The End of an Era?

[VGJustice]

somehow, I'm still not interested in Archie's Sonic

[Tsuyoshi-kun]

You and me both, brother. I stopped caring, what, 9 years ago?

[Light Speed]

Makes you wonder who is still buying them? Someone has to be or they'd stop making them.

[CM August]

90% of the Sonic fandom is composed of retards. That's the reason. Believe me, there are many people who give nothing but endless praise for the comic and haven't a drop of common sense... or any type of critical thinking to speak of.

Myself, I got to issue 110 before I finally stopped buying it. The comic was at its best between #34-#42, where they were finally starting to get a grip on the storyline and characters. Over time they slowly purged every element that hooked me on this rag in the first place.

Forgive me for grumbling, but I wasted far too much of my childhood on that bilge.

[Senbei]

The comic was at its best between #34-#42, where they were finally starting to get a grip on the storyline and characters.

Agreed. I've always been impressed with how Gallagher and Penders handled the King Acorn and Knuckles sagas, then wrapped it up with Endgame. A lot of influential events happened to Sonic during that time, too, like his Billionth Ring and being roboticized. These are things that should have remained throughout the series, but were forgotten as soon as Endgame was over.

The fact that elements of the comic have been discarded over time for worse ideas is, I think, the reason why the comic sucks so much today. It just keeps moving on to other things and ignoring the aspects that made it unique and worth reading in the first place. It's very frustrating for a disgraced fan like myself.

[Light Speed]

His billionth ring? I wonder if those guys have any idea how big a billion is. I haven't read much of the comic so maybe Sonic is just a ring acquiring machine in it, but god damn. A billion is huge, I doub't I've collected anywhere near a billion rings in all my days of play Sonic games.

[chriscaffee]

Well if you achieved the classic maximum of 999 rings per stage then you would only have to play a million stages to be in the ballpark.

[Light Speed]

Wouldn't that make you a million off? A million off is a bigass ballpark, I don't really want to have this conversation though. :)

[jenkins]

If you picked up one ring per second, you would have to play for about 31 years, solid.

[Ritz]

Myself, I got to issue 110 before I finally stopped buying it. The comic was at its best between #34-#42, where they were finally starting to get a grip on the storyline and characters. Over time they slowly purged every element that hooked me on this rag in the first place.

I pretty much stopped around 110 myself. And yeah, #34-42 was certainly the high point of the series. Why, I'd go so far as to say that the comic didn't suck back then.

Also, in the comic, Sonic collects one ring every 24 hours. And he's only about 16 years old, so... Yeah.

[Zeta]

I miss the old days of the comic, when it would switch between three notable styles constantly:

1) Goofy Comic Adventures full of surrealism and puns. (IE - Looney Tunes/Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)

2) Light-hearted action fair with a little suspense. (Sega-Sonic, Sonic X)

3) Angst and dark drama and betrayal and plot twists. (SatAM, Sonic Underground)

Every month it seemed the comic was doing something different so it was really interesting and usually surprising until it finally settled on #3 constantly which was why I dropped it - it was my least favorite take on Sonic.

[Light Speed]

I remember reading some interview where they said they originally planned on basing it off AoSTH, but when SatAM came out and became the way more popular cartoon they decided to base the comic off that.

[CM August]

They based it on a conceptual form of SatAM while it was still in pre-production. It's the reason Sally was colored orange with yellow hair in her first appearance - they hadn't recieved color charts from DiC at that point, so they "colored her on their own initiative". Incidentally, "Nate Morgan" actually came from these early concepts, but was wisely scrapped. This is what I've learned over the years and is subject to correction, but I'm fairly certain this is the truth.

Also, this is just my own feelings here, but SatAM never really struck me as being in the 3) category. Everyone tends to play up the darkness aspect, but I wouldn't say that's what the show was about. If anything, it belongs in 2) with some elements of 3).

Haven't seen enough of Sonic Underground, but Archie now definitely belongs in 3). Except it's so overdone you can smell the melodrama, and every plot twist is retarded.

[Bo]

I think the Billion Ring comic was the last one I really enjoyed. And maybe that Super Sonic vs. Hyper Knuckles special. I quit reading somewhere in the #60's, aside from WB's issues.

But yeah, a billion is an impractical lot of rings.

[Kishi]

I stopped reading around #80, when the Sonic Adventure adaptation was getting underway and I had a remarkably certain feeling that it was going to suck from then on. And judging by Dan Drazen's overviews and the rare occasion on which I'd glance through the latest issue in a book store, I've seen nothing to contradict this.

[Esrever]

I only stopped buying it a few months ago. I just kept getting it out of habit, even though I hated it. When WB quit, it kinda slapped me in the face and made me quit buying it.

[Neo Yi]

Unfortunatly, I'm still collecting them, but only because I have a subscription left over which will be my last until I see SOME sort of improvement on the story. I should have quit some 2-3 years ago when I just about lost all faith for the comic, but I guess I was just trying to be nice.
~Neo

[tornadot]

So why did Dub quit?

[Locit]

I only stopped buying it a few months ago. I just kept getting it out of habit, even though I hated it. When WB quit, it kinda slapped me in the face and made me quit buying it.

Second'd.