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https://x.com/Thatbirdguy_/status/1800257285484138585
>Goodbye for now, thank you for supporting me and my art.
The Sonic Reminiscing artist makes a sudden ominous sounding tweet and everyone is worried what it means.

https://twitter.com/sonicstadium/status/1800292068969074780
Damn.

>>3386
I mean, that was always pretty obvious.

>>3387
I know but its still a slap in the face nonetheless.
Is Ian still claiming that he's trying to work behind the scenes to bring the FF back ?

It got even more pages.
https://imgur.com/a/street-fight-scribble-impressionable-j89o7Cq

>>3389
Probably for bumblecast money. I know anything of those old continuities are basically not coming back and accepted that. But I gotta say, 900th comic bummed me out, a celebration of the comics which they couldn’t even mention two of them. What got me for real is how there wasn’t even idw characters in it. So I’ll always wonder what was the damn point.

>>3381
Naugus is still one of the most underrated villains in the series

>>3399
That bird is kind of a pretty lady ayo

>>3369
I hope he's doing alright and is just taking a break from Twitter (I think a lot of people would be happier if they did that)
>>3373
Nice comic!
>>3374
Hey, that's the Archie world map! In case anyone's wondering what it'd look like on an actual globe:
https://the-ride.neocities.org/archie/
Marvel at how Penders can't into maps. The North Pole's a complete disaster!
>>3375
Cute twinks!
>>3378
And every night, he will save (you)r life
And every night he will be with (youuuu)!
>>3379
I thought those expressions looked familiar
>>3386
Well that settles it. No FFs for IDW. Not that I mind, I'd be genuinely upset seeing them written in IDW style
>>3392
>Probably for bumblecast money
100% this
>900th comic bummed me out
I wouldn't even have known it was supposed to be a special issue if they hadn't said it in-universe. The one where Sonic and Tails find a chaos emerald in a cave was way better
>>3394
So much great tummy stuff from that artist
https://inkbunny.net/gallery/Kalk/1/92e7572359
>>3400
Oh anon, Peahen's are the plain birds, Peacocks are the pretty ones!

>>3386
Cant believe they deleted that tweet. What was wrong with it ?

>>3407
If anyone is curious, the tweet was about an interview with Iizuka where they asked about the freedom fighters and got basically shushed by a worker there who told them Sega was in a partnership with IDW right now.

IDW:
>Sonic the Hedgehog #71: 07/24/24 » 07/31/24

AHHHHH WHY DOES THIS COMIC KEEP GETTING DELAYED

>>3411
Death, taxes, and IDW delays.

>>3422
You can if you want. I already saw that Ian is confirmed to be writing again

>>3401
No problem with not minding it, but people were reacting to the tweet as if the interviewer had cursed Iizuka's mom when he bought up the FF subject.
I mean whats the problem in "wasting" Sega a few precious minutes with something that a lot of people were interested in knowing ?

Even if it ended as predicted, at least finally someone tried asking this to Iizuka himself and not Ian for the eleventh fucking time.

>>3426
Blaze ?

>>3426
Sliver

>>3427
>>3428
They really are meant for each other!

There's more Shock and Awe out but someone else can post it. Between his use of AI art and deleting comments when called out for tracing over a less popular artist's work without credit I've lost all interest
>>3408
They should've been sneaky and asked about the possibility of characters from the cartoons appearing like Sticks or characters from AoStH and SatAM. They messed up specifically asking about the Freedom Fighters
>>3418
The ultimate toilet clog!
>>3426
Metal. Just let him talk!
>>3429
lmao

>>3434
>There's more Shock and Awe out but someone else can post it. Between his use of AI art and deleting comments when called out for tracing over a less popular artist's work without credit I've lost all interest
I can eventually do it. I was never interested in the comic.

>>3434
>>3435
I'll admit I wasn't too interested into it. Mostly because they decided to focus on the aspect of Archie I dislike. The politics. And they went even harder on that along with it being grim dark, etc. Disappointed to hear about their behavior.

