[Lanzer]

And thus Team Comics was formed. So are you guys going to use the SUPERPOWER OF TEAMWORK!!!?

[Impish]

I shall help, but I shotgun the Batman role, a bit of a loner, but always there in times of need. I also have the original (not the "Archive #0") "The Beginning" TPB if there are any differences to be scanned, and I can write on story arcs for the articles.

[JaxTH]

So I made a channel called #comics on IRC. If you guys wanna join/collaborate on what were gonna do on the wiki then join I guess.

[GagaMan]

Got a bunch of Sonic and the Knuckles spin off comics up on eBay if anyone's interested. Mostly from around 1999-2001, and many containing some of those infamously bad bits of art on that tumblr. :P

[Lanzer]

Hey if anyone wants bigger versions of april issue covers, Comics Continuum just upped them.

[Bobinator]

All right, I know the whole 'Where do I start' question has been asked a ton in this thread, but I've finally made major headway into this, and I know things start to go downhill real fast from here.

I've just finished issue number 50, not counting all the spin-offs and specials. If I want to get to the good stuff and skip all the shitty art that's been posted, where would I want to start off, and what would I be missing that I should know about?

This post has been edited by Bobinator: 23 January 2012 - 05:48 PM

[JaxTH]

Bobinator, on 23 January 2012 - 06:39 AM, said:

All right, I know the whole 'Where do I start' question has been asked a ton in this thread, but I've finally made major headway into this, and I know things start to go downhill real fast from hear.

I've just finished issue number 50, not counting all the spin-offs and specials. If I want to get to the good stuff and skip all the shitty art that's been posted, where would I want to start off, and what would I be missing that I should know about?

If you start with #197 you pretty much miss stuff going on with Knuckles, some super battles, zone hopping, game adaptions, and a wwwhhhoollleeee lot of drama.

If you can find the Free Comic Book Day 2009 issue it recaps everything up to about #200.

[Tylinos]

A few days ago at the bad comic art blog, the guy put up a short article about Dawn Best, and pointed out how any badness in her art can be put up to how most of the time she was delegated to doing layouts for Ken Penders, which he would ruin. Dawn Best found the blog and posted a response:

Dawn Best said:

For the record, I don't think you pick on me ENOUGH mah boi. Some of those issues, man… Dear god. Okay, so really — as I replied to another commenter on the matter: a vast majority of my work at Archie was me doing breakdowns to Ken's layouts. Basically drawing circles and lines and letting Ken know where to place things. This is where all of those mutant echidnas come from and I appreciate you pulling them out of the depths of old issues. They're absolutely laughable!

That's right. Even Dawn Best finds Penders' art laughable. And Penders wants to hire her for his book. Looks like that won't be happening.

This post has been edited by Tylinos: 24 January 2012 - 12:39 AM

[JaxTH]

SU #37 Spolier pic.

Spoiler

This post has been edited by JaxTH: 04 February 2012 - 01:42 AM

[Aquaslash]

Oh my GOD, I must have this comic :O I sure hope he last for more than an issue. The whole arc would be nice!

[JaxTH]

Aquaslash, on 04 February 2012 - 03:48 AM, said:

Oh my GOD, I must have this comic :O I sure hope he last for more than an issue. The whole arc would be nice!

=P

I wanted to show you on IRC but you weren't around. And since this is #37 I assume it's the whole arc as well.

[Mike Arcade]

JaxTH, on 04 February 2012 - 01:41 AM, said:

SU #37 Spolier pic.

Spoiler

O_O

Oh. My. God. That has to be one of the best things I've seen in Archie Sonic...

Spoiler

First of we have a Full Armor (ZZ) Mecha Sally (Sence she's part of the "Metal Badnik Series" should we call her Metal Sally?), then we have Metal Knuckles making his first appearence in the comic itself (It's about damn time this character finally gets put into something!), and finally we got an "offical" METAL TAILS, design looks great and well made, with Metal Sonic to round up everything together.

I want to shake the hands of everyone who made this arc and issue possible.

This post has been edited by Mike Arcade: 04 February 2012 - 05:04 AM

[Lanzer]

Fuck man thats just boss, I love it! grinning like a stupid kid over the nastalga. Love how Eggman calls them badniks too.

So thats Sally's new look huh? I'm really starting to wonder what will happen now when she gets turned back. And...Did Eggman re-do her hair?! or is that an angle thing?

[Tylinos]

Back on the subject of #233, something interesting from Ian over at Bumbleking:

Ian Flynn said:

Speedlion said:

Luger said:

I certainly hope Ian eventually explains exactly what Geoffrey was doing in U.F. territory and Hershey in Felidae country and why.

Maybe he was investigating a human D.E.L. chapter in the U.F. just like Hershey was investigating the Soumerca cat/wolves D.E.L. chapter...

Yup.

[NeonZephyr]

Spoiler

Metal Knuckles? The Sonic R style Metal Knuckles? YES. Seriously, if this guy lasts as a frequent enemy character (even if it's beat up and rebuilt like Metal Sonic is lately), I will be a very happy gal. Metal Knux was my favorite character to play as in Sonic R.

Oh...I wish I could get my issues faster (sending the subscription to campus only to forward it two/three times a year would be a massive pain). I love villain-centric arcs in most series, but this spoiler has be giggling like a fangirl.


@Tylinos: Very interesting. I was always bothered by the lack of proper "Robian" Overlanders/humans. (The whole unwilling = statue thing bugged me. Seemed like a cheap way out of what I always considered the true horror of being Roboticized: being fully aware of your actions as an utterly controlled slave and being unable to even cry out for help or in agony.) Any real roboticized Overlander/humans were either fixed by the Bem or wiped out, right?

Also, Soumerca. Just... Soumerca. On one hand, it makes sense in a weird way (maybe an old record of South America survived with some of the letters faded and such, and it morphed into this), but on the other... it just feels silly. ...How do you even pronounce it? I feel like I'm adding a syllable.

But, then, it's Sonic. Not everything can be serious all the time.