Archie Sonic Comic Megathread

So she's bi, who cares. It's less pandering and more likely a way to give her a relationship that somewhat made sense, with Nicole pretty much always being there for her in her tech form and is now exploring herself (Giggity) as a nanite construct. Not to mention, her two original canon suitors (Sonic and Knuckles) are canon and thus off-limits, and the other two, Antoine and Geoffrey St. Penders, were off in their own relationships. + - we don't talk about monkey khan here  

+ - To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if while Ian agreed to write it, there was outside prodding from Aleah to make Sally more "progressive".  

inb4 it's "rotor was meant to be gay" 2.0

 

That's more or less how I viewed it.
When the choice is between either Sally pairing up with a character who's been there from (almost) day 1, or Sally just ending up foreveralone.jpg for no reason other than a contract says so, I'd definitely opt for the former, the latter just seems a bit too cold when you consider the history of the character.

 

The Rotor thing was baffling because Ken was so low-key about it that absolutely no one even tried to ship Rotor and Cobar, or even suggested something may be there between them. That, and Ken's reasoning was "Well, Rotor's shy and socially awkward, so he must be gay!"

With the way Ian and Aleah wrote Sally and Nicole, a number of people did pick up on the subtext before Ian made that tweet. Plus, it helps that the two have always just plain meshed well together.

 

Agreed. He made the only Sonic comics that I think ever caught my attention, not counting Spaz's Classic Sonic covers.

 

Diana Skelly does great line work in the Champions arc, also.

Also, I reread the Spark of Life arc, and the subtext is so sub I'd need an electron microscope. Life long gal pals it what it looks like. Maybe I'm just used to less subtle subtext like Steven Universe.

 

I still think it was pretty blatant. Like, I get how someone could miss it, but loads of people still picked up on it.

 

Yes, I do love that! Let Sally be bi as hell. Pander to us with nice things like more bi and gay representation.

 

"Bi today, Gay tomorrow", I thought Sally was always supposed to be a lesbian. How else do you explain that hair and the denim vest?

 

Sally x Nicole is more than just homosexuality. Nicole was a damn AI. I don't care if she had a a fox form or whatever. It's just strange.

 

Any stranger than people being attracted to waifus?

 

Sentience and emotions though. Nicole has em.

 

Considering Sally is one many girls looked to as an icon of feminism, and considering the stereotypes of self-proclaimed anti-feminists?
... Yes. VERY strange.

(Though imagining Sally as one of those stereotypical harem anime protags is funny now.)

 

I really enjoy the Archie Comics more ever since Ian has taken over writing. It would be such a shame if it was dropped, and there's no official news that it will be hopefully.

 

You're behind, it's officially cancelled.

 

Bad news: Archie Sonic is confirmed to be canceled.
Good news: It's been picked up by IDW, starting 2018.

 

Now the question is about the next comic:

Will it continue were Archie left off or will it be a new series altogether; And, if the latter, will it be more in line with the canceled Sonic Megadrive?

I'm serious; should we even need to create a new thread for IDW's Sonic or should we speculate here?

 

The thread has included "Archie" in the topic for years. IDW will need it's own megathread to avoid any possible cross contamination.

 

Wasn't there something a year or two ago about the Fleetway series being available or something? I swear I saw an article that brought something like that up and there was a lot of speculation to a Fleetway comeback or at least reprints.

But yeah, evil Super Sonic needs to come back with twirly eyes and all, even if just for a single arc. XD