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Everyone knows about the saga of Penders and his echidnas, but did you know, there was another Sonic comic across the pond? Published by Fleetway, it shared a lot of creative DNA with Fleetway's flagship title; 2000 AD, the sci-fi anthology comic that gave the world titles such as Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, and ABC Warriors.  Serving as the original editor on StC was then-current 2000 AD editor Richard Burton.        Writer Alan McKenzie served as both a writer and as Burton's assistant editor on 2000 AD (in fact apparently Burton was busy enough with StC that during the final stretch of his time as editor McKenzie was practically acting as editor, and would quickly straight up be promoted to the position) Artist Anthony Williams is also a 2000 AD regular. Years down the line he would do the art for Mark Millar's The Unfunnies. And finally, letterer Tom Frame was considered The Letterer on Judge Dredd stuff specifically by that point. It may look unassuming at first, but this comic goes places (and does so far sooner than Archie did)
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Jun 9, 2021 20:07
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StC wasn't just a comic; it was also a video game magazine and thus featured reviews and news and stuff   Plus, it also didn't just have Sonic comics; it was a whole Sega anthology      Shinobi artist Jon Haward is another 2000 AD guy (not one of the big names or anything, in fact he was a fresh face in the book when StC started) gettin' a bit ahead of our selves, eh?
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Jun 9, 2021 20:14
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The UK? That place doesnt loving count
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Jun 9, 2021 20:14
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Eager to see if this heads into another comic jam.
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Jun 9, 2021 20:21
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       Mark Eyles has written for 2000 AD, and also worked in game design Mike White is an old school comics artist, having worked on 2000 AD back when the publisher was IPC instead of Fleetway, but appears to be more well known for his work on other IPC/Fleetway titles, particularly Roy of the Rovers
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Jun 9, 2021 20:24
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  while most issues of StC have 4 stories, issue 1 only had three, opting to use the space the 4th story would usually go to promote upcoming stuff    and while these scans leave out ads (and compos, and posters, and 2 page spread pin-ups, though the 1 page-ers are in the scans), they do thankfully keep the letter pages (and oh boy some of these letters in future issues sure are something)   And that wraps up our first issue, see you tomorrow for issue 2
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Jun 9, 2021 20:36
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Post the Kid Chameleon comic, plz! That was one of my favorite games on the genesis and I’d love to see the knock off Jason Vorhees “helmet”
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Jun 9, 2021 20:43
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1redflag posted:Post the Kid Chameleon comic, plz! That was one of my favorite games on the genesis and I’d love to see the knock off Jason Vorhees “helmet” your wish is my command... a week from now
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Jun 9, 2021 20:44
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just gonna casually toss my grappling hook 100 ft in the air where it embeds itself in solid stone and then scale the wall with my climbing claws anyhow
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Jun 9, 2021 20:52
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why did he shoot the grappling hook up if he was just gonna cat claw his way up without using it?
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Jun 9, 2021 20:56
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lmao I used to pretend very hard that I was sonic the hedgehog, like I would tell teachers to refer to me as Sonic, so this panel could literally be just a scene from my life
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Jun 9, 2021 21:07
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when are we getting a thread about those rad Mexican trucker comics someone posted in the COVID thread months ago? with the g-string titty banshees
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Jun 9, 2021 21:09
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rock climbers don’t climb up their safety ropes either 
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Jun 9, 2021 21:09
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I remember buying this comic. I remember nothing else about it, which probably says a lot.
