Why did she get shilled hard as Sonic's rival when she is going to job twice to him?

Why did she get shilled hard as Sonic's rival when she is going to job twice to him?

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  1. 3 months ago
    PineappleMango

    Because shadow has so many mandates he isnt worth using and his reputation got forever ruined with his own game.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Isn’t the real Shadow fricking dead? Also fpbp

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The original game implied that, and some, such as myself, think Shadow should have stayed dead (with occasional multiplayer character and Sonic Skin unlockables).

        Sonic Heroes tried to set some "mystery" by implying he was an android copy, but his own game ultimately stated he was the Shadow we met in SA2.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          At least Gamma stayed dead

          Shadow was too cool for his own good.

          By the way, the lady who played Jessica Jones was cast in Sonic 3 and people are speculating it’s Rouge. I don’t know how to feel about that or where to talk about it other than here.

          It’s not even confirmed Rouge or Amy. Maybe it’s a human oc like that fat black lady that gets together with a glowie? I’m looking forward to the disappointment?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Shadow was never meant to stay dead. They always planned to bring him back.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >>By the way, the lady who played Jessica Jones was cast in Sonic 3 and people are speculating it’s Rouge. I don’t know how to feel about that or where to talk about it other than here.

            I'm going to be disappointed in the internet if this doesn't multiply the Rouge mind break porn output.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The original game implied that, and some, such as myself, think Shadow should have stayed dead (with occasional multiplayer character and Sonic Skin unlockables).

        Sonic Heroes tried to set some "mystery" by implying he was an android copy, but his own game ultimately stated he was the Shadow we met in SA2.

        They say in his own game during the final fight he is the real one

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shadow the Hedgehog (the actual game) true ending reveals that he was never dead or a robot or a clone.
        GUN just put him in a coma and made a bunch of robots using him as a model.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Eggman made those robots, not GUN. And it was also him that saved Shadow after SA2.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            My bad, it's been a while.
            That game isn't exactly one I'm dying to replay often.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Do those mandates exist anymore?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        every IP has mandates anon. Sega's are just moronic .

        • 3 months ago
          AccelΔX

          Yakuza can be very persuasive

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            The Yakuza are weak compared to Penders

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shadow is still the second most popular character, what are you smoking? Have you seen the reactions to the next movie and game?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think his problem is that he’s too popular so writers are walking on eggshells with him. The fact that mandates might exist at all is indicative to how little risk they want to put him through

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          It’s a huge risk bringing back Black Doom of all characters, and going through Shadow’s backstory.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            You mean his blackstory?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            It is funny considering Black Doom, Professor Gerald and Maria (and anything Project Shadow backstory related) were supposed to be "forbidden" with the current mandates... which just comes to show how easy Sega changes their mind.

            Unless that is somewhat related to SA and SA2 finally becoming available through Steam in Japan.

            • 3 months ago
              Boco

              >which just comes to show how easy Sega changes their mind.

              Nothing new there. They change canon every other week.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >were supposed to be "forbidden" with the current mandates
              Probably a case of 'if we want to talk about it we want it in the games and not the comic'

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              If they decided to put Shadow in Sonic 3, they had to talk about it again eventually. They’ve already had Sonic’s Owlmom genocide the Echidnas, and die afterwards, so this isn’t too far of a leap in the movieverse.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >how easy Sega changes their mind.
              Partially that, mostly Sega just being a b***h and wanting to do all the big events and character stories themselves first.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        These reactions wouldn't exist if he stayed dead, was likely his point.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The mandates aren’t a problem. Ian just doesn’t want to write him properly. The guy who wrote Scrapnik Island said that the mandates were a total non-issue meaning Ian’s just a crybaby.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Considering that in prime shadow wasnt even allowed to be shown inside a house because it would imply he owned it the mandates are very much so an issue.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          that's Boom you dumbass, nobody owns houses in Prime

          • 3 months ago
            PineappleMango

            >that's Boom you dumbass
            Someones a little grump and needs some tickles to cheer up

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Ian just doesn’t want to write him properly.

        Ian has never written Shadow properly.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm glad the director of the movies actually likes shadow, so I don't expect funny business there

          • 3 months ago
            Boco

            Except for the movie Sega has no input whatsoever.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >so I don't expect funny business there
            The only thing I have to look forward with the movies is for idiots for you to get led by the nose.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              you really think they are going to make him a clown like in the comics?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                They made all the characters clowns so why not?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                your bait is weak and sad

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                So are the movies, which says alot about you liking them.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm glad the director of the movies actually likes shadow, so I don't expect funny business there

          His Archie Shadow is great, I think it's ridiculous the extent this board has gone to shit on Ian.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            I will stop shitting on him when Shadow stops being a yamcha tier jobber and Silver stops being treated like a 5-year-old child with 0 life experience fawning over literal whos

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >when Shadow stops being a yamcha tier jobber
              It was a moment of overconfidence from years ago you hyperbolic jackass.
              >and Silver stops being treated like a 5-year-old child with 0 life experience fawning over literal whos
              Stop putting all of your chips into Silver the Hedgehog.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >a moment of overconfidence
                You mean and OOC moment explicitly made to take him out of the story, Shadow has never been that rash or has never acted like that. Ian literally writes him as if he was Vegeta.
                You can cope all you want, but Prime and even Boom of all things had a better Shadow that anything he does.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'd agree on Prime, despite still not getting round to season 3 it is finally nice to hear him have a good voice actor after Black Knight was the last time and they balance him having a sense of justice, a serious attitude and being a dick to Sonic weirdly well in the show despite its issues with the other characters

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >His Archie Shadow is great
            Which one? You better not be talking about the preboot version because that one was massively OOC.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              How was that out of character? He found peace with himself and works as an operative, how in the world is that different from the end of his solo game?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Shadow would never act like this even in his debut. And if you're going to somehow try and say this is in-character or "better", then I'm going to have to say you know absolutely nothing about the character.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                NTA but Shadow is fundamentally a shit character so him being OOC is usually a good thing.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Shadow would never act like this even in his debut
                Because most of the game he was brainwashed into doing the deeds of a rambling mad man?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                And that brainwashing changed his personality too?
                Media illiterate moron.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >And that brainwashing changed his personality too?
                Considering he went form declaring revenge to wanting to save the world when he got his real memories back, yes. If he wanted it that bad he wouldn't have dropped it so easily.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Goals = Personality
                Thanks for proving my point. You can go be stupid somewhere else now.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Goals = Personality
                Your goals are shaped by your personality, yes.
                >You can go be stupid somewhere else now.
                Why? You seem to be fine doing it here.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Describe his personality

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's it? Because he showed a little vulnerability in finally getting to reconnect with the one soul he ever cared about? For one page? You want him to just do his usual mandated pouting and arm crossing and saying "hmph" to working with others, the same old shit over and over. You're obnoxious.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You want him to just do his usual mandated pouting and arm crossing and saying "hmph" to working with others
                Nta but that's the character, yes.
                >the same old shit over and over.
                Why are you so against consistenty?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's consistent for his rocky exterior to give way to memories of Maria. This is honestly one of the moments that made me realize Shadow could be a good character and it's funny this is your whole argument that he sucked in Archie.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why do you care so much about Shadow when you don't like how the character is supposed to be written? Do you want Sonic to punch Amy in a comic or game and excuse it as a "moment of frustration"?

