My Sonic, not yours

[nemo_incognito]

I am not a typical Sonic fan. I was a SNES kid. I got a Dreamcast before a Mega Drive and the first Sonic game I actually owned was Sonic Adventure. But I have been with the franchise from the beginning, just not with the games.  First and foremost I was a fan of the licensed comic.

No, the other comic.

Sonic the Comic (StC) was made and published

Comments

[zarla]

Heh, dual parody of the Marx brothers and the Mario brothers. :B

STC

[anonymous]

I've come over all nostalgic...

Nigel Kitching

Re: STC

[nemo_incognito]

The idea that Nigel Kitching had somehow found my blog and responded to this would be too amazing to be true. It feels unreal. Or maybe that's just my mind's defense to stop me from being overwhelmed.

Re: STC

[anonymous]

It really is me, honestly. I don't know how I can prove it though.

Nigel

Re: STC

[anonymous]

"After a few issues the writers had used up all the concepts from the games they could make stories out of so a drastic change of setting was in order. Sonic was warped six months into the future and discovers Robotnik has conquered Planet Mobius in his absence. "

Actually it was because Richard Burton (the editor at the time) had decided to use me as the main writer on the strip and he wanted me to come up with ideas of how I would like to approach the series. Having said that I should point out that the Freedom Figher idea was suggested to me and had come from Sega - so I kind of thought it would be a good idea not to reject it.

Nigel

[the_shy_wolf]

I just found this post on a google search, and I ♥ you for making this. Do you mind if I link it for other people to see?

[nemo_incognito]

There's nothing stopping you, but I wouldn't mind knowing where the link is going to be.

[the_shy_wolf]

Well I play Knuckles in a RP game called discedo and I’ve been meaning to pimp the fandom in the OOC comm and this post is better than what I would have made.
I’ll be linking to the STC retrospectives on Youtube as well.

I’ll post the link back here once I’ve posted if you like.

[nemo_incognito]

I'd like that. One of the things I hoped this post could do is raise awareness of StC among people in America or other places where it wouldn't be well-known.

[anonymous]

This was a really interesting read, not only for the nostalgia

[nemo_incognito]

I didn't have a full collection of scans to work with while making this. If I had every page of StC on hand Shortfuse would have gotten a much better picture, trust me. I didn't notice until you mentioned him that I didn't have that much material of Brutus but what I had didn't impress me that much.

Brutus is one of the things about StC that I think hasn't held up well. He's awesome to look at but he's also kind of one-dimensional. His entire character is summed up by the famous figure he's named after. I also thought his whole existence was pretty contrived. It was uncharacteristically dumb for StC Robotnik, a dictator and a control-freak, to invest so much power in a character with intelligence and ambition matching his own and expect him to be satisfied with being his subordinate.

[anonymous]

I found your blog after searching frantically for images of Fleetway Super Sonic so I could illustrate a point regarding how badass he is.

Thank you not just for the scans of some of the most iconic images for me (Sonic surrounded by SS's destruction, for one), but for also creating a commentary and a final parting paragraph that helped me truly identify how, and why, I feel about Sonic. Sat here next to bits of Sonic merch, it's good to remember why the blue hedgehog fills me with childish glee.

~Angron

http://www.warvault.net

[nemo_incognito]

What a funny coincidence. You mentioned Sonic merchandise in the same week I bought a little Tails figurine on impulse in Forbidden Planet.