Thanks for talking about Archie Sonic! I've been hoping you'd cover Archie Sonic more extensively for a long time! Grew up with the books and have wanted to hear more of your perspective on it.
I still struggle with Hedgehog being his last name. Every time the Saturday cartoon calls him “Sonic Hedgehog,” I have to wonder if I heard them right.
I miss the days when comics weren't something too serious and could actually have fun with goofy shit like trees crying and using a full comic panel just for a damn one off pun. As well as the stakes being so small that a leak was the biggest day ruined event of all time and fights were just dealing with the boss and one lackey. I mean, I'm fine with things having gotten so major in stakes that completing a mission with a team fewer than 3 seems unlikely but there's something so charming about a story that's just so small and center focused that it's become somewhat of a lost art. I don't need to have a crisis that encompasses the globe or a solar system or a galaxy every time. Sometimes seeing my favorite characters doing something as simple as making it to a theater show on time to meet their friends can be entertaining too.
Also of note it would be the Egg Robos and eventually Egg Pawns that would eventually fill in for Swatbots, due to having a similar role and the fact that now we have a much-needed army builder for Sonic's figures. the Jakks-Pacific Eggrobo that could EASILY stand-in for swatbots during play.
My guess is they REALLY didn't expect the book to continue post-Endgame… but then it did. Unfortunately, Penders wanted to focus on the Knuckles series, Karl Bollers -- who Ken hates even more than he hates Ian Flynn -- took over, things went WAY off-the-rails, then it got worse after the Knuckles series got cancelled and Ken returned to the main book to retcon away everything Bollers did… at the same time the art took a SERIOUS nosedive. Ian had to fix all that
@@Soufriere84 And given the fact that the zombot storyline was meant for archie, it's a crazy transitional point between publishers, effectively making it a complete hard reset to the point where IDW's Diamond Cutters are the canon freedom fighter group post-resistance. Exists only as damage control to back up the restoration efforts in-universe.
@@lpnp9477You should check out Sonic the comic reviews then. They have all of the issues on their channel and even recaps of the story.There was also an online continuation for the comic that had actual writers from the original comic help write it.
I thank Sonic Mega Collection Plus for introducing me to this series. Highly underrated and well, wish Sega did something to honor Archie’s humble beginnings but I’ll always look back on it as something meaningful to me
I’m glad to see Archie Sonic covered here! Archie doesn’t get enough coverage nowadays as opposed to IDW. There’s been a lot of IDW comic dubs for example, but rarely any Archie comic dubs. HOWEVER, there is ONE cool channel on RUclips who ARE dubbing Archie at the moment. They’re called Void of Voices if y’all wanna check them out. They’ve been trying to get stuff back on track due to stuff happening behind the scenes, but they’re fantastic.
Archie Sonic is like if you took the first Super Mario Bros as the beginning, but as they worked more and more on it they started to do stuff like changing the sprites until they looked off, and added really long story segments that were very hit or miss, before slowly reforming into something fresh and understandable which eventually becomes Super Mario Bros wonder with story beats that call back to the best parts, and bringing it out in a way that created some of the best story beats in this entire evolution process we put the plumber through.
I love the touch of humor in the sonic archives 0 book, having 3 versions of sally looking at eachother in the cover art. Its showcasing that they changed her design 3 times within a year.
I had this funny thought where given how different Archie Robotnik is from Games Eggman. I thought of a fun fanfic idea where rather than have Eggman be Robotnik from another universe, good ol’ Ivo is just the same as his games self, just impersonating Julian until being outed which makes him take up the name of Eggman.
Well to be fair Satam Sonic could swim. He was jumping into water willingly and swimming several times in the show so Archie is adapting that version of the character.
@@galten7361not really, people don't remember underground (especially the one moment where sonic is scared of ocean specifically) as much as they do remember X and Boom. X introduced sonic's aquaphobia because X sonic always wanted to run, and because of that he couldn't swim. that stuck in people's memory and Boom used that false assumption to make it a joke.
