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Oh my god this looks amazing. I don't care that zombies are old hat; I am all over this http://www.comicvine.com/articles/preview-afterlife-with-archie-1/1100-146972/
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# ? Aug 24, 2013 11:36 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:26 |
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Say what you will about the Sonic comic, there manages to be some golden panels on occasion. I stopped reading around 200 and I kinda wanna pick it up again for the Megaman crossover. I've only heard good things about it. Do we have any clue when those character redesigns are going in? I kinda like them.
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# ? Aug 24, 2013 15:34 |
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Argue posted:Oh my god this looks amazing. I don't care that zombies are old hat; I am all over this It's amazing how a franchise that most people probably think of as very square and old-fashioned is willing to go so completely off the wall with its own universe.
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# ? Aug 24, 2013 15:42 |
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tvb posted:It's amazing how a franchise that most people probably think of as very square and old-fashioned is willing to go so completely off the wall with its own universe. After reading Life with Archie, I'm glad they take chances. It's good stuff. I'd say they're doing well with the theme of Archie being a small town in America, now in modern times facing challenges.
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# ? Aug 24, 2013 17:02 |
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So, with the reveal of time-space tomfoolery following the Mega Man/Sonic crossover, I haven't the foggiest idea what direction the Sonic comics are going in. I've never looked forward to getting an issue like this before. I get the feeling it's going to be a delight to read through however many issues of hard retcons.
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# ? Sep 25, 2013 21:19 |
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Did something new and Crisis-like happen? I picked up the crossover because I love crossovers but I'm not really inclined to keep following the regular series.
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 02:22 |
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Argue posted:Did something new and Crisis-like happen? I picked up the crossover because I love crossovers but I'm not really inclined to keep following the regular series. Yes, but unlike most Crisii this is for the best.
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 03:24 |
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Snake_in_a_box posted:Say what you will about the Sonic comic, there manages to be some golden panels on occasion. I desperately want to know the context for this image. She looks like she's passing out due to the crushing weight of his glare.
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 04:05 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:I desperately want to know the context for this image. She looks like she's passing out due to the crushing weight of his glare. The full page was posted in Games a while back. Apparently raccoon-girl exploded Shadow's warp back home from Not-Australia and is too stupid to build him any other suitable transportation. Shadow's perturbation is evident.
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 04:46 |
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Oxxidation posted:The full page was posted in Games a while back. Apparently raccoon-girl exploded Shadow's warp back home from Not-Australia and is too stupid to build him any other suitable transportation. Shadow's perturbation is evident. Said Raccoon girl is also the most annoying character in the Sonic universe. Someone post the gag comic with her and the Detective dude from the Mega Man comics. That's her in a microcosm
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 04:58 |
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The dialog was this more or less. Marine: "Yay I did something cool." Shadow: "But you also destroyed my way home. You built a boat for tails can you make me one." Marine: "Oh yeah I said that. But it was more like Tails built it and I supervised.... Then the Panels happened. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 06:16 |
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Unlucky7 posted:Said Raccoon girl is also the most annoying character in the Sonic universe. Someone post the gag comic with her and the Detective dude from the Mega Man comics. That's her in a microcosm Yeah, I don't know the Sonic comics at all, but that gag comic made it pretty clear. Raccoon Girl: Grizzled Detective:
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 07:05 |
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Gavok posted:Yeah, I don't know the Sonic comics at all, but that gag comic made it pretty clear. She is actually from Sonic Rush Adventure. Every cutscene she is in, about 50% of it is her talking.
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 07:08 |
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Unlucky7 posted:She is actually from Sonic Rush Adventure. Every cutscene she is in, about 50% of it is her talking. And 100% of it is in annoying over-the-top Australian with "crikey"s and poo poo thrown around all the time. I remember there was a half-finished LP of it and people kept popping into the thread to say "no one talks like that here!"
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# ? Sep 26, 2013 10:00 |
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/03/mega-man-x-returns-as-a-comic-book Possibility of a MegaMan X comic series? I'm all in!
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# ? Oct 4, 2013 00:15 |
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Siselmo posted:http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/03/mega-man-x-returns-as-a-comic-book "The back-ups serve to set the stage for a story we've got slated for Spring/Summer 2014" Oh my god does that mean they're going to do a crossover with X is the Classic series? Awesome!
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# ? Oct 4, 2013 12:23 |
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So what's been going on in the Sonic comics? I dropped the series after the issue where the Xorda, who are intelligent alien squids that used "gene bombs" to wipe-out most of the human race on Earth but also inadvertently caused other animals to mutate into humanoids (who decided to rename Earth to Mobius), tried to use a weapon called the Quantum Dial to destroy all life on Mobius, only for Sonic to seemingly sacrifice himself to stop it (when he was in reality somehow transported light years away to somewhere in outer space). Did they ever decide to stop trying to out-crazy DC and Marvel?
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# ? Oct 5, 2013 09:54 |
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Hexmage-SA posted:So what's been going on in the Sonic comics? I dropped the series after the issue where the Xorda, who are intelligent alien squids that used "gene bombs" to wipe-out most of the human race on Earth but also inadvertently caused other animals to mutate into humanoids (who decided to rename Earth to Mobius), tried to use a weapon called the Quantum Dial to destroy all life on Mobius, only for Sonic to seemingly sacrifice himself to stop it (when he was in reality somehow transported light years away to somewhere in outer space). Did they ever decide to stop trying to out-crazy DC and Marvel? It trundled along with a story arc where Sonic has to travel back to Mobius through deep space, another story arc where Sonic returns to Mobius a year after he left, a story arc where Tails fuses with every other Tails from every other reality to form Titan Tails to fight Mammoth Mogul (this is one of the worst things that has ever appeared in a comic book), then Ian Flynn took over as main writer in #160. Recently, there's been a crossover with Flynn's Mega Man comic, which has resulted in a big continuity reset to compensate for the outcome of proceedings against Archie initiated by That's the simplified version.
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# ? Oct 5, 2013 10:17 |
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Metal Loaf posted:It trundled along with a story arc where Sonic has to travel back to Mobius through deep space, another story arc where Sonic returns to Mobius a year after he left, a story arc where Tails fuses with every other Tails from every other reality to form Titan Tails to fight Mammoth Mogul (this is one of the worst things that has ever appeared in a comic book), then Ian Flynn took over as main writer in #160. Recently, there's been a crossover with Flynn's Mega Man comic, which has resulted in a big continuity reset to compensate for the outcome of proceedings against Archie initiated by So the book has picked up since Flynn took over?
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# ? Oct 5, 2013 10:37 |
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Massively. Flynn is not without his flaws, and quite a few of them to boot. However, the book is much better since he's taken over, and world building actually means something now beyond "and now here's THESE echidnas!"
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# ? Oct 5, 2013 11:29 |
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Really excited for this week; they put out a lettered preview of Afterlife With Archie. And the review here basically left me
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# ? Oct 8, 2013 16:39 |
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Well, that preview has me sold already. drat.
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# ? Oct 8, 2013 21:07 |
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Yeah adding zombies to things is beyond played out now but the creative team and that preview means I'll give it at least one shot.
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# ? Oct 8, 2013 21:08 |
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My shop got the local variant covers (zombie juggie going to the comic store), and I didn't check the regular versions, but the cover printing itself is badass; it's a dull finish on a lightly textured paper, so the dark colors are VERY dark and striking, and the book just feels kind of grody and gritty in your hands as you read it, excellent way to complement the art. As a big Archie reader when I was a kid, the setup feels just like a regular archie story too, like Sabrina could have just as easily have accidentally zapped jughead to have a gorilla head for Halloween instead of making him hunger for flesh, so it's actually kind of a trip when it becomes the latter. I also like how they cut out the bullshit and get right into the story. That preview page where jughead shows up on Sabrina's porch? First page of the book.
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# ? Oct 9, 2013 22:43 |
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Yeah, Afterlife with Archie is definitely worth a look. What I really like is how even though there's blood, the fact that it's still an Archie comic holds back from showing outright gore. The only biting we see is Zombie Hotdog biting Jughead's arm. It makes it that much more tense in the end.
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# ? Oct 10, 2013 03:56 |
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I just picked it up and thought it was quite good. I only found out now that it's an ongoing rather than a limited series, so I can see how some people might drop out after the novelty wears off, since the zombie fare is standard so far. For people like me who grew up on Archie and read it religiously for years, though, the comic is pretty amazing. It's pretty much a love letter to Archie in the same way Life With Archie is. While it matures the characters from their 50s archietypes, it treats them with respect, and makes them more realistic without having them do anything weirdly out of character. Since the mass panic hasn't started yet, I don't have a lot to go on, but from what I've seen, everyone is mostly true to their characters, acting exactly how I'd expect them to act. There's a lot of references to horror movies, but just as many to classic Archie comics, which is always a plus for me (does anyone even remember Carson's Creek from when Bob Bolling used to write Archie?).
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# ? Oct 10, 2013 08:07 |
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Well I've never read an Archie book before but I really enjoyed it. It felt very much like Paranorman in that it managed to be packed full of horror film references without ever being too adult for a "kids book". I'm interested to see how far it manages to "push things" especially since they've already reached the "infection at party" phase. Also it's the first book in a while where I've felt that the colouring has really fitted Franco's art.
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# ? Oct 11, 2013 18:30 |
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Metal Loaf posted:It trundled along with a story arc where Sonic has to travel back to Mobius through deep space, another story arc where Sonic returns to Mobius a year after he left, a story arc where Tails fuses with every other Tails from every other reality to form Titan Tails to fight Mammoth Mogul (this is one of the worst things that has ever appeared in a comic book), then Ian Flynn took over as main writer in #160. Recently, there's been a crossover with Flynn's Mega Man comic, which has resulted in a big continuity reset to compensate for the outcome of proceedings against Archie initiated by They actually did a pretty admirable job of retconning the shitpile Penders left behind into something that wasn't total poo poo, but I think the continuity reset is probably the way to go. What did happen with that Penders poo poo, anyway? I'm sort of surprised that even went anywhere...
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 09:20 |
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Dr. Buttass posted:They actually did a pretty admirable job of retconning the shitpile Penders left behind into something that wasn't total poo poo, but I think the continuity reset is probably the way to go. Archie were idiots who somehow lost his contract (although they had a photocopy but that wasn't enough for the court), Penders sued claiming that he wasn't on work-for-hire and trying to reclaim his characters (apparently so he could make the 'Lara-Su chronicles' because apparently he thinks people will buy the adventures of ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL), as well as a prelude to suing Sega/Bioware for ripping off his Dark Legion in Sonic Chronicles. Archie settled out of court, and we have no idea what the nature of it was, but they seem to be removing most if not all of Penders' work. If and when Penders' Sega lawsuit falls flat on its face (because really, considering the games are the frigging source material for the comics, 'a whole bunch of evil echidnas' is not really that revolutionary-anyone got that picture of Knuckles and all the other echidnas that are the same pose copy and pasted and slightly altered), Sega should let Archie use the Dark brotherhood as a new antagonist. Hell, the fact the Penders Echidnas conga-lined into another dimension provides a sly link to penders' work to them, just have time move differently there to explain the change in their society.
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 10:43 |
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Dr. Buttass posted:What did happen with that Penders poo poo, anyway? I'm sort of surprised that even went anywhere... In fairness to Penders, I think there some irregularities in his contracts with Archie which gave him reasonable grounds for bringing the case. When it went to trial, Archie also messed up by failing to bring in Sega straight away to try and prove that the characters were derivative (I don't really know much about copyright law in America, but that's something I've seen suggested here and there). I'm not sure what Penders plans to do with the characters, because they are basically Sonic recolours and I suspect they'll be recognised as such. Now, the Sonic creators who have a more reasonable grievance (at least on the face of it) were the writers and artists for the UK publication Sonic the Comic. It had an anthology format comparable to the like of 2000 AD or kids' comics like The Beano, and as it approached the end of its run, the powers that be opted to phase out the back-up strips until there was only one original story in each issue alongside three or four reprints, then (after the end of the Sonic Adventure adaptation) it went full reprint for about fifty issues before it was cancelled. Through this, the writers and artists weren't paid for the use of their work in reprints.
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 10:46 |
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Ther character in the lower right corner is property of SEGA, the rest are ORIGINAL CHARACTERS that Ken Penders created. Ken Penders still claims he created Evil Sonic (Sonic but with a leather jacket, and bad) but the court said "No, that's stupid. You're stupid. Get out."
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 15:28 |
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Or is it Sputnik posted:Ther character in the lower right corner is property of SEGA, the rest are ORIGINAL CHARACTERS that Ken Penders created. Ken Penders still claims he created Evil Sonic (Sonic but with a leather jacket, and bad) but the court said "No, that's stupid. You're stupid. Get out." I love the thread that picture emerged from it even had Ian and Dubs show up for it, which definitely made for an interesting ride. I also love the little reference Dub gave back to it as a sign it really was him. Onmi fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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Or is it Sputnik posted:Ther character in the lower right corner is property of SEGA, the rest are ORIGINAL CHARACTERS that Ken Penders created. Ken Penders still claims he created Evil Sonic (Sonic but with a leather jacket, and bad) but the court said "No, that's stupid. You're stupid. Get out." Genius. There's another one where it's literally all the Echidnas in exactly the same goddamn pose. I wish I could find it. I would try google, but really that opens the floodgates to all the...fanart. Ugh.
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 21:48 |
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Yeah, this is pretty much originalcharacterdonotsteal.jpg, isn't it? Yvonmukluk posted:There's another one where it's literally all the Echidnas in exactly the same goddamn pose. I wish I could find it. I would try google, but really that opens the floodgates to all the...fanart. Ugh. Might be on the A Moment Of Archie Sonic tumblr?
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 22:08 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Genius. Metal Loaf posted:Might be on the A Moment Of Archie Sonic tumblr? Found it! Along with a few other gems. Like some precedent for Knuckles' design in the new cartoon.
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# ? Oct 12, 2013 22:51 |
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Afterlife with Archie #2 has the best cliffhanger image.
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# ? Nov 21, 2013 06:03 |
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I never thought I'd be buying an Archie comic, writing them off as the hokiest of the hokey, but here I am, reading about motherfucking undead Jughead.
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# ? Nov 21, 2013 07:40 |
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TwoPair posted:I never thought I'd be buying an Archie comic, writing them off as the hokiest of the hokey, but here I am, reading about motherfucking undead Jughead. He's not undead. He just... He just took a bad batch of steroids is all.
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# ? Nov 21, 2013 08:09 |
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I especially liked how, after countless zombie stories where everyone acts surprised/uncomprehending and amazed at the carnage and collapse unfolding around them, here we immediately had a couple of guys basically go "yeah, this is exactly what it looks like". And yes, dat final page is brilliant.
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