>>3426
>>3434
Our favorite schizo Tailsfag kept complaining that Ian wrote Metal as a boring jobber, despite the fact that Metal has never been anything else.

>>3436
>along with it being grim dark
Has it reached grimderp levels ?

>>3434
Nah that would left fans to still speculating with whatever vague answers Iizuka gave back.
It was better to get straight to the point and clear this out already.

>>3438
Yeah with how they describe the terrible situation the cast are hiding in fear from Eggmans monstrous attacks

>>3442
We’re bad but the bronies should be at the bottom

>>3444
Each of them are going into the jar...

>>3444
This might sell more than the comics themselves with the way IDW fans only seem to care about the characters and nothing else about the universe.

>>3430
Who dat? Is that a humanized Fiona or Sally?

>>3448
I see Surge and.....is that a certain Echinda who has a backstabbing fuckup for a sister?

>>3448
I see surge and the third best girl of hot chick heaven!

>>3452
I don’t get people who say they wouldn’t fit in a game world when reboot was basically that. But sigh. At this point I can’t care too much about the goings on sonic Twitter aka Hell.

>>3453
Sonic fandom is divided by liking and hating characters. The Freedom Fighters is one of the oldest things to hate.

>>3457
Yeah I guess. I did point that thing out but I don’t actively clamor and scream like some psychos for them to be in game canon. It’d be kinda neat tho. And besides, seeing how how dogshit even some of the game cast get treated sometimes, not being there is also a blessing.

y0c1e - Life (Unofficial Sonic X-treme Level Editor Theme)

>>3460
Always interesting to hear about the behind the scenes things

I'm not saying I lost interest in writing the Sonic comic but I'm enjoying writing the Knuckles comic more now. I expect/hope that Knuckles becomes everyone's favorite character several pages into the next issue. Assuming he isn't already your favorite. And with the Sonic 3 & Knuckles arc coming up in the Sonic comic, there's going to be a lot of Knuckles!

>>3435
>>3436
Honestly, I liked the premise of Silver going back in to save his future and because it's Archie to hopefully see Remington and Elias, but it's just too drawn out. The amount of text on each page is way too much, to the point where it would work better as a visual novel. I was also initially interested in the artstyle since it's what Penders wanted to do for TLSC
>The politics
Same. It's just supposed to be a dramatic backdrop for the actual story. The politics-heavy issues of Archie were always the least interesting
>>3437
My issue with Metal is he's always had an 11/10 design and they just waste it outside of CD and the OVA. He's a twisted metal version of Sonic, with all of his attitude and none of his compassion. Metal should be absolutely terrifying and he's just not
>>3442
Sonic has the best and the worst fans. Between the fancomic, fangame, and fananimation scene, we've got some of the most talented people making content that surpasses the official media. Of course we also have the worst fans, like our resident schizo, and others I won't even mention
>>3443
Now that Tamers is doing MLP episodes, we've cornered the number one and number two slots!
>>3444
>no Rough
>no Tumble
No buy!
>>3451
lmao
>>3456
Elise is the ultimate waifu because she combines Sonic's two favorite things: redheads and human women
>>3457
Yeah, the reboot FFs would fit in much more easily than the preboot
>>3460
Absolutely love how Sally's drawn in this! It'd be cool to have had all that in the issue, but it would've been too many plates to keep spinning
>>3464
I'm enjoying both, but I've always been more a fan of the Knuckles stories in Archie, despite them containing some of the worst of Penders' shortcomings. There's just so much lore and plot points we never got to see completed
>spoiler
He's my second favorite, after my husbando of course!

>>3465
>I'm enjoying both, but I've always been more a fan of the Knuckles stories in Archie, despite them containing some of the worst of Penders' shortcomings. There's just so much lore and plot points we never got to see completed
I think Penders got the right personality for Knuckles. Smart, stoic, yet still emotional. I also really like what he did for Angel Island in giving it communities and a supporting cast for Knuckles. The problem is that a lot of it is squandered for the grandpas.

>>3468
That's it exactly. He gave Knuckles an compelling characterization and a unique(ish) world to explore filled with interesting people and places, only to squander it on secret grandpa meetings. Now that I think of it, he was doing the same with the Sonic book, pushing out the FFs in favor of the "adults." Still, credit where credit's due, there's still a lot I like about Penders' work, even if he is a chode

>>3464
> I'm enjoying writing the Knuckles comic more now
Oh no guys. I think he’s showing symptoms of penderscitis!!! Next he’ll be throwing Sally off a building!
I kid I kid. Admittedly like Thirstposter, I like both but I do look more forward for the knuckles stuff because I like Knuckles
>>3468
I pretty much agree. He just squandered the good idea things for grandpas and whatever next big thing. While I mostly like his knuckles, he would just have him just accept any type of bullshit from locke and the grandpas. He isn’t the most smartest guy ever, but it really took until like Ian for Knuckles to start questioning their shit

>>3460
>Tekno was planned to be a member of the Battle Bird Armada, conflicted about helping the sky pirates and falling for Sally
That would've been an interesting take. Hopefully you'll at least have a couple of gags of dudes & women trying smooth talk Sally & Elias for the yuks.
>>3465
Yeah, to give the moron his due, he did some interesting ideas. The execution sucked however.

>>3476
So Amy is Silver’s mom or something? What

Sonic's Lost Levels

>>3460
Damn, Sally got that expert position in last panel there

>>3479
lol

>>3462
Golden Axe love.
>>3463
The Starline Redemption?

>>3481
Mmm... tough question. You could either get a full deconstruction of the Sonic series that examines the archetypes of each character and the world around them. Or you could get a lighthearted adventure played completely straight since Moore also has written that when making pastiches of other properties

>>3486
A decent amount of people must be by looking at the favorites it gets

>>3488
There are people who actually get butt hurt over this funny visual gag

>>3484
Super is gonna pull that stunt that he did in the original me thinks by absorbing his power

>>3491
This person is clearly a paw fag
based

>>3495
Unironically the best IDW OCs. They actually fulfill their character archetypes.

>>3496
Unfortunately they're not used because the dumb lackey duo spot is forever filled by Orbot and Cubot. Imagine if those two robots were gone and Rough and Tumble were always with Eggman doing his dirty work for him.

>>3498
Yeah, Rough and Tumble would be way better. They could actually fight Sonic in addition to annoying Eggman in funny ways. It's also a bit hard to believe that Eggman would bother to program his helper robots with that much personality, anyway.

>>3499
When was the last time they showed up? Was the issue with Clutch recruiting Surge and Kit the last time? Are they still working for Clutch? I honestly can't remember.

>>3495
Having XY chromosomes basically doomed them to be irrelevant and massively unloved in IDW. And not being part of high power level shit that self inserters only care for with boy characters. Poor guys

>>3500
Yeah, I think it was when Surge beat them up, so they should still be working for Clutch. I don't blame you for forgetting, this whole arc was boring even before it got interrupted for the Fang shit.

>>3501
It's like the Chaotix. They're the most well-written of the game characters in IDW, but they never get any screentime since they aren't melodramatic ship-fodder.

I think I hate IDW Sonic more than any other comic I've ever read. It's like every shitty tendency of modern writers is in IDW, but is turned up to eleven -- the massive casts of underdeveloped characters, the spotlight-hogging creators' pets, the decompression and slow pacing, the supposedly "badass" characters being worthless jobbers, the focus on relationship drama over adventure, and the utter creative bankruptcy of everyone involved. I have no idea why anyone would like IDW Sonic except for the art. Archie was better, Fleetway was better, and even Okida's Sonic the Continuation is better.

