Megathread Archie Sonic Main Discussion

[Borvoc]

I only skimmed it, and it got my hopes up just from reading "returning" and "July". Oh, boy. Have to settle back into my lack of expectations again.

[Forte-Metallix]

10 minutes ago, Borvoc said:

This is not a funny April Fool's joke, whoever did this. Giving people false hope is horrendously mean.

Edit: After reading the whole thing, the Ken Penders part is kind of funny.

Come on, dude. Lighten up a little.

It's to be expected today. And even if one forgot today's date, this is about as believable as Big being added into Mania. (Which I would totally buy, btw)

[Borvoc]

See my previous post. I get the humor now, but unless you come into this with today's date in mind, there's no way you can even start reading that post without getting your hopes up. I'm not mad at anyone personally, but I am a little upset now.

Edit: Getting over it, and now the idea of a Archie Sonic: Rebirth a la DC has me intrigued. I'm not sure I'd want it to happen, but it's an interesting idea, and it deserves some creative points. I wouldn't mind seeing Scourge or Mammoth Mogul again, but Ken Penders' hypothetical return whould have to be under heavy stipulations after the way he's fouled up the nest.

Edit 2: Maybe we could unnecessarily add the Watchmen to the continuity while we're at it. That seems to be what you do for this sort of thing.

[RictalRose0]

You almost had me dude. I was scared shitless oh man. Well, comic is still dead eh? 

[Borvoc]

1 hour ago, BlueSky said:

And somehow I managed to remember the troll tweets Penders made about Archie and him trying to see whether or not he would write a story for them around 300th issue.

Wow. Was he actually joking about this at some point?

[Big Panda]

I'm honestly sorry if anyone did get their hopes up there. I really didn't think anyone would actually fall for it.

Also the "source" link is inside the quote.

[Borvoc]

Sorry for my initial reaction, @Ernest-Panda. I'm over it now. It was a very creative joke, and even though I know it's a joke now, I'm still intrigued by the idea.

Edit: In related news, Ken Penders has announced his intention to work with BioWare on a sequel to Sonic Chronicles to be released for Nintendo Switch sometime in 2018, after which he intends to sue himself for the theft of his own intellectual property.

[HywelAtTheMoon]

Next year's joke: Penders finally releases his graphic novel... 

[Borvoc]

@HywelAtTheMoon I'm not sure even Ken Penders could deny that that one's pretty funny.

How about:

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Sonic Team to release a new Sonic game not featuring Classic sonic.

[HywelAtTheMoon]

True! It gets funnier every year! I may be new posting, but I've been lurking around here for years... 

[Borvoc]

I wonder if Penders' whole deal is not so much that he wants to release a graphic novel so much as he has to pretend he wants to actually use the intellectual property he's claiming for legal purposes.

[BlueSky]

1 hour ago, Borvoc said:

Wow. Was he actually joking about this at some point?

I'm not that certain about joking but my wordchoice is grounded to the fact his posts that end up getting in the Lara-Su thread are pretty trollish for my liking.  That said tweet chain was more of a teasing/"hyping"-in-vain than joking...

Actually now that I'm on it, why don't we all go there talking about Penders in that thread dedicated for his project? Since it seems to be mostly consisting of troll-tweeting than scriptwriting anyway, at least as far as I can see. You could bring some change by these April Fools you throw around here.

Actually I'd like to inform that

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They'll stop using '06 loading screen times as a joke in Sonic's Youtube channel, as we all can see in here. (At the very end of it.)

...not. Just look how hilarious I am.

 

...not.

[HywelAtTheMoon]

That was as far as I wanted to take the joke anyway. Let's get back to the main topic now. 

[Sonictrainer]

What are some of your favorite and worst Sonic Archie Comic Book Covers?

[Big Panda]

Worst: any of the Sanford Green ones.

[HywelAtTheMoon]

Favourites: SU94 Variant or the Christmas variant with Tails' nervous grin to the camera. 

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

7 minutes ago, Sonictrainer said:

What are some of your favorite and worst Sonic Archie Comic Book Covers?

