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I read every Sonic comic by Ken Penders and they're wilder than you could ever imagine.Bobby Schroeder posted:Sure, everyone vaguely knows the Archie comics are weird, and it’s easy to find goofy out-of-context panels. But that’s only skimming the surface. What’s up with the bizarre recurring themes in his stories? The obsession with rear end in a top hat dads? The weird attempts at mature themes? Dingo firing squads executing civilians? A cartoon bee dying from eating an LSD-laced chili dog? Distasteful allusions to the Holocaust? Implications that teenage Sonic characters were having sex off-screen? Why did any of this happen?
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SilentChaz posted:I read every Sonic comic by Ken Penders and they're wilder than you could ever imagine. I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to that but I salute them.
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Nov 15, 2019 06:42
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and here's "10 weird and wonderful Archie Sonic stories that hold up today", the far less masochistic follow-up
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Nov 15, 2019 07:27
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Huh, never realised the person who was behind the "Shojo Manga" Sabrina introduced Nicole in her modern form, TIL. Though Ian taking the ball with that, that I did know and I find it part ways wholesome and hilarious.
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Nov 15, 2019 09:07
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TwoPair posted:I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to that but I salute them. I've been following her blog from the start. Part of the purpose of the blog was to eventually start getting to the Flynn comics she never got to originally while growing up. There were a couple hiatuses, so she got past Penders just recently.
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Nov 22, 2019 05:51
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TwoPair posted:I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to that but I salute them. Hell, I was actually working on something like this, but gave up. It's such a loving black box to me. A recording of some weird as hell clusterfuck of a continuity. It's certainly a wild ride just reading about it.
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Nov 22, 2019 18:23
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I sat down and read through the chronological posts of that blog recently, and it was such a bizarre nostalgia trip. I'd read most of these back when I was younger, but had apparently forgotten most of the wilder stuff given that my reactions went from "Oh yeah, I remember liking Archie Sonic. Let's check this out" to "Wow, did I like this? Or was I just happy to be reading Sonic comics?"
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEzXFuYN89k&t=76s I can't decide if this is charming or lame as poo poo. Maybe both?
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Nov 28, 2019 10:12
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It's rad as heck, op.
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Nov 28, 2019 14:33
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Yeah it's super charming, what are you on about?
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Nov 28, 2019 14:58
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I haven't been following the comic that closely, who's the angry platypus guy on the right between Eggman and Sonic? Larryb fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Nov 28, 2019 17:41
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Larryb posted:I haven't been following the comic that closely, who's the angry platypus guy on the right? That's new comic villian Dr. Starline, resident Eggman fanboy who's more practical than his idol. He was introduced at the start of the current arc, so far he's alright but there's not much to go on.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:19
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Larryb posted:I haven't been following the comic that closely, who's the angry platypus guy on the right? That's Sonic the Hedgehog. He's cool, but watch out for his attitude!
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Nov 28, 2019 21:25
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Notably this issue his frustration with Eggman is at its highest.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Notably this issue his frustration with Eggman is at its highest. Also his plan b seems to be better thought out. I mean it’s almost guaranteed to go tits up, otherwise there’s not much of a story, but not for lack of foresight. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Finally sat down and read the new issue, this is a pretty good one. If it had come a little earlier, the Zombot arc would be moving at a pretty good clip. Its smoothed over some of my irritation from earlier and I'm willing see where it goes from here.MonsterEnvy posted:Notably this issue his frustration with Eggman is at its highest. ConanThe3rd posted:Also his plan b seems to be better thought out. Yeah, Starline is shaping up to be an interesting contrast to Eggman's style of villainy. He's definitely leaning toward "flunky more competent than his boss", so I wonder if they'll end up directly antagonistic toward each other or if Starline will stay on pointing out how Eggman's ideas are badly implemented.
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Agent Rush posted:Yeah it's super charming, what are you on about? I found it charming when he did it with the Sonic Heroes soundtrack in the Metal Sonic arc but I find it a little hokey/pandering here. But clearly others like it, to each their own I suppose.
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TwoPair posted:I found it charming when he did it with the Sonic Heroes soundtrack in the Metal Sonic arc but I find it a little hokey/pandering here. But clearly others like it, to each their own I suppose. To be fair, characters quoting song lyrics about them is kind of Ian Flynn's thing. It happened a few times in World's Collide and the Mega Man comics too, like when Protoman quoted "I'm not the Breakman" before fighting Mega Man in the Mega Man 3 adaptation.
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I am fond of when there was a Chaotix arc and their profiles were. Vector: The karma collector. Espio: Clearly ready to go. Charmy: Dishing out first sting.
