Do you think the cancellation was inevitable or do you think it would have ended with a proper finale tying up all the loose ends, including the preboot story
>>153271674Cancellation was inevitable, Archie was cutting down on their action books after the Riverdale show.
Archie Sonic while fun at the start, had lot of baggage especially during the Saturn Dry Spell and the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure's announcement caught Archie's writing team with their genitals in their hands. Let's not even got started with Penders. Or Bollers.
>>153271674>Do you think the cancellation was inevitableMore or less. Archie was the final holdout of the wild west days of Sonic. The reboot was able to grandfather in stuff from the DiC cartoons via decades old contracts, but Sega probably always wanted something like IDW. They looked the other way with Archie because it sold well and the "another time, another place" stories could deal out ads for games without much issue, but something had to give eventually.>do you think it would have ended with a proper finale tying up all the loose endsComics that went on as long as Archie Sonic did aren't designed with endings in mind. Endgame was designed as an ending but it still planted seeds for new stories. I think if Ian and co. knew 100% that the comic was ending beforehand, a proper finale could've been planned to tie up the most pertinent loose ends.
>>153271674I think the reboots pretty much signaled the beginning of the end. I do wish it could have at least gone to issue #300, though.
>>153271823>Endgame was designed as an ending but it still planted seeds for new stories.Which all got burned down when Sega forced Archie to bring back Robotnik for synergy with Adventure.
I heard Archie is being bought up by another company.I guess their decision to ditch Sonic and make Riverdale comics didn't pan out in the long term.
>>153274194They are?
>>153271674Is that an edit or Ken Penders?
>>153275837Maybe
>>153275837Neither, actually. That's a canon panel by a different artist.
>>153271674It never would've ended "properly". The whole point of these serialized comics is that they can keep going forever. The Phantom has been running for around 90 years and shows no sign of stopping, and this is clearly modeled after that design. There are few comic strips which follow Bill Watterson with Calvin and Hobbes; most will follow the likeness of Garfield or Family Circus and just keep going over the same material until people just stop paying for it.I suppose cancellation was inevitable due to how Archie loved going for their crazy plots and how Sega was getting increasingly interested in the west. Even ignoring the Penders lawsuits, Sega would at some point want to solidify brand recognition, and having Sonic getting pegged by their OC while she was sleeping around wouldn't have helped that any. I suppose there is a world where Sega just fell into irrelevance so hard that they never bothered looking into U.S. marketing and the Archie Sonic comics just continued going forever, but nothing we saw happening would've let them keep going much longer than where they were currently at.>>153275837>Is that an edit>like quality clearly different on Sally's body>artstyle clearly different>blurry everywhere else, including elsewhere on Sally, with the body being crisp and sharpNo, you're right. Ken Penders clearly learned to draw for this one panel and then forgot everything with his own comic series.
>>153275626Oni Press is taking them over.
>>153279169>It never would've ended "properly". The whole point of these serialized comics is that they can keep going forever.It does feel like modern writing is almost doomed to follow this to a T.I much prefer episodic status quo properties rather than a status quo property that pretends it has stakes and a plot.
>>153271674tummyyy
>>153271823>I think if Ian and co. knew 100% that the comic was ending beforehand, a proper finale could've been planned to tie up the most pertinent loose ends.That argument sort of falls apart when you see how they handled Mega Man's finale, which was just a vapid showcase of future stuff instead of anything even remotely approaching anything narratively satisfying. Sonic was never going to have a decent send off, because it was never meant to be an actual story.
>>153279169Yeah sounds like penders
>>153279807Well a lot of modern writing is advertisement because everything is multimedia.
>>153275837Edit of a Ron Lim panel
>>153280952Ian didn't give a fuck about Mega Man like he does with Sonic.
>>153275837>>153277657>>153277964Yes, it's an edit of this panel from Sonic The Hedgehog comic - Issue #99.