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                Can...can we have that? Is that an option?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Simmer down, Boco.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Shut up and die Boco

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                You mean to tell me Sonic and Amy have never fought before in this entire series?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >His Archie Shadow is great
            Lmao. I think it's ridiculous the amount of hoops archiegays jump through to defend Ian.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The guy who wrote Scrapnik Island said that the mandates were a total non-issue
        He's never touched Shadow so that's meaningless. Just because he had little problem on his one story does not mean they're not a thing.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I was going to literally say this. Now that Shadow is back with Gens DLC and the movie, they should have never made this dogshit character.
      She was and never would have even been the Ultimate Lifeform. Sonic is the only one that should have a rival as powerful as gods.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ian’s a lying piece of shit. He’s jus coming up with excuses for being a bad writer. If you read his own comics, his writing is virtually identical to his IDW writing, mean the mandates are nowhere near a strict as he claims, or don’t exist.

      • 3 months ago
        PineappleMango

        The writers of prime have confirmed the mandates are strict.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          NTA, while I'm not denying the existence of mandates or directives (whatever you want to call them), I can't help but wonder if all these writers are just covering each other asses regarding how strict they truly are.

          • 3 months ago
            Boco

            I doubt those Man of Action hacks even know who Flynn is, let alone cares.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Do they need to personally know him and be best pals with him to copy the "it isn't my fault! it's the mandates, I swear!" strategy?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Not if its true.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          If the mandates exist, then how did Prime managed to make Shadow competent and not a jobber unlike Ian?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Prime didnt have Shadow being a angry jobber (i.e vegeta) and he had plot relevance
          Its Ian's fault

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >his reputation got forever ruined with his own game
      Shadow the Hedgehog was an overall fun game with a few repetitive sections.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >his reputation got forever ruined with his own game
      His game was based.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Gonna be the main attraction of the 3rd Sonic movie.
      >Spinoff series planned.
      >Getting his own story in the Generations remaster.
      Lol, no. Shadow is thriving, moron.

      • 3 months ago
        Boco

        Knuckles is getting the spinoff.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Knuckles is getting the spinoff.

        Knuckles got a Spinoff cause they needed slop for Paramount+. It's a given that Shadow will get one too if Sonic 3 makes bank.

        • 3 months ago
          Boco

          That and they already said they want a "Sonic cinematic universe".

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hey kids, 'member that one thing from Archie? Well here's something like it but completely neutered! Subscribe to my podcast!

    • 3 months ago
      PineappleMango

      Can IDW just get that last fricking nail and sell the IP already? Just fricking retcon everything, especially crying lesbians. Keep the gay duck, I like him.

      Cry more IDW is going to appear in a mainline game. Theyre already mentioned in frontiers.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >bad comic character gets an offhanded mention in a bad video game
        Oh man, I'm coping and seething over here.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Cope more Ian wrote everything with the intention of them appearing in the games. Its going to happen chud

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ian can intend all he wants. Sonic Team isn't obligated to do shit and Sega will likely tell them to toss everything and start over again anyway.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              How come they couldn’t merge the comics and the games back in the day?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                They literally did this, but Ian and staff didn't want their headcanon of Sonic outclassed by the official Sonic lore so all they bothered to do was making the designs on brand to modern Sonic and that's really it. They sure didn't act like the game cast one to one, and still don't.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            They'll never exist in anything but spin-off mobile game cameos. And when their popularity underperforms there, Sega will make sure they're forgotten. Ian can pretend to have all the influence he wants, but outside the comics he's really nothing to the franchise. Frontiers had some of the worst writing in the series so far; it was the soundtrack that carried it into relevancy.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              You can't say Frontiers had some of the worse writing when Forces was right before it or Rise of Lyric also

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        So did SatAM characters. What's your point?

        • 3 months ago
          AccelΔX

          that was an Easter Egg at best as Spinball was made by STI, not Sonic Team

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >It doesn't matter cuz I say it doesn't

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              This doesn’t mean it’s canon, dude.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              This doesn’t mean it’s canon, dude.

              Like

              that was an Easter Egg at best as Spinball was made by STI, not Sonic Team

              said, Easter Egg only for American fans. Most Japanese fans don't even know about Archie Sonic and it's probably for the best. It's had a lot of nonsensical baggage that had to wither on the vine.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                By that Logic Tangle isn’t canon either because she also only appears in a small easter egg and most Japanese people don’t give a shit about Sonic in general.
                The Freedom Fighters were in a mandatory bonus stage, Tangle was only mentioned in idle dialogue that most people who play the game never heard.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Out of all the donuts, Sally is probably the biggest one. Not just because of pinball. But also because she appeared in a bunch of those kids books in the 90s. Caused Sega to force Ken to bring her back to life in issue 50. And was being explored as being made an attraction for the Sega park of kangaroo land.

                Tangle meanwhile has a name drop, mobile phone skin, and Sonic Channel art work?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Sega forced Ken to bring her back
                Is that why he turned her into a raging bawd?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, that was the failure of striking it out on his own. He always had a thing for Knuckles and secret society of grandpas. But he only went off the rails when his actual original creations failed and Sonic was only thing he ever did successfully.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sonic Adventure didn't help either. And Frontiers only made it worse. Not that he would care.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >bad comic character gets an offhanded mention in a bad video game
      Oh man, I'm coping and seething over here.

      Ian can intend all he wants. Sonic Team isn't obligated to do shit and Sega will likely tell them to toss everything and start over again anyway.

      Thoughts on the Fartchie cuck wanting a scorched earth outcome for the Sonic comics to feel superior?

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can IDW just get that last fricking nail and sell the IP already? Just fricking retcon everything, especially crying lesbians. Keep the gay duck, I like him.

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    At one point Surge gets beat so bad by Sonic she runs at the sight of him and starts crying in fear because she knows he’s going to hurt her. It’s insane how hard Evan has further ruined this character after Ian already made her a joke.

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just want Thunderbolt back. She was an adorable little ball of hate.

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    never read the comics but I hope she gets a good depiction in a cartoon in the future

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because they already had her concept thought up back from archie days and they knew a punk rock sad girl would make fans pick up the comic and go oooouuuhhh.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like Whisper better, but I’ve never picked up a comic. I find her moronation and constant blubbering strangely endearing and cute.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's what has been becoming popular of recent we can call it a jobber fetish or cringefail wife thing. Girls find it relatable and makes them feel better about themselves while guys more have that i must protect and fix her vibe. Also never said it worked just what their goal was also mostly just them being oc gays, like I mean look at all the hero girls they are all lesbians and very oc esque and annoying even whisper got infected by it by being around tangle

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I just want Whisper to eat her emotions away until she can barely fit through doors anymore. The more she thinks about how she failed to even maintain her own body leads to more emotional eating. Just place a whole banana split sundae or ten pounds of whatever she likes to eat in her trough so she can graze like the sad little piggy wolf she is. Cringefail is an excellent term, she doesn’t need to win all the time to be a decent character

          In contrast, Surge looks stupid. She’s like a discount Scourge who was already a discount Shadow.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Never mind your weird

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Fricking weirdoes and their fetishes, right?

              Being entirely fair here, who DOESN'T job to Sonic, especially in this comic?

