This Week In Video Game Comics

@BryanH: They were so weird! I remembered Raphael was dressed in an all black (like, leather I suppose) costume for the longest time, and I never understood why.

I stopped reading for a long time, but picked it up when they had a big crossover with their other mutant characters and they fought the four horsemen of the apocalypse. . . that was pretty interesting.

Finally, some Udon love! Woo!

New, Super Street Fighter II Turbo comic cover, now without any Street Fighter II characters...

@tehdorkz: I've also read the Street fighter comics from Udon Comics and they're brilliant! i highly recommend you check it out man! but i've not read any of the recent ones, can't seem to get my filthy lil hands on them yet! anyone can recommend any decent comics please feel free and enlighten my semi-educated mind! =D

Oinkish

@TalKeaton: The Fleetway comics "were" so much better...until they went bump *sniffle*

@jcous: Ha, I still have these Turtle comics somewhere. I really liked them as a kid.

@tehdorkz: Street Fighter is always great. The artwork is pretty much exactly what you'd want in a SF comic. You can find some collected editions out there of the older work. Oh, and this week's is the Final Fight issue? Sweet.

I like a lot of the Wildstorm books too. World of Warcraft is good, and I enjoy whenever Resident Evil stuff comes out. Haven't tried others like Gears of War.

@fearing:
FFFFFFFFFFFFF

Another Bridget for me, dammit.

Meeeh

I was shocked to see last week that the Sonic comic was still in print. My friend in junior high used to collect them back in the '90s. The artwork was awesome, actually, and the story seemed fairly deep. Speaking of Archie Comics, they had a run of (non-canon) Ninja Turtles comics in the '90s that totally ruled. They featured Ninjara, and, as far as I know, are the only place you can find that character. There was also a storyline where, in the future, one of the turtles (maybe Mikey?) is dead, and Raph is missing an eye (wears an eyepatch) and they all wear human clothes, not bandanas. I think the whole world was flooded and they were fighting some evil mutant shark... I dunno, I feel like those stories were way cooler than the cartoons.

jcous

Sonic Comics are great .....a little hard to follow if you haven't read from the beginning, because of all the characters they add. Its originally based from the Satam show in 1993. Personally I think a little later in the series a while after the show ended the comic really started getting good. They added so much drama and violence. So instead of it being some children's comic its a genuine adult read . I would recommend it to any one who is willing to A. get the original volumes on paper back. B.find the scans (which is easier look up tails kicks ass on google great site)C.read alot AND I MEAN ALOT OF SIDE COMICS AND SPIN OFFS TO GET THE PLOT. Thats personally the only problem I had with it was all the spin offs especially the Knuckles comic (I dont like knux and it was hard for me to follow between switching back and forth between comics). But all in all a great read.

doomboy17

@One Man Freak Show: Same reason why the Final Fight characters were in a Street Fighter Alpha game.

@Trunks: I didn't know there was a difference between the flat colorists and the other colorists.

@ShadowOdin isn't american: Eggman only replaced Robotnik because Sonic killed him with his bare hands (sort of) and the Sally and Shadow thing was an alternate universe that lasted for all of two issues.

@Demonbird: I don't know what comic you've been reading. We haven't had fillers for a dozen issues.

@nesdude: Abso-freakin'-lutely. Ian Flyn actually has an understanding that Sonic doesn't do well as a soap opera and ditched 90% of what Ken Penders wrote into the comics. If you've ever been a fan of the comic, I'd suggest starting to read it again.

Sonic the Hedgehog is still going? Jesus I collected that back when I was in grade school in the early 90s.

Killa_Charlie

@A_Knothole_Resident: Am I the only person who cringes at the American Sonic in all its iterations?

From what I've seen, the only Sonic spinoff that really worked was the anime movie... though the english dub is horrific and makes me want to stick pencils in my ears.

@tehdorkz: I used to be a huge Sonic fan. Then I realized how dorky it was. I still have my collection though, probably like a hundred comics including the Super Specials and the Knuckles spin-offs.

Currently though, I'm enjoying the Resident Evil comic series, even though it has very little to do with most of the games... Also, Starcraft.

@Demonbird: When the fanfics exceed the quality of the writing in your officially christened comic, you know you've got trouble.

@nesdude: I am way past my comic collecting phase but I enjoyed the sonic comics a lot as a kid, those were the only ones I really had an urge to buy vs the typical comics. I think I started around number 14 then went through about 60 with all the miniseries in between (princess sally, knuckles, the super sonic specials, etc). But after a while I just got tired of where the series was going after the big 5-0 with robotnik getting knocked off and the special comics wern't feeling very special when they started to come out once every other month.

But like I like said, they were great for their time, back in the mid 90's when the blue blur was really relevant.

viewtifulhero

@ShadowOdin isn't american: Ummm.... not really.

@Ashurahori: Time to replace some of Sonic's lamer friends in the games with futha-muckin' SUN WUKONG!

@Ferkner: the series was recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest running comic series based on a video game

@mastergodai: She's officially a newhalf, a female with only male organs.

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@Demonbird: I haven't read it since issue 4. I was never ever into comics, but got the first 4 issues because I loved Sonic. am actually surprised that it is still being made.

Ferkner

i stumbled into a comic book store today, and saw 2 of these...If i hadn't seen this post, I woulda figured these been around for years! (i dont read comics)

now that I know I can get in the action from the start, I may start checking these out.

@M-Pyre:

Archie's Sonic actually got some form of good again? I had to put it down at like #120ish in, it just got way too far removed from itself (if that makes sense)...

I remember (and still have) some of the best issues of the comic (the entire Doomsday series, #40something through #50, some random others) and always loved the Sonic universe, but I had to say enough because it just wasn't exciting. If what you say is true, might be time for me to pick up where I left off and give the new stuff a chance...

@Communist_Gamer: I collected Sonic comics from about Issue #10 straight to Sonic #50, where Sonic kills Robotnik, wakes Sally with a kiss, and saves the day. Then I stopped.

Good end. Story over. Nothing ever happened in Knothole Village after that day ever.

The comics are the only reason I stuck around the Sonic franchise all these years. Its the last resonance keeping SatAM and the Americanized version of Sonic alive. Though it would be nice after all these that Sega would finally smarten up and adapt the comics into the games. Speaking of Sonic, Im surprised nobody is covering the story of Hashimoto leaving Sonic Team to join Square-Enix.

@tehdorkz: Halo: Helljumper looks like it'll be good (its being released on July 22)

Lineofdeath2

@mastergodai: depends on where you are from, its official in Asia, not so much in America,

jabman

@fearing: are you for real ?
I mean is that official?

mastergodai

That monkey actually would be nice in a Sonic game. A 3D one that isn't crappy. :'(

@One Man Freak Show: Because they are doing Final Fight back-up stories as they just got the rights from Capcom to make Final Fight comics and are trying to test the demand.

@Bluejuan85: She's a pre-op tranny.

@Trunks: Really? Who are you?

*Looks into the matter*

I like and appreciate the artists that work on comics I like.

@Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.:

What are you talking about? Is Poison a lesbo or something.

@Solertia: The Sonic comics have definitely gotten better since Ian took over... Definitely worth the read now, which is something I would not have said four years ago.

@Solertia:
Yeah, he tends to classify issues in different "arcs". Like...the Scourge arc, the Enerjack arc, ect. In issue 200, Sonic and Robotnik fought, ended up with Sonic winning and driving Egghead crazy (literally) and the Iron Queen has temorarily taken over his empire. (she's an ooold character from the comics that the writer decided to bring back.)

For the record, I did the flat colors on that issue of Sonic, but I'll never get credited for it. Nor any of the other issues between #199 and #203.

Flatters never get credit.

@magnakaiser: They're not friends. They're working together to stop a common evil. You know, predictable comic plot.

Also, spoilers. Yeah.

Ashurahori

@KommanderKeith: Things have gotten better ;)

@ShadowOdin isn't american: The Sally/Shadow thing was a one-off alternate universe.

@KommanderKeith: holds the record for longest running video game comic

@BinaryReaver: thanks guys. I'll check them out

oh wow sonic is still going? I think i had like up to issue 12 or something.

they were ok, but man are they corny as all hell, even back then

@tehdorkz: haha True that.

@M-Pyre: Hm, in that case, maybe I'll check them out again.

I wanted to get into the Sonic-comic, since I had the very first issue. And since I like SatAM.
But then I read some crazy shit about badass Robotnik being replaced by Eggman, and everything going Sonic Adventure and Sally falling in love with Shadow and I just never felt like getting into it.

@Solertia:
Yeah, I agree that they got lazy and lame. I hate Ken Penders for that. But they have a new writer now, and I've become veeery fond of his work. His work kicks the freaking crap out of Ken Penders, and now I can honestly say that the comics are much better than the games.

@hobob: IMPOSSIBLE SINCE POISON IS A GIRL. GET UP TO DATE.

@tehdorkz:
Well I must say that the Sonic comics have been simply amazing for the past year or two since they got their new writer. The new writer ACTUALLY knows what he's doing, and he ended up having to fix many plotholes that the previous writer left behind...>,>

I should be getting the new issue in the mail sometime this week hopefully.

@Communist_Gamer:

Or you could be like my fat cousin Andrew, who will buy ANYTHING Sonic-related.

RevengaSweet

@tehdorkz: yea all the Udon stuff is fantastic. The Knights of the Old Republic is pretty good too. all the rest though...eh

OMG!! I SEE THE SHADOW OF POISON'S PENIS!

hobob

@tehdorkz: I actually like the Street Fighter comics. Udon does a great job with the artwork and the story has been going at a steady pace so far. I just hate that it takes 2 months or so for each issue.

BinaryReaver

Just me, or have you never really "got" videogame comics?

When I was younger I enjoyed the odd one, but the idea of games never worked for me.

Do you have to be a super fan for this, or are there any more casual fans who read a comic because the story is genuinely good?

@firefly: Street Fighter and Final Fight are in the same universe.

@One Man Freak Show: Because everyone's gay for Poison.

@Solertia: I guess the comics are a great reflection of the games then eh?

The Sonic comics used to be awesome, but alas, they started to get lazy and lame... I can't remember the last time I read one.

"The World's Most Way Past Cool Comic!"

I wonder what demographic they're targeting...

RevengaSweet

@One Man Freak Show: Cause she has appeared in Sreet Fighter games before I guess. (See Hugo in SFIII.)

firefly

You forgot about Prototype #4 from DC/Wildstorm.

Ecks

I read sonic comics going way back to 1996 or 7, and sometime shortly after about issue 75 it REALLY hit rock bottom, struggled back up, now we have Captain Badart wielding a pencil again in yet another generic filler issue. Hooray!
They can literally go on forever this way.

Why is Poison in a Street Fighter comic book?

Since when is the Monkey King one of Sonic's friends?

Hey you can almost-kinda-maybe make out that something is "Up" with Poison!

Does anyone actually read these comics? I mean are they any good? I love comics, but have never really bothered with a video game comic. Any suggestions for a good one?