The Comics

My suggestion: Ignore completly Sonic the Hedgehog 080 to 159... start to read it on issue 160, the new Writer, Ian Flynn (also know as Ian the Potto) made the thing I thought was impossible: make Sonic comic looks cool again. He's kicking all the uncessary characters the other writers *coughcoughPenderscoughcoug* added during all this time. Just Sonic's crew (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy), Freedom Fighters (Sally, Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor), Chaotix (Vector, Espio, Charmy, Saffron (Charmy's wife... who had this idea long ago on the Knuckles'series was really drunken!), Mighty, Ray and Julie-Su) and some few others like Rouge, Shadow, Eggman.

Give a chance to it on issues 160 and on, it's worth in my opnion

 

If it means anything, Eggman pretty much kills everybody off in issue #175... well, no, that's a lie; he puts them into "Egg Grapes". Yeah. And there's supposed to be some big rescue attempt in #176, via which the necessary characters are guaranteed to return (although who knows what the fate of the fluff characters will be). But hey, for one issue at least, Eggman actually does something drastic!

Also, if you think that's "downright insane", I'm almost afraid to ask what you consider these <a href="http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4376/ohdeargawdjebushc9.png[/IMG]two</a>... or perhaps this is more up your alley. I swear, these are artists trained by...

I mean, it seems "DURRRRRRRRRRRRR" enough there.

Although Jon Gray is sexy.

 

Wait, you don't mean this guy do you?

 

Yes

He did that fan-comic "Other-M" (which in my opnion is really bad). He's also have a deviantArt journal where he posts the news about the comics. Also was him who made the story where Eggman said the controls of a game is totally broken on issue 172 or 173 (dunno know. =P)

http://ian-the-potto.deviantart.com/
EDIT: Corrected the orl. Thanks fo Shadow Hog

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And those scans... man, I got really pissed off when I saw those, I tried to draw for them, but Mike Pellerito (comic's editor) said I wasn't ready yet... ¬¬

 

It's neither; that was the Free Comic Book Day issue, which isn't part of the numbered entries.

Also it's ianpotto.deviantart.com, not "ian-the-potto.deviantart.com"...

 

What's funny is that when I saw that odd drawing with Amy and actually looked closely at it, the first thing that came to my mind is, "Where the hell has her left hand gone?"

Geez, I stopped like right before 159. I agree that around 80, when Bollers messed up some stuff and added cheesy "modern and relevant" crap to the setting and dialogue it killed it. I don't read a Sonic comic book to read about plotlines where Sonic goes to school, and the slang was pitiful. However, I loved the Naugus story arc, and, if I ever get my scripts written down for how I would shape the non-existent 3rd season (a new project I may take up after getting the SatAM box set, I would definitely adapt that).

I don't know; when I was young I was okay with having some of the dopey banter on the TV show, though it grates on me at times now; in any case, it was better than what they were doing with the comics, at least up until around issue 30, where they adopted the serious content from the show more regularly. (BTW, AoSTH was often painful to watch.) Still, these comic moments were hardly unique. Watch SWAT KATS for a similar take on the dark fantasy drama / light banter ideas seen in SatAM Sonic; it was from around the same era and actually had many of the same voice actors doing certain roles (the guy who played Robotnik, Jim Cummings, infoamous as the modern voice of Pete in the Mickey cartoons makes an appearance as the bumbling, cowardly mayor (who, like Antoine has a think foreign accent, though it seems Scottish, not French); Charlie Adler (Snively) is the burly hero and ace pilot (both odd juxtapostions indeed); Kath Soucie (Sally) and Rob Paulsen (Antoine) also have bit parts as villains). I would say that the SatAM cast almost works as a sort of now "All-star voice actor" cast. Of course, all the good shows from back then used some of these actors (also check out the cast listing for Earthworm Jim series). Man, it's too bad nobody makes shows like that anymore. All the good (I.e., non-flash animated) stuff comes from Japan, and they just lack the same atmosphere that Sonic or Swat Kats had.

Oh, and BTW, NEVER pick up a copy of Sonic X comics. They're lame, though probably intended for people under even half my age.

