Well, it’s hard to completely kill a character, who at one point, achieved wider recognition than both Mario and Mickey Mouse, but I think one of the cannier moves Sega made back in the early 00s right after their consoles died out was to consign the franchise to Nintendo’s platforms for the first couple years. On the…
You are thinking of a plotline from the (now defunct) Archie Comics Sonic The Hedgehog comic book series. They killed off Robotnik in their 50th issue, mostly because they expected that one to be their last story. It wasn’t. Two years and 25 issues later, they re-introduced him as the main antagonist, using the comic…
Go fuck yourself, William.
I already know The Peanut Gallery’s Headline: ‘Washed-Up ‘90s Icon to Feature In Film Starring Washed-Up ‘90s Icon’.
Sigh.
https://screenrant.com/sonic-hedgehog-movie-paul-rudd/amp/
Paul Rudd rumor’s already proven untrue. And James, I know you’re a worthless hack writing for a rump site and all, but it really wasn’t necessary to tack on that sarcastic sentence. Show some semblance of professionalism, at least.
Howard The Duck. This was my first time seeing female breasts on screen.
There was also this:
Personal oldie-but-goodie: Pokecapn & Co’s Sonic 06 LP. Unlike Arin Hanson, these guys actually had prior experience to 3D Sonics and finished the game. Also unlike Arin Hanson, they’re not annoying as fuck.
Read this for an in-depth:
A lot of people misunderstand the point of Sonic Boom’s existence; a little bit of the gaming media’s fault on that... They reported it as yet another reboot attempt in a series that’s already seen a number of them. It wasn’t that at all. It was really Sega of America’s attempt to launch a new distinctly “Western”…
Yeah, James did not word it correctly. Another case of him not doing the research and being hack-y.
The actual record is “Longest-running licensed (as in, the IP originates from something outside of comics; video games in this case) comic book series to not be renumbered”. It surpassed Conan The Barbarian for that for…
I was a wiki curator on one of those fan sites for a bit; if anything’s too confusingly-worded, might be my fault, and apologies in advance.
As for the wackiness, well, that stuff is pretty endemic to any long-running comic. I mean, Clone Saga, anyone?
(I reflexively dismissed your comment. Sorry about that. Trump is president, and I’ve just no patience arguing with idiots anymore.)
That’s clip’s not really an act of franchise self-deprecation, though. I’d say it’s more a case of the writers indulging in a little “Biting The Hand” humor. I mean, they don’t care. They…
That black Metal Robotnik was Archie’s elaborate way of transitioning the character from the old (Saturday Morning Cartoon) Robotnik to the Sonic Adventure-era Eggman. Common fan notion is that the 25 issue “antebellum” period between Robotniks was a narratively listless time, where the comic struggled to find…
Of course he won’t; he’s not pushing his own line of consoles anymore. ‘Til that happens he’ll always feel a bit “diminished”.
But, indeed, he’s been third-party mascot for longer than he was pushing Segas.
Doesn’t mean the character no longer has relevance.
Only peripherally, Bioware liberally borrowed characters and concepts from the Archie Comic Book for their 2008 DS RPG, with their assumption being that Sega owned the rights to all of that. When the existence of the RPG was brought to Penders’s attention a few years after, that’s what gave him impetus to file suit.…
Sonic was an ideal “gateway” comic for kids of both genders; affordably priced, with recognizable character, appealing covers (still love Pat Spaziante’s ‘90s covers), and stories that didn’t treat its females as a just a pair of breasts in fetish gear.
You read it ritually, eventually recognize you’ve outgrown it,…
Seven years is not “quite recent”. It’s about the same amount of time that passed between Sonic Adventure and Sonic 2006 (That other high-profile flop I was referring to).
The racers? Are you talking about All Stars Racing and Transformed? Those were well received.
Shadow was a spin-off. I don’t count it as part of the…
Yeah. Archie really fumbled that lawsuit.
The prevailing belief is that Penders’s actions effectively set a time bomb that made its cancellation inevitable; the theory being that Sega gave Archie an ultimatum that, should another suit find their desk, the license would get pulled. It can’t be a coincidence that,…
The series has had two (2) outright, high-profile commercial and critical flops. It’s just that one of them came out fairly recently, and because of that the Internet, in its “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” mentality, is back on that “Sonic was never good” bandwagon.
While the series was having its early/middle…
It was not sales.
Word on the grapevine is the fallout from a character rights lawsuit, that was brought about by a previous writer a few years back, irreparably damaged the relationship between the two companies.
The details to that can be found here:
