The thing that struck me about these comics was how dark it could get. Of course I'm talking about the Metal Virus arc-- like if you were to tell me a Sonic comic would make a zombie apocalypse storyline and absolutely nail the devastation of people close to you falling and not being able to help because you'd put them in more danger then before _and_ the weight of knowing the apocalypse is indirectly your fault, I'd tell you to cope harder. But oh man. Ian Flynn did it. He did it and so much more. Evan Stanley, too, the pair have been absolutely killing it as of late, their best work yet being everything having to do with Surge and Kit. I honestly cannot wait to see how the story continues and will definitely visit my local comic book store every month to pick up the latest issue!
Tbh though, the metal virus series shook me so hard. Imagine having to fight people who you’e so close to, but not being able to beat them up to protect yourself either. Just trying to run from the situation while it drastically becomes worse as even your loved ones get infected. Whisper’s reaction after Tangle got infected was the saddest. She was trying her best to protect her friend after already losing the other diamond cutters, and then she lost Tangle too. Sorry for my broken english, English isn’t my first language :,)
It wasn’t just Sonic’s fault though. Seemed like a case of everyone trying to blame someone else because admitting their own guilt in the matter was too hard.
@@Norinia Imo what sonic did was the right thing because it was unexpected that someone will show up out of nowhere and retrieve Eggman’s memory. Plus even if Eggman was put into a cell Starline might still show up and find a way of freeing eggman and retrieve his memory, so it just had to happen. It’s Sonic’s fault, but also not his fault at the same time 🤷🏻♀️
@@76o90 it wasn’t just Sonic’s fault, was my point. He wasn’t the only one who agreed to spare “Mr.Tinker”. It was Vector, Charmy, Espio, Rouge, and even Shadow at the end. Out of the whole bunch, the fact remains that they chose to completely leave him alone, with zero protection, during a time a copycat claiming he was Eggman was running around. No one stayed at the village to ether keep it safe or raise the alarm if something happened (like the kidnapping) Had they done that, everyone would have been mobilized and found Mr.Tinker in time, given that barbaric torture took weeks, and Tinker resisted it to the very end (there was a moment where he seemed more lucid of who he was, yet still begged for (eh, I forget his name) not to do it) The blame lies on a lot of them. The blame game they played at the start just seemed like almost none of them (except Sonic, and Rouge able to more healthily figure what was done was done) wanted to accept their share of the blame, so they angrily threw it at Sonic instead, not wanting to face their ‘own sin’ in the matter.
@@Ranni Nah, Ian Flynn is a fraud who has occasionally decent ideas and dialogues, but has mostly a mixed track record. Frontiers alone proves he's not this second coming of Jesus y'all pretend him to be.
Guys, this is hard to believe but the idw Sonic characters seem similar to the Archie characters. Whisper is a smart, athletic, girl that has access to a high tech weapon, plus with trauma (Sally Acorn’s has that and been through loss). Tangle is an exited outdoor girl with stretching powers (Bunnie Rabbot is that, but with a long robot arm). Belle the Tinkerer is a machine with emotions (We know Nicole the Holo-lynx). Heck, I don’t need to mention Dr Starline (Snively), or Surge (Scrooge).
They did a fantastic job creating these comics. Some of Sonic idw Comics are fantastic, but some are disturbing, sad, and dark... Including the metal virus saga, it's one of the most dark comics that's been made, but good things did come. If you get what I mean.
@@Ranni The Reason I Love Idw is because it shows us Sonic does not need to be the Big Hero like in the Archie comics. He just likes to be free and that what he should be. Free
1:05 Actually, the IDW comics share the same continuity as the games. Ian Flynn confirmed as much. Just thought I should point that out. Also 4:20, Ian Flynn was the lead writer for Frontiers and (I think, don't quote me on this) is officially working for SEGA now as one of the writers.
@@nightlydata2181 nah kid, what I'm saying is true. Saying it's not true is misinformation. But I know what you're gonna do next and no, I'm not about to get into a debate over it. I'm seriously not in the mood for that. Do your research properly next time.
Did Sega themselves say this?? Link it in replies. I don't care what Flyn says unless Sega and Sonic team says so. Flynn doesn't know what the hell he's doing, he's just making up a timeline for whatever reason.
Zombot arc and surge arcs are the best. Surge's backstory and the stuff she went through was really sad. Same with whisper finding out tangle got corrupted by the zombot virus. I felt really sorry for her. Her reaction was very depressing and made me very sad.
The Zombot arc is the most laughable edgy grimdark slopfest this franchise has ever seen since ShTH, gimme a break. Fake out deaths, sappy sacrifices, character derailment a go go, the tired trope of amnesia. Those AWFUL Zeti from Lost World are back because of Snively The Platypus.
@@yrooxrksvi7142don’t know what you expected it’s literally about anthropomorphic animals fighting against a deadly virus and they called the infected “zombots” ☠️
I love how the comics saved silver a d shadow. It has gave there strengths spot light, but has also gave it weaknesses. It also has done it with so many charachters. It is quadrants in a comic and i love it
Well to be fair, if you look at Sonic Frontiers and how it handles Sonic and every other character, couldn't you say they're steering towards a good direction now?
Uh. They pretty much did. Flynn is in a team for Sega, and there's going to be specifically a job title called Associate Lore Manager, that won't be Flynn but working alongside him as a project manager. Ian Flynn has never thrived as some tyrannical auteur but as part of a team.
Ian Flynn only wrote the dialogue for Frontiers. He didn’t have anything to do with the story as a whole. Sega came up with the general concept, as well as the plot points, and Ian was brought onto write the dialogue.
@@rickyrackey7930 That wasn’t anyone on the development teams’ fault. Just another example of sega’s higher ups giving sonic team less time to stick within a somewhat low budget to get the most out of their profits.
Comic adaptations of video game characters being awesome is no new thing. Just check out how awesome Mario and his cast was in the Nintendo Power comics 😊
Yeah, and the Pokemon Adventures manga is awesome too! It turns out that if you let talented people use a game's world to its fullest, cool things happen.
I would love to see the Metal Virus story adapted into a video game. Or just add Dr. Starline as secondary antagonist to Sonic instead of just Eggman. It would be pretty great
Oh HELL NO !!! Look, I want a serious story as much as the next dude, but that ridiculous grimdark slopfest of fake out deaths, plot contrivances and character bastaridzation has NO place in the games. They're just terrible as they are right now. And WTF do you even see in Starline ? He's a mediocre Snively rip-off with no background, has inexplicably overpowered gadgets, yet he's such an idiot to fall into the same trap as Eggman in Lost World with the Zeti. What would this pathetic joke of a character would even add to the games ?
@@yrooxrksvi7142Mmmmmmmmm, there was no fakeout deaths, we already knew sonic was gonna survive and Everybody else was zombified, and me personally I think starline was pretty cool, he almost killed sonic and silver in their first encounter not with his "over powered" gadgets but because of a trick, sooooooo yeah I got no idea what your on about buddy
@@keiththxcup3014 > there was no fakeout deaths > Cream, the Chaotix If we know Sonic was gonna survive, then there was a cure. If there was a cure, then this wasn't permanent. In other words, no real stakes. Just edgy melodrama bs Starline is pathetic, his design literally screams Deviantart fursona. And if he was so smart, then why did he fail to realize the flaw in trying to control the Undeadly Koopalings with the Conch ? And how was he so easily humiliated by Eggman ? Get a clue, this is utter garbage, _buddy_
I remember the first time I saw only volume one thinking it was a bootleg (really stupid of me to think that). But, I actually gave the series a read and my favorite thing about it was the the metal virus saga and how the characters act in this situation. Grief, doubt, and frustration found in all of the characters is something I didn’t expect. We need this story as a 3D or 2D sonic game.
Honestly love the comics as well, I don't know why I didn't grab the comics earlier. What are your thoughts on the new additional characters like Tangle, Whisper, or Surge and Kit?
I’ve put my thoughts to words before on videos that specifically focus on the cast’s characterisation but to put simply here: the cast in this comic series is very different from how they were originally written over in Japan and that’s usually worse off, especially in Shadow’s case. Thanks, Sega Mandates!
