Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-120883-20141128204017/@comment-25044651-20160613135942

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Mryayayify wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote: Sega had pushed some silly mandates on Archie, which Archie are struggling with.

For example, Archie no longer allowed to show Classic era of characters, even during flashbacks.

For example in Super Sonic Digest #12, Dr. Eggman is seen in Snivley's memories. To avoid having to depict "Classic Eggman", the comics drew him in the shadows of his memories, but it's definately Classic Eggman given he's more rounder, three points on his mustache and no goggles.

Sonic Universe #83 during the flashback Dr. Eggman had his blast shield over his Egg Mobile and Wendy Witchcart trapped him in crystal, throughout the flashback we only see his face and some leg. Meanwhile Sonic's spines are a tad bit shorter but still green eyes.

Both SSD#12 and SU#38 had flashbacks set in the Genesis/Mega Drive era.

I think the only acception Sega let slide was StH#252 where Sonic compares Classic Eggman to Dr. J Robotnik. My guess Sega doesn't want Archie fans to think Classic Eggman is Julien Robotnik and Modern Eggman is RoboRobotnik when really Post-SGW have them combined as one with shared history now.

I'm hoping Sega will loosen the mandates in the future, like permitting the Classic characters for flashbacks and Sonic Generations story arc or at least allow Sonic and Tails to have some family or Sally liking Sonic more. The Mandates are horrible i heard.

If Mars appeared in the Sonic franchise as a livable colonized planet, i'd also rename one after a mathemetician named "Noether" just like August Mobius with Earth, but please Sega, let us rename Mars to something else even as a planet for us and the mobians to live on in the future not to mention make it primarily planet Wutai by theme,

If Sega picked the best version of Sonic's mom or even dad, the company could might as well estabilished as official through out the games,

And i've also heard enough of the sexist outfit systems for the Sonic Franchise, i feel they need to strip the franchise of this latter and to avoid panty shots/perversion for longer, even with unobscurable ridges from the underpants and it's way too much like the double standards the certain muslims use to force their women to cover up everything possible on their bodies and luckily we don't have that system as mandatory in our nation. Just use the eyelashes alone Sega!, it worked fine. The way I have always seen it is that Sega requested Archie comics to make comics of their character Sonic but because at the time Sonic had so little lore other than SatAM, in return Archie asked rights to put their pens to the script, which Sega allowed. This in turn created Archie's own franchise of Sonic the Hedgehog that has always been established seperate from the games. We never seen the Archie characters in the game, the stories don't take place between games and they have their own lore.

This right should be more exersized by Archie. Yes Sega should have rights to push mandates on how they want the comic to be, they're paying for it. But they should allow Archie Comics to do their jobs and let them write the ideal stories they see fit for it.

Sega is pretty much choking Archie Sonic by making less a convincing character than he was before. Flawless, no weakness or commitments that make him more relatable to the audience.

I found out recently though that Ian Flynn confirms that Sonic: Genesis does indeed take place post-SGW. Which means such things as Doctor Julian Snively has not told GUN he is nephew to Dr. Eggman to throw suspicion off him, Sally may have had a thing for Sonic in th early days and the planet is indeed called Mobius. Yes Ian said some things were changed during the second SGW that stabalized events but what was established in Genesis was neither denied after the cosmic reset.

Megalodon Commando wrote: Mobius was always mentioned in SATam. And it's characters appear in the Post-SGW timeline. Then how come they can't call it Mobius since that's where the name originally came from? I believe Ken Penders is to blame. In his The Lara-Su Chronicles takes place on a planet known as Mobius which had been, or still is dominated by a dictator known as Kintobor, the enemy of the Princess of Acorn.

So Archie and Sega must yield to Ken Penders claiming Sega are knocking off his intellectual property as far as throwing a wrench in Archie's works... but it's OK for Fuzzballs to take lore long established before the Archie comics into his sham of a comic. His comic is probably the reason, but Sega also stated that they want the comics to be more like the games, so they made mandates such as Sonic not being able to lose in the long run (so more than a few issues), and the Sega characters not being able to cry or have families. This is why Uncle Chuck is just called Chuck in general or everyone calls him Uncle, and why Snivily isn't said to be Eggman's nephew. They also said that Sega characters can't be in relationships either, so Sally and Sonic is 100% never going to happen again.

The good thing is that Flynn can do whatever he wants with the Archie characters. They aren't under the same mandates as the Sega characters because Archie owns them, and can do whatever they want with them.