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>Johnny
IIRC wasn't his death basically the most noteworthy thing about him?

>>25151
Johnny was a cool and reliable guy, even if he didn't stand out that much or do too much especially later on. He actually died towards the end of the series before it went to reprint hell but it did have a big impact on Sonic.

>>25162
Kek, I remember that. Johnny was a likeable enough character, but when I first read Fleetway I was surprised at how little he was actually in it.

>>25164
I assume people will either say it's a great thing or blame Ian for it.

>>25166
Back on 4chan, a couple of Anons and I speculated on what Ian's Mario comic would've been like:
>constant references and nostalgia-pandering like "Let's-a go, Luigi! we need to stop Bowser's attack before he turns this place into a Bob-Omb Battlefield!"
>Bowser alternates between being a total buffoon and being an edgelord Villain Sue
>all the non-Bowser villains are sidelined
>some stupid lesbian Shy Girl and Koopa Girl OCs show up to spend every single issue crying about their irrelevant sad backstories
>introduce a dozen more OCs, never focus on the huge game cast
>Mario is a preachy retard, Peach is supposedly a Strong Woman but written as blandly as possible, Luigi becomes a background character
>constantly quoting lyrics from "Do The Mario!" ("Mario, how do I go on from here?" "Just take one step, and then again!")
>Wario is some boring mega jobber, he doesn’t steal anything, no adventures, no owning a game company, none of his friends from Warioware show up
>Waluigi is bastardized into some sadsack wooby because that’s how the smash fanbase views him
>the crying lesbian OCs will hang out with Waluigi all the time because someone on the staff likes him
>despite being STRONG WOMYN, none of them will be able to beat any villains without all of them teaming up with Waluigi

>>25168
Oh, for sure. For all our funposting, it would've been neat to have a Mario comic. Maybe the more lighthearted stories would've suited Flynn better? After all, I've liked the Classic Sonic stories for IDW a lot better than the main ones. Flynn can actually write some fun adventures when he's not having everyone cry all the time in between song lyrics.

>>25170
>>25171
Yeah, I'd have loved to see some Archie-esque stuff where characters from wildly different games meet eachother (Wario and Peach, Paper Mario characters without the "paper vs. normal" crap, etc.). It'd have been a great opportunity for fun interactions.

>>25173
>Shadow looks utterly annoyed to even be there
Even in actual Sonadow art, he and Sonic have no chemistry.

>>25174
Is that Rouge or a "Rouge's daughter"-type OC?

>>25175
It's Rouge.

>>25174
>>25176
I suppose it does make sense to ship the only two characters with any brains together.

Chaotix Casefiles Dissected
Roger made a new dissect on Chaotix Casefiles

>>25179
Frontiers is pretty fun while you play it, but afterwards you realize how shoddy it was. The graphics are pretty fuck-ugly as well.

>>25179
Frontiers is full of this unironic vague posting and I hate it

Tails got trolled got new chapters https://tailsgetstrolled.org/read.php?ch=ch29
>Amy is dead
>Rouge is dead
>Shadow pretty much tried to fight against the cheetah man and failed to kill him
>a mysterious hooded figure is after tails
>cheeta man want tails dead
>Tails managed to survive a rpg blast to the chest
>There is a cult that worship shadow.

Sorry but no storytime this week. Maybe I’ll post something tomorrow.

>>25192
Damn. Anyways, enjoy your Friday!

>>25194
>The spotlight is on Shadow the Hedgehog in this 4th Mobian Adventure Series hardcover release. Over 280 pages collecting every story written by Ken Penders from the Archie SONIC THE HEDGEHOG series with additional material added, including unpublished scripts and a 6-page story written and illustrated by Ken that was shelved at the last minute. Contents include the entirety of SONIC issue 98, story pages from SONIC UNIVERSE issue 2 that completes the SONIC ADVENTURE 2 adaptation, stories from SONIC issues 124, 125, 145 thru 149, 157 thru 159, as well as SONIC issues 166 and 167 which were based on Ken’s unpublished scripts that are now seeing print for the first time. There’s also bonus material featured as well as artwork by Patrick Spaziante, Ron Lim, Dawn Best, Dave Manak, Jeff Axer, Art Mawhinney, Stephen Butler and Tracy Yardley.

>>25194
Oh goddammit, Penders.

>>25194
The art is a lot less hideous than The Lara-Su Chronicles, though Shadow's face is still not great. It's still funny how Penders is pretty much the worst ever Sonic artist, even counting all the fancomics and shit we've featured here.

>>25199
And one of the Eggman's ancestors was born on 6/6/06!

>>25200
06 is a cursed year

>>25199
>>25200
"The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown" was kinda interesting because it was a rare arc where Shadow got to interact a bit with the Freedom Fighters, but that's about it. Everything else about it was boring as shit and impossible to follow.

>>25203
The Power Glove. It's so bad.

>>25206
Kek, Frontiers is Penders esque, Ian, you weren't supposed to take that from him!

>>25208
KEK

Locke is such a douche; he'll never live that down.