While we're on the subject, Ranni what do you think about people's criticism that IDW Sonic is too forviging/compassionate? I've seen many, MANY people say they can't fathom reading the IDW comics because they absolutely butchered Sonic's character and made him a doormat of second chances for the story and characters to step on, and it makes me wonder: Huh??? Sure, Sonic does let his enemies go a few times, but he straight up tells Surge in one issue that he does that because he believes in the freedom to do as one pleases. He lives by that and doesn't want to take such an ability from others by killing or imprisoning them, because then they definitely will not be able to change; and, if they decide to use said freedom for evil once more, he'll just stop them again because that's what heroes do. (SPOILERS AHEAD FROM IMPOSTER SYNDROME ISSUE AND FORWARD) One thing people on Twitter complain a lot about is Sonic's 'big oof' reaction to the news Starline had died. Honestly, I would've reacted the same way. Sonic didn't feel bad about that because a) Starline had already caused enough destruction by being involved with spreading the Metal Virus and then unleashing Surge and Kit on him, and b) IT WAS HIS CHOICE TO STAY IN THE COLLAPSING BUILDING WHEN HE HAD A CHANCE TO RUN FOR IT HIMSELF TO TAKE BELLE'S HELP. I can see why people would say his reaction was ooc, but in my opinion, that was the most Sonic reaction to finding out Starline had passed. Sonic isn't a total doormat as people like to generalize-- the comic itself shows him being very close to tipping over the edge and losing his patience (there's this really good panel of him staring down Eggman that Evan Stanley did, I think, in issue 55 or 56? Yeah, that made my jaw drop because I'd never seen Sonic so angry before)
If you like this, then check out the Archie Sonic comics. It pretty much gives you all of what you liked tenfolds even though there was a point where the writing got bad for a time but that’s bound to happen with a long running comic. Plus it feels a lot like a unified definitive continuity. Everything Sonic related up until it’s cancellation was pulled from and pieced together to make a giant world that pays homage to every form of Sonic media possible. It’s a shame it got canceled, the world, the lore, the unique cast and their development, dynamics, and relationships just faded away so quickly.
I wish sega would remake the old sonic games, like sonic heroes, sonic riders, shadow the hedgehog, sonic unleashed, etc. ( before they made the bad games )
There’s a lot of issues I have with the way Flynn writes Sonic. He understands the character but gets A LOT wrong, I don’t hate the guy but I wouldn’t want him writing for the games too much or at all really. In terms of writing and characterization, Shiro Maekawa is this best the franchise has ever had
@@tomasfong40 Uhhhh Let's see. He writes Sonic as this weird mix of his SA Era and Meta Era versions, where on one hand he seems this cool, cocky, adventure-seeking, compassionate hero on the surface, but also spouts a bunch of patronizing platitudes to pass them off as "being deep" or to feel good about himself, and some of his jokes are way too on the nose or just has the same bored dudebro attitude towards some enemies (such as Neo Metal Sonic) like Colors/Lost World. Case in point, him refusing to help Amy because "he has his own way" in Issue #4, or gaslighting Shadow to deter him from killing Eggman in Issue #6. He's also has this ridiculous and unwarranted forgiving side, despite catching up with him in the worst ways time and time again, first with Eggman, then with Metal.....
A panel I don’t like is Sonic calling Metal a jerk for staying with Eggman and comparing him to Omega Even tho Eggman himself clearly stated that even if Metal turned good his programming would make him go back to serving Eggman and turn evil again. Metal literally has no choice Omega turned against Eggman because he threw him out
Its sad that a year later all im seeing is "bad IDW" all because the comic pacing slowed down slightly. Like if you legit read Archie Sonic and didn't just skip to the good stuff after the fact, well IDW is still well outperorming Archie in overall quality. And honestly i just want to let IDW cook. Like i don't like the limits set by Sega, I'd like Sonic and Amy to at least have the sort of implied relationship that Peach and Mario have rather than this "he must forever be single so creepy human girls can kiss him guilt free" attitude Sega has. And then there's the fun idea of teasing potential character deaths, but all of that is Sega. Everything else has been great and I'm happy to watch and wait, and read. And im certain that by the time this hits issue 160 it will be as good as where Archie left off, as opposed to needing 160 issue to even start on thay journey, since these writers seem more to be both fans of fhe subject material and respectful of one another even if they don't agree.