Been waiting for this since the Chaotix videos. I was into the satam show in 2007 just coming off of 06 and tired of game sonic rush being my last favorite game. When I read my first issue 161 I had to know the history and how it arrived at concepts like Scourge, Elias, and Dr. Finitevus along side the FF. Managed to grab #39 and some specials, but mostly learned about the older issues through archive volumes and had blast reading them despite how hoaky they were.
I LOVED Archie so much. It had a lot of weird and a lot of bad, but I think it was really fun, too. In the end, some of my favorite Sonic characters exist only in these stories. Shard, Nicole and Scourge are my personal favorites from Archieverse lol.
Thanks for tackling this childhood classic! Never would have imagined just how wildly complex things would get after this charmingly goofy launch point!
12:45 I've never read these comics, so I could be missing context, but this looks more like he's getting a jump/power boost from the ring and smacking eggman's wrecking ball into the cockpit. notably, this part of the machine was invincible in the first game, so it may be a better reference than not. but like I said, I lack context
The most interesting part of this is how strangely straightforward it is compared to what we'd get. It's completely unassuming as and doesn't come off as very much more at all than an ad for the TV shows and Games. If you came into this comic based purely off it's reputation you'd probably be thrown for a serious loop
its very comedy and episodic for a good portion of the comics run even some of the early Penders stuff was kinda one offs until it later wasnt when they went back to certain ideas (namely robo robotnik, anti sonic, St John)
It's impressive that the comic lasted as long as it did. The Fleetway comics I grew up on never had that longevity, and I respect Archie a lot for establishing itself as a Sonic in its own right 😊
Especially with how Maurice being Sonic's Middle Name becoming a running gag, it's a milestone to show how long the comic has been around for. While IDW has been around for 25 years as a publisher, IDW Sonic has been around for 10 years of that publisher's existence. Longer than any piece of tie-in media.
My introduction to the Sonic way back when was a scholastic book I got at a book fair. It would be a good 20 years later before I learned it was a novelization of the 2nd story in this issue. Right down to an illustration of hypnotized "robians". The book had extra details like Robotnik being Donic's foster brother when they were younger. Yes, that was a thing.
it probably was a troll communications book. in the 90s, there were a few publishers that published books/gamebooks based on sonic bible, stay sonic (UK sonic bible) and satam/aosth. coincidentally, all of them but one were bought by penguin group or random group, which both later merged into penguin random house. robotnik and sonic spending time together as kids also appeared in archie as a dream.
I would pick up random issues of Sonic from this corner store across the lot from this local restaurant my family would go to once a month or so. I was like 6/7 and big into reading but less so about caring about continuity or lore so it was just neat to have a comic about one of the biggest gaming characters at the time. I was already huge into the Valiant Comics stuff which was based on various Nintendo properties so it was interesting to see how another company would tackle a similar premise. Lots of fond memories of that time period even if the stories themselves are only really a shadow in my mind. Really cool to see where it all started after being so familiar with how off the rails (but entertaining) it gets.
I remember this initial issue. It was included in the 2nd Sonic 2 featured issue of Sega Visions. It was pretty jarring seeing the different designs for Robotnik and the badniks (let alone Tails), but it was new Sonic content, and back then, before Sonic 2 even came out, it, together with that Sega Visions issue did their job to get you hyped for the next game pretty well.
I checked Lowart's videos on the matter and man, the early pre-Ian Flynn goes places. I felt like I was going insane by the minute while knowing what it was all about.
Wow, your origin is actually similar to mine. I, too, started at a young age (7 years old) finding the comic at a grocery store, except for me it was issue #1 of the main series. I didn't even know the original miniseries was even a thing until a few years later when they started putting order forms to buy back issues into the book.
The version I had still had Rotor's name as "Boomer" but I had a pretty early print of the original series packaged in two packs over at Toys r Us as a lot of back issues used to for the series at some point.
It was "Boomer" until Issue 6 when they changed it to "Rotor" to fit SatAM's canon. Nick is just using the finalized name to avoid confusion (you can see he's using scans of the same original comics you and I have) -- Archie DID go back and change it in the collection reprints. I also got some early back issues at Toys-R-Us back in the day!
Ah, Archie Sonic. I actually have hard copies of most of the first hundred issues including Issue 0, and the early comix with Mike Gallagher's writing and Scott Shaw!'s art (later replaced by Dave Manak and Art Mawhinney) are just iconic. It was literally the best of both cartoon worlds -- the cast of SatAM with the silly attitude of Adventures. Plus, as Nick has pointed out before, Gallagher LOVED puns, references, and dad-jokes. Then Kenders happened and things eventually went nuts.
Looking at issue 0's cover, Sonic also looks different from how he looks in the rest of the comic. To be precise, on the cover he has two large quills on his head and one on his back. In the actual story, and for issues to come this early on in the series, he has 3 quills on the back of his head. So I think both Sonic and Robotnik are supposed to look like their game versions to further signify that they are shifting media from the games to the comics.
I actually got a copy for my cousin. He's having a baby this December. I plan on introducing the baby to this franchise by reading some of these early Archie stories, and hopefully he'll like it
I think I know why Eggman's looks were changed, if you look at the Archie redesign on the first page, his head is egg-shaped. They literally went, "Well, he's called Eggman, lets make his head the shape of an egg."
The first time I tried to watch this video when he said, "It's time to finally answer that mystery." my internet died, I couldn't have timed that better if I tried.
For all of you wondering where you can effectively jump into OG Archie Sonic, here are a couple of easy places to begin reading : - Issue 160 (Ian's run starts) - Issue 124 (the Planet of the Apes setup is confirmed, with the subsequent Tossed In Space arc that results in a one-year time skip - Issue #79 (the Adventure tie-in begins here) - Issue #72 (an effective recap issue for the past 70+ issues, plus additional lore from established backstories) - Issue #57 (an effective recap issue for the past fifty+ issues that sets up Sonic's World Adventure arc which becomes very important in the leadup and conclusion of issue #75) - Sonic Super Special #2 (Brave New World, an effective recap of the lore and world, and the beginning of a world without Robotnik as the heroes try to rebuild), then hit issue #53 of the regular run after that. - Issue #1 - The original four-part mini series (titled often issues ¼, ½, ¾, etc. Or simply issues 0). Recommended if you're starting from the very beginning, better to start here than the STH #1 You'll need a reading guide to effectively navigate issues 1-92 though. Special side issues start at around issue 18 and don't stop until issue 92, and the comic doesn't make it clear how or when to read the side comics. I'd personally recommend starting at issue 160, 124, 57, SSS2 + 53, or the original mini series. It all depends on how much you're able to tolerate nonsense. Want to avoid juggling four different comics at once? Probably best to start with 124… or 92 but I wouldn’t recommend starting there due to the horrid art of that issue. Want to avoid the absolutely ATROCIOUS stories between 142-159? Better start with 160 (though you'll miss the absolute MARVEL that is Return to Angel Island which spans 138-141). If you want to avoid the first 50 issues, go with SSS2 + STH53, or 57. If you can handle nonsense, start with the original miniseries. PS: I'd also largely recommend you DON'T read the Knuckles the Echidna series bar a few, very few, issues, like the first six or nine, and the odd #12 since it ties into issue #58.
@katerina13aar The Adventure arc and Adventure 2 arc depended on retcons and/or insertions to fit how the actual games established their world with characters to be in with how Archie established its world with characters to be. That's the case. See: A. Adventure had modern day non-mutated humies who get along just fine with the furries (who live in islands while the mainlands/continents are for humies) while Archie had the Overlanders who were sci-fi/fantasy mutants in an endless war with the furries for one. Adventure 2 introduced G.U.N. as a force operating across the humies controlled mainland. Archie had to say Station Square and G.U.N. are remnants of the pre-apocalypse world with G.U.N. even fully named "Guardian Unit of the Nation." B. Adventure estasblished the Echidnas were Mesoamerican analogues 3000 years ago. Archie already established Echidnas as faux-Kryptonians in their peak. Adventure also confirmed that the Echidnas were exterminated by Chaos besides Tikal with Knuckles' ancestors who lived on Angel Island sending it into the sky. Knuckles circa Adventure is the last Echidna but Archie already had whole factions of current Echidnas besides Knuckles. C. Robo-Robotnik became Adventure/Modern Eggman by transferring himself into a new body. D. Amy became her Adventure design using Chaos mojo. There's more to this but these are the big ones here.
@galten7361 I am aware. I have read these comics multiple times. I also lists at the end where I recommend people jump in but I think the Adventure arc is a fine place to jump into. You'll miss a few points but it's not a drastic amount. And I recommend reading as little of the KTE comics because… they're trash. I don't care how interesting some of the ideas are, most of them are just absolute trash.
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Never forget. Neither Robotnik or Eggman payed Sonic for those 200 chili dogs.
A true villain. Pay for your food, those people also need to survive
That's evil. But not as evil as when lex Luthor stole forty cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's horrible.
@@somethingclever4297you know the Sonic X comic referenced that at one point
I'm confused what 200 chili dogs cuz I don't remember that
@@eliandervalderen5849 He mentioned in the video how Robotnik ordered 200 chili dogs and didn't pay.
Thanks for talking about Archie Sonic! I've been hoping you'd cover Archie Sonic more extensively for a long time! Grew up with the books and have wanted to hear more of your perspective on it.
Oh hey Strider! 💛
Aye there mate
Maurice? That can't be right, we all know Sonic's middle name is The
More like BoomKnuckles-Gaming
Fun fact, Sonic later got his name legally changed to Sonic in the Archie comics. His full name should always be Sonic the hedgehog though.
I still struggle with Hedgehog being his last name. Every time the Saturday cartoon calls him “Sonic Hedgehog,” I have to wonder if I heard them right.
The gag era was too pure for this world, and I’ll always remember it fondly
Lets go, archie speed reading!
I still have fond memories of Archie Sonic. It had high highs and low lows, but it was still a fun 24 years of stories...
“Trickle down” has to be a reference to Reaganonics.
I miss the days when comics weren't something too serious and could actually have fun with goofy shit like trees crying and using a full comic panel just for a damn one off pun. As well as the stakes being so small that a leak was the biggest day ruined event of all time and fights were just dealing with the boss and one lackey.
I mean, I'm fine with things having gotten so major in stakes that completing a mission with a team fewer than 3 seems unlikely but there's something so charming about a story that's just so small and center focused that it's become somewhat of a lost art. I don't need to have a crisis that encompasses the globe or a solar system or a galaxy every time. Sometimes seeing my favorite characters doing something as simple as making it to a theater show on time to meet their friends can be entertaining too.
Ah yes, the era of Blonde Sally. What days they were.
Also of note it would be the Egg Robos and eventually Egg Pawns that would eventually fill in for Swatbots, due to having a similar role and the fact that now we have a much-needed army builder for Sonic's figures. the Jakks-Pacific Eggrobo that could EASILY stand-in for swatbots during play.
Hope he also covers the Fleetway comics !
I'm really impressed that they were originally trying to make Sonic vs. Eggman like the game version.
Robotnik. He wasn't referred to as Eggman in the comics until the 2000s.
@lpnp9477 You might as well just call him Julian if you're going to say that.
In for a one hell of a rollercoaster ride with this comic series.
I think in order to understand how Archie Sonic fell from grace, we need to talk about it's beginnings and HOW EXACTLY things went wrong post-endgame.
My guess is they REALLY didn't expect the book to continue post-Endgame… but then it did. Unfortunately, Penders wanted to focus on the Knuckles series, Karl Bollers -- who Ken hates even more than he hates Ian Flynn -- took over, things went WAY off-the-rails, then it got worse after the Knuckles series got cancelled and Ken returned to the main book to retcon away everything Bollers did… at the same time the art took a SERIOUS nosedive. Ian had to fix all that
@@Soufriere84 And given the fact that the zombot storyline was meant for archie, it's a crazy transitional point between publishers, effectively making it a complete hard reset to the point where IDW's Diamond Cutters are the canon freedom fighter group post-resistance. Exists only as damage control to back up the restoration efforts in-universe.
If this is Archie oh boy cant wait for you to cover fleetway it will be rad
Very interested in this because the only exposure I have to this series is memes and Cybershell. But I really wanna see the Archie perspective,
@@lpnp9477You should check out Sonic the comic reviews then. They have all of the issues on their channel and even recaps of the story.There was also an online continuation for the comic that had actual writers from the original comic help write it.
The Pre Genesis Wave Timeline needs to be Continued
Look the fan project "Archie Sonic Online"
Man that Scott Shaw! art is impeccable. Theres so much personality in there!
I thank Sonic Mega Collection Plus for introducing me to this series.
Highly underrated and well, wish Sega did something to honor Archie’s humble beginnings but I’ll always look back on it as something meaningful to me
I’m glad to see Archie Sonic covered here! Archie doesn’t get enough coverage nowadays as opposed to IDW. There’s been a lot of IDW comic dubs for example, but rarely any Archie comic dubs.
HOWEVER, there is ONE cool channel on RUclips who ARE dubbing Archie at the moment. They’re called Void of Voices if y’all wanna check them out. They’ve been trying to get stuff back on track due to stuff happening behind the scenes, but they’re fantastic.
It has begun! Ive been waiting for years for this recap to start properly! Its such a wild ride I can't wait to go along for this whole thing!
17:35 The SWATbot on the right looks strangely proud of having set that plank on fire. _"YEAAAAAAAH!"_
Archie Sonic is like if you took the first Super Mario Bros as the beginning, but as they worked more and more on it they started to do stuff like changing the sprites until they looked off, and added really long story segments that were very hit or miss, before slowly reforming into something fresh and understandable which eventually becomes Super Mario Bros wonder with story beats that call back to the best parts, and bringing it out in a way that created some of the best story beats in this entire evolution process we put the plumber through.
I love the touch of humor in the sonic archives 0 book, having 3 versions of sally looking at eachother in the cover art. Its showcasing that they changed her design 3 times within a year.
I completely agree. Issue #0 and the miniseries is the best way to start your journey through Archie Sonic.
I had this funny thought where given how different Archie Robotnik is from Games Eggman. I thought of a fun fanfic idea where rather than have Eggman be Robotnik from another universe, good ol’ Ivo is just the same as his games self, just impersonating Julian until being outed which makes him take up the name of Eggman.
Well to be fair Satam Sonic could swim. He was jumping into water willingly and swimming several times in the show so Archie is adapting that version of the character.
Sonic CD Opening comes to Mind too
@@shadowopsairman1583 Also the Spinball opening.
almost every sonic jumps into water willingly. X and Boom made people think sonic being scared of water is a common thing in the franchise.
@ZoomToMalware So did Underground.
@@galten7361not really, people don't remember underground (especially the one moment where sonic is scared of ocean specifically) as much as they do remember X and Boom. X introduced sonic's aquaphobia because X sonic always wanted to run, and because of that he couldn't swim. that stuck in people's memory and Boom used that false assumption to make it a joke.
I always loved Scott Shaw’s art. It always looked so animated!
Been waiting for this since the Chaotix videos. I was into the satam show in 2007 just coming off of 06 and tired of game sonic rush being my last favorite game. When I read my first issue 161 I had to know the history and how it arrived at concepts like Scourge, Elias, and Dr. Finitevus along side the FF. Managed to grab #39 and some specials, but mostly learned about the older issues through archive volumes and had blast reading them despite how hoaky they were.
Im so happy you made another archie video its one of my favorite comic book series and I have been waiting for another review on it
Literally just laid down for bed so this was a nice treat!
So glad to hear you review the Archie Sonic comics, nicely done.
It begins. (Ominous music)
I remember getting that first part of comic #0 in an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine.
I first saw that first chapter preview comic while staying at a Howard Johnsons when I was on a family trip to Florida, I was like 7 years old.
I've never clicked on a video faster
I LOVED Archie so much. It had a lot of weird and a lot of bad, but I think it was really fun, too. In the end, some of my favorite Sonic characters exist only in these stories. Shard, Nicole and Scourge are my personal favorites from Archieverse lol.
Thanks for tackling this childhood classic! Never would have imagined just how wildly complex things would get after this charmingly goofy launch point!
12:45 I've never read these comics, so I could be missing context, but this looks more like he's getting a jump/power boost from the ring and smacking eggman's wrecking ball into the cockpit. notably, this part of the machine was invincible in the first game, so it may be a better reference than not. but like I said, I lack context
The most interesting part of this is how strangely straightforward it is compared to what we'd get. It's completely unassuming as and doesn't come off as very much more at all than an ad for the TV shows and Games. If you came into this comic based purely off it's reputation you'd probably be thrown for a serious loop
its very comedy and episodic for a good portion of the comics run even some of the early Penders stuff was kinda one offs until it later wasnt when they went back to certain ideas (namely robo robotnik, anti sonic, St John)
@ORLY911 Even SatAM had enough humor in it with Julian getting more scenes making a joke out of him in Season 2.
5:49
This Buzz Bomber design is actually the one it had in the pilot episode of SatAM.
I love the Helium arc for the end credits lmao
It's impressive that the comic lasted as long as it did. The Fleetway comics I grew up on never had that longevity, and I respect Archie a lot for establishing itself as a Sonic in its own right 😊
Especially with how Maurice being Sonic's Middle Name becoming a running gag, it's a milestone to show how long the comic has been around for. While IDW has been around for 25 years as a publisher, IDW Sonic has been around for 10 years of that publisher's existence. Longer than any piece of tie-in media.
Oo something nice to come home from work too
Ah yes, the most foreboding shadow of Sonic comics-
My introduction to the Sonic way back when was a scholastic book I got at a book fair. It would be a good 20 years later before I learned it was a novelization of the 2nd story in this issue. Right down to an illustration of hypnotized "robians".
The book had extra details like Robotnik being Donic's foster brother when they were younger. Yes, that was a thing.
it probably was a troll communications book. in the 90s, there were a few publishers that published books/gamebooks based on sonic bible, stay sonic (UK sonic bible) and satam/aosth. coincidentally, all of them but one were bought by penguin group or random group, which both later merged into penguin random house.
robotnik and sonic spending time together as kids also appeared in archie as a dream.
I would pick up random issues of Sonic from this corner store across the lot from this local restaurant my family would go to once a month or so. I was like 6/7 and big into reading but less so about caring about continuity or lore so it was just neat to have a comic about one of the biggest gaming characters at the time. I was already huge into the Valiant Comics stuff which was based on various Nintendo properties so it was interesting to see how another company would tackle a similar premise. Lots of fond memories of that time period even if the stories themselves are only really a shadow in my mind. Really cool to see where it all started after being so familiar with how off the rails (but entertaining) it gets.
I’ve been waiting for you to do this for so long.
Yay, we've all been waiting for Archie's Sonic.
I'm not normally happy to think about how old I am but at least I read Sonic comics in single and early double digits
14:54
Someone should do an edit of this panel with the badniks having their right colors
Suris, he finally catching up. I remember seeing Suris’ video on early Archie.
5:51 No, the Buzz Bomber did have a game design. It was in Green Hill. The blue flying dudes.
Yep, but THIS "Buzzbomber" is actually the "Buzzer" badnik from Sonic 2.
I remember this initial issue. It was included in the 2nd Sonic 2 featured issue of Sega Visions. It was pretty jarring seeing the different designs for Robotnik and the badniks (let alone Tails), but it was new Sonic content, and back then, before Sonic 2 even came out, it, together with that Sega Visions issue did their job to get you hyped for the next game pretty well.
Finally archie speed reading!
I checked Lowart's videos on the matter and man, the early pre-Ian Flynn goes places. I felt like I was going insane by the minute while knowing what it was all about.
I remember sitting down on my xbox reading the archie comic first issue through Sonic Mega Collection +.
Anyone else notice that Bonnie and Antoine were basically Rouge and Gambit? Well, A cowardly version of Gambit.
Wow, your origin is actually similar to mine. I, too, started at a young age (7 years old) finding the comic at a grocery store, except for me it was issue #1 of the main series. I didn't even know the original miniseries was even a thing until a few years later when they started putting order forms to buy back issues into the book.
It’s about time! Heck yeah!
Archie Sonic upload, I click!
Omg, I actually remember reading this, in the extras of Sonic Mega Collection!~❤
It was certainly a 90s cartoon way to start. Like everything, the comic went through a lot of changes. Ups, downs, and all arounds.
I'm here for the early Archie arc and the Helium arc.
Ah yes the days before the endless knuckes pallet swaps, the melodrama, the 48 page specials and the lawsuits.
It’s happening!
Ah....it's finally time. Wishing you the best of luck here, Nick👍🏾
The version I had still had Rotor's name as "Boomer" but I had a pretty early print of the original series packaged in two packs over at Toys r Us as a lot of back issues used to for the series at some point.
It was "Boomer" until Issue 6 when they changed it to "Rotor" to fit SatAM's canon. Nick is just using the finalized name to avoid confusion (you can see he's using scans of the same original comics you and I have) -- Archie DID go back and change it in the collection reprints. I also got some early back issues at Toys-R-Us back in the day!
And here I thought Sonic knocked the ball around using the power of the ring.
Ah, Archie Sonic. I actually have hard copies of most of the first hundred issues including Issue 0, and the early comix with Mike Gallagher's writing and Scott Shaw!'s art (later replaced by Dave Manak and Art Mawhinney) are just iconic. It was literally the best of both cartoon worlds -- the cast of SatAM with the silly attitude of Adventures. Plus, as Nick has pointed out before, Gallagher LOVED puns, references, and dad-jokes. Then Kenders happened and things eventually went nuts.
Okay, history lesson Sonic Fans with Game Apologist.
Swatbots appear in Sonic Chronicles the dark brotherhood
*And here we go!* 😩👍
MAURICE, The Baguettes, HURRY UP!!
I feel like I've been waiting a decade for this to start. Every time I see "Sonic Speed Reading" and it's another IDW comic I crey.
4 fingers nothing, Sonic's missing his left ear on the panel at 6:47
I hope you cover Fleetway at some point.
Love this issue so much. I've got a physical copy That's framed on my wall
Looking at issue 0's cover, Sonic also looks different from how he looks in the rest of the comic. To be precise, on the cover he has two large quills on his head and one on his back. In the actual story, and for issues to come this early on in the series, he has 3 quills on the back of his head. So I think both Sonic and Robotnik are supposed to look like their game versions to further signify that they are shifting media from the games to the comics.
Friendly reminder that Maurice is officially game canon thanks to that one promo for Sonic Prime.
What is I remember is from Sonic 2 he was those bird robots that would shoot you when you were getting on robotics aircraft
And so it begins
And so it begins.
Good luck.
11:37 the most sexy eggman pose we'll ever see.
can't wait to see more Archie videos
I actually got a copy for my cousin. He's having a baby this December. I plan on introducing the baby to this franchise by reading some of these early Archie stories, and hopefully he'll like it
When is the idw sonic riders video coming?
I think I know why Eggman's looks were changed, if you look at the Archie redesign on the first page, his head is egg-shaped. They literally went, "Well, he's called Eggman, lets make his head the shape of an egg."
Hell yeah!
I would say “Ah, back when things were simple,” but that would make me a liar.
Ah yes, my favorite comicbook hero is the one and only Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
Babe wake up Archie speed reading dropped
I still have issues 0-3 that I got in the early 90's
You should invent trickle down technology
IT HAS STARTED
YIPPPIEEEEE
The first time I tried to watch this video when he said, "It's time to finally answer that mystery." my internet died, I couldn't have timed that better if I tried.
Ah yes, back when Archie Sonic was a lighthearted, joke-driven, pun-heavy, 4th wall breaking children's comic...
For all of you wondering where you can effectively jump into OG Archie Sonic, here are a couple of easy places to begin reading :
- Issue 160 (Ian's run starts)
- Issue 124 (the Planet of the Apes setup is confirmed, with the subsequent Tossed In Space arc that results in a one-year time skip
- Issue #79 (the Adventure tie-in begins here)
- Issue #72 (an effective recap issue for the past 70+ issues, plus additional lore from established backstories)
- Issue #57 (an effective recap issue for the past fifty+ issues that sets up Sonic's World Adventure arc which becomes very important in the leadup and conclusion of issue #75)
- Sonic Super Special #2 (Brave New World, an effective recap of the lore and world, and the beginning of a world without Robotnik as the heroes try to rebuild), then hit issue #53 of the regular run after that.
- Issue #1
- The original four-part mini series (titled often issues ¼, ½, ¾, etc. Or simply issues 0). Recommended if you're starting from the very beginning, better to start here than the STH #1
You'll need a reading guide to effectively navigate issues 1-92 though. Special side issues start at around issue 18 and don't stop until issue 92, and the comic doesn't make it clear how or when to read the side comics.
I'd personally recommend starting at issue 160, 124, 57, SSS2 + 53, or the original mini series. It all depends on how much you're able to tolerate nonsense.
Want to avoid juggling four different comics at once? Probably best to start with 124… or 92 but I wouldn’t recommend starting there due to the horrid art of that issue.
Want to avoid the absolutely ATROCIOUS stories between 142-159? Better start with 160 (though you'll miss the absolute MARVEL that is Return to Angel Island which spans 138-141).
If you want to avoid the first 50 issues, go with SSS2 + STH53, or 57.
If you can handle nonsense, start with the original miniseries.
PS: I'd also largely recommend you DON'T read the Knuckles the Echidna series bar a few, very few, issues, like the first six or nine, and the odd #12 since it ties into issue #58.
@katerina13aar The Adventure arc and Adventure 2 arc depended on retcons and/or insertions to fit how the actual games established their world with characters to be in with how Archie established its world with characters to be. That's the case. See:
A. Adventure had modern day non-mutated humies who get along just fine with the furries (who live in islands while the mainlands/continents are for humies) while Archie had the Overlanders who were sci-fi/fantasy mutants in an endless war with the furries for one. Adventure 2 introduced G.U.N. as a force operating across the humies controlled mainland. Archie had to say Station Square and G.U.N. are remnants of the pre-apocalypse world with G.U.N. even fully named "Guardian Unit of the Nation."
B. Adventure estasblished the Echidnas were Mesoamerican analogues 3000 years ago. Archie already established Echidnas as faux-Kryptonians in their peak. Adventure also confirmed that the Echidnas were exterminated by Chaos besides Tikal with Knuckles' ancestors who lived on Angel Island sending it into the sky. Knuckles circa Adventure is the last Echidna but Archie already had whole factions of current Echidnas besides Knuckles.
C. Robo-Robotnik became Adventure/Modern Eggman by transferring himself into a new body.
D. Amy became her Adventure design using Chaos mojo.
There's more to this but these are the big ones here.
@galten7361 I am aware. I have read these comics multiple times. I also lists at the end where I recommend people jump in but I think the Adventure arc is a fine place to jump into. You'll miss a few points but it's not a drastic amount.
And I recommend reading as little of the KTE comics because… they're trash. I don't care how interesting some of the ideas are, most of them are just absolute trash.
BABE WAKE UP
Archie Sonic The Hedgehog comic book series are the best. 😀👍
never gonna give yu up never gonna let yu down gotta restore all of the helium korieteh
I still don’t know why Nick hasn’t covered Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels
From humble to godlike