              Has Sonic ever jobbed to anyone in the comics himself?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Archie Eggman beat the shit out of him, burned down Knothole, kidnapped tons of Mobians, and killed tons of them.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                And then he had a mental breakdown after losing so much at some point, right?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                And he turned Charmy moronic after he murdered his family and destroyed his kingdom.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sasuga, Ian.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Archie Eggman beat the shit out of him
                Which lasted for 1 issue and had no impact
                >burned down Knothole
                Which was replaced by a literal utopia.
                >kidnapped tons of Mobians, and killed tons of them.
                Sonic was never there for any of that, if I remember correctly.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Eggman

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nack actually has a decent track record on Archie Sonic. Yes he loses in the end but no where near the total job out IDW Shadow or Surge undergo.

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Surge isn't meant to be Sonic's rival, she's closer to a shitty version of Metal Sonic that's allowed to have development and not have any ties to Eggman. Her role in the story is to challenge Sonic's personality and quirks and the entire reason she stuck to the path of evil early on is because Sonic refused to take her mental breakdown seriously because he just loves to be an butthole to anyone he deems an enemy, which in turn, actually makes more enemies for him. This cover perfectly encapsulates what Surge is and what Sonic is to her, Tails had the smarts to tell that Kit was disturbed and was even able to form a temporary alliance with him, Sonic egged Surge on and made the problem worse.

    I haven't kept up with IDW in a bit so I dunno what she's doing now but her being Sonic's rival was never her point, she's supposed to suck, though they made her way TOO much of a jobber immediately after 50.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Would be cool if everything you said was even implied and wasn't just shit you made up to make the comic seem more multi-faceted than it actually is.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, but it was implied.
        Sorry you need every single idea from a story spoon-fed to you.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >It was implied, but I'm not gonna show when. You're just too dumb to notice it hehe
          Lolling at your delusions.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Seemed implied pretty well to me. They made a big deal about how she was originally some bystander who got mindfricked into who she is now.

        What would it look like to have a character who was minding their own business until they were forced to make "hating Sonic The Hedgehog" their entire personality?

        Well, they'd probably take the handful of things they aren't thrilled with - like, say, the way he lets the bad guys go free so they can do more evil shit - and use that to justify their hatred in an attempt to manage the dischord. Maybe that wouldn't be enough, and you'd see a self-destructive, borderline suicidal streak as they unconsciously reach for a way out.

        Maybe you'd end up with an actually interesting conflict when Sonic is forced to face the fact that his enemy isn't evil. He stomps her easy, but she's not at all responsible for her actions - she needs to be stopped, but he can't really kill/injure her because she's almost as much a victim as the people she'd hurt. How does he stop Collateral Damage Barbie without permanently injuring/crippling/killing her? It's a way to get around the "Sonic can't lose fights" mandate, while exploring a different kind of character conflict.

        ...but this is all speculation until it actually happens, because it's totally possible that they stumbled onto a fricking goldmine BY ACCIDENT and won't be competent enough to put it to use

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >...but this is all speculation until it actually happens
          So it wasn't implied. Glad we agree.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            nta
            But did you read issue 56?
            Sonic says he a surge got off on the wrong foot, he apologizes for how he treated her previously, begs for her to choose freedom and not just be a slave to her programming, she refuses then

            >2- She almost kills herself in their two confrontations while Sonic just walks away as if nothing had happened.

            It was Sonic's most pathetic fight or the most intense sex scene in comics, They even have an angelic choir singing after sex.

            happens.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >she's closer to a shitty version of Metal Sonic that's allowed to have development and not have any ties to Eggman
      she's more like a discount scourge than anything, even down to the name and design similarities

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        She’s also a way bigger jobber that Scourge.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I-I thought that was the intent? To have "we have scourge at home" even down to her species being hedgehog adjacent but not really a hedgehog.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nah, Scourge is actually the child of Surge and Sonic from the future, they both suck at naming things so much they just combined their names when choosing his.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the entire reason she stuck to the path of evil early on is because Sonic refused to take her mental breakdown seriously because he just loves to be an butthole to anyone he deems an enemy
      Well then they should have went all in on Sonic being an ass instead of the talking down he did towards the end of the battle.

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    What is the ideal balance of a villains victory ratio? I don't mean that as some sorta gotcha question but genuinely how many times should a rival/villain win to make that seem more genuine. I've noticed in other media the rival stereotype appears but more often than not whoever the MC is will thrash them over and over but still be considered within striking distance of their rival in skill.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They should at least win FIRST depending on what the story’s bar for the protagonist is. I’ve been watching Yugioh GX recently and Yuki steamrolled through his rivals initially. I guess to set up a more lighthearted tone?

      Who cares, Surge and Kit will be redeemed. I already see people thinking Surge will pick up Ws as a hero and they never saw Whisper's fricking L streak.

      How do you know the comics won’t be cancelled by then?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not a hard science. It depends on the situation.
      You're setting yourself up for failure if you go counting how many times the hero won, instead of letting the fights complement the situation.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      In video games Vergil is the gold standard for rivals, so the ratio should be almost 1:1

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >What is the ideal balance of a villains victory ratio?
      The minimum is to win the first fight, then it doesn't matter if you win or lose the following ones.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They need to win enough, or at least come very close to winning often enough, to actually be considered a threat. They should never EVER be getting fully shit on in their first appearance either

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who cares, Surge and Kit will be redeemed. I already see people thinking Surge will pick up Ws as a hero and they never saw Whisper's fricking L streak.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've seen some page where Kit is bloodlusting after Tail's head without any influence by Surge.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Surge and Kit being redeemed has already been confirmed by solicits.

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't read Sonic comics, but from what I've seen in these threads, I feel like all of Surge's problems would be solved if Sonic just fricked her.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      All of the new girl ocs need a good dicking, but remember this is modern comic writers we’re dealing with

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Freedumb Fighters are gone and never coming back 🙂

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      What about the Feed ’em Fighters where they feed people all day and night?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Will they help me get a fat crying Whisper?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They never left, they just became meme lesbian furries as originally planned.

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    She's not in any of the games, so why should I give a frick about her?

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ian is a homosexual

  15. 3 months ago
    AccelΔX

    Imagine yourself a kid or teen after the release the Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Knuckles Chaotix was considered a flop and Sonic 3D Blast was a mixed bag (cool music from both Genesis and Saturn version but the latter suffered from long loading, Sonic was more slippery than the Greased Up Deaf Guy from Family Guy, Flickies have a tendency to scatter if you got hit, and you don't even become Super Sonic), Sonic Jam was Sonic's answer to SMB All Stars and Sonic World was a test run for Adventure. Sonic R (again despite awesome music, was seen as a poor man's Mario Kart). In order for Sonic to stay relevant until the Dreamcast's release, you had to buy the Archie comics and endure the drama, padding and plagiarism.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      ...Or you could not be an obsessive shitbag and just wait until the next game...While playing Nights and Burning Rangers cause Sonic Team made more than Sonic.

      • 3 months ago
        AccelΔX

        Had NiGHTs but couldn't afford Burning Rangers.
        Also had Fighters Megamix, Marvel Super Heroes, Bug!, and VF2

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Were you dropped at birth?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Or or, if you were not moronic like me, replayed S3K for years on end because it was and still is the perfect Sonic game
      If SA2tards can worship SA2 for 20 years, why is it so hard to think actual great games like Sonic 2 and 3K were meant to be played once and dropped for the next title to the point you became a an autistic comicgay? You were never a gamer, that's the problem. Liking Sonic for story is really really mentally ill and all of the Shadow discussion right now is really showing just how batshit insane one Sonicgay is when looking forward to seeing this shit in Sonic. And I'm not saying it's objectively bad, I'm saying your kind is objectively insane.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        ...Or you could not be an obsessive shitbag and just wait until the next game...While playing Nights and Burning Rangers cause Sonic Team made more than Sonic.