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Jun 9, 2021 21:10
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Jun 10, 2021 00:37
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1redflag posted:rock climbers don’t climb up their safety ropes either Safety is so NOT ninja, not ninja at all
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Jun 10, 2021 00:52
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I used to get this when I was a kid. I remember one issue had a scratch and sniff that oddly I can still distinctly remember the smell of despite it being something I smelled over a quarter of a century ago
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Jun 10, 2021 01:12
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Oh yeah two facts about the cover I forgot to mention: 1) The first 15 issues don't credit the cover artist; while it's not an issue for most of them because it's easy to recognize them, issue 1's cover was done by an artist otherwise not involved in the comic at least not until way later: 2000 AD regular Kev Hopgood 2) "Sharper than a Cyber Razor Cut" refers to this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36JA1meigk
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 I don’t think we know who did this cover. Some sources claim it’s Hopgood again, but other sources only mention him doing issue one and it doesn’t have quite the same artstyle.         Mark Millar probably needs no introduction here, but to give some context he was among various 2000 AD creatives who would see mass recognition once making the jump across the pond (alongside the likes of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Brian Bolland, Neil Gaiman, and Garth Ennis). When StC was early in production, he wrote a ton of scripts over the course of a month to pay for his wedding. So when you see Mark Millar's name later on, know that it was a script that had been sitting in the vault for a while. Woodrow Phoenix is our first non-2000 AD creative (well I guess there's also letterer Elitta Fell, though she did have a single 2000 AD credit at this point), having been the creator of the comic strip The Sumo Family and a letterer (with the occasional art credit) on Fleetway's Red Dwarf Smegazine (the Smegazine being a common origin point for the early wave of non 2000 AD people on this book). He's also the co-founder of the Detonator Studio with ILYA. He's the one behind the original design for Megadroid too. His immediate next gig was doing the art for a Toejam & Earl comic in the short lived (only lasted 2 issues) Max Overload. It appears that he's gone on to have a very fruitful and well renowned career after his work on StC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrjUeayj38 Also some interesting posts about Max Overload here and here
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Jun 10, 2021 16:07
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Oh look its my childhood in comic format. I love this comic, Its a mixed bag but when its good its so good and Richard Elson's artwork in particular is just incredibly good for a kids videogame tie in comic Wonderboy in STC has some fishtank tango rear end energy its great.
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Jun 10, 2021 16:08
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I love how this comic is so perfectly normal compared to the furry soap opera that was the american comic.
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Jun 10, 2021 16:25
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The Walrus posted:lmao I used to pretend very hard that I was sonic the hedgehog, like I would tell teachers to refer to me as Sonic, so this panel could literally be just a scene from my life Sonic the Walrus? Sounds pretty far fetched to me
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Jun 10, 2021 16:28
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I assume the British version of Sonic was outed as a nonce in the last issue and that's why it was cancelled. That or he's got some thoughts on trans people.
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Jun 10, 2021 16:30
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Jun 10, 2021 19:47
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big Gor energy
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Jun 10, 2021 19:49
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Where's our badge, OP?
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Jun 10, 2021 20:19
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      Bojan Djukic (credited here as M. D.J. Boyann, though he'll be credited under a slightly misspelled version of his real name later on) is a Serbian artist who's done the art for stuff like a German Tom & Jerry comic. Nowadays he seems to mostly pursuing independent projects and drawing pinups of muscular women for Deviantart  
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Jun 10, 2021 22:03
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Having trouble engaging with this without massive green fart clouds and/or grotesque foot fetishism
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Jun 10, 2021 23:43
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OP, Horny is forbidden in GBS.
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Jun 11, 2021 05:23
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sorry op i only read sonichu and tanic the hedgehog
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Jun 11, 2021 05:25
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That logo on the bottom right of the first image itt looks like a cock. We're off to a good start.
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Jun 11, 2021 11:14
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Play posted:Having trouble engaging with this without massive green fart clouds and/or grotesque foot fetishism There's a lizard wearing a black sports bra and in the end, isn't that what's really important?
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Jun 11, 2021 11:23
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Jun 11, 2021 13:08
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neo: whoa
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Jun 11, 2021 15:05
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Holy poo poo I used to read this religiously as a kid. That probably says more about me than I'd like.
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Jun 11, 2021 15:29
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loving loved this comic growing up! I am sorry to jump the gun but: https://twitter.com/daveluty/status/1261284589630259200
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Jun 11, 2021 17:01
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Skeletome posted:loving loved this comic growing up! Will be sad if this isn't the ending of the second movie. Then the third is a shot for shot remake of JFK but Kevin Costner is Knuckles.
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Skeletome posted:loving loved this comic growing up! found out recently that this issue was the newest one at the time I was born.
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