Is anyone really going to miss the Sonic the Hedgehog comics?

>>93010006
With the amount of shit it went through, it's a mercy killing at this point

Series was dead to me as soon as they 'rebooted' it with new designs for all of the Freedom Fighters. Fuck it.

>>93010006
Not me, but certainly some number of people out there will. I do wish Overdrive had been released though.

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>>93010006

It's been irrelevant to me for years.

Now, if they still put out a comic that was just like it was in the early '90s again? I'd buy that.

>>93010006
Not since they killed 50% of the cast.

>>93010220
Check out Sonic Mega Drive if you haven't already. Not exactly like an early 90s issue but it might be in the ballpark of what you want.

>>93010084

Yep. I have two friends who had been buying the comic since day 1, since they were kids, and both of them dropped the book once they mucked with Sally, Rotor, and Antoine's designs.

>>93010084
>>93010562
The reboot designs were far superior to that generic furry shit.

>>93010006
Kinda/Sorta?

Without getting into how I really enjoyed Bunny Rabbot in general, I always felt that Sally and the Knothole/Freedom fighters were just more interesting in concept than many, if not all of the Sega game characters introduced after Knuckles, the idea that Eggman/Robotnik has already won and has his damn robo-city that the heroes are trying to sabotage/remove was interesting in and of itself, and given the givens Archie comics as a group had to do alot of asspulls to cohesively bring in stuff from the games and keep everything running.

However... that doesn't mean that it was always done well. Penders ruined alot of shit for *everybody* and there's no pleasing everybody.

TL;DR I wish some of the characters and concepts would be rescued the same way Miles Morales was rescued from Ultimates before it ended.

>>93010240
>100% of the 50% where Ken Penders Echidna OCs.

>>93010602

I don't think that matters. When they redesigned them, they no longer looked like the same characters. While the comics have not been great for a long time now, at least there was still a nostalgia element there. But without that, there's no reason for people in their '30s to continue reading.

>>93010602
>"M-muh games!"

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>>93010704
>Wanting characters to look like they belong in the series they're in is bad

>>93010735
Is that really a good thing when the series itself is shit?

>>93010811
The games, but not the character designs.

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>>93010602
And even then, they still manage to be bland, boring characters that only serve to fuel endless furry porn like they always have.

The Freedom Fighters were a mistake since day one. Nobody gives a flying fuck about Antoine or Rotor. Sally is the definition of Mary Sue and Bunnie is the only remotely interesting one design-wise, but even then she's got the personality of a cardboard cutout.

Don't even get me started on Nicole. Jesus fuck. Look, I don't have anything against Sonic having a supporting cast that isn't exclusively from the games, but I also would like them to be exactly that: a supporting cast. The FF take up like 60% of the fucking comic at any given time. The comic is about Sonic, so I expect the story to revolve around him, not guest star him.

>>93010811
It doesn't hurt.

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she will, and that´s all that matter

>>93010881
>but not the character designs.
This is a joke right? They're literally look something out for a child's toybox plastic and all.

>>93010957
I think the reboot should have relegated the Freedom Fighters into their own group of heroes separated from Sonic and the rest of the game cast and only have them show up from time to time while Sonic and Tails' adventures are the main focus. They could still be major characters in the comic, but they wouldn't be taking the spotlight.

The only reason they existed in the 90s was because Sonic didn't have a supporting cast back then. There isn't really much reason for them to have such a big role today.

And I'm saying this as someone who waifus Nicole.

Why not reboot the comic but remove all the Sonic license material?

>>93010006
Eh, not in current state.

I don't think Ian really filled the void of nu252, world-building didn't quite mesh together with shoe-horned Sonic Unleashed adaptation, so I didn't really like either of them.

It started to get fun at times, but I thought way too late in the game and still not quite the same as it was pre-Pendering. I think with mandated ties to video games Archie Sonic lost what made it unique.

>>93011017
Who?

>>93011494
There are much less people who would buy that than you think.

Kinda.