        Sociopath

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because she reminds people of fan favorite Ashura and it makes people happy to understand the reference.

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    IDW will never be as beloved as Archie or Fleetway.
    Get over it, you will never convince Cinemaphile.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Implying IDWgays aren't just Fartchiegays desperate for more cheap drama and crying OCs.
      Lmao.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know. IDW seems to have a lot of fans and if it ends it will definitely have heavy nostalgia 10 years after.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        No way man. Surge and The NDC will have their fans but the book will become irrelevant after it ends

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          This sounds like a cope on your part.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            How so? I interact with fans of the book daily and can tell you that most of them only read it because it's "current Sonic thing".

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Sonic fans like it because it's Sonic content!
              Color me fricking surprised.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                and? It's fricking shallow and will be forgotten about as badly as Prime not long after it ends

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >IDW seems to have a lot of fans
        Anon, how about you show me real proof that IDW Sonic has fans, because so far, from what I've seen on Twitter, the only reason people follow this shitty comic it is mainly so they can promote their artwork, I hardly see anyone defending this comic.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          IDW's fans are mostly comprised of the Twitterfolk and those incapable of critical thought who don't recognize that shit barely happens in it and Tangle and Whisper are only popular because they're queer-coded.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          IDW's fans are mostly comprised of the Twitterfolk and those incapable of critical thought who don't recognize that shit barely happens in it and Tangle and Whisper are only popular because they're queer-coded.

          Imagine seething and coming up with all this mental gymnastics over IDW having fans.

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Artificial popularity

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can say that with most Sonic characters.
      The only one that was "accidentally popular" is Blaze and Gamma/Omega.

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    WTF mandates are around Shadow?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      He has no friends and only broods by himself and wants to fight strong people and his backstory can’t be referenced and he can’t be funny or crack jokes.

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >It’s another “pretend that SEGA gives a shit about Sonic comics and views them as anything more than just monthly game advertisements” episode

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don’t care, I just want more fat, cringefail Whisper

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Being entirely fair here, who DOESN'T job to Sonic, especially in this comic?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Neo Metal beat Sonic.

  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because she's actually shilled as Sonic's girlfriend and Sonic Says hitting your girlfriend is way past cool.

  23. 3 months ago
    PineappleMango

    How ticklish do you think Surge is?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not at all.

      • 3 months ago
        PineappleMango

        Are you kidding me? There's no way this tough tomboy tenrec isn't even a little bit ticklish. One stroke of a feather and she'll be breaking down easier than a dusty old car on the freeway.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Starline built Surge with a special defense against tickling because he knew that in the future there would come a man who would try to defeat her by tickling her, this is why she is immune

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty ticklish I'd say, it also depends on the spots you want to "attack". I'd love to take her shoes off and have some fun with those cute green soles

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sonicbabs belong on /vg/

  25. 3 months ago
    Boco

    Except for that time she was seconds from killing him.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >sh-she almost won!
      You either win or you don't. She lost. Flopping because she had to exert power she didn't have just to match Sonic doesn't somehow grant her partial credit, or else we'll say Vegetas suicide bomb beat Majin Buu

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, and 06 was "almost" a good game.

      • 3 months ago
        PineappleMango
        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Don't post pictures of yourself.

          • 3 months ago
            PineappleMango

            Don't tell me what to do

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      And she fried herself doing it. She cannot physically kill Sonic because she is far too weak even with compounding factors making her more stronger.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >cannot kill Sonic
        Well yeah, cause plot armor. She did kick Whisper's crying ass tho.

  26. 3 months ago
    PineappleMango

    If there wasnt a romance mandate I would want to see a storyline where surge falls for sonic and gets into a love triangle with sonic and amy.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      nah, she should be a tsundere

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think a mixture of Tsundere and yandere traits works best for her.
        Both infatuated and hating Sonic due to a conflict between her programing, pre-bio Android self, and her personal feelings.
        While simultaneously wanting to target women close to Sonic in order to remove competition and hurt the people close to him.
        I also like the idea of Sonic being guilted into being in a Relationship with a damaged Surge and them being in a mutually abusive and dependant relationship.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ends in hate sex?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yes.
            But I think either way she'd eventually stop being a villain, it's the only real direction a story with her could go if you wanted character development.
            Other than staying in her villainous limbo state.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Does he correct her with rape

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yes.
            But seriously I don't see Sonic as the type to rape correct, and I think rape would justify Surges hatred towards Sonic too much.
            What I want is for Surge to be destroyed and rebuilt on every single level from the ground up, not that I don't like her character, I do.
            I just want to see her utterly destroyed and heal, and for that I think breaking down her hatred and one-sided rivalry has to come first.
            So ideally Sonic would return Surges affections completely and honestly, while also being able to physically dominate her and not being threatened by her in the slightest.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Huh unique idea anon I'm intrigued, how it'd would work. Like you said sounded basic but the dominate her part still sounds fun.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks, I have more elaborate details in my head and in a word document.
                Unfortunately I have a couple things to get to writing first before I start on Surge.
                But to me the psychological aspect of breaking someone apart like that is far more appealing than just rape, rapes to vanilla.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Hmmmm sounds based, reminds me of the housebroken ivy writings.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >romance mandate
      What?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        No characters can be in love or in a relationship with anyone.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Damn, so Nite and Don being gay lovers is ESPECIALLY bullshit.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Somewhat

          • 3 months ago
            Boco

            Supposedly they're allowed because A) they told Sega they were gay from the beginning and B) no one gives a frick about Nite and Don.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I'm still sayin that Evan lied about that just for clout.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Vector is in love with Vanilla.
          Amy and Sonic are in love with each other.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            If the games established them its okay. They just can't act on it.

            And Sonic is for Blaze.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Sonic ships Silvaze. Amy is the only girl in the series he actually developed romantic feelings for and went on multiple dates with.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                Amy, get off Cinemaphile.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                He has several lines of dialogue in Frontiers about wanting to confess his feelings for her and wanting to share an umbrella together.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Frontiers sucks.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >If the games established them its okay.
              Vector x Vanilla is from Sonic X.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                And Vector and Vanilla have never even interacted in the games, have they?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Series shills sonamy and doubles down on it by making sonic himself push silvaze
              It's unironically over...

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just saw that cute animation and I already love her

    ?si=NXr9peZZFu7K_EqC

    • 3 months ago
      Boco

      Thats an odd song choice.

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do you think Starline ever fricked her and erased her memory after

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's gay for Eggman.

      Was.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Starline was gay. He was a bara daddygay

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Once just to see if he was into it. He wasn't, wants Eggman.

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I genuinely do believe the only reason people pretend to care about her is because she's a girl
    Make the same character but a dude and he would've had half the fanbase at BEST

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You don’t have to believe that, it’s objective fact. Kit is the male partner to Surge with the exact same backstory and he’s nowhere near as popular.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the only reason people pretend to care about her is because she's a girl
      So, like every female character ever?

