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The only bad part about Titan Tails was that he didn't stay like that for the rest of the comic!
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 Weird that Coleen O'Shaughnessey doesn't get a credit despite Tails being on the poster (granted she’s not exactly a big name actress but I hope this isn’t a bad omen in regards to how much focus the character will be getting in the movie) Larryb fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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And then he saved the day by absorbing mammoth mogul's powers into his rear end.
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KingKalamari posted:I've been meaning to ask: What's a good jumping-on point for someone who likes the looks of the Yardley/Flynn era of Sonic comics but has little to no interest in the earlier stuff? Is picking up at issue 160 an okay approach? Or is there enough continuity cruft from the earlier comics kicking around that it's going to end up being confusing for a new reader? flynn spends the first chunk of his run doing some major much needed cleanup so while things are a bit breakneck for a few stories, i don't think it'd be too confusing for a new reader to start at 160. the darkest storm story is where most of that cleanup is and is probably the most confusing out of context edit: actually yeah, if you want a truly clean start then issue 252, the big continuity reboot, is your best bet. or just go with idw which carries nothing over from archie Looper fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Feb 17, 2022 20:46
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KingKalamari posted:I've been meaning to ask: What's a good jumping-on point for someone who likes the looks of the Yardley/Flynn era of Sonic comics but has little to no interest in the earlier stuff? Is picking up at issue 160 an okay approach? Or is there enough continuity cruft from the earlier comics kicking around that it's going to end up being confusing for a new reader? IDW sonic probably
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Larryb posted:
Tails is a pretty big focus of the trailers and his tails are straight up a part of the logo. I don't think it's gonna be an issue of Tails not being a big factor in the movie, just dumb hollywood contract poo poo I imagine. Cyclops' wife's name isn't on there either, and she's quite small on the poster, but I imagine she''ll get about as much time as she did in the first movie. Looking back at the first movie poster, Ben Schwartz, the voice of the character the movie is about, isn't listed. Just Mardsen and Jim Carrey. Tails' voice actor not only not being a big hollywood star, but primarily (I think??) a voice actor is probably gonna keep her off the posters in future movies too. I'm just glad they stuck with her voice instead of getting a hollywood actor edit: I'm also curious if some chunks of the movie are gonna take place in another dimension. The first movie didn't include any fantastical elements that aren't Sonic himself and his rings. But the trailer has a whole place where the Master Emerald is kept and I wonder if they're gonna have that be in our real life earth or if it's gonna be in another dimension Macaluso fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Fair point, but there’s also been a lot of Knuckles focus as of late as well (including this version of the character getting his own miniseries). I just hope my boy Tails gets some love as well Also Tika Sumpter is credited on the poster, just on the very bottom Larryb fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Man, look at Fleetway's Robotnik, he started out somewhat normal sized then just got bigger and more menacing with every issue until he looked like he devoured babies for breakfast: Perfection, everything else was a step backwards.
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That loving Sned posted:My favourite is still Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. He's got the most expressive design and his voice makes listening to him lose his temper just so much fun. What's the podcast?
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Boba Pearl posted:What's the podcast? https://stctp.wigglehe.com/
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It covers everything in the comics including the news and adverts and stuff, so it's like bathing in my own childhood memories.
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Eggman is a feminist and is happy for Amy going from a damsel in distress to a hero in her own right every bit as capable as Sonic when she shows up. Happy and loving terrified. He did not need another do gooder foiling his plans. Good for her, though.