YES I MAD

>chaos control hasn't updated in forever
>shadow and jolt hasn't started that series yet
>pandora au hasn't updated in forever
>sapphires of reality alternate hasn't updated in forever
https://x.com/sthsora/status/1770090331628798084
Although this is kind of hot ngl fr fr no cap bussin'
>cosmic nexus (the one where it's shadow, rouge, and a bunch of sexy mobian oc's running gun) is updating slowly
>sea3on hasn't updated in two years
>tails gets trolled hasn't updated since may but i don't remember when i stopped keeping up with updates
>sonic now has been updating, might need to give that its own thread and dump everything in it
And the other stuff has updates that have been posted by either Thirstposter or me.

And Scourge Eternal Blackout hasn't updated since December last year.

>>3471
>Next he’ll be throwing Sally off a building!
Only if he's wearing a hyper-realistic Snively mask first!
>>3474
>Yeah, to give the moron his due, he did some interesting ideas. The execution sucked however.
That actually worked in his favor since back in the day most readers wouldn't be able to catch every issue so the assumption was all the cool payoffs were either going to happen next month or happened in an issue you didn't read. Of course reading the entire series as a whole you quickly realize he just drops interesting plots and settings to set up even more things that wil never get a payoff
>>3476
https://x.com/andoraliix/status/1800551409706062308
>>3483
My money's on deconstruction
>>3484
Previous page: >>2664
Well, now everything's fucked!
>>3485
That first panel's 100% AI art
>>3486
Remember when Robotnik gave those two robot arms? Good times
>>3488
Awww!
>>3492
Can you even call yourself a Sonic fan if you aren't?
>>3495
>two of IDW's most forgotten characters
It's not fair ;_;
>>3498
If they filled those roles they'd pretty much be Sleet and Dingo, not that I'd mind! I just don't get why they can't be comic relief villains that somehow punch well above their weight. Fun fact: they've got the best win-loss ratio of any IDW villain
>>3499
>It's also a bit hard to believe that Eggman would bother to program his helper robots with that much personality, anyway.
They basically exist so Eggman has someone to yell at and explain his plots to. It also helps that they're harmless so neither Sonic nor Eggman will kill them
>>3501
IDW OCs just get discarded unless they're boring and inoffensive (the gay birds) or a writer's pet (the crying lesbians). I'm obviously biased, but I think most readers would prefer to read about Rough and Tumble causing trouble than forest fire PSAs
>>3502
>spoiler
I agree completely. It's just not fun to read when I've seen so many other Sonic stories where the characters actually do get to have fun adventures. Even lewd Sonic comics have had more interesting plots, engaging drama and (non-lewd) action than IDW. It just feels like any other licensed comic shat out as a small part of a large corporation's brand strategy
> I have no idea why anyone would like IDW Sonic except for the art
I suspect a lot of people on social media like the comic in the sense that they like talking about and making art of the ships, but they probably don't actually read the thing
>>3504
Yeah, I check these every so often (in addition the the roughly 70 comics I have in my RSS feeder) and it's such a shame. Still, a few of these have had large breaks before so I'm still hopeful
>Although this is kind of hot ngl fr fr no cap bussin'
Nice!
>>3505
They've taken a longer break before so fingers crossed they'll come back to it

>>3515
>guess who's back!
Back again!

>>3513
I wonder how a super form would go against iblis since he’s the full power

>>3517
Bisexual win win

>>3485
Blaze ass

>>3521
>>3486
wait it was drago's ass

how will tails suffer in Shock and Awe?
only thing i care about.

>>3524
Fiona betrayal but even worse

>>3518
Bison's Back, Tell a Friend!

>>3527
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Guess who's back,
Da na na!

Storytime time!
>>3531

>>3587
I am ashamed that I remember this song.

>>3485
>>3486
I havent given it a full read yet, but is it that bad ? From the little I read it looked like a grimdark attempt on the Archie verse but with a more down to earth take on warfare and life in a Mobius ravaged by it.
And honestly that didnt sound like a bad idea on paper.

