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>>150186168
Huh?

This probably took two or more years to make

>>150187445
It's a fan comic

>>150187630
Maybe in the year 2035 we'll get the final part of Mega Drive.

>>150188476
I'd think people would long be past the point of caring about that, same way people stopped caring about Sega finishing the Sonic 4 story (which yes, Sonic 4 had a story).

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>>150188507
Sega trying to make an episodic Sonic game was pretty dumb. Only Telltale managed to pull it off and even they fucked it up at times.

>>150188691
You're not wrong, but the gameplay was also complete garbage independently of the episodic story.

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You know, it's pretty weird to think a bunch of OCs from a short lived cartoon SEGA was never going to canonise kept being used in a comic book for nearly 25 years, a comic that in turn pretty much only ended because a former writer sued over the copyright of other OCs. Really bizarre, right? Had Archie been better at making people sign contracts and/or keeping them, maybe characters like Sally Acorn would still be around and SEGA would still refuse to use them in any games.

>>150188867
Hindsight is a real bitch in this specific case. You could maybe make an argument for SatAM characters working with the Genesis-era Sonic world, but they were completely incompatible with a post-Dreamcast Sonic world. Trying to make them fit in the reboot didn't help at all.

>>150188867
Actually Archie ended the contract. Sega was fine with how the reboot was going and was willing to renew the license but the Archie CEO wanted to focus on their own IPs and Riverdale was making them a lot of money. Worlds Unite did more damage than Penders did.

>>150188996
That is fact sure, but the reboot wasn't doing the holdovers from preboot any favors. The game cast felt so isolated from everything else.

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>>150188996
What happened was that this guy here racked up a giant licensing bill for all the Sega/Capcom characters in Worlds Unite, then fled to DC and left the rest of Archie to pay it off. Cutting the Sonic and Mega Man comics in favor of going all-in on Riverdale was the only option left to break even.

>>150189101
That's a load of speculation without any proof. We have statements by the Archie CEO at the time that she wanted to focus only on Archie and drop all licensed comics.

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So which FF or just any Archie character for the matter do you miss most?

For me, it's Rotor and anything related of. Rest in peace, purple plur. Seeing him on >>150186726 sort of touched my heart.

Let Archie stay dead already.

>>150189597
She also said she was sick of people buying just Sonic and ignoring the Archie books.

>>150191291
Put your trip back on Boco.

>>150189027
Blame the Shattered World arc. That was pulled from Unleashed which was specifically made to reduce the cast bloat after '06. The anti-synergy was too real.

If they'd had more time (famous last words) it would have righted itself. That much broad-spectrum worldbuilding just wasn't the right call all at once.

>>150191611
I just assume they tried to keep the game cast isolated so as night to run into any more potential snags with Sega, that's why Sally didn't matter besides being Nicole's "best friend".

I really liked sonic 3&k when I was a kid, I would had loved to read this back when.
Do kids even read comics nowadays?
The best shot this got is that old boomers like me buy this to their kids.

>>150191291
Sauce?

>>150186295
YEA knock that smug grin off his fucking face

>>150188867
Its not actually that weird, Sonic X had the entire human family as OCs and the recent movies have another human family of OCs, anytime its adapted they make up some new characters. And the DS games made up some new ones, Sonic Rumble on gameboy added that robot guy for example. Sally and friends are just the weird american OC cast.

>>150193098
yea but a funny thing is happening where they dont read new current comics they literally get recced old runs by tiktokers and specifically look for old shit relevant to whatever is current. Maybe some do buy the stuff based on cartoons idk.

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>>150188691
I think Sega's idea for an "episodic" game changed significantly after the first part's release. The initial plan was clearly to just churn out a new set of stages every so often for what was supposed to be a mobile game done on the cheap, which would have worked well for them, financially.
Then after Episode 1 was a big success, they shifted into framing each episode its own standalone game, basically turning Sonic 4 into a multiple-game "saga" sort of like how the 2000s had the Advance trilogy alongside the console releases, with each release planned as being bigger than the last (Episode 3 was apparently going to be even bigger than 2, potentially had Whitehead involved, and made by Sega Studios Australia instead of Dimps before the SSA was shut down).

So instead of making Sonic 4, 5, and 6, they'd just label them as a trilogy of episodes instead. From a marketing standpoint, this is what was truly dumb, because all it did was make people question both why a single episode took around 2 years to release (which also caused people to lose interest), and why there was such a significant difference in presentation between each "part" of the same game.

Overall, still very dumb, but I can kind of see what Sega was trying to do with their continued "Sonic 4 as you truly imagined it" spiel by eventually aiming to make it into something like S3&K but even bigger.

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retarded and autistic but to whoever made this post if you ever read this
"if you own an IP and can't make use of it" you shouldnt own it to begin with and use clauses should come with all IP along with it only lasting twenty five years or so.
Also capcom not being able to use the mega man liscense is retarded, theres plenty of dev teams they could hire with all the resident evil and monster hunter money they have to make a decent game for Mega Man, Darkstalkers, hell even throw in Dino Crisis with mid budget sized games and not even make a dent in their quarterly.
Your post was bad and you should feel bad.

>>150186209
How the hell did they get Yardley on this? It's nice to see, don't get me wrong, but I thought he was burned from his time at Archie.

>>150194891
Yardley does commissions and since they're pencils then it shouldn't be too expensive. As long as it's not foot fetish stuff. Never again.

>>150188507
Eh, I only care for the classic good games