>>25211
Yeah, I actually like Whisper's design. Add her to the long-ass list of Sonic characters with great visuals but shit execution.

>>25212
The most recent example of this is Soleil. I like how they look, but the character and the associated arc was trash

>>25213
>first whole issue is spent on a chase scene
>Lunar/Soleil's backstory is abruptly blurted out and then solved when they talk it out with their parents
>entire third issue is a fight with an Eggbot
>Sonic and Shadow are both there 2v1ing the Eggbot but somehow they need the acrobats' help despite wrecking shit like that on a daily basis
>Lunar/Soleil is YET ANOTHER powerless IDW villain who wouldn't last 5 seconds against Sonic
Evan Stanley cannot fucking write for comics. Like at all. Between her and Penders it's like SEGA deliberately gets the worst possible people to write Sonic comics.

>>25215
It was the same with Surge. We wanted a badass punk villainess who would liven the comic up, but we get another shitty crying jobber.

>>25214
And I thought Evan's "racing" arc was bad. Her constant fumbling makes me even more uninterested
>>25215
Not to be that type, but part of their unpopularity was the pronouns thing

>>25216
Surge still has the endless porn to keep her relevant.
>>25217
>Not to be that type, but part of their unpopularity was the pronouns thing
The pronouns was known pretty early and they were still getting plenty of fanart. Soleil being a nothingburger of a character is what killed the hype. The Sonic fandom was ready and willing before the issues came out. A noticeable number of artists like to make Sonic trans or like Barry because they're nonbinary(?). I doubt we'll see Soleil in any LGBTQ+ fanzines.

>>25217
The thing with Evan is that it's clear that she'd rather be writing some LGBTQ High School AU where Genderqueer Silver needs therapy and Sonic has to summon up the courage to ask Shadow-senpai to the prom. So whenever somebody asks her to write an action story, it falls flat on its face.

If you give her 10 issues to write it, it'll be overlong and limp. If you give her 3 issues, it'll be unearned and abrupt. The pacing's a big problem with IDW, but the main one is that Evan's focus is on boring crap like a teen getting their phone taken away by their overbearing parents, or Surge crying in a gutter somewhere.

>pronouns
I wouldn't have minded that so much, or NiteXDon, or TangleXWhisper, just so long as the cast went on exciting adventures and fought villains. Fleetway had the lez-ventures of Amy and Tekno, and it wasn't half as boring as IDW, even in the comic's "dark age" after Eggman took off. I mock "Genderqueer Silver" and the "LGBTQ High School AU," but the problem is the "High School AU" part, really.

I've never had an issue with The Gays, but if you have to choose between them and fun adventures, I'm gonna pick the latter. Especially in a Sonic comic.

All Soleil needed to be was an acrobat turned thief that liked stealing for the sake of it. Maybe give them a sympathetic reason like using the money to support an orphanage. Right when Sonic/Tails and Shadow/Rouge get close to catching them and retrieving the chaos emerald, have Eggman attack in his mech and when the fights over the heroes win, Soleil loses the chaos emerald to Sonic who says he'll put in a call to the Restoration about saving the orphanage. The end. Basic as all hell but it'd still be an improvement. If it were me I'd probably be more ambitious and add more to it than that.

>>25220
My concern with Soleil would be differentiating them from Rouge. We already have one sketchy anti-heroic thief, it could be tough to pull off another one. I like your "orphanage" idea though; it reminds me of Stray Dog from Usagi Yojimbo, who actually co-existed well alongside the similarly roguish Gen.

>>25222
I never even thought Tangle was character of the year, but she had a spunk and a liveliness in her first appearances. It's just sad to see her reduced to Whisper's babysitter.

>4chan screwed up the CAPTCHA again
They've redone that fucking thing how many times now, and they still can't get it right?

>>25246
Best boy Elias?!

>>25250
Seems like it.
It's lagging so much, the session is expired when you finished with it.

Been ages since popped in here, sorry been quiet on the Hood or Zeena shilling. Just been busy with brothers wedding, getting hyperfixated on Dinosaurs for first time in ages since was a child and just not really using 4chan much lately since not many threads of interest. Hope everyone else is going well and had a nice Easter.

>>25241
Shadows gift is the Dr Hibbert punch frame

>>25253
No worries man, thanks for stopping by!

>not really using 4chan much lately since not many threads of interest
Yeah, 4chan sucks now. The same threads get spammed over and over, and when you leave them to try to discuss something you like you run into some POS schizo who has devoted his entire life to ruining discussion of whatever you like.

>>25253
long time no see
>getting hyperfixated on Dinosaurs for first time in ages since was a child
Based Dinosaurs are cool no matter the age

>>25257
Haven't been able to play the game yet or watch the cartoon but it has a sexy babe which is always a nice cherry on top with dinosaur fiction

>>25256
It's funny to think this all started cause on a whim from me seeing a thread months back I decided on binging all of the Land before time films to see if I'd still ship Littlefoot and Cera like I did when was a kid plus morbid curiosity on the movies as a whole and also cause I was watching Primal's 3rd season this year.