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I’m friends with eggman’s little brother and he told me he’s not terrified.actually
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Someone was posting Sonic the Comic in the webcomics thread and then in GBS for a while back. There's a lot of extended side stories featuring Knuckles with a various serious and wide face, and a loving hilarious pirate who looks like he walked straight out of 2000AD. (Probably because that's where the artists came from) Also a riff on the Mario Bros combined with the Marx Bros. And Sonic is often a loving rear end in a top hat. Mikedawson posted:On account of being a 30-year-old multimedia IP that has gone in many different directions, many Sonic fans have specific ideas of the "definitive" versions of characters in their heads, and how close that is to their current or past depictions varies. Sometimes that idea may come from a video game, sometimes a cartoon, sometimes it might not even be from official material, but fan works. This is one of the better explanations for why the Sonic fanbase is so shithouse-rat crazy, especially since so many of those fans think their 'definitive' version is obvious without saying and everything else is clearly wrong. Also many are extremely nostalgia poisoned. Also wasn't Karl Bollers the one who turned the comic into a furry soap opera with his waifu Mina Mongose being Sonic's one true wuv until he finally relented and wrote her a mongoose boyfriend? I did hear Bollers and Penders in particular were at each others' throats. Also practically everyone had some kind of magical destiny poo poo going on. Macaluso posted:edit: I'm also curious if some chunks of the movie are gonna take place in another dimension. The first movie didn't include any fantastical elements that aren't Sonic himself and his rings. But the trailer has a whole place where the Master Emerald is kept and I wonder if they're gonna have that be in our real life earth or if it's gonna be in another dimension Like a lot of adaptations that get scared of having anything too interesting in them first time around, the sequel probably is going to go full hog into the magical otherworld stuff. (besides, the first movie is basically a stealth Eggman origin story) They might do a bunch of stuff about how the worlds are connected, there's some oddly Norse themes with the ring of worlds and connections between them.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:and a loving hilarious pirate who looks like he walked straight out of 2000AD. (Probably because that's where the artists came from) Also a riff on the Mario Bros combined with the Marx Bros. And Sonic is often a loving rear end in a top hat. Captain Plunder, who eventually got a strip of his own because he's absolutely amazing:  STC occasionally went in hard with its big beefy men. The Marxio brothers worked surprisingly well too as a very unlikely mashup of two wildly different things: 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Also wasn't Karl Bollers the one who turned the comic into a furry soap opera with his waifu Mina Mongose being Sonic's one true wuv until he finally relented and wrote her a mongoose boyfriend? I did hear Bollers and Penders in particular were at each others' throats. Also practically everyone had some kind of magical destiny poo poo going on. sort of, he's the one who had to write the stories but mina and the love triangle were all the editor justin gabrie's ideas. bollers' writing was kind of all over the place, so you'd get stories where mina throws herself in front of a gun to protect her rival in love, or cheesy high school stuff, or a bored and unfulfilled sonic struggling to find his place in a post robotnik society, or slapstick shenanigans reminiscent of the gallagher days, or high concept star trek plots. his work could be very hit or miss, but i always got the vibe that he was at least trying and yeah the back and forth between bollers and penders over what to name knuckles' new baby brother, is good
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Captain Plunder, who eventually got a strip of his own because he's absolutely amazing: Amy's so happy to be here haha
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A classic Mystic Cave Pirate Sea Shanty https://youtu.be/Oa0giRkQdQM
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Dunno if this was posted previously, but it's a solid look at where Project 06 is up to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMl3sa8yjU Plenty to be done, especially with vehicles, but it's like watching a thousand rough edges gradually get sanded down.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Captain Plunder, who eventually got a strip of his own because he's absolutely amazing: Garrosh Hellscream trying his best to fit in and not doing well 
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I can't get into StC. Honestly, my attempts to read it ended due to not really liking their portrayal of Sonic himself.
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Electric Phantasm posted:A classic Mystic Cave Pirate Sea Shanty I thought this was going to be legit remix of Mystic Cave Zone in the style of a sea shanty. I am extremely let down
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sonic the comic super sonic owns
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Screaming Idiot posted:Garrosh Hellscream trying his best to fit in and not doing well Yeah, that's the same zeitgeist that Blizzard stole all their ideas from. (2000AD and Warhammer shared a lot of artists I'm p sure, or at least GW began their long career of aesthetic larcerny with that) Thing is though, you could still picture Sonic fighting a big goofy-scary pirate, and his lieutenants, the ghost of his first mate (who he shot) and a literal cartoon character in something modern.
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I love StC's hairstyle for Amy. It's based on a misinterpretation of Sonic CD art but I like how it gives her a different silhouette than Sonic.
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flynn is the best Archie Sonic writer because he isn't insane but his run is also the least interesting because of it imo but it owns he is the one who came up with Scourge and penders claimed ownership because he "owns" the concept of evil sonic lol
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Man, look at Fleetway's Robotnik, he started out somewhat normal sized then just got bigger and more menacing with every issue until he looked like he devoured babies for breakfast:  That's one of my favourite panels of the two. He's pretty imposing, like in issue 35 when he got Porker in a headlock from within his jail cell.Nodosaur posted:I can't get into StC. Honestly, my attempts to read it ended due to not really liking their portrayal of Sonic himself. I really like it. Sonic's got the arrogance that comes with being basically the only one in his group with super powers. He only acts like a jerk when he doesn't need to take the situation seriously. Pigbuster posted:I love StC's hairstyle for Amy. It's based on a misinterpretation of Sonic CD art but I like how it gives her a different silhouette than Sonic. The regular Classic Amy looks a little too much like just a pink Sonic, so this change makes her much more unique. She even gets her Adventure look near the end of the comic, and both really work well.
