev just can't replicate the same feeling on the printed page."
Reviewers criticized the lack of Master Chief as a main character, similar to the response to The Halo Graphic Novel; Schedeen said that "Master Chief is barely a guest star in his own book", and that he was reduced to blasting aliens for much of the series. Schedeen felt that there was a lack of connections between the Ruwan plot and the Master Chief's adventures, which was never satisfactorily resolved. The comic's focus on Ruwan and Myra's subplot was also seen as a major fault: Comics Bulletin's Geoff Collins, in a review of the second issue, said that "as a comic book fan I’m interested, but the Halo fans I know could care less about them. And the story in this issue centers around them." Schedeen was surprised to find that he only began to care about them in the final issue. The many delays in publishing were a frequent point of frustration as well. Schedeen summed up his reviews by saying that he was hopeful the production teams behind the upcoming Halo books "will learn from the mistakes made here and craft stories that can consistently capture what makes Halo fun. At the very least, let's hope we don't have to wait a year between issues anymore".
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