Archie Sonic Comic Megathread

I know this is more of a Megaman thing then a Sonic thing, but I love that they snuck Middy and Techno into the Maverick horde at the end of part 7 of Worlds Collide.

 

Knuckles did a Heavy Shoryuken. My hype is out of control. That fight was so awesome, I've wanted to see Knuckles vs Proto Man (Break Man) since I was a child. So happy The Red Rivals got there moment.

 

Sonic Universe #78/Worlds Unite #9 Spoilers

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So not only has Sigma upset the heroes of the collective worlds, he's successfully pissed off the Bad Guys as well. Really didn't think this through, did he?

No Panzer Dragoon world yet. Sad times.

Still, starting to see the rushing beginning. Might have done them good to add 4 more issues to the plot to better expand on the non-Sonic/Mega Man characters.

Though Reala's 'conversation' with Wizeman was amusing. "Wanna help?" "No." "Realaaa." "Fiiine..."

 

I just hope that if the characters get popular enough, some of the other sega/capcom characters get spinoff series for context / development. A Skies comic would be awesome.

[inlinespoiler]ALSO OKAMI FUCK YEAH[/inlinespoiler]

 

>Sonic Boom canceled despite good sales
>MegaMan going on hiatus for who knows how long

 

I think they wanna hurry up and introduce Bass and get on with telling the story for the transition into the X series. It'll take too long to get to that point at the rate they were going, I think it's good they halt for a bit to reorganize themselves.

I would love a Jet Grind Radio or Viewtiful Joe comic.

 

I have seriously never wanted X to grace the comic. I wanna semi-doubt that they want Bass in that badly or else they wouldn't have done any original arcs and just went straight to Ra-Moon after the MM2 arc.

It doesn't even matter since it seems like they are going to pull a Words Collide with the X characters at the end of this crossover anyway.

 

REALLY?! You don't want MegaMan X in a comic?!!!! (Wtf?!) Why?

Well Bass is essentially the disaster that inspired Wily to go ahead and make Zero anyway, I see him as a necessary character that needs to be introduced before they talk about Pre-Sigma Zero. Assuming they're telling the story.

 

That's the thing, who knows if they'll ever want to make that story with everyone screaming down their throats for an X comic. I wanted some kind of natural progression with Zero being revealed in a Fighters arc or something but everyone in the letters is screaming for X and thus we take time out of the MegaMan story for backstories to X, Zero, and the like. Now he's here fullblown in a crossover.

Super wishful thinking but I would have liked the comic to basically evolve into X. Can't do that now even if they wanted to. Plus with the crossover they've gone into post X-games territory with Axl being there which makes me think they'll just make all the X characters forget this all happened.

 

Or, y'know, start from the start and move toward the crossover? They didn't skip to the Mega Man 10 adaptation when Worlds Collide happened, just placed it after the events of Mega Man 9 and jumped back when it was done. Same with a Mega Man X comic, they can show the series from the Dawn of X story and have Worlds Unite at a later time.

 

Same here, they should have started from Classic and stuck with those characters. There should have naturally evolved into X. Instead it's like they used a Thunder Stone. (Killer Pokemon Reference!!!!!)

They rushed to add X characters, but I don't fault them for it, I think they're handling it nicely.

 

I was fine with the first bit of X backstory and whatnot since we knew Xander was going into the future and that works kinda nicely, but I just think X is taking up space that could be used for MegaMan proper.

Also both of MegaMan's milestone issues have both been in crossovers. Kinda miffed about that, though I did enjoy all the art in MM #50 and really liked that second story.

 

Sonic Boom #10/Worlds Unite #10 Spoilers

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EEEEEEEEE, Panzer Dragoon! And they went with Kyle, guess he was the least busy of the protagonists. I woulda went with Orta myself, set it after the events of the series to avoid trouble later, but Kyle's good too :D

Also, damn it Joe and Sylvia, get off the fourth wall!

And finally, anyone else convinced Sticks was making a reference to Bob and George with Axl, there?

 

The artist drew Joe posing with the WRONG hand symbols. How was that overlooked? He's throwing up "Hang Loose" or "Call Me"

I know in the 4Kids anime they changed to avoid confusion with the shocker, but it looks NOTHING like that. That ain't Viewtiful!

"We've been waiting on our own sequel for a while now" Me too Silvia, me too.

 

I don't think 4KIDS had anything to do with the English version. But yeah, we're never getting Viewtiful Joe 3, are we?

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Also Capcom fucked Joe's personality in Marvel 3.

 

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So what's the opinion of Opa-Opa's appearance in this crossover?

 

Geneon handled the American dub...well at least the first half before it was canceled. I think the issue was that they thought that people would perceive that Joe was giving the finger (than and Six Machine being changed to Machine Six because apparently people might see that as Sex Machine).

 

Meh, I don't think it would have taken long to explain the hands make a V and a J.

 

You also have to remember that the dub started out on Episode 5 and that didn't help things either.

 

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I love how Billy and the rest of the Chicken Kids all stopped and did the "Hand to ear" pose for Meenie-Funie's bit. It's such a simple thing, but it really made their scene for me. Especially with Megaman and Amy's reactions.