 

Well, yes, we're lacking the atmosphere because video games don't make TV shows these days anymore, they make movies (be it crappy or 'decent') like:

Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Mortal Kombat (1995 and 1997)
Wing Commander (1999)
Dungeons & Dragons (2000; technically based on a "pen-and-paper" RPG, but there were a few D&D video games)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001; granted it wasn't based on any installment... but then they have been milking the Final Fantasy VII cash cow more recently in that department)
Tomb Raider (two movies, 2001 and 2003)
Resident Evil (two movies so far in 2002 and 2004 with a third one planned this year)
House of the Dead (2003, Uwe Boll...)
Alone in the Dark (2005, Uwe Boll...)
Doom (2005)
BloodRayne (2006; and they're actually planning another; oh, and... Uwe Boll...)
DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
House of the Dead II (2006, NOT Uwe Boll)
Silent Hill (2006)
Hitman (2007)
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007, Uwe Boll)
Postal (2007, Uwe Boll)
The Suffering (2007 or 2008)
Castlevania (2008)
Dragon's Lair (rumor and financial problems)

The only fairly recent (as compared to the Mario, Zelda, and Sonic TV shows) attempts at a TV show (that weren't Japanese) based on a video game (or series of video games) was Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (1994-1999), Donkey Kong Country (by a French company no less; 1998-2000), Mortal Kombat: Conquest (1998-1999), Sonic Underground (also French, 1998-1999), Destroy All Humans! (rumor... two years ago), and Viva Piñata. :P

The reason why we don't have that atmosphere anymore is because... it's not the early 1990s anymore. You can't capture a time like that again when there was a console war between Nintendo and Sega. Granted that some (most?) of the old cartoons based on video games did suck (some more than others).

 

Okay, I'll be honest here. I'm really fond of the comics, always have been fond of the comics, and probably always will be. I find it interesting how they keep going with this storyline and several mini side stories. However, I DO wish that they'd had more than one silly issue with Sonic Underground references, but meh... either way. Maybe it's just that I'm a sucker for a good, long and interesting story. Always have been. But I've always loved these comics. I'm almost amazed that since Knuckles, Tails and Sally got their own 3-issue mini-serieses, Shadow or some other character hasn't. lol.

 

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Yeah they're good and all that, but not canon, and I can't keep up with all the new characters and transformations that appear in the series...Chaos Knuckles?!

 

It's been a while since they stopped that Chaos Knuckles thing.

But I have to agree, the comics are good again, especially since issue 160. The new writer has some good ideas and Tracy Yardley is a good artist, way better than Ron Lim...

 

I read the comics whenever I can because I'm a loser like that. Although I didn't much care for the Sonic Love... Pentagon. I read one of the more recent issues(I miss like seven in between issues) and Eggman beat the ever-loving crap outta Sonic. And only the big four are back, Consisting of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy. Everyone else is either dead or captured.

That's what I like about the comics, though. They got the balls to kill someone off.

 

Specifically, who did they kill off? If enough of the "bad list" of originality they had was kicked, maybe I'll start reading again.
Oh, and Issue #175 intrigues me. If anyone can scan that along with any other issue that'd help me understand the story, that'd be great.

 

They killed off a comic-made character. And nearly killed off like, tons of other people, but generally, Sonic, being the speedy maniac he is, gets them help in time. That Sonic... playing hero is gonna get somebody really pissed off one day at it'll all backfire. owait it did. ((Issue... Dunno, like, three back from now.))

 

So, off the top of my head, Mina, the "Evil" characters, Scoruge, and those stupid Knothole residents (NOT freedom fighters) are dead? Huh? I acctually kind of like Mina. Now the issue where all of them die, I would like that too.

 

Well a a lot of knothole residents are dead, Mina is near dead, along with the rest of the Freedom fighters(Only the first four real characters are left), Some of the evil characters are dead, and some good friend of the Freedom Fighters who was a turtle.

...Also one issue I picked up had some random Horse guy appear for like, five panels before he died.

 

Nobody died in #175, Eggman captured them and transferred them into the Egg-Grapes, to suck their energy for his empire. But Sonic, Tails, Knuckles & Amy save them in the next issue (also release characters like Mammooth Mogul) and Nicole tricked Eggman so he accidentally sent them to the old Nanite city, now transformed into New Mobotropolis (sort of an hollographic version of Mobotropolis from SatAM) but in the last page, Eggman is coming with his Egg Fleet to attack.

Characters that recently died are the infamous Tommy Turtle (finally!) and Sir Connery (a paladin horse who appeared in an early Knuckles story)

 

Blast. I was actually hoping some of would have died.

Now what the hell is the Egg Grapes?

 

And I thought you bought the issue whre Sir Connery dies



That's it, some kind of grapes that sucks the energy (or life, I'm not sure) of any being trapped in.