Honestly came out of it correct on my weird childhood ship but also genuinely being surprised how much fun had with most of the films with 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10 and 14 I'll probably get round to rewatching again cause I found them entertaining plus lot of the films songs were actually surprisingly catchy. Afer that watched Netflix's the Dinosaurs documentary, Jurassic Park 1, 2 and 3 plus even Primitive War since wanted my Dinosaur fix when wasn't just watching clips on youtube.

My dinosaur hot take is that I'm not fussy if they are accurate or not just as long as they are well designed, act enough like a real animal or character and if they are upfront on what they are presenting much like Peter Jackson's King Kong having deliberately fictional/fantastical depictions, Primal clearly being a send up to pulp while doing a good job with Fang as a T-Rex lead or documentaries having speculative behaviour depictions, I'm fine with anything as long as it's just done well really. Also will say I think all the findings on Spinosaurus are cool, I love that they are swimming bois plus they have their new cousin in Spinosaurus Mirabilis.

>>25255
Spider-Man threads are essentially worthless for that, I just mourned my fave character Shocker/Herman Schultz then left before it devolved as they always do.

>>25262
It is honestly kinda interesting to see an edgy 2000s antihero like Shadow interacting with goofy 90s kiddie characters like the Freedom Fighters.

>>25263
The fact that before Shadow entered Archie, there were grim backstories and events the world and people went through makes his whole deal like "so what?" was funny

>>25268
Yeah, even VECTOR was an orphaned street kid. I used to think that maybe the reason Archie Shadow was relatively friendly was that the writers couldn't justify making him angstier than the rest of the cast, but that's probably giving them too much credit.

>>25271
I'm always happy to see Naugus, he's probably one of my faves of the Archie/Satam villains

>>25271
Nice! Your Naugus is pretty menacing. I'll be interested to see what you do for him personality-wise; he was a bit dull in the comics.

>>25271
I really like how he's drawn here
>>25273
You found him a bit dull? Personally, I found him entertaining enough as a sneaky and hammy evil wizard. That was enough to make him one of my favorite characters.

>>25274
I found everything around him to be more interesting than he was. He was an okay hammy villain, and I liked his crazy backstory as 3 evil wizards in one and his dynamic with Geoffrey, but he himself didn't really do much for me. He wasn't bad, but he felt overshadowed by characters like Scourge or Finitevus.

>>25275
Mmmmm tight pants Sally, the other designs are also pretty good with the extra details and Nicole looks gorgeous as always.

>>25275
Ooh, those are nice! A good blend of their game and comic designs. The Daisy Dukes are a good touch on Bunnie, and Antoine looks both pompous and genuinely heroic, which fits him.

>>25282
I wonder how the hypnotic cobra would affect the species evolution

>>25284
People do tend to like characters they can identify with.

>>25374
>But will this conflict force her to fight back?
It's a bit of a double-edged sword. If you have an "elder" or "mentor" character like that and they don't fight, you start to wonder why. But if they do fight, you start to wonder why they can't take care of the villains themselves.

That's one thing I'll give Archie; Max and Locke weren't helpless, but they weren't on par with Sonic and Knuckles.

Also,
>Remington talking to Thirstposter in the last panel

>>25379
This doesn't scream particularly in character for Charmy

>>25378
That'd be a good idea for if Konductor wants to adapt the latter two characters.

>>25380
>Sonic fancomic
>in-character
Pick one.

>>25382
>Infinite is the only Sonic char in the DC Crossover to wear superhero undies
Shadow and Knuckles are PUSSIES.

>>25386
To be fair, he showed a softer side at the end of SA2.

>>25384
>>25387
It still feels oddly decompressed, even for such a short arc. Multiple issues of people screwing around in caves while not much happens. Sage and Belle reconciling was cute though.

>>25388
>he showed a softer side at the end of SA2.
Controversial to say but I was not a fan of that. As for one, it eventually lead up to the predicament he is in now.
I get that even Eggman would have someone to look up to, but even for Gerald, he should've viewed him with the lens he does for everything else. Hearing that he would've killed everyone should've had this reaction
>"I would've died, how dare he!"
This should have tainted his view of him, further revealing that he prioritizes himself with not even his family being an exception.

>>25389
I've said this before, but Eggman's kind of a schizo character. He's more sympathetic in the movies and SA2, more evil and irredeemable in the comics, and in the games he slingshots back and forth.

>>25391
What a psycho, but considering his family's history, it is not surprising.

>>25403
Nostalgia and contrarianism are blinding.

>>25411
A meme so versatile you could replace Elise with Sally, Amy, Knuckles, Thirstposter, or half of /sthg/!

>>25492
This makes Soleil look cooler than they were

>>25518
>can't use her Chaos powers
Don't worry Sally, all the IDW villains are powerless losers too! Just watch out for Whisper's eye-based hydrokinesis!

>>25525
>TFW Finitevus, despite his presence & power, still gets pegged by Lien-Da.

>>25525
Villain couples are such an underrated and scarce thing so I give many thanks for including it. Also good choice on just having Dr Finitevus be Anti-Knuckles as it streamlines things even if his comic version still had a solid origin.