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Pigbuster posted:I love StC's hairstyle for Amy. It's based on a misinterpretation of Sonic CD art but I like how it gives her a different silhouette than Sonic. i like it too but i like her looking like a color swapped sonic especially in hesse's style cause it highlights the old timey cartoon inspiration ala mickey mouse
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That loving Sned posted:I really like it. Sonic's got the arrogance that comes with being basically the only one in his group with super powers. He only acts like a jerk when he doesn't need to take the situation seriously. It's more braggadocio than plain arrogance, most of the StC writers (especially Kitching) put in asides where Sonic doubts himself a little when others aren't watching which makes him a lot more relatable. Of course that doesn't come across in isolated panels posted to Twitter about what a dick British Sonic is 
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That loving Sned posted:I really like it. Sonic's got the arrogance that comes with being basically the only one in his group with super powers. He only acts like a jerk when he doesn't need to take the situation seriously. They really went for a cocky big brother vibe and it was pretty great.  And it isn't presented as unequivocally good, he gets a lot of pushback from the rest of the cast, and part of what made their Super Sonic so good was that he was Sonic's arrogance and sense of superiority turned up to 11, so he ended up being this ever-present reminder of what Sonic could be if he let his worst traits define him, and occasionally did (against his will, but still). Scourge and now Surge have a similar role, but without the background worry of knowing that Sonic could literally turn into his worse self before your very eyes.
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StC was the loving bomb and I've always felt bad for my friends across the pond who had to put up with the Archie comics instead.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:flynn is the best Archie Sonic writer because he isn't insane but his run is also the least interesting because of it imo but it owns he is the one who came up with Scourge and penders claimed ownership because he "owns" the concept of evil sonic lol A lot of Flynn's stuff was basically rehabilitating a ton of characters and ideas into ways people liked them, which unfortunately he then had to jettison in like, increasingly harder reboots until starting over from scratch with IDW. The cancellation was REALLY sudden- they had issues ready to go and everything. I can't imagine how frustrating that whole process must have been. Scourge is particularly fun since he basically ends up turning in to a riff on edgy OCs- he desperately can't deal with that he has an equal and opposite who actually has not only morals but also self-confidence, and goes to the point of actually trying to make his counterparts less like Sonic's friends and circle. Sometimes violently. That loving Sned posted:I really like it. Sonic's got the arrogance that comes with being basically the only one in his group with super powers. He only acts like a jerk when he doesn't need to take the situation seriously. I do hear that he's also like this in SatAM, for similar reasons; a big part of his dynamic with Sally is her trying to get Sonic to actually take things seriously. Self-doubt and being a cocky rear end in a top hat also don't seem incompatible, does strike me as the type who's genuinely cocky but also uses it to cover up his insecurities. In general, whenever Sonic's actually allowed to have a personality, he's invariably a hilarious jerk. Heck, even in Sonic Boom he's explicitly lazy as gently caress and desperately avoids any responsibility or hard work that doesn't involve beating up bad guys and being hailed as a hero for it. Actually also comes to mind that's the personality they go for with Mickey Mouse in the... relatively recent shorts where Disney lets him have one for a change; going back to his VERY early characterisation of a lazy jackass who mostly makes his own trouble. (which I also say, is a surprisingly apt characterisation for Disney itself as a whole)
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I've listened to about 20 or so episodes of STCTP. Of what I've listened to, I think it's really cool learning what it was like to be a UK kid in the 90s, but I can get a little annoyed by how dismissive they are of Sonic stuff they didn't grow up with. But the most recent episode I listened to is from 2 years ago so I don't think I can give a full judgement.
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Party Boat posted:The STCTP hosts don't actually hate Archists, in the same way that STC Sonic doesn't actually hate Tails. I love and hate how so much about Sonic fans is comparable to religious schisms.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I love and hate how so much about Sonic fans is comparable to religious schisms.
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That loving Sned posted:I really like it. Sonic's got the arrogance that comes with being basically the only one in his group with super powers. He only acts like a jerk when he doesn't need to take the situation seriously. I just couldn't get into it. He reads as too obnoxious and mean in those early issues and I can't get past them.
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Sonic acting like a jerk is something I wished happened in the games more. Yeah, the power of friendship is nice but sometimes you have to dunk on Knuckles.
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That's why the Sonic Boom interpretation of the character is my favorite: It brings in some of the sass and sarcasm from the early American/UK interpretation, but doesn't push it quite so far as to make him seem like an unlikable jerk. That and I just think Roger Craig Smith did a really good job voicing him.
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