>>3590
I'm not a fan of the writing. The dialogue is the biggest problem I have with it. Awkward, too wordy, and the characters feel off. And as the other anon said, there's a lot of focus on politics but its got nothing on the military stuff. If you're a /k/ enthusiast then that comic is for you.

>>3519
Even non-super forms have defeated him, but he always comes back. Maybe a super form could keep him down for longer?
>>3520
wew!
>>3522
Oh boy, does Riley from the Boondocks have a message for you!
>>3532
I keep missing these ;_;
>>3586
So many Sallies!
>>3587
lmao I still maintain Eminem looks cute dressed as Robin
>>3590
It's just way too wordy, slow-paced, and grimdark (and not in a cool way) for my tastes. It also doesn't help that the author's mapped out decades worth of story that we're probably never going to see in comic form

>>3595
>I keep missing these ;_;
At least you don't have to worry about the thread archiving too soon.

>>3613
I always wanted to include because Mario parodies has a lot of potential.

>>3618
The eyeshadow makes look more like a slut/checking your vibe at a bar

https://grabber.zone/comics/sonic-and-the-freedom-fighters/issue-2/
https://grabber.zone/comics/sonic-and-the-freedom-fighters/issue-4/

I found these criticism comments on your comic about stuff that could still be affecting it, and I kind of see what they mean by it. I remember myself too, making some observations about the CD arc and other things back way back. saying that because I know some schizo might say none of us will or have criticize anything ever. I definitely agree on the shard thing—way too soon. Like how I describe it, its pulling a ian with setting up a ton of stuff like that. I can see why the others might say some of that wouldn't have had the best use, even if you know about those things, and it seems like there are some problems with even needing the prerequisite knowledge. I'll give you a bit of defense by saying in cointext/IRL it's another reboot, so I can maybe understand that thing about setting up things the way you do. To be positive, I reread the recent main stuff and actually liked it more than the previous. Part of that is probably the setting up stuff being reined in and more focus on the story. Maybe the most I'll dislike so far is the pacing, perhaps hoping Bunnie and Antoine don't get way sided as this is a team book, and explaining little things like how Speedy knew about Ai Sally's voice in comments, etc. Also, I think the setting of things in the Knuckles book is okay, at least so far, and can be reined in soon. I think it's good to look far back along with any criticism to improve your comics to the best they can be. sorry for the long post lmao.

>>3632
I never understood the "too soon" thing. It's like the "why is this character here" or "why are they different from the thing they came from" complaints. I've seen a lot of people come in with expectations based on the original comics and get confused or even angry when it's different from that. Almost everything that has been introduced is set up for future storylines and that's too lessen the load in the future. If anything, having prior knowledge works against some people because they think and expect stuff instead of just going for the ride. People not knowing seem to be more accepting and understanding. The comic provides all the information they need and there's nothing conflicting what they remember from the original content. At most they question where a character came from out of curiosity.

For something like Speedy recognizing AI Sally's voice, comics tend to add in boxes explaining stuff like that or it'll be explained by the writer somewhere else like a letters page. That note in the comments was mainly added for those that question how he would know because there have been times he could've come across AI Sally on the ship. But it wasn't shown so someone would wonder how and when. Showing every interaction in a comic is tedious. Even the best writers aren't going to bother with that and will just assume the reader won't make a big fuss about it. But if they do, there's a note explaining it.

Antoine and Bunnie have limited use because there's only so much they can do every story. People complained about Sonic and Sally interacting too much and I had to tell people to wait for the Sonic 2 story arc for Sonic and Tails. And Sally was mostly not shown since she was captured. Bunnie got a little bit of focus in the first issue and Antoine gets to shine in a near future arc. In the Archie comics, a lot of Freedom Fighters just don't appear or do anything for several issues. I think having Antoine and Bunnie there helping out while not having much impact on the plot is better than not having them there at all.

Pacing issue? Sure. I can see that being something I can improve on. But I have weird restrictions I placed on myself and expectations on how each page is read, both on its own and all at once. I favor each page being more standalone and that means I can't have stuff like a big single panel for a reveal or drawing out a conversation or fight longer. Because then the next page won't come out for a week and it'll drag out the story.

