Sonic X Comics

[Cany the hedge]

Since I now absolutley nothing about the Sonic X comic series, why exactly did the comic got cancelled?

[Erazor]

Since I now absolutley nothing about the Sonic X comic series, why exactly did the comic got cancelled?

Because the world is a horrible place and anything happy and fun must be destroyed.

[Cany the hedge]

Because the world is a horrible place and anything happy and fun must be destroyed.

Please may the same happen to Barney the gay dinosaur, NOW!! .

Anyway, haven

Edited May 9, 2009 by Cany the hedge

[Toby]

The Archie Team wanted the series to end on a high note before it wore out it's welcome.

[Phos]

Just went and read one (#20). It's pretty dumb.

[Toby]

Bad issue to decide to read.

[Blazey Firekitty]

Eggman in Sonic's body...hilarious.

[Erazor]

That's one of my favorites as well.

[LimeTH]

I'm constantly asking a friend of mine who works at Archie to tell the higher ups to uncancle this beacon of awesomeness. He said they told him if Sonic X ever comes back, It'll be as a story in Sonic Universe. Bleh.

Edited May 10, 2009 by LimeTH

[Thirsty Pocket]

I am so extremely sad that this Comic is getting shut down in favor of more of that SatAM-ish stuff. It's a real shame.

The Sonic X comic really got things right, with the lighthearted humor, Eggman's playfulness, and they didn't focus as much on Chris as the show did.

Really, instead of this new fangle Sonic Universe comic, I'd say they should make an entirely new Comic using the same exact team who did Sonic X, and instead of it being based off Sonic X or SatAM, they base it on the games as close as they can, now that it's actually possible and all. Sonic and his pals in Green Hill, or capital city, or Angel Island, or Eggman Land, going through lighthearted stories with Eggman being the opposite of his other comic counterpart. This would be a great Sonic Comic.

[Solly]

I've never read it apart from the bits that were posted here, but it seems like something that I would get a kick out of. Story arcs revolving around Eggman sound good. Just one thing though:

The two have to get used to each other- Eggman's not used to Sonic's speed, and keeps running into things, while Sonic doesn't know how to fly the Eggmobile. (Of course in the games, Eggman should be used to speed considering how fast he is...)

Really, Eggman has never been portrayed as a fast, or at least as fast as most of the other Sonic characters are. I mean, yeah in the old games he did managed to evade Sonic in a short distance sprint on one or two occasions, but I don't think that is an indication that he can reach nearly as high of speeds that Sonic or even Tails can.

And before you ask, Riders is off limits.

[Jix Hedgehog]

I was collecting for a while, then I felt ripped off after an issue where nothing really happened where ghosts or something entered Chris's and Creams mothers.. a couple of full page drawings with little or not speech...

Didn't care what happened, didn't want to know.

I picked up the last issue thou as most readers did, and that's the end of Sonic X .. anywhere

Glad I stopped buying, I guess Archie got the message and stopped it, now we're getting something slightly better.

[redmenace]

Really, instead of this new fangle Sonic Universe comic, I'd say they should make an entirely new Comic using the same exact team who did Sonic X, and instead of it being based off Sonic X or SatAM, they base it on the games as close as they can, now that it's actually possible and all. Sonic and his pals in Green Hill, or capital city, or Angel Island, or Eggman Land, going through lighthearted stories with Eggman being the opposite of his other comic counterpart. This would be a great Sonic Comic.

And honestly, like it should have always been. This is a blue hedgehog that runs at the speed of sound, not the soap opera of prime time.

[Phos]

The two have to get used to each other- Eggman's not used to Sonic's speed, and keeps running into things, while Sonic doesn't know how to fly the Eggmobile. (Of course in the games, Eggman should be used to speed considering how fast he is, and Sonic flew the Eggmobile fine in Sonic 3. Ah, trivia!) It's a really great issue all-around.

Robotnik's speed was never anything special. Sonic isn't traveling close to his his top speed when he's chasing Robotnik. If you want to approximately calculate his speed by comparing it to his height, I don't even think it would be superhuman, the best I can say is that he moved fast for someone so overweight.

Bad issue to decide to read.

It's not a matter of the story, the comic is a bit of a mess. The entire comic is permeated with what I can best describe as "nonsensical continuity". In the first few pages, Car Guy is notified that his engine is overheating, he needs to slow down. First of all, traveling faster increases the wind speed over the radiators and speeds up the coolant pump. Driving a car faster makes it cooler. Then the wheel falls off. It's funny I never learned his name, He was my favorite character in the Sonic X anime (That's right, Sonic was so poorly written and characterized in the anime that I liked Car Guy more). Then a few panels later, Eggman drops Bokkun through a trap door. The robot that can fly. I don't see how any issue from a supposedly competent team could be this bad, and I have a hard time believing that these guys are behind Sonic Universe.

Edited May 10, 2009 by Phos

[Jason Berry]

If you ever go to bumbleking or sonic hq forums, look for Shigamado (that's me ). I've done a TON of Sonic X reviews. I'm pretty highly critical of everyone. Including Ian from time to time. (We even argued about certain parts of a story from time to time.)

I agree that 37 was really good, but they missed one good opportunity for a joke. Sonic trying to run in Eggman's body. He'd try to run and almost die of a heart attack in seconds.

One of my favorites is #34 the pool party. Eggman falls so head over heels for Ella that he forgets to focus on his mission entirely. Meanwhile, Tails try's to make the bots watertight so they can play in the pool, and he accidentally makes them turn on him! They end up chasing Tails around the pool trying to attack him.

I also love one of the early issues in which Eggman creates evil Chao clones out of cheese (the Chao not the food, stupid! .) There's a great scene where Sonic and Amy chase them into a hardware store, and they come out wielding chainsaws! I don't think the "Chaos with chainsaws" scene was ever topped for me.

My favorite Eggman scheme is him trying to steal all the chips from Las Vegas to get rich quick. It's doomed to fail from the beginning since the chips have no value outside of their respective casinos and only if they deem them of value.

[-Mark-]

And honestly, like it should have always been. This is a blue hedgehog that runs at the speed of sound, not the soap opera of prime time.

That just summed up most of what made me stop reading the regular Archie series.

Well, that and the fact that the comic's now pretty much 'Archie's own universe featuring Sonic the hedgehog', anyway. The number of Archie-made characters outweigh actual Sonic characters to an insane degree, and get much more page-space and plot attention than they should, for a Sonic comic.

[Solly]

Well, that and the fact that the comic's now pretty much 'Archie's own universe featuring Sonic the hedgehog', anyway. The number of Archie-made characters outweigh actual Sonic characters to an insane degree, and get much more page-space and plot attention than they should, for a Sonic comic.

Which is another thing that made me really dislike SaTAM and Sonic X- it introduces new characters to the show, and then makes them the focus of the story instead of the existing game characters.

[Toby]

Really, instead of this new fangle Sonic Universe comic, I'd say they should make an entirely new Comic using the same exact team who did Sonic X, and instead of it being based off Sonic X or SatAM, they base it on the games as close as they can, now that it's actually possible and all. Sonic and his pals in Green Hill, or capital city, or Angel Island, or Eggman Land, going through lighthearted stories with Eggman being the opposite of his other comic counterpart. This would be a great Sonic Comic.

Ian has mentioned several times on his message board in the past that because of SEGA's red tape, a faithful comic based on the video games would be impossible. They keep several characters, locations, and concepts, mostly new ones, off limit for several years after their initial game appearance.

For instance, in the Sonic Unleashed adaptation, Ian wasn't able to show Gaia, Chip, or any of the humans from the game "just because". Silver and Omega just FINALLY after all these years appeared in the comic, and Eggman Nega is still off limits. And don't even bring up Metal Madness. XD

Edited May 10, 2009 by Toby Barrett

[batson]

But why would we want a comic completely based on the games anyway? You know, considering we already have the games themselves when we want to experience adventures in that particular incarnation of the Sonic universe. Spin-off's are much more interesting if they create their own, unique universes.

[Dr. Mechano]

But why would we want a comic completely based on the games anyway? You know, considering we already have the games themselves when we want to experience adventures in that particular incarnation of the Sonic universe. Spin-off's are much more interesting if they create their own, unique universes.

Hypothetically, a purely game-based story wouldn't simply be an adaption of the game plots, but simply restrict itself to the game universe. Therein, it could have side stories and other adventures not covered in the games, while still adhering to the characters, universe, etc. that the games use. And I think that could work fine, even though I liked X's new characters for the most part- Eggman's robots were a hoot.

[Thirsty Pocket]

By a comic based off the games, I didn't mean adaptations of the game.

I mean we show Sonic and his friends in locations in the games, with characters from the games, and any and all original characters are one shots, who don't overshadow the Sonic characters.

[-Mark-]

Which is another thing that made me really dislike SaTAM and Sonic X- it introduces new characters to the show, and then makes them the focus of the story instead of the existing game characters.

Yeah, it's just Archie does that and then some. In SatAM and Sonic X, there's maybe a handful of new characters tghat hog the spotlight. In Archie, it's close to hundreds. D=

Ian has mentioned several times on his message board in the past that because of SEGA's red tape, a faithful comic based on the video games would be impossible. They keep several characters, locations, and concepts, mostly new ones, off limit for several years after their initial game appearance.

That's a bit weird, though. Back in the day, Knuckles appeared pretty early on in the comics after his game debut, and even more recently, Blaze and the Babylon Rogues managed to show up not far off their debut games, either. So why doe the restriction seem so unbalanced?

Edited May 10, 2009 by Mahzes

[Jason Berry]

Issue #20 was a guest writer comic. Those tended to be the worst. It's "teamwork is important" moral was beaten over your head several times.

Sadly, #21 was as well. Despite being written by the same author of "Lions, Tigers, and Bears" which is an awesome book. But this one felt like a huge missed opportunity. When Sonic and Tails get shrunken and run into the toy store, Eggman and the bots get shrunken as well and chase after them. This is stupid because they are still on even ground! It was have made much more sense to have Sonic and Tails shrunk while Eggman and the bots remained their original size. Making them giants compared to Sonic and Tails. Then, Sonic and Tails could use the toys in the toy store to thier advantage to try and take down Eggman. That would have been a lot more fun.