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Suppression squad vs Surge Kit and Starline

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Surge Kit and Starline get stomped hard. It’s not even a fair fight.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Scourge solos

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because they were afraid of making her too OP to actually make him struggle.

  32. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    DynamiteSticks

  33. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do you have an urge for Surge?

  34. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    unstable female trope

    uninspired writing for young kids because the beginning of the franchise is a leftist fable of rebellion and protecting the environment. after the sega games and SatAM cartoons, the franchise was pushed in a direction that was neutered and domesticated

  35. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gone forever.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        until Penders brings him back

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Keep telling yourself that.

        • 3 months ago
          Boco

          I don't even like Scourge, but death is better than Penders.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not chance in Hell. Archie burned the bridge and is now doing Bollywood Archie

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          already got shitcanned, not that it had even remotely a chance of happening in the first place

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I wonder why the people behind this project thought this was a good idea?

          Even if Scourge has a huge fandom, making deals with Sonic Fandom Enemy #1 was going to make people suspicious of the project from the beginning.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ken is simply delusional and brought on a bunch of comic guys that were ignorant of his shenanigans

  36. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

  37. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    [...]

    Someone cut off this mans hands before he can draw again.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wanna see the cover?

      • 3 months ago
        Boco

        >he's selling this at Comic Con

        I kinda wanna go just to see him sitting there, piles of unsold books surrounding him.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well said, Boco!

          Wait... that doesn't sound...

  38. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      He got his revenge in the end.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        at the expense of his own existence. Pyrrhic victories are more trouble than worth

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
  39. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sleep tight, Sonic.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I sleep in a race car. Do you?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I remember when Ian came to Cinemaphile and said that Scourge’s ideal date with Fiona would be to break into Sonic’s house, and frick in his race car bed.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        HE WHAT

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fun Fact: The race car bed at the end of the Sonic movie was based off the one in the Archie comics according to the audio commentary.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
  40. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  41. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sonic should have stayed on the Kirby route and not be anchored to a core static cast but instead a huge list of threats that aren't just faceless gods and for Sonic to actually kill them as he moves on to the next big threat and that includes Eggman.

  42. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    so how good are the Archie comics? are the fights cool? is the lore as equally fricked up as the vidya?

    >t. hasn't read a single Sonic comic after the Archie ending

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Archie Sonic lore is so moronic that it makes the game lore look like citizen kane.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Archie goes from a gag series to a batshit insane sci-fi melodrama under Penders to a kino drama under Ian.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bad enough to make IDW look good.
      Everything IDW does wrong Archie does as well but even worse.
      It's barely even a Sonic comic with how much it focuses on random OCs and drama.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >IDW look good
        You’re delusional.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes
          I'm aware of how bad IDW is, and Archie is still worse
          There's no rape, The Slap, dragon wife-beating, pedophile skunks, nazi echidnas, roboticization body-horror etc. in IDW

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >IDW look good
            You’re delusional.

            Shit like this makes the writing in the games look like Shakespeare

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              The problem is that Archie is just full of this shit, it never lets up until Penders got the sack and even then it had shitty moments

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh lord, not the jilted Tails subplots. Please, I can only take so much cringe.

                Do you have anything of Tails being a badass?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sorry it's Archie, all I have is cringe
                I can give you their attempt at making him a badass (it's just more cringe)

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The lineart is making me want to gag too.

                I mean Archie did have some bad moments but it also had some really great writing for the characters that the games haven’t attempted since they don’t want to expand the cast on an individual level

                So It’s like a bad drug trip? High highs and LOW lows?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It had fricking Yakub, there were no highs except when it was being funny by accident

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe the highs were had by the creators themselves? how else can they come up with this shit?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah some people, even in this very thread, like to cherry pick the bad moments from it’s run which have been brought up rightfully so but you can easily jump in after that to get to the good stuff which has spotty moments but overall has some fun wether you like Sonic for fun action or it’s cast of characters.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The cast of characters who were 90% OCs?
                And honestly even after Penders left there was a ton of shitty characterization of non-OCs and garbage plotlines, like this one from 178

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ian is responsible for this too. This arc was supposed to be much longer, but he was forced to speed it up and get it over with as soon as possible, since he couldn’t just scrap the story arc.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Would Sonic ever say something evil like that in the games?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                In the comic Tails just scurries right back to Sonic and continues being Sonic's spineless doormat.
                Game Fans would probably demand Tails never tolerate Sonic ever speaking to him again if that happened there. Game fans still haven't forgiven Amy acting a little rude back in the 2000s.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh hey that cherry picked moment that always gets used when the rest of the issue shows Sonic is wrong for it and then next issue resolves to treat Tails better. Also the game cast actually got more focus from 160 onwards since we see Espio actually be interesting on his own finally without the rest of the Chaotix, Knuckles showcase resolve and moving from his ancestors bullshit plus Mighty, Famg and Bean getting used and given personalities when the games had essentially treated them as dead

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I mean there's a billion other moments I could have chosen
                >that time Archie didn't know how to make their adult Charmy act like his kid counterpart in the games so they just made him moronic

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >that time Archie
                Ian did that too, dumbass.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair Flynn even regrets that but it’s very much a damned if you do or don’t situation, even then this is still when an issue before Eggman gets a genuine win over Sonic and then an issue after the rest of the cast get to be the ones to score a win by destroying his to this point ultimate mech, the Egg Beater instead of Sonic

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >But now you'd never manage boy, you'd be brain damaged just to think that you could get away

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >and then next issue resolves to treat Tails better
                He never does this, and never does, he acts the exact same the rest of the comic. He deflects and condescends Tails and claims it's not his fault he cucked Tails and mocked Tails to his parents because "you should have SAID something brah, it's actually YOUR fault for not speaking up about it".
                Which is ironically a lie made to absolve himself, I believe zoomers named that "gaslighting"

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Reminder the real reason Tails was mad was because of some thot who never loved him.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                and also because Sonic's the homosexual who cucked Tails over that thot

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It was to be closer to Tails and one day put his wiener in Tails.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I forgot Sonic's douchebro mentality.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Who's got the pic of titan tails doing the omniman pose with mogul?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Here’s him doing his usual Bird Nazi fighting

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                TOTAL KUKKU DEATH

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                …and then he gets beat up by Speedy so Ian can tell the reader how Sonic would beat them all up so much better than Tails
                And then onto 3 issues of Bunnie and Antoine where Tails doesn’t actually do anything he’s meant to in Tails Adventure

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Tails literally destroys the mole robot at the end with his ingenuity and quick thinking by dismantling the thing and makes the battle bird troops look like idiots every time he faces them. Also it’s just a fact that Sonic would beat them all better then him, he’s the main character

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                This is meant to be Tails' arc about Tails' strengths, not just another chance for Ian to suck off his obnoxious self-insert.
                And all Tails did was unscrew the loose bolts on it, the birds are idiots because they're idiots, and they STILL shoot Tails out of the water while Tail is using Rotor's boat. Tails never does anything impressive the entire thing, and gets beat up and made to look weak just to suck off Sonic some more in what was supposed to be TAILS' game