>>3634

Thanks for the response. I understand your mindset better now. Hope I didn't come across as too mean. It's just that some critical examination every once in a while is good for discussion to be healthy with like bringing up those people's thoughts and mine to think about. And it's for the best interest instead of anything of malice to seeing stuff like your comic improve.

>>3636
No problem. I always try to listen to what others say and I try to explain myself in a way that doesn't sound defensive.

http://www.stconline.co.uk/comics/stc280/

New STC-O is out. I swear two of those stories I've already seen before
looks like they're going wtih those leaked plans I saw. lol this continuation is so fucking shit.

>>3629
Finally worked out why my RSS reader hasn't been picking up this comic: The new pages are only going in the issue two folder, not the regular TAOSTH folder
>>3630
lmao
>>3632
Fair point about the pacing, while I like it, I do think it isn't what most comic readers are expecting. Since it's modeled after Archie, we're kind of expecting 12 issues a year of around 20 pages each. Considering we get two pages a week spread across two books that's only around 5 issues a year, and because they come out weekly, each page has to stand on its own. ASO and others handles this very differently, waiting months (or years!) until they have an issue finished and then releasing it all at once

My reading of the pacing is it's trying to keep things fast enough to cover a 2-4 issue arc in each issue. If you look at the story beats of the Knuckles comic it more or less adapts the 3 issue Knuckles miniseries. The Konductor can confirm, but I think it's also a reaction to Penders' slow pacing. Imagine having to wait an entire week for a new page of the Knuckles miniseries only to find out it's another page of Red Sonic walking through a tomb talking to himself

>sorry for the long post
lmao, have you even seen my post lengths?

>>3634
>that means I can't have stuff like a big single panel for a reveal or drawing out a conversation or fight longer
I'm sure you'll make an exception and devote an entire issue to my wedding with Remington though! I kid, I kid
>>3637
>The internet has ruined that word for me
Same

>I'm sure you'll make an exception and devote an entire issue to my wedding with Remington though! I kid, I kid
I have figured out when and how I'm going to introduce Remington but it won't be for quite a while.

>>3645
I don't remember the leaks so I'm going in blind. I think the only thing I remember hearing was that it was going to be some kind of reboot.

>>3645
Good news everyone, my STCO scraping code still works! Latest issue is in the mega, along with the Sonic Fanfest comic we never got around to storytiming. That one was a pdf so I've converted and resized the images
>spoiler
I've not read it but I'm kinda worried
>>3647
I'll be sure to send in some reference photos of my basement for the artist!

>>3610
Check the Chili Dogs for drugs, Knux.

>>3648
>>3649
I found it, was on their tumblr. Look at it if you want to. So it's basically a former writer's plans for the comic for the others to look at. But I just don't think it's that good... Like a reboot of the comic near the end like that?! What are they thinking. Mediocre retooling isn't going to save this shit continuation.

https://href.li/?https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EbLzODUUjup8KV_xcq05Nwy2QUqj7lQ3

>Sonic the Comic Online Act 2
Time to get SGW'd

tekno bros we are not murderers anymore

Robotnik's back again

Just kill him already bro

>>3664
>Locke
>DILF
Don't stick your dick in crazy, Anon.

>>3646
>My reading of the pacing is it's trying to keep things fast enough to cover a 2-4 issue arc in each issue. If you look at the story beats of the Knuckles comic it more or less adapts the 3 issue Knuckles miniseries. The Konductor can confirm, but I think it's also a reaction to Penders' slow pacing. Imagine having to wait an entire week for a new page of the Knuckles miniseries only to find out it's another page of Red Sonic walking through a tomb talking to himself
That is the reason I haven't done any flashbacks and have instead resorted to putting in hints here and there. Just like with introducing characters that will be used later, it's to lighten the load when things are expanded on.

The Lore of Sonic X-treme's Six Storylines

>>3672
amazing