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Agent Rush posted:To be fair, characters quoting song lyrics about them is kind of Ian Flynn's thing. It happened a few times in World's Collide and the Mega Man comics too, like when Protoman quoted "I'm not the Breakman" before fighting Mega Man in the Mega Man 3 adaptation. Or Doctor Light quoting the robot hair line
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Last issue of Tangle and Whisper (for now, probably, I get the feeling this was a test for a hypothetical relaunch of a universe side book) is out. Easy highlight for me ”Oh crap, my alien augmented hammer lost its alien because it might have an issue with smashing a non-robotic being in the face. Oh wait, I have a club.” THWOMP ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Starline is either going to go out and become his own villain, or stay with Eggman and essentially become his new Snively.
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BrokenGameboy posted:Starline is either going to go out and become his own villain, or stay with Eggman and essentially become his new Snively. Given how he’s presenting his ‘contingency plan’ to Eggman this Issue, I’d argue the former. Speaking of which, woof is this one’s heavy. Getting some real “Antoine getting blown up” vibes off the entire thing regardless of how reversible the situation is.
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So if this is true, IDW may be going inactive after January. Not sure whether this means the comic is canceled or not though. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/8687/IDW-Publishing
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Larryb posted:So if this is true, IDW may be going inactive after January. Not sure whether this means the comic is canceled or not though. I think they mean IDW will no longer be selling on that website. Not seeing any indication IDW is going away anywhere else.
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Breadallelogram posted:I think they mean IDW will no longer be selling on that website. Not seeing any indication IDW is going away anywhere else. Yup, nevermind. False alarm https://finance.yahoo.com/news/idw-positioned-exciting-2020-momentous-142000391.html
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ConanThe3rd posted:Last issue of Tangle and Whisper (for now, probably, I get the feeling this was a test for a hypothetical relaunch of a universe side book) is out. I liked this series, I hope a Universe style side book gets the green light. I love reading about how the other characters live their lives outside of the biggest crises with Sonic and Eggman. Now I'm wondering if Mimic spends the whole Zombot crisis in that cell, if it breaks him out of it, or if he ends up another Zombot. I'm imagining an automatic feeder on it and giggling.
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Issue #24 hosed me up super bad. It would have felt unearned if the miniseries hadn’t been a thing, but as it stands Tangle going out like the biggest drat hero ever and Whisper completely losing it as a result was absurdly effective. That was some One Piece tier ugly crying right there. The now nearly dead inside Cream being the one to console her at the end just made things even more sad. Even though nobody is actually dead, there’s going to be all sorts of trauma to sort through in the end. Those are the stakes we’re dealing with here. Cream is hosed up now, and it’d be one hell of a cop out to walk that back. Thank you for the Christmas present, Ian. Depression is my favorite.
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Oh yeah the last chapter was super sad.
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Honestly at this point I wouldn't be all that surprised if this arc gets resolved through a time travel reset or something, well either that or basically everyone gets turned into a Zombot and it turns out that the cure inflicts some minor amnesia and wipes most everyone's memories of this whole mess, feels like it's otherwise going to leave things too broken to really do anything with afterwards
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No, this whole thing is going to end with Eggman figuring out a cure out of pure spite when he gets overthrown. Or, since I presume we're headed to Angel Island soon, emerowd magic
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Oh, the emeralds are almost certainly going to be a big part of the solution. They're literally just hanging on Eggman's wall like the original Chekov's Gun, going completely unused. What's to be seen is just how interesting the solution will be, conceptually. Will "going super" just burn off the virus completely? Will they power some device Tails cooks up? Will it be some sort of Sonic Unleashed Light Gaia callback? Who knows! Whatever it is, I at least have confidence that it'll be super cool to see drawn.
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According to Ian this will be the lowest point for the heroes.
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Well there certainly ain't much lower for them to go aside from actually killing someone
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TwoPair posted:Well there certainly ain't much lower for them to go aside from actually killing someone 
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TwoPair posted:Well there certainly ain't much lower for them to go aside from actually killing someone I’ve got five on Sonic (deliberately) infecting Eggman and having Shadow and Espiso’s thoughts on the matter of killing him (as much as this isn’t literally doing so) thrown back in Sonic’s face. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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Whatever the resolution is, much like Forces itself it'll kind of have to involve something Silver did, otherwise the future he returned to comes to pass.
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Wait, what did Silver do in forces?
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He fights Infinite before the first boss fight against him and knocks loose one of the prototype Phantom Rubies that Infinite was supposed to destroy. The Avatar later finds it. Not only does it allow them to survive their subsequent fight with Infinite, they use it at the end to dispel the virtual sun. It's small, but without Silver being there, the Avatar dies in their fight with Infinite, Sonic is banished to the Null Void with no one to help him escape, and Infinite wipes out the rest of the Resistance with the virtual sun, resulting in the Eggman-controlled future Silver was originally from. Shadowlyger fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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ConanThe3rd posted:I’ve got five on Sonic (deliberately) infecting Eggman and having Shadow and Espiso’s thoughts on the matter of killing him (as much as this isn’t literally doing so) thrown back in Sonic’s face. He tried to do that in their last meeting if I recall correctly.
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