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh it’s you, for a guy who wants to shill Tails you really try to go out of your way to make him sound as shitty and pathetic as possible disingenuously, also what self-insert? Do you mean Speedy the guy who literally next appearance gets beaten by the Babylon Rogues?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Beaten by Sonic and the Babylon Rogues, yes, right before Sonic beat all the Battle Birds.
                But ironically Speedy beats up Tails every time, because god forbid Ian let Tails look strong instead of his self-insert Sonic.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Speedy beat the Rogues, it was Sonic who clowned on Speedy

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Uh huh

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Didn’t Ian write this?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ian wrote 99% of all the Tails/Fiona cuckoldry shit. Penders only wrote the first issue, Ian turned it into a decade long cuck arc

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                At least it’s not crying lesbians. This shit is ridiculous.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                technically they're not lesbians because of Sega mandates, but lets be honest Archie has way more shitty drama and crying OCs (which is an achievement because IDW has a LOT of that)

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                IDW has more crying per issue than Archie, and Archie ran for longer. I can guarantee you that if IDW runs for as long as Archie did, there’ll be enough lesbian tears to put Steven Universe to shame.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >average Archie fan asking Ian to release LHT

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Can we get a crying mandate on all the characters?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I think 44 is the limit per issue

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I can’t explain it, but these crying lesbians make me giddy for some reason

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Belle
                What worthless character. Especially since we have Sage now.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I can't believe they even got Tangle... what the frick.
                This is clearly a fetish at this point.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair Tangle's was somewhat fitting. She was giving her life to stop some zombies, knowing she was already infected.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes. Ian and Evan love crying lesbians. Ian even wanted Sally and Nicole to be lesbians in Archie.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >At least it's not crying lesbi--ACK!!!

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nice feet. Very big. Very soft. 10/10

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >14 issues
                >one of them is fanart
                Using multiple panels can only obscure so much anon.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                How many issues of IDW are there in total, Anon?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I mean Archie did have some bad moments but it also had some really great writing for the characters that the games haven’t attempted since they don’t want to expand the cast on an individual level

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Bad enough to make IDW look good.
            Everything IDW does wrong Archie does as well but even worse.
            It's barely even a Sonic comic with how much it focuses on random OCs and drama.

            technically they're not lesbians because of Sega mandates, but lets be honest Archie has way more shitty drama and crying OCs (which is an achievement because IDW has a LOT of that)

            I mean there's a billion other moments I could have chosen
            >that time Archie didn't know how to make their adult Charmy act like his kid counterpart in the games so they just made him moronic

            Archie had plenty of moronic melodrama, but it also had a lot of good stuff like the Dr. Finitevus arcs, Sonic Universe, the Space Arc, Iron Dominion, etc.

            IDW is just nothing.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >the Space Arc
              HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
              THIS b***h LIKED THE SPACE ARC OH NONONONONNO
              Archiegays. Never once.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sonic sure is cool when he goes on and on about how cool he is…

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I’d say after 160 they are consistently good with some low points but always fun art, entertaining and well choreographed action while having crazy lore from the previous 159 issues that have less consistent quality and some genuinely bad moments of writing but are what helped build the tone and identity of the comic in a way. Plus there is Sonic universe which gives arcs to other characters and lets them do fun things without Sonic being involved except for a few arcs on occassion.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Went to shit as soon as SATAM stopped running alongside archie sonic and they didn't have any material. It's your choice but it's best to stick to sonic the comic

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Whether it’s bad or good, it’s one helluva ride and you’ll care about characters and the world. Sonic will never have world building on that level ever again.

      • 3 months ago
        PineappleMango

        Yeah world building like a guy pretending to be sonic tricking a woman into sleeping with him. Aka rape.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          And yet the worst thing Penders did was force a reboot. Ian was able to fix a lot of his mess before that.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            He most absolutely didn’t. In most cases Ian made all of Penders’ stories way worse. People falsely accredit him “fixing” Penders’ stories because he put Sonic and Sally back together, even thoufh thhe story quality was terrible and the lore was more pretentious than ever

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don’t know how you expect me to take you seriously. Leave the shitposting to the usual losers. Subtlety is key. Keep at it.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Wahh wahh wahh everyone who doesn’t suck off Ian’s ntr fanfiction for babies is a shitposter.
                Grow up, Ian’s stories were some of the worst shit to ever disgrace graphic novels and you need to grow some fricking standards.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Dude don’t worry, this guy has either made threads expressly to just get his ranting or repeated buzzwords out on how mad Archie makes him or goes into others to shit stir under some asinine shitposting persona’s, this guy managed to get banned from any community except here. You can tell who he is by either the phrases diapershitter, archiecuck, tails rants framing Sonic as a self-insert or smarmy ntr obsession in regards to Geoffrey St John though not seen that one in ages

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                schizophrenic victim-complex

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They’re dogshit bad, the fights are lame and poorly choreographed, and the lore is schizophrenic in the most boring way possible.
      This anon

      Whether it’s bad or good, it’s one helluva ride and you’ll care about characters and the world. Sonic will never have world building on that level ever again.

      is a liar, too.
      Unless you’re a sub 80iq barely literate moron, you’ll instantly recognise that all the original characters are surface level media tropes copy pasted from other media lazily and badly onto a bunch of hazbin hotel fursonas. You won’t care for them at all, the setting is at best boring and at worst a whole bowl of uninteresting shit only a complete deviantart tier mouthbreather could pretend is entertaining, and the characters from the games that you actually do love are shat on and insulted at every opportunity in the most shameless, repulsive, insulting manner possible by a talentless obese hack who couldn’t write his way out of a 7th grade english class.

      But I digress, Archie is honest-to-god dogshit. Pic related.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      It will make you actually respect the French.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >cowardly cuck comic relief whose only accomplishment in his lifetime is telling his wife he doesn't care she fricked Sonic and Evil Sonci behind his back, then getting fridged by Metal Sonic
        Why am I meant to respect him again?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          IDW doesn't have turn Tails and Amy into cuckolds. Archie's garbage makes IDW look like Alan Moore's Miracleman

          Maybe the true cuck all along was you, maybe this is your way to rationalise and cope for it, we'll be here for you to help you through this, if you get a girlfriend let us in the thread know

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            nah I'm pretty sure the cuck is the shit 1-dimensional character whose wife fricked Sonic and Scourge (Antoine)

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I didn't know you had a wife who slept with cartoon hedgehogs anon, you must of mispelled at the there cause anon isn't spelt with a t, I or an e at the end

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah I spelled it right, 'Antoine', that's the name of the the embarrassingly cringy cuck character in archie sonic, made only to be a cuck to the book's embarrassingly cringy self-insert of a protagonist.
                That's why Archie Sonic is made for cucks.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                This is embarrassingly cringy

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah because noone in this thread is a cuck who lets his wife sleep with the gary stu self-insert main character.
                Antoine however, IS a cringy little cuck,

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Peaks and valleys really. There's some good shit in there and some absolute shit as well. I still think its a fun read though and I'd recommend it. It gets pretty consistently good when Flynn takes over.
      Ignore the people saying it makes IDW look good, they are delusional. IDW has nothing going for it.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        IDW doesn't have turn Tails and Amy into cuckolds. Archie's garbage makes IDW look like Alan Moore's Miracleman

  43. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want to see surge and sonic have to fight each other. But theyre not allowed to actually hit each other so they have to tickle each other instead.

  44. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The part of Sonic where Serge shrinks Sonic and fricking vores him after bullying him with her feet for like 10 panels.