Nah, Archie is still more interesting than the entirety of IDW comics, even the earliest parts where it like a mixture of Adventures of Sonic and Sonic SatAM, at least it had funny moments.
@@ashesGeek right read issues 1-20 and tell me that again good luck Robotnicing your way into that argument. If you actually read those issues, yeah your rose tinted glasses might fall off as you realize that Archie was a snooze fest.
@codyraugh6599 I read these issues recently and yes, while Archie is a snooze fest, at least it's an interesting one unlike IDW which got its balls cut off by Sega of Japan. Good luck with searching for character development and drama in a 50 page game advertisement which will certainly not happen for a while now.
@@ashesGeek so Sonic a videogame character is a advertisement for Sonic the dame video game character... Much arguments, very good, so enlightened. So which shadow out of the 160 different conflicting back stories and personalities was your favorite, which of the 80 main character Sonic's was your favorite? Which archie was "your" Archie and which Archie is the heretic? Because at least I don't need a syllabus of whose writing which issue to have a consistent setting, characters, tone, and lore.... You know the basic minimums needed for a continuous series.
@codyraugh6599 Yeah, every other media is games advertisement, but at least it must be good on its own even if the person doesn't want to play the games and IDW comics doesn't have anything ambitious to be its own thing other than games slave. "Continuos series" which Sonic wasn't and still not really isn't in the games, and before you tell me about SA2, Heroes and 06 Sega of Japan themselves stated that Sonic isn't that heavily connected so the gameplay matters to them more than storytelling, which means all 2000's games don't matter in terms of everything.
While I agree Ian Flynn would be a boon to SEGA, I don't think they'll be doing it anytime soon because 1) They are a primarily Japanese company with different business values, and 2) SEGA is cautious of another Ken Penders event. But with the the success of the Paramount movies, the overall good reviews of the IDW comic series, and Ian Flynn being a lead writer on Sonic Frontiers, things may be looking up.
Idk what you're talking about, the vast majority of sonic fans glaze the idw comics. If anything it's kinda hard to find some real critics of the idw comics
People say it’s good and I don’t think it’s bad at all but it’s just too tame and doesn’t take many risks for my liking. I liked how archie was. I do like starline however he was a great character (not calling it bad I just miss the less safeness of the older conics)
Exactly I was thinking. I was upset that Archie Sonic was cancelled but then I decided to give this series a chance. However, it’s not the same. It’s been about 75 issues now and nothing has gotten interesting as it progressed. It’s basically the same thing. Needless to say. The fan continuation of Archie Sonic Online has given me more familiar feelings to the old Archie Sonic than this.
Here the thing I just bought my first Sonic comic and the ones I have is Sonic the hedgehog Scarpnik island IDW 2 but I don’t know which one the first one is or the next so can someone plz tell me the order of it cause I’m so confused.
enjoy Ian Flynn's work all you want, but don't you dare compare him to James Gunn. He's inflicted more trauma on kakologophobic people like me than you can imagine
This is also the Archie Sonic reboot done right (especially since the Freedom Fighters are absent and no, the Freedom Fighters will never appear in IDW Sonic), IDW Sonic also has much better writing and better written characters, I especially love Tangle and Whisper.
I don't like it Sonic stories always have some kind of message behind them which the idw missing. The only one I liked is scrapnik island because it's have the type of theme and massage you find is sonic games :-)
IDW is doing well with the sonic stories so far, but I'm not optimistic about the future. I still haven't forgiven them for when they made Transformers massively gay. In two different continuities.
That depends on writers and and/or the franchise owners I guess. I don't believe Sega or Flynn/Stanley team will let IDW to force drastic changes on the franchise out of nowhere. Especially since the comic line is canon to the games now
I like how these stories take place between Sonic Forces and Frontiers. At least, I think they’re meant to. Either way, I hope we see Sage show up in the comics, granted, it’d need to be a time skip to make sense for her being there.
I remember ignoring the Comic for the first three years of its Existence. I was so disappointed with Forces and everything Sonic that I had completely lost interest in this Series. One day in late 2021, I was randomly recommended the Comic Dub by Adrenaline Dubs (fantastic People btw) and clicked it on a whim. BEST. DECISION. OF. THAT. YEAR.