Mainly feel mad about how its dying. No grand finale. It didn't deserve to just be quietly canned.

>>93011697
>No grand finale.
There are dozens of grand finale in the comic. Just pick one and ignore the rest.

>>93010006
I will.

>>93010006
I liked some of the characters and their designs, too bad most of them were erased from existence.

>>93010006
I'll miss Sonic Universe the most.

>>93011696
Why? I thought this comic has a huge fandom.

>>93011742
Even the arc it ended with (the Unleashed adaptation, not the 25th anniversary flashbacks) works as a grand finale. They defeated Dark Gaia, the crisis that kicked off the reboot had been resolved, the world was whole again, story concluded with the heroes looking off into the sunset while reflecting on the friend they had lost in the process (much like how the Fleetway comic ended actually), the end. What was shown from the solicitations of the unpublished comics were essentially breather issues, so you can just write those off as "And the adventure continues".

Has it OFFICIALLY been canned?

>>93011662
mariel kuniko the artist girlfriend
she made with him this animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvD8NZN9Zsg&t

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Nope! Ken Penders did nothing wrong.

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>>93010006
>Is anyone really going to miss the Sonic the Hedgehog comics?

Not when you can honor its legacy by moving to finer things born in its wake!

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>>93017294

You said it!

>>93017155
wait, you´re telling me this cutie:
>>93011017
fucks this guy?
>>93017315

>>93010006
Holy shit, I remember that shit. We sold it at my Target, was a combo that came with a white hat as well. Bought it on clearance after a shift because I always needed cheap undershirts. Think I Goodwilled the hat seeing it was 70% off.

>>93010006
I will.

>>93014987
No, it seems like they are dragging this out as long as they can.

>>93014987
It's getting the Mega Man treatment. As in never officially canned, it's just on "hatius" forever.

Nada.
We don't need someone who's incompetence exceeds SEGA's.

>>93017299
>>93017315
someone needs to tell Penders to regrow the stache, he just looks horrid without it than with

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>>93017543

Come on, he is one sexy beast!

>>93010006

I guess not.

I kept buying it but I think I did it mostly out of habit. I haven't really been excited for the book since it was the defacto continuation of the TV show. Still, it's a shame to see another part of my childhood die.

>>93017819
The TV show was garbage so it improved by moving away from it.

>>93010006
Its Sonic. Only autists will care.
What's worse, its annoying American derived Sonic, which somehow manages to even more derivative and annoying then the Jap version, which is impressive considering Jap Sonic is the embodiment of 'you're trying too hard to be cool'

>>93017848

The show has aged as well as you'd expect a 90's video game based show to, but it's still far and away the best thing ever associated with the Sonic the Hedgehog brand.

Star Wars for furries > Super Saiyan Hello Kitty.

>>93017939
>but it's still far and away the best thing ever associated with the Sonic the Hedgehog brand.
Wow. I knew Sonic was always shit, but if the best thing in the brand,, then goddamn, how did it ever fucking survive the 90s. Do you also call Earth Mobius?

>>93017952
>how did it ever fucking survive the 90s

It's the only brand that still somehow manages to make money for a sinking corporation that was once a dominant force in the video games industry.

Also, never underestimate the power of nostalgia.

>>93017939
>Star Wars for furries
So, Star Wars?

>>93017965
Yakuza makes money.
And it actually has a fucking soul.

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>>93017939
>Super Saiyan Hello Kitty

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>>93017939
It's still the second best video game to cartoon adaptation, behind the king.

Pic related.

>>93017848
>The TV show was garbage

Of course it was. It's Sonic.

You'll enjoy Sonic more once you realize that all of it is awful, awful shit and just embrace it's terribleness.

>>93010006
The same was that it was honestly getting pretty good after such a reputation for sucking. They streamlined it a bit and tried new things that were in line with Sonic and not Sanic.

>>93018152

It felt like they were just doing fan service for fans of the game over and over without any compelling storytelling to back it up. I mean, the games were fun, but they're over 25 years old now. It's time to move on.

>>93010006
The only thing I would miss was the new Eggman being a delightful asshole to everyone. That shit was hilarious.

>>93010220

Oh wow. I'm not a Sonic fan or anything, but seeing that triggered something in my brain. Those comics were pretty funny back then, weren't they?

>>93018312
Yep. They were written by a guy named Michael Gallagher, who did a lot of work for MAD Magazine.

I wanted Sonic Mega Drive to finish at least. But the actual mainline comic I didn't really care about.

>>93018406

Mike Gallagher was the Man. It's a shame that style of gag comic storytelling fell away once they hired the maestro of autism, Ken Penders.

>>93010006
Me, but if you ask me outside an anonymous setting I will deny it.

>>93018312

Remember the Super Mario comics from the '90s? They were like the cartoon series, only everybody was a cynical asshole. They were fucking great.

>>93017315

Holy SHIT that thing is terrifying.

And that Knuckles in drag is pretty hideous, too.

>>93018481
Has anybody ever archived all of those? I don't recall ever seeing anybody storytime them.

>>93010006
I'll miss that an occasional source of good kids' comics is gone, but I personally won't miss the comic itself.

What I'm dreading is the fandom revisionism and collectivist consensus. People are going to start rationalizing it has always having been bad or chopping the comic up into groups of "good" and "bad" years/writers even more than they already do. They won't read them and make their own opinions.

>>93019331

When it comes to the Sonic comics, I basically only go back to the first 50 or so issues, plus the mini-series and specials made around that time. I continued reading the comic all the way until about issue 225 or something, but I'll never revisit them or think back fondly on them.

>>93010006
Should've in the first place just made a clear rule that the writers don't own the characters they make under the Sonic title.

>>93013391
Well first off, Sega still owns the rights to the SatAM cast so it's not like they would be able to star in a comic on their own. Secondly, the comic has always relied on the Sonic brand in order to sell to kids. (Please don't try to argue this. Little kids love Sonic, they're part of the comic's target audience, it's always been that way.) A comic about a bunch of furries without any of the Sonic cast isn't going to sell and would most likely get cancelled after a few issues. Who would the main character even be?

>>93017433
Mega Man's cancellation was announced months ahead of time and everyone knew the last issue was going to be the last issue. Sonic's came out of nowhere.

>>93019903
Doesn't matter, even if they did, their piss poor record keeping was what did it.

>>93010006
Me but I'm sure this thread will be full of memers chimping out over a how much they hate a comic they never read

>>93018312
No. They were fucking horrible until around issue 25

>>93010006
Pardon my blog post, but...

Been reading them since I was 7, issue #8 was my first. It was the first comic book I ever bought myself.. I've read every issue since, for better or for worse. It's always been this odd, comforting constant in my life. I used to ride my bike down to the corner store and buy them. It was my favorite part of the month. I even struggled through the dark ages. Oddly enough I began to lose interest just when Flynn first came on board to fix shit, so I stopped reading. I was subscribed, though, so they just kept coming. I finally decided to spend a whole weekend catching up on the 20-something issues I had been ignoring, and REALLY got back into it. Flynn was doing some really fun shit with the mess that Penders had made, and it became one of my most anticipated monthly books again. It was light and fun, but still pretty cool.

I'll admit in recent years it's become a wicked drag, especially post-reboot where it's become little more but Sega-mandated game adaptations, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad to see it go.

>>93010084
>>93010562
>getting butthurt over something as stupid as character design
The book hasn't been great since the reboot, but absolutely none of that has anything to do with how the characters look. Why do people get so triggered by such superficial shit?

Can't say I'm sad to see it go. You know because its fucking Sonic and any loss is a win my book.

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>>93020617
>hating on the fun, pun-tastic, zany joy that was the early issues
Jesus. I didn't think it was possible to have such shitty taste.

>>93018014
That shit was Freakazoid tier. So good

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>>93020817
>P.S. If you are dead, then pay no attention to this letter
That gets me every time.