    What the frick Ian?

  45. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  46. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  47. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Making another weepy female OC was more important to them than giving Sonic a new rival.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They thought they could do both at the same time.

  48. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  49. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    what i'm taking away from this thread is that all sonic comics are shit.
    is there any good ones?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      None.
      >but
      None. Sonic was never good

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes but I don’t think you’ll check by just saying they are all shit while not actually reading for yourself to decide

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe the next one will be good after IDW dies.
      I doubt it.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Don’t you mean after IDW cries?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          that already happened. Quite a lot of times it happened.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            More than 44 times per issue?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Well I only keep track of the crying lesbians and Belle, so 15 issues so far of crying with a max of 8 panels of crying. Give it another few years, the lesbians will hit 44 in no time.

              • 3 months ago
                PineappleMango

                You really really really like focusing on the crying lesbians dont you?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                what else is there to focus on? Sonic and Tails standing in a cave with a large lizard for 7 pages?

              • 3 months ago
                PineappleMango

                Literally the rest of the series you fricking fat neckbeard.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nothing in the rest of the series produced anything permanent to talk about.
                Eggman? Just the same as he always is. The Zeti? Still just the Zeti. The Restoration? Don't do anything and we barely know anything about it. The only thing different to the status quo is that there are a handful of crying lesbian OCs who are attracted to eachother like magnets.

              • 3 months ago
                PineappleMango

                You got such a hate boner its sad.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                They are the meme, characters who cry, and the worst part of the series.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      the French one

  50. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did she get shilled hard as Sonic's rival when she is going to job twice to him?

    1- To be a rival you must first present a challenge to the protagonist.

    2- She almost kills herself in their two confrontations while Sonic just walks away as if nothing had happened.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      you gotta understand before Surge was introduced, Ian was shilling her HARD on all his fan networks and shit. People were annoyed that every villain so far was weak and asked when a scary and powerful endboss villain was gonna come, and he just *knowing smiled* that it's coming. And people saw the hints at the Starline cloning vats in the background and picked up on it.
      And then it arrived and it was Surge and we all know the rest.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >2- She almost kills herself in their two confrontations while Sonic just walks away as if nothing had happened.

        It was Sonic's most pathetic fight or the most intense sex scene in comics, They even have an angelic choir singing after sex.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          In this scene Surge admits that she is a slave to Sonic's wiener.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Okay that last panel is literally just post coital clarity, what the frick

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's sex, metaphorical sex.
            Her obsession with Sonic is obviously romantically tinged especially with how she keeps going on about him and how she's literally made for him.
            And how she only wanted to fight(frick) him, Kit resenting Sonic for having Tails and not being devoted to either him and/or Surge.
            Honestly, I think Evan wanted to write an enemies to lovers pairing with Sonic, but y'know romance mandates and such.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Didn’t some anons come up with a backstory for her where she was a Sonic fangirl?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, those Surge threads before and during Impostor Syndrome we're fun, shame I didn't save enough.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ah man I loved those days back before we knew surge was trash. I miss these type of greens, I used to make them and shitty surge art. Wish we could bring those days back but most threads turn into idw hate.

                Didn’t some anons come up with a backstory for her where she was a Sonic fangirl?

                >Didn’t some anons come up with a backstory for her where she was a Sonic fangirl?
                yes

                I remember loving this concept added a second layer of tragedy onto surge's life. She's obsessed with sonic even after breaking part of the conditioning because she was a fangirl. I remember a long green about her backstory being she was a fan and missed out on meeting sonic, or met sonic but got in the way and got yelled out so starline preyed on that.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Didn’t some anons come up with a backstory for her where she was a Sonic fangirl?
                yes

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Surge cute!

              • 3 months ago
                PineappleMango

                Shes not perfect until she takes her shoes off

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                How do we get her to take them off for us?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Two pages earlier.
          Context: Sonic trying to convince her abandon her programming, with the implication being of course, she'd choose him.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sonic definitely looks like he just lost his virginity.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Those are clearly ovaries exploiting from an orgasm

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's cool and all but she and Starline were immediately overshadowed by Eggman.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Starline was an idiot who massively overestimated himself and underestimated Eggman.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      that and her few interactions with Sonic so far.
      Gosh, from Sonic's point of view, Surge is just an unknown girl who sometimes wants to fight him.

  51. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Surge being a pathetic jobber is 100% on Evan Stanley and she doesn’t get enough shit for ruining this character.
    Sure she lost in issue 50 when Ian was writing but it wasn’t a total curbstomp and Sonic was shown sweating and tired which doesn’t happen much. Not exactly the greatest showing for Surge but she still had potential.
    The real humiliation for Surge comes in the issues following. Surge supposedly gets a new power up by stealing Eggman’s technology, (which is a terrible idea on its own because it makes her look like she can’t achieve anything by herself). But with this “power-up” Surge becomes way weaker than her showing in issue 50, she barely defeats Whisper, gets punked on by Sonic with a broken leg, and her final all-out desperation attack does literally nothing to Sonic. That temporary power-up retroactively made her base form weaker, it pretty much established that no matter how strong Surge gets she will never be in Sonic’s league. Surge has been completely broken and made a joke, even the character admits she can never match up to Sonic, now having to resort to pretending to be a good guy to not get her face caved in by The Hedgehog (and let’s be honest she’s probably going to legitimately turn into a good guy, just another member of the crying lesbian squad).

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly, I have a problem with the crying, but there are only two lesbians, and I think it's becoming a bit of an overstated meme.
      Even in the crying compilation, there are examples which I don't think are bad.
      Some of them just have beads of tears or are just closing their eyes, not the full on annoying messy crying which I dislike.
      And the other two "lesbians" Surge and Lanolin, have shown to be obsessed with sonic and uncomfortable with Tangles physical affection respectively.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I know most of them aren’t actually lesbians but “crying female OCs” doesn’t have the same ring to it. Calling them gay is just an insult, not a descriptor.
        The crying is absolutely a problem though. I think the only game characters to cry are Shadow and Elise who both cried once. Meanwhile those b***hes are crying every 4 issues or so and it’s over stupid bullshit like “I made a mistake!”

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I know most of them aren’t actually lesbians but “crying female OCs” doesn’t have the same ring to it. Calling them gay is just an insult, not a descriptor.
        The crying is absolutely a problem though. I think the only game characters to cry are Shadow and Elise who both cried once. Meanwhile those b***hes are crying every 4 issues or so and it’s over stupid bullshit like “I made a mistake!”

        They're called lesbian because 3 of them (Jen said israeliteel is a dyke, Ian would never queer erasure that) are gay, and all the rest of them are not romantically affiliated with any of the boys but predominantly hang out with the other dyke OCs.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Honestly, I entirely forget about israeliteel when she's off screen.
          So that's israeliteel, Tangle, Whisper, Surge, Lanolin, and belle.
          So 3/6, that's kinda a point, but israeliteel isn't gay on screen and it's irrelevant, so I personally don't count her.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >(Jen said israeliteel is a dyke,

          Jewel is not Jen's character. It doesn't matter if she ships her with her butterfly girl she doesn't have the call on that. The only legitimately confirmed gay people in IDW are Evan's bird DJs, who're only gay because by Evan's own admission, they're not important.

          >Ian would never queer erasure that)

          He just doesn't have to respond to any questions about it. Though knowing him, he would.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The issue is still that only the OCs are allowed to cry, and only the female OCs get focus, so they are written to cry a disproportionate amount. It's not a matter of it being appropriate to the scenario or not, the story shouldn't be going out of it's way to create this kind of drama specifically for 1/4th of the cast. It simultaneously creates lopsided characterization, highlights that the female OCs get a disproportionate amount of focus in general, and constantly reminds everyone of the mandates preventing the actual main characters from being explored emotionally.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Not exactly the greatest showing for Surge but she still had potential.
      No, she didn't.
      The moment she loses to Sonic without even hurting him, and then Sonic goes and breaks his leg in a plane crash in the literal next issue is when she can't be taken seriously anymore.
      Same with Kit.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah that power-up was a huge mistake.

  52. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    idk

  53. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did she get shilled hard as Sonic's rival when she is going to job twice to him?
    She really is Vegeta, isn't she?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bejita beat Goku 3-0

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        So true Burge mogs Sonic low diff.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Vegeta defeats Goku in their first fight and only lost because one of Goku's friends cut off his tail in a surprise attack from behind.

  54. 3 months ago
    AccelΔX

    The reason Archie Sonic and SatAM in the earlier years deviated from the source material is the same reason every other videogame cartoon adaptation suffered from: a very abstract concept, a handbook of do-nots and a middle finger.
    Also Sonic only had a handful of games at the time

  55. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      FRICK THE PAIN AWAY
      MY BED IS IN RUINS

  56. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    BoomSticks and SegaSticks aren’t the same character. Two different universes. Same with Tangle.

  57. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a good thing Starline is a baragay otherwise Surge and Kit would get molested to hell and back

  58. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  59. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sonic will always be a gaming franchise first. The comics are mostly ignored by sega with occasional references in the english translations that aren't mentioned anywhere else.

  60. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  61. 3 months ago
    PineappleMango

    How smelly do you think surges feet are after fighting sonic so much theg must reek and be so sweaty ha ha ha imagine if she took them off and tails passed out from smelling them ha ha ha

  62. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Blaze writing about getting plowed by Sonic

  63. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    What does Cinemaphile think about Trip the Sungazer?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Painfully boring, uninteresting, and will be forgotten when she doesn't show up for the next Classic game.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wish she looked more like a lizard but she seems fine enough as a character

  64. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Surge Purge

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Surge cuddling

  65. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >somecallmejonhy is a IDWgay

    I'ts so fricking over

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      As if he wasn't already unlikeable enough before

  66. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can't blame people when you make Shadow Lancelot and Silver Galahad

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Who's Guinivere?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          There wasn't one.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wasn't Elaine the mother of Galahad?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Guinivere was unfaithful to her husband/king and had an affair with Lancelot.

          So obviously she'd be Sally.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >So obviously she'd be Sally.
            Excuse to post this again.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >marries both Sonic and Shadow
              How does she do it?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        By that logic Amy would be Shadow's mom

  67. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The comic needs more mandates.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it needs to be more limiting
      No

  68. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unironic porn bait

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hope we get to see her in the games, alongside Lanolin she's probably the most blatant porn bait character.
      Except Surge has the better personality between the two.

  69. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Guy who wrote Scrapnik is black
    >Original work is unoriginal story about Black kid in white wizarding school

    Not saying Scrapnik was bad. Just saying I don't trust him on the "mandates" bit.

    • 3 months ago
      Boco

      He wrote Aggretsuko? Damn, might need to check that out.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tie-in comics but yes. He has a couple of those under his belt.

        • 3 months ago
          Boco

          Always meant to read those. I only remember the one issue where a nosy swan named Karen takes over the office.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You shouldn't because he only wrote one story that was self-contained and barely had anything in it. We don't even properly see the island the arc is named after. Just inside the Eggman ruins. Dude is high off his first story getting through unscathed while others have had years of experience dealing with Sega. Let him try to write a story for Shadow, then he can brag.

  70. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Ah yes, before we knew how much of a loser Surge was.

  71. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If Surge and Scourge fought who would rape who?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >who would rape who?
      green sonic

  72. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  73. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If the comic is gonna be canon it should have different mandates to force it to be like the games.

    Give it more freedom to explore stuff that is not cared about that won't affect the games, but aside from that ban a lot of concepts that are allowed.

  74. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  75. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      PineappleMango
  76. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Whos ready for the arc where for her redemption she becomes a maid for sonic?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'd prefer a wheelchair bound arc where she has to be hospitalized and monitored 24/7 so she doesn't go on a tard rampage and get herself killed.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        She's an immortal zombot though

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          She breaks herself, almost irreparably through shoving some gizmo onto or into herself and getting massively high/schicoprehic off of the power like she did with the Dynamo cage.
          I just really want this shitty tomboy to be physically and mentally broken.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            She already is mentally broken

          • 3 months ago
            Boco

            Damn man, what did she ever do to you?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Boco you get this autistic over Amy Rose, don't start throwing stones in glass houses.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                Just curious.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Nothing, she's just my second favorite of the IDW OCs and female, this is just my way of showing my appreciation for her, basically what

              shes not gonna bang you bro

              said.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                Ah, I see now.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                So is it the same sort of deal with you and Amy?
                Just curious.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                No, I have no appreciation for Amy whatsoever.

                This guy is apparently doing some kind of weird tsundere thing.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I wouldn't describe myself as doing a "tsundere" thing personally, the tsundere trope has more to do with being in denial of feeling and expressing them in a belligerent way, than slowly warming up to your target.
                But for me there's no real difference in my love for Surge and wanting to see her hurt, I just wanna express my love to her by throwing her down a flight of stairs.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                Thats...some kind of extreme tsundere. I think.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                A Tsundere is defined by acting cold and cruel in order to hide their feelings, and is usually bitter, hypocritical, and uncomfortable with honest affection.
                I think the term you're looking for is Yandere. Defined by obsessiveness, controlling-ness, and twisted displays of affection such as de-limbing someone so they can't run away from your love.

              • 3 months ago
                Boco

                Ah, yes, there we go.

                Like the crazy girl in Misery.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            shes not gonna bang you bro

  77. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  78. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The actual problem with surge is that sonic already has way too many rivals to begin with

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      And there’s nothing to set her apart from the deluge. This is why rivals need hobbies

  79. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    so uhm
    i read strictly the surge parts of idw and some change inbetween if it didnt heavily involve the ocs aside from surge

    it was cool and i now realize why alot of people think surge is great aside from horny i guess
    honestly the only really negative thought i had, aside from the usual, "sonic talks too much sometimes" thing is that who the frick does the lamb lady think she is talking down to silver (sonics close telekinetic friend from the future who was in sonic 06, mario & sonic at the olympic games, sonic forces and more) and doubting his and whispers intuition when the both of them have more genuine experience combined than this no name goat lady

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lanolin was a literal background character that was hastily made into the leader for no reason. It’s so bizarre.

      • 3 months ago
        PineappleMango

        Its cus shes thick af

  80. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yuji Naka did not want this.

    • 3 months ago
      Boco

      Who cares what that control freak wants.

  81. 3 months ago
    PineappleMango

    You guys are dumb can we just discuss how hot surge is again?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sure, honestly just wanted to mess with the schizo but even that isn't fun, guy is to mind broken and repetitive

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      perhaps

  82. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  83. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      dead

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gay

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