My problem with blaze and cream shouldn't be allowed in the Sonic world But unfortunately I'm am concerned about confusion about blaze and cream haters You know but blaze should not be truthful trusted Ally issues
Wait i heard that people hate lan flynn so is he bad or good i can't tell the difference between these two arguments from archie fans and other fans like what is this hole drama about
Sonic is a good guy, but he is a terrible hero and also kind of a dick. First of all, he has a huge ego and things the world revolves around him. Second of all he doesn’t care about any consequences. he is always facing egg man and other villains and you want to know why, because he doesn’t kill them. Of course his villains always find a way to come back like is he stupid and of course they’re gonna go on another chaotic rampage for world domination because he doesn’t end their lives. How many deaths and how much collateral damage do you think sonic indirectly caused because he never finishes the job. Always letting these villains go just for them to come back and repeat the definition of insanity just like Batman and daredevil. I call them the insanity trio. That’s all I have to say.
1. He's actually pretty humble and gives tons of compliments and props to his friends and others 2. Sonic has his morals and way he goes about life, he's not gonna change who he is because he loves who he is, and that's what makes Sonic himself 3. Sonic doesn't like killing and imprisoning unless he absolutely 100% undoubtedly has to, that's just who he is
@@SillyTron_ sonic is too much of a pussy to do what needs to be done. If I had sonic villans, I’d kill them without a second thought. His villains are pure evil and beyond saving. 😡
I only agree with metal sonic criticism...it was stupid as hell but sonic Killing his villains everytime just feels out of character from the start it was never his thing except killing god like beings but that's a different case..but still.
Who would win: Sonic’s wondrous characterization throughout the entirety of the comics; Or a single comic panel where sonic wasn’t depicted in a good light?
I'm not interested in Sonic characters and Pokemon characters Are not favorite either and such As Pikachu isn't My favorite pet is still not the same as dangerous mouse and Mice for kid's age but I You know what I'm not saying
I... disagree I mean the potryal of IDW shadow might be bad but the writing and characterization of other characters are mostly good like blaze and Silver's dynamic,Amy and sonic's dynamic and whisper, tangle's friendship and the character development and growth they had in their own mini series so I disagree there's so much positive to love about these comics and it really does have it's moments etc yes... not perfect have it's highs and lows of course..but for the most part it's a good comic series
@@earlrice8095 because they make many characters seems weak, mostly Metal, as well as having bad writting The mid OCs gets more attention than the main cast or legacy characters like Metal Sonic
The thing that struck me about these comics was how dark it could get. Of course I'm talking about the Metal Virus arc-- like if you were to tell me a Sonic comic would make a zombie apocalypse storyline and absolutely nail the devastation of people close to you falling and not being able to help because you'd put them in more danger then before _and_ the weight of knowing the apocalypse is indirectly your fault, I'd tell you to cope harder. But oh man. Ian Flynn did it. He did it and so much more. Evan Stanley, too, the pair have been absolutely killing it as of late, their best work yet being everything having to do with Surge and Kit. I honestly cannot wait to see how the story continues and will definitely visit my local comic book store every month to pick up the latest issue!
Tbh though, the metal virus series shook me so hard. Imagine having to fight people who you’e so close to, but not being able to beat them up to protect yourself either. Just trying to run from the situation while it drastically becomes worse as even your loved ones get infected. Whisper’s reaction after Tangle got infected was the saddest. She was trying her best to protect her friend after already losing the other diamond cutters, and then she lost Tangle too.
Sorry for my broken english, English isn’t my first language :,)
It wasn’t just Sonic’s fault though. Seemed like a case of everyone trying to blame someone else because admitting their own guilt in the matter was too hard.
@@Norinia Imo what sonic did was the right thing because it was unexpected that someone will show up out of nowhere and retrieve Eggman’s memory. Plus even if Eggman was put into a cell Starline might still show up and find a way of freeing eggman and retrieve his memory, so it just had to happen. It’s Sonic’s fault, but also not his fault at the same time 🤷🏻♀️
@@76o90 it wasn’t just Sonic’s fault, was my point. He wasn’t the only one who agreed to spare “Mr.Tinker”. It was Vector, Charmy, Espio, Rouge, and even Shadow at the end.
Out of the whole bunch, the fact remains that they chose to completely leave him alone, with zero protection, during a time a copycat claiming he was Eggman was running around.
No one stayed at the village to ether keep it safe or raise the alarm if something happened (like the kidnapping)
Had they done that, everyone would have been mobilized and found Mr.Tinker in time, given that barbaric torture took weeks, and Tinker resisted it to the very end (there was a moment where he seemed more lucid of who he was, yet still begged for (eh, I forget his name) not to do it)
The blame lies on a lot of them. The blame game they played at the start just seemed like almost none of them (except Sonic, and Rouge able to more healthily figure what was done was done) wanted to accept their share of the blame, so they angrily threw it at Sonic instead, not wanting to face their ‘own sin’ in the matter.
@@Norinia Exactly
Ian Flynn is a gem for sonic the hedgehog
Agreed!
Hell nah dude, all he did was nerf Sonic and pretty much everyone, mostly Neo, and also Neo Metal was pretty off character
i agree Ian Flynn knowns the sonic characters and if they ever made a animated movie It that would Be PERFECT! as him being The Head Writer!
@@Ranni Nah, Ian Flynn is a fraud who has occasionally decent ideas and dialogues, but has mostly a mixed track record. Frontiers alone proves he's not this second coming of Jesus y'all pretend him to be.
Well yeah, thanks to him we have Frontiers. And Frontiers' story SLAPS.
Guys, this is hard to believe but the idw Sonic characters seem similar to the Archie characters. Whisper is a smart, athletic, girl that has access to a high tech weapon, plus with trauma (Sally Acorn’s has that and been through loss). Tangle is an exited outdoor girl with stretching powers (Bunnie Rabbot is that, but with a long robot arm). Belle the Tinkerer is a machine with emotions (We know Nicole the Holo-lynx). Heck, I don’t need to mention Dr Starline (Snively), or Surge (Scrooge).
Dr. Starline may be Snively but without a goofy ahh ugly design 🤢
They did a fantastic job creating these comics. Some of Sonic idw Comics are fantastic, but some are disturbing, sad, and dark... Including the metal virus saga, it's one of the most dark comics that's been made, but good things did come. If you get what I mean.
Yeah, I just finished the metal virus saga and I thought it was really well done!
@@Ranni The Reason I Love Idw is because it shows us Sonic does not need to be the Big Hero like in the Archie comics. He just likes to be free and that what he should be. Free
@@khristianhall2646 that's *"ONE SIDE"* the comics show us.
1:05 Actually, the IDW comics share the same continuity as the games. Ian Flynn confirmed as much. Just thought I should point that out. Also 4:20, Ian Flynn was the lead writer for Frontiers and (I think, don't quote me on this) is officially working for SEGA now as one of the writers.
aside from helpin write frontiers none of this is true. don't spread mis-info
@@nightlydata2181 nah kid, what I'm saying is true. Saying it's not true is misinformation. But I know what you're gonna do next and no, I'm not about to get into a debate over it. I'm seriously not in the mood for that. Do your research properly next time.
@@nightlydata2181It is true. Even Tangle is mentioned in Frontiers.
Did Sega themselves say this?? Link it in replies.
I don't care what Flyn says unless Sega and Sonic team says so.
Flynn doesn't know what the hell he's doing, he's just making up a timeline for whatever reason.
@Gnidel *"Tangle is mentioned"*
So is Sticks... should boom characters make an appearance now???
I bet Ian Flynn can get shadow's character just right if Sega let him.
Nah, he could if HE cared
Sega didn't let Ian make shadow his real self@@shardsoftime0952
@@shardsoftime0952 No, SEGA has mandates on the IDW series and how things are allowed to be written. It's not Ian's fault.
@@Bendytube72 ha said that the shadow thing was his idea in a podcast
@@shardsoftime0952nope, he can't expand on Shadow the same way he did in Archie
I love the comics I didn't know sonic stories had this much potential till I read the Archie series and this is it's successor
Yeah I was very impressed by Flynn's storytelling in IDW!
People think the new run ruined the franchise. The whole reason they have such strict rules now for it is ken Penders.
It's too bad that even the comics couldn't redeem Shadow's character. We need more depictions of the Shadow from Sonic 06.
Zombot arc and surge arcs are the best. Surge's backstory and the stuff she went through was really sad. Same with whisper finding out tangle got corrupted by the zombot virus. I felt really sorry for her. Her reaction was very depressing and made me very sad.
Haven’t gotten to the Surge arc yet, but I’m excited to!
The Zombot arc is the most laughable edgy grimdark slopfest this franchise has ever seen since ShTH, gimme a break. Fake out deaths, sappy sacrifices, character derailment a go go, the tired trope of amnesia. Those AWFUL Zeti from Lost World are back because of Snively The Platypus.
@@yrooxrksvi7142don’t know what you expected it’s literally about anthropomorphic animals fighting against a deadly virus and they called the infected “zombots” ☠️
I love how the comics saved silver a d shadow. It has gave there strengths spot light, but has also gave it weaknesses.
It also has done it with so many charachters. It is quadrants in a comic and i love it
The IDW comics in my opinion look so much better than the archie comics.
Nah, they look absolutely stale both in terms of artstyle and writing compared to Archie
@@ashesGeekidw is better.
The same writers for IDW worked on Archie, mainly the reboot.
Stop this Archie vs IDW petty fighting.
Well to be fair, if you look at Sonic Frontiers and how it handles Sonic and every other character, couldn't you say they're steering towards a good direction now?
Uh. They pretty much did. Flynn is in a team for Sega, and there's going to be specifically a job title called Associate Lore Manager, that won't be Flynn but working alongside him as a project manager. Ian Flynn has never thrived as some tyrannical auteur but as part of a team.
Oh wow didn’t know this!
Ian Flynn only wrote the dialogue for Frontiers. He didn’t have anything to do with the story as a whole. Sega came up with the general concept, as well as the plot points, and Ian was brought onto write the dialogue.
Off topic. I hear that one of the developers of Forces suffered from depression thinking it’s his fault that the game ended up the way it is.
@@rickyrackey7930 That wasn’t anyone on the development teams’ fault. Just another example of sega’s higher ups giving sonic team less time to stick within a somewhat low budget to get the most out of their profits.
@@CCoolB not true, the ancients being chaos beings and devolving into chao and the chaos emeralds being from their world was all flynn's idea.
Comic adaptations of video game characters being awesome is no new thing. Just check out how awesome Mario and his cast was in the Nintendo Power comics 😊
Ooh I should check those out!
Yeah, and the Pokemon Adventures manga is awesome too! It turns out that if you let talented people use a game's world to its fullest, cool things happen.
They confirmed that it is canon a day ago but I taught it was canonn sinc the start.
I would love to see the Metal Virus story adapted into a video game. Or just add Dr. Starline as secondary antagonist to Sonic instead of just Eggman. It would be pretty great
Yeah both would be dope!
Oh HELL NO !!! Look, I want a serious story as much as the next dude, but that ridiculous grimdark slopfest of fake out deaths, plot contrivances and character bastaridzation has NO place in the games. They're just terrible as they are right now.
And WTF do you even see in Starline ? He's a mediocre Snively rip-off with no background, has inexplicably overpowered gadgets, yet he's such an idiot to fall into the same trap as Eggman in Lost World with the Zeti. What would this pathetic joke of a character would even add to the games ?
Starline died in issue 50 though
@@yrooxrksvi7142Mmmmmmmmm, there was no fakeout deaths, we already knew sonic was gonna survive and Everybody else was zombified, and me personally I think starline was pretty cool, he almost killed sonic and silver in their first encounter not with his "over powered" gadgets but because of a trick, sooooooo yeah I got no idea what your on about buddy
@@keiththxcup3014 > there was no fakeout deaths
> Cream, the Chaotix
If we know Sonic was gonna survive, then there was a cure. If there was a cure, then this wasn't permanent. In other words, no real stakes. Just edgy melodrama bs
Starline is pathetic, his design literally screams Deviantart fursona. And if he was so smart, then why did he fail to realize the flaw in trying to control the Undeadly Koopalings with the Conch ? And how was he so easily humiliated by Eggman ? Get a clue, this is utter garