What does Sup Forums think of the Sonic Archie comics?

What does Sup Forums think of the Sonic Archie comics?
Is The Ride still happening?

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Ride's been delayed till closer to Mania's launch, when people would be more interested in Sonic related media.

>When they silently judge you.

Those are still being made? Holy hell, I haven't read that series since 1998...

Against all odds, yes. It's absolutely nothing like how it was in 1998, however.

Old continuity can die in a fire, New continuity is fucking boring as fuck, why did they keep all these OG characters? Fuck the freedom fighters and all this crap, just give me the characters from the games.

We're having another ride?

>yfw Eggbrain is more of an evil villain in the comics than he ever was in the games

>ever was in the games
What is Sonic Adventure 2? Comic Eggman has nothing on that Eggman.

The problem is SEGA doesn't really allow them to do anything with the game characters though in terms of character development or progression

What are you talking about? The worst he did in that one was try to kill Sonic and take a pot shot at the moon.

Is this comic kino?

you just want me to post eggmans don't you

Then why have a comic at all if the game characters can't do anything? Nobody a sonic fan wants to watch the adventures of a bunch of original characters with the occasional appearance by game characters. That shit is boring. Why does this comic exist if that's how it is?

Why is the comic so edgy?

I had every comic from around that run once upon a time. Then my parents burned them along with the rest of my comics. However now I own the first issue, which I think is pretty cool.

I hope not. I really do not want another one.

Because no matter how many times the Sonic fanbase denies it, they love edge.

Comic Eggman is an absolute madman

To clarify, I mean before the series really even took off, the 1992 issue.

>Then my parents burned them along with the rest of my comics.
Huh?

My parents are jesus freaks and thought my collection of comics were making me possessed by the devil. They even burned my first issue of Plastic Man along with a bunch of other awesome issues.

I want to see a compilation of all of Omega's appearances in the comics

He's the best character

>Burning a Plastic Man issue
Did they know about Chick Tracts?

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Well you are on Sup Forums so they were on to something.

Anyone got a link to the recent thread from an archive where OP dumped the original comic?

I wanna set it to my favorites folder and never get around to it.

He was actually possessed by Kek.

>Orbot and Cubot have their own eggmobiles

It's the little things

>What is Sonic Adventure 2?
He was a hero in that game.

Yeah, at the end when he found out he was duped by his grandfather.

Post the one with the Egg Beater II

He also held Amy at fucking gun point and harasses you throughout Crazy Gadget by threatening to kill her if you don't hurry up.

Archie Eggman is still more fucked up though.

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Mecha madness and the leadup was so amazing.

Robots don't work that way.

>Actually posting pre reboot garbage

You're part of the problem

It really isn't. Cherry picking pages doesn't mean the entire comic is edgy. Sega wouldn't let Archie get away with it being full edge all the time, especially not after Penders.

bls

Pre reboot was okay.
I mean directly pre. Anything pre Ian is trash

It's not a robot, it's a giant puppet, essentially.

who's the genius here

>Penders
Elaborate for someone who stopped reading the comics back in the 90s.

Oh,man. Story timing Penders is much more interesting than the comic's itself.

tl;dr

Penders was one of the lead writers of the comic until 2006 where Flynn replaced him. Long story short he was one of the reasons why the comic was terrible up until 2006 where his ass and several others got the boot.

He tried to sue Archie and Sega after he learned that Sonic Chronicles was loosely based on his work. After a while Sega told Archie to wrap shit up or else, so they settled on Penders being to own "his" characters and Archie paying him if they used them again. Of course, Archie had no intention on paying him and soft rebooted the comic after Worlds Collide, as seen here.

What is "The Ride"? I wasn't on here whenever those happened.

That would take a good long while to elaborate.

and I just realized I basically said the same thing twice there

whoops

never mind found it

later flickies

You do have the characters from the games. The ones with Sonic are the ones that make sense to be with Sonic on a regular basis. The rest get rotating arcs in Universe, which is what Universe is explicitly designed for. What you're asking for is for characters like Knuckles and Shadow to get bastardized in personality just to be Sonic's butt buddies instead of being allowed to do something on their own. Keeping the cartoon characters around lets Sonic have his own supporting cast while also letting the other game characters have a spotlight.

Were his characters the freedom fighter characters like Sally and Antoinne or whatever?

I fucking had this one.
And it was the only one I ever had or read.

No, those are from the cartoons and are owned by Sega. Specifically Sega of America.

Then just make it like those classic comics I've been seeing in these last few months. How fucking hard is that? The fandom has spoken, Classic Sonic,Tails,Knuckles,Amy,Metal Sonic and Eggman are all we need. Just focus on them, keep the classic style and we're good. That's why Sonic Mania has been getting such positive press compared to the collective groans of disappointment that accomplished Sonic 2017s reveal.

Look, an extended cast can be a good, a great thing even, but it's not for everyone and especially not for Sonic.

Fucking fuck fuck. I'll be in fucking Afghanistan. I dont want to miss a Ride. I fucking loved CO's and V's.

Nope. Sega owns all of the characters in SatAM, AoSTH, and Underground. They're fine.

Penders is responsible for a metric shitload of Echidnas (pic related) and a handful of other characters like Geoffrey St. John. Regardless, Archie axed literally every character that wasn't from the games, SatAM, AoSTH, or created by Ian to cover their asses.

People still care about Sonic? Pathetic.

Cool, then the comic dies in three years because you can't sustain a twice-monthly comic book using just game characters. No, I don't give a fuck that your response will be that it should die. You don't actually care about the comics and never will so your opinion is irrelevant. Literally every adaptation of a video game ever has gone the same route by adding OCs because there's only so much you can do with just game characters before running out of ideas.

What sucks is that most of kenders dumb shitwas ignored/stopped showing up a long time ago, save the couple things he actually did right that just had to get BONGed out of existence.

Constable Remington was cool, the floating island culture setup was fine, Julie-su was fine, Archimedes was fine, that Dingo general guy was fine, the Dark Legion had some good hold over characters, but nope, guy had to burn it all down.

Mega Drive sold well because it was a novelty. If it became a regular thing, then the sales would drop to where they are currently for the main comic. Also, the art would take a HUGE hit which is also part of novelty.

They kept a comic alive for more than 25 years by having an extended cast.

I don't think they need to limit themselves right now.

>Cool, then the comic dies in three years because you can't sustain a twice-monthly comic book using just game characters.
Not him, but it might as well if that's the case. People read to comic for Sonic and the rest of the characters from the games. That's what sells.

The comic has been alive since 1992 so what sells is what they've been doing. The only reason why Mega Drive has been selling so much is because it's a quarterly special. This isn't rocket science. Turning Mega Drive into a monthly comic, let alone twice-monthly, would lead to diminishing returns quickly.

Why are you going to Afghanistan? Obama isn't in charge anymore, Trump's pulling all U.S. forces out of the middle east and other places around the world. At least that's what we in Canada have heard.

Rule of thumb is to expect the exact opposite of whatever Trump actually says, because he's a consummate liar.

Sega used to allow them that freedom, and then Penders happened. They won't let Penders happen again.

Archie Comics and Sonic is dead next year.

Mark my fucking words.

Penders is why I won't see Shade anymore, This son of a bitch still goes to Sonic cons and shit with a huge number of paperback copies of the archie comics,too.

Also, whatever he actually tries to do has to run through the Senate and Congress, so the chances are still on lower side with all the hoops they have to go through.

Sonic and co rusing Eggman can only be entertaining for so long. Especially when Metal isn't allowed to be anything more than silent loyal terminator.

Egg sub bosses are the perfect way to give him people to bounce off without being monsters of the week spinning out of control.

Because then you get shit like 50 different Knuckles clones.

The Worlds Collide rebbot was the best compromise Archie could ome with. They killed two birds with one stone: they totally removed Penders' shit, and now made the comic more consistent with the games(Freedom Fighters and other future characters now look like Sonic characters)

>Archie Comics
>dead

Archie moves an obscene amount of books for what they are.

They aren't going anywhere.

>Believing what Trump promised

lmao

There literally should be a comic based on the canon but is reset and everything happens differently.

Oh, I'm not talking about the company. I'm talking this partnership. I can't see this comic lasting much longer.

Archie itself will go on, since they're booking on the Archie reboot and Riverdale to help them stay afloat.

wrong lol

nice try ctr

This happened to me too. Before Pokemon Gold and Silver came out, we burned all my cards and toys because they were evil. Only thing I was allowed to keep were Sonic stuff actually.

Where do you guys find the comics these days?
I used to use that sonicscanf site, but then they decided to go full moralfag and remove absolutely everything.
At least I managed to download all the comics that matter before that happened

tails.kicks-ass.net/ though you'll need to register.

tails kicks ass.

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You have to make an account but they usually update pretty quickly

TKA mind

He hasn't even been elected by the college yet.

There's 0% chance the electoral college doesn't go with the election results.

/sthg/ has a mega with everything, including the britfag comic, but it's a few months behind.

I haven't been there for it myself, but pay attention in the close future for the next Ride. As far as I understand the original one was fucking amazing.

The Ride was a full storytiming of the entire Archie-Sonic comics.

How long did that take?

You tell me. 250+ comics at I believe about 40 pages each. Post timer at one minute.

Plus/minus delays, rests, hickups, other things needed doing.

I'm curious myself how it will go. But I'm sure it will be a lot of fun.

3 months.

that's an actual thing? and the posters aren't permabanned?

no wonder Sup Forums has gone to shit, the mods let all the autism and cancer in

It was really closer to 300 once you factor in Sonic X, the Universe series, the (now cancelled) Mega Man comics etc.

Also the original ride did Brazilian Mega Man and that was super painful.

My point is that Obama is still running the show. Follow the chain of replies.

Hey those britfag comics are the only good thing about Sonic. Not that that's saying much.

>250+

Try 500+. Mainline and Universe are about to reach Issues 300 and 100, respectively, and then there's Archie Sonic X (40 issues), Knuckles the Echidna (33 issues), Archie Mega Man (55 issues), and Sonic the Comic.

And that's not including all the mini-series and super specials, the origin stories post-reboot, and that one Sabrina comic.

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He's a goddamn maniac.
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I kinda wanted to read them after looking at the covers while playing Sonic Mega Collection fuckin 10, 11 years ago

Can't believe they're still happening

speaking of Penders how's his comic

>timeline nothing but crying about President Trump
lmao

absolutely no progress