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but truly I hated that in the comics. It's also very horrible to relate to this. And of course it has to happened to a strong willed and beloved female character.
I stopped reading the comics a few issue after .
in one year, Archie (or Sega forced them) killed/erased/conveniently removed all the characters not being the core videogame characters. The ones who added a lot of charm to the comics: Antoine, Sally, Bunny, Nicole and so on.
To summarize : Satam.
Well, the truth is, they might be why I loved that little comics. They allowed Sonic to have more stories than simply running.
Theses characters was well written archetypes. I loved Antoine and Bunny was a couple, how Sally was a role-model and a strong leader, Nicole evolving and being the best if a little unsecured friend to Sally, how it allows drama to Sonic than simply the wannabe-lover/stalker Amy Rose (with sega, she is only a a bland pink derivative of the blue male hero).
In a way, it allowed the comics to be a "furry" comics and not simply a videogame by-product. It had action and drama. It was of course a kid comics but I liked the stories with all these colorful characters with their own goals and stuffs. For example the way Fiona was "evil" by choice, not simply "being evil", there were some nice ideas sometimes.
It seems Sega needed the comics to be now all about the video game and the core franchise characters. And I do think Sonic, Tails, Amy (even Rouge and Knuckles) are too limited and boring characters to sustain a comics. Sega was never a good writer with the sonic franchise (even with Sonic Adventures). Archie had editorial freedom with the satam cast to build upon the old cartoons and to add depth to them. Of course there were conflict among writers, copyright stuff and so on, nothing is perfect, but some parts were pretty nice.
The truth is, I was more an satam fan than a Sonic video game one.
The common trope of "let the powerful female be sacrificed/unpowered/(mentally) raped and not able to fight anymore" (Sally) just broke my heart. It reminded me how it is common in pop culture/comics.
And so, I stopped a few comics after.
Drama can be interesting, but seeing Antoine in coma, Nicole and Bunny being broke, just to push them aside for now one year and more, maybe forever..., not fun, man, not fun.
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When I say "stopped", I mean I stopped to buy them and I just read reviews and previews on sonic fansite from time to time, just to see what it becomes. Again I found the characters around Silver more interesting than Silver himself... (and better designed)
Sonic vs Megaman non-stop action is not interesting enough. Even Sonic Universe is focused on sonic now.
I hope it answers all your questions
yes, and it's a shame. I understand all the situation, the politics, the copyright and all. Artists' right in time of change with Internet is a huge debate and it matters.
Still, when I saw a whole lore, characters, background families for Knuckles (adding him depth, heart, stories), it burned me. And I think it's quite violent for kids reading that. No blood whatever, but it's mass-erasing.
Beside, I liked the design they made for these echidna (for example Lara-Su and her glasses, or Lien-da and her sneaky "femme-fatale" vibe, a pretty conflicted character mostly always siding for herself when she had opportunities for better). It was efficient character-design. A few lines, some colors, and voila! a character easy to understand its core personality. I'm not an artist, but I found them efficient.
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"it's worth noting that the SatAM characters aren't definitively killed off "
True, Ian was smart. They are not killed. At first I thought it was good writing (Antoine mostly knowing his fate, Bunny surely having to do what she shouldn't do: to be cyberized). But it was obvious after, it was the best he could do to please Sega without destroying them.
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" If Archie brings back the core Freedom Fighters, would you return to reading the comics then?"
I do think. It was also a "spirit".
The comics had a lot of different writers, some silly/kiddy periods , up and downs. Too bad, I thought they had a pretty good balance before dropping all. An other issue I commented a lot: I think a character as Sally Acorn is needed for children, specially girls : a role model with equal footing to any male hero, in what some people thinks is a "boy franchise".
So yes, of course I could return.
I still watch from time to time what people says about it. I still need a cute furry drama in my library
I believe Ian Flynn thinks it's needed too, because in the same period, appeared that : [link] I don't believe in coincidence
I don't know if this is Flynn's attempt to break away from Archie stifling his creativity. I think it may have a lot to do with him being overstretched between being the sole writer for both the Sonic and Mega Man franchise, and now this shows up. It seems to me that he isn't giving his full concentration to the development of one particular story when he's working on several at once. I've said this before, but Archie needs new writers. If anything, it will add a new perspective to the Sonic comics and perhaps explore new avenues that Flynn wouldn't have thought about. I've tried to persuade Dan Drazen to take up the mantle, but he said this:
As to why I'm not working for Archie myself, quite simply I never applied to write there, having decided that I wasn't about to quit my day job. And given the crappy treatment they dished out to their creatives including Dan DeCarlo and even Ken Penders, I simply don't want to work for such a company. If I have to sign away my creative output to Archie and couldn't even work on anything simply for my personal pleasure (e.g., My Little Pony fanfics), then who needs 'em. I haven't kept my feelings secret on this score, so it's a safe bet that the pinheads in Editorial know what kind of team player I'd be.
I'm sure some of this is exaggeration. If Archie forbade their writers from working on personal projects, Flynn wouldn't be pushing ahead his own comic just now. But for whatever reason, the writing of the comic is stagnating and someone needs to step in to do something about it. If not Drazen, then someone else.