My favorite ones are mostly the CGI covers by Rafa Knight. The web Lynx variant is still my favorite-

It's mostly because of the details and colors of the model and background that shows that Nicole is a a holographic lynx and all.

Also that random Shadow 2 Sonic.

I also like Evan Stanley's painted variants. While the Freedom Fighters variant was good, the Gaia Collosus cover is beautiful-

It's the different shades of color that get me in that dark setting, also that rocky attention to detail of that Gaia Collosus is really neat. Also there's Big in this cover, which was unexpected (and funny)

This funny variant from the Mega Man comic during Worlds Unite. I know that isn't Sonic, and there is another funny cover done by Skelly later on, (I think it's that lovestruck variant) but this is still funnier-

Tyson Heese's covers are also neat due to the artstyle, but I mostly like the cover he did for Sonic Megadrive: Overdrive-

I found this cover to be more simplistic and the colors add well here, it adds to the fact that this and the other two Megadrive covers were inspired by some of the Sonic Japanese boxart.

... And now I'm sad that we didn't get Overdrive. 

[Big Panda]

It just occurred to me what, does that Japanese text say?

[Tylinos]

1 hour ago, Ernest-Panda said:

Worst: any of the Sanford Green ones.

As bad as the Sanford's covers are, I think even his can't come close to a certain Spaz/Penders mashup that we've all blocked from our memories.

Behold, Sonic Super Special #14:

 

[RictalRose0]

This one, this is the worst

I mean.... I don't know what the hell's Sally's problem. But it both makes me laugh and also gives me nightmares....

[Kintor]

Favourite covers? I think that generally Spaz makes the best covers. I mean, just look at these video game adaption covers:

This is the iconic #25 cover, which I think really marks a point when the quality for the art in the comic began to noticably improve.

I've also included the cover for #98, just because it's so beautiful. This cover was made by Spaz and Harvey Mercadoocasio, with apparently some 'computer paint' by Josh D Ray. A lot of work went into this cover and it shows, this is easily one of the most vibrant covers on any issue of Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic Universe. It's a pity that we never got a full Archie adaption of Sonic Adventure 2, then we could have gotten more amazing covers like this.

[Sonictrainer]

3 minutes ago, Kintor said:

 

 

The only thing that bothers me about this cover is...where is Sonic's other leg?

If it is actually behind him, how is he riding the snowboard?

[RictalRose0]

I wouldn't exactly call that the best (honestly I think they look quite dated, especially the second one) but to each their own right? Also something weird about the Sonic CD one is that it has Classic Eggman in the background as a statue yet the comic used the SatAM design back then. 

[Shadowlax]

2 hours ago, RictalRose0 said:

This one, this is the worst

I mean.... I don't know what the hell's Sally's problem. But it both makes me laugh and also gives me nightmares....

They were trying to make her look "sexy" it seems, it did not work out. There is this red tint on her and Antione's eyes that make them look faded out of their damn mind

[Kintor]

44 minutes ago, Sonictrainer said:

The only thing that bothers me about this cover is...where is Sonic's other leg?

If it is actually behind him, how is he riding the snowboard?

He's not so much riding the 'snowboard' as posing for a dramatic action shot mid-air. Looking cool vs Occupational Health and Safety are sometimes mutually exclusive concepts.

41 minutes ago, RictalRose0 said:

I wouldn't exactly call that the best (honestly I think they look quite dated, especially the second one) but to each their own right? Also something weird about the Sonic CD one is that it has Classic Eggman in the background as a statue yet the comic used the SatAM design back then. 

Eh... as I said in my last I was going more for iconic rather then dated. I wanted to show some of the greatest cover art from the pre-Flynn era. Both Sonic CD and Sonic Adventure 2 are still readily accessible games today, their comic adaptions seemed the best bet.

If you want to talk about dated then I'd suggest #114's cover:

Look's a little familiar? That's because it's a homage to a certain poster for a movie also released in 2002:

Overall I think that #114 works pretty well as a homage. A bit tongue-in-cheek while still being quite eye catching. Plus, I do like the detailing on Dimitri's cybernetic body; you can even see his organic brain underneath the glass.