Megathread Archie Sonic Main Discussion

[Your Vest Friend]

Also no love for Julie-Su?

Quite frankly, no.

[Komodin]

Also no love for Julie-Su?

Julie-Su... eh, I can't say that I care for her. She always seemed rather superfluous.

[CrownSlayers Shadow]

Also no love for Julie-Su?

Meh...I wouldn't want her to go away any time soon, but I can't say I care too much for her.

[Kuzu]

Chalk me up to the party that doesn't care for Julie-Su

[Soniman]

Haha oh well, I personally think she's still a decent character though.

[CrownSlayers Shadow]

To be fair, they haven't been giving her a lot of attention nowadays. The most recent memory I have of her was during the Mobius Future arcs, and I haven't paid attention to her since.

Now I'm thinking that'll change at some point.

[Your Vest Friend]

To be fair, they haven't been giving her a lot of attention nowadays. The most recent memory I have of her was during the Mobius Future arcs, and I haven't paid attention to her since.

Now I'm thinking that'll change at some point.

The last time she had a role proper was #232, with that talk to Sonic with Knuckles about the Mecha Sally scenario.

And yeah, she was on the cover on #244, so I expect to see her in action again real soon.

[Your Vest Friend]

Oh for fuck's sake, now there's rumours that Julie-Su got removed from the cover of StH#244? This is ridiculous.

[Kuzu]

Oh for fuck's sake, now there's rumours that Julie-Su got removed from the cover of StH#244? This is ridiculous.

Huehuehueuehuehuehuehue

[Echidna Adventurer CC14]

Speaking of which, I just got #243 in the mail! I'll be accepting PM requests for spoilers as usual.

[Ichigo Storm]

Image courtesy of The Mega Man Network

Kotaku has posted a preview of two of the crossover covers as well as a short interview with Spaz

Edited November 28, 2012 by Ichigo Storm

[Soniman]

I forgot this was still happening, god this looks so awesome.

[Kuzu]

No Dr. light....this makes me a little sad.

[Komodin]

No Dr. light....this makes me a little sad.

Ditto... then again, what would his Sonic counterpart be, anyway?

[Kuzu]

Ditto... then again, what would his Sonic counterpart be, anyway?

Well from the preview images from a couple months back it was Tails, and Bass was with Shadow. Now granted, covers almost always lie but I really hope Light isn't shafted.

[Chooch]

That Sonic Universe cover is great if only because it's a direct copy of the character select in the original Marvel vs. Capcom.

[SuperLink]

Can someone explain how the crossover works to me? I collect both StH and Universe, but what exactly is the spinoff serialised in? A separate comic? Multiple comics? Idk. I'd really love to get all of em but it's hard to find them in UK so I hope they're part of the Universe and StH subscriptions I have.

PS. Spaz is brilliant at drawing MegaMan, all the MM covers I've seen so far have been amazing, they make the recent Sonic covers look dull in comparison.

I hope the Sonic covers get spiced up again soon.

[Toby]

It'll be taking up four issues of Mega Man, four issues of Sonic the Hedgehog, and four issues of Sonic Universe.

[SuperLink]

Ah thanks.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to get ahold of those MegaMan issues.. darn.

[DarkLight]

If it helps, maybe Archie will do a graphic novel format that they've been doing for their Megaman arcs and Genesis. But since this crossover will be 12 parts, the big question is what the page limit has to be or it'll be split into two Volumes.

*Goes back to admiring the covers*

[Marcello]

It'll probably be split into three TBP. One for each series.

[Your Vest Friend]

That would be stupid from a archival point of view. The parts are alternating between the series. If the method you described was done for volumes, then one book would have parts 1, 4, 7 and 10, another would have 2, 5, 8, and 11, while another would have 3, 6, 9, and 12. You can't read each volume as its own story part without having very choppy bits and pieces of the overall narrative.

[SuperLink]

Ah darn.

That means that unless I somehow find a place to buy MegaMan comics in UK I'll have a very chopped up narrative I really hope they do release the whole thing in a big graphic novel.

EDIT: Actually on that note, does anyone here read MegaMan? How faithful is it? Does it throw in billions of (sometimes awful) non-canon characters like Archie does or does it stick pretty close to source material?

Edited November 28, 2012 by SuperLink

[Marcello]

It has some new characters and a few of it's own plotlines, but it's pretty close to the source, I think.

That would be stupid from a archival point of view. The parts are alternating between the series. If the method you described was done for volumes, then one book would have parts 1, 4, 7 and 10, another would have 2, 5, 8, and 11, while another would have 3, 6, 9, and 12. You can't read each volume as its own story part without having very choppy bits and pieces of the overall narrative.

Fair enough. It'll still be three TPBs, though.

[StaticMania]

I never even knew Mega man had comics, that's just a big surprise for me.