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HAS ANYONE ELSE THE NEW ISSUE CAUSE IM FREAKING OUT HERE AHHHHHHHHHH

CoroCoro Comics To Launch Sonic 3 Movie Prequel Manga - Comics - Sonic Stadium

Soooo, CoroCoro is doing the Sonic 3 prequel comic this time. I'm excited and all but I have one thing that won't get out of my mind.... why isn't IDW doing it??

One thing I guess could be the reason they haven't been going crazy with Sonic comics aside from the main series is cut staff and the money troubles they've been going through, and not to mention the inevitable and frustrating delays we've seen happen to nearly every release since Fang the Hunter (which I should also mention put the main series to a halt for 4 months.)

I do hope IDW gets back into the game, one of the things I appreciated about archie was they happed onto every opportunity they had for a new Sonic comic or series. Not only did they have thier ongoing main series, but also over the years they had a Knuckles series that lasted 50 issues, a Sonic X series that was so successful it lasted far longer than was originally planned, Sonic Boom which was only cancelled since the show was over, and Sonic Universe, which explored the adventures of characters other than Sonic and ran alongside the main series, essentially doubling the content we got each month.

By now Archie would've done several movie comics, had a Sonic Prime mini-series up and finished, and likely even started a full fledged Shadow the Hedgehog series to celebrate the fact he's becoming his own franchise.

I'm not saying I want to get rid of IDW. The series has grown on me, and though it's having some growing pains I still have hopes for it. But right now the series doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Since the metal virus, with exception of the additions of Surge and Kit, nothing seems to really happen that adds to Sonic's universe, and it makes it more hard that we have to wait 2 months now for every issue to release.

I guess the problem I have here is IDW is lacking desire to innovate, and all the road blocks and delays aren't helping the situation. I just hope IDW will get back up on it's feet and start doing something new, and give the fans more of what they want.

Sorry Deadly Six fans.

Which is better and more loyal to the Sonic games? And more importantly, do I have to read all 300 issues of Archie Sonic to be up to date?

Take that, Ken Penders!

Really though, I wonder where IDW is going to take this. Only problem is they're exclusive to the Classic Era unless for some reason rules change or the writers find a way around that rule. Lately it feels like IDW has been innovating in a way I find is setting up a similar style to the Adventure Era Archie comics.

I do hope IDW makes good use of these guys instead of having them simply exist for the sake of it and never come back.

I can see IDW possibly having an entire classic Sonic series, one akin to Sonic Universe, and/or a Shadow series since he's branching off. What do you guys think?

Heya everyone! Today I'd love to talk about an IDW character everyone seems to hate: Lanolin the Sheep.

So there's this website where I personally always read IDW, along with annuals, and also stuff like the Shadow manga and other stuff:

(Link removed due to the rule I didn't know about)

And, why I am saying this is because I happened to read the comments under Issue #74 (the latest one), and saw 2 comments that caught my eye, so I decided to share. So, the first comment I stumbled upon was apparently left by the user who got to talk to Evan Stanley herself about Lanolin and her writing. Here's what the comment says:

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Okay, things are speeding up and I know a lot of people must be pissed off or confused about Lanolin and I am too, like. I even got to talk to Evan Stanley on Tumblr and she told me that she understands the fact that some people don’t like Lanolin and she even recognizes that part of that is the way she writes the sheep’s reaction to certain issues, the idea is for her to be a character who tries to follow the rules to the letter which makes her not very flexible like Sonic and company and this seems to be a point of development for her that is being worked on little by little, but now speaking personally after reading this issue the talk about Phantom Rider being a criminal doesn’t seem to make sense, he didn’t invade the competition to hurt anyone or steal the prize, he just invaded the race and drew attention to himself and nothing more so Lanolin seems to be just paranoid about him and because Phantom Rider is Sonic the others should already be more aware that there is possibly something he wanted to investigate and because he was disqualified he couldn’t go in there as himself, simple. She also said that part of Lano’s harsh attitude is due to Mimic’s interference, who, as an infiltrator, uses Duo’s “innocent and naive” attitude to instigate internal friction and create a rupture between them so he can attack Tangle and Whisper when they are alone. I understand all of this and I know it’s hard to write a good story with deadlines to meet, but I think it could be better and more understandable. Maybe making Lanolin apologize to everyone in public after hearing all the explanations would alleviate the bad impression of the character a little, like “she made a mistake but at least she acknowledged it, I hope it doesn’t happen again.”

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Credit for this comment goes to Denki_art.

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The second comment:

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What she did isn’t rational, but I feel like at this point it should be clear that Lanolin is a typically logical character with big anger issues. The comics don’t really show it that well… (check Adam Bryce Thomas’s twitter…) but she HATES Sonic. Remember that Lanolin is basically the only character that wants to IMPROVE the status quo. Basically all of the main cast enables Eggman to continue threatening the world despite him nearly ending it multiple times at this point. Sonic is practically the personification of that carelessness. For a grounded character like Lanolin who took up arms to keep Eggman from threatening the world, she can only despise Sonic for constantly beating him but never dealing out some form of justice to keep the world safe.

Really annoying that Lano’s execution is so sketchy because she’s supposed to be this complex, realistic character that deconstructs Sonic but in practice everyone seems to misunderstand the character.

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Credit for this one goes to UnitySonic.

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My personal opinion: When people say they hate Lanolin, I can perfectly understand why. There are some moments where I just feel like I should hate her and I kinda do, in terms of feeling kind of annoyed with her behavior, especially towards Sonic. But on the other hand, for some reason I feel like I can't bring myself to HATE the character. Hate is like... A too strong word in this case or something I guess. Damn, it's just hard to describe. It's like I enjoy the character but at the same time I don't, and I do feel the reason to hate her so it's supposed to mean I do, but I don't... What's going on with me??😭 I'm just curious if anyone has ever got the same feeling, like, maybe in general. It doesn't necessarily have to be about Lanolin even. But okay, back to the topic. I wanna point out one of the moments that people often take as an example to describe the reason for hating Lanolin: when she took Duo's side and didn't believe Silver. I personally think people are overreacting. Just think about it: was it really Lanolin's thought? I mean, let's see. Maybe she knew Silver was kind of naive and that's why she didn't believe him about Duo. Besides, they had absolutely no evidence to blame Duo that he's Mimic. So Lanolin, again, is the type of character trying to follow the rules, meaning she probably just wanted to be fair, and most likely got mad at Silver or something about accusing Duo of something he didn't do. (Even though he did, but again, they didn't have any proof)

I feel like there's more to it, I mean, the Lanolin topic in general, but this is all I have to say for now.

Thoughts?