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Mystic Monkey wrote: My favourate character was Scourge. Yeah he was rather cliché but thats what I liked about him.

Uhhh...I didnt really like Scourge since the beginning, not that I hate it. Besides being an attempted rip off by Penders, Scourge didn't really have any other motives than being the evil sonic from an alternate universe, acting all kool and badass and stealing Sonic (and tail's) girl. It doesnt really add a lot to his overall character. What they could have done on a creative narrative point of view, could be something happens mentally with Sonic where some meddling with Chaos Emerald creates a split physical persona of him based on his bad personality which he managed to hide away at the back of his head. And then said persona goes on through character developement, yadda yadda, tries to attack The freedom fighters, take over the world yadda yadda. Less of a cliche of being "the bad/good sonic from an alt universe where everything is reverse).

Sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh classic basically.

Mystic Monkey wrote: Well I still think they're being too harsh and in doing so making Sonic less of a relatable character. True. The comics before the purge was when we get to see Sonic most relatable. Not like the games or anything else. He was powerful and strong, sure. But not invincible. This allowed for character developement, unlike the games version where "HE ALWAYS WINS, NEVER LOSE AND NEVER CRY". See? No Room, no, scratch that, no NEED for character developement.

Mystic Monkey wrote:

I think the comic started out with mandates but over time Archie tried to work around the mandates. I think by then Sega accepted Archie comics knew what they weer doing due to sheer popularity of the comics and leased some mandates up, such as permitting Sonic to have parents or that story arc where he went to school for some reason or courtship with Princess Sally when she was considering marriage.

That was probably when the License people were piss drunk and didn't bat an eyelid to check up what Archie was cooking up. All they saw was: "Oh look! we are getting high sales from your comics, watever your doing, keep doing it, cya!" I agree with the parents thing as long as its reasonable. It makes them more relatable a bit more realistic. So what? Mobians just procreate a-sexually by dividing in two? Pfft.

Anyway, I didn't think Sal was being serious about marriage at the time even after i read the Future Arcs. They could be couple sure, but from an economic, social and political point of view, Sonic is probably the worst candidate for a royal marriage out of everyone else. He had no money, no significant political relations and was a commoner. Since they married and had kids in the future, I'm pretty sure Sal just ended the Acorn line right there and then unless she reformed the rules. Remember Eli and Meg? Meg and their daughter Alexis cant take the throne because they are commoners. Acorn bloodline stops at Elias' end. Whoops. However, the reason why they might have married other than for love maybe due to political purposes. By the way Max Acorn talked about it in one issue, I hypothesize mobian culture and divided in a social class structure. Maybe the marriage could signify a relation of rich and poor and the removal of the social barrier? who knows?

I understood the school part somewhat. Sonic is pretty stupid. gotta learn how not to die when facing Eggman, eh?

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Ken Penders just made Sega more hard-nosed on the quality of the comics. I think Sega have a tight budget and all them lawsuits made them peeved. they're trying to recover Sonic's reputation but I think they're doing it in a wrong way. Yeah, you're right. its not specifically only Pender's fault, its also partly Sega's fault. I remember in Pender's private forum he said that Sega/Archie wanted to sue in a quarter million dollars in damages. Short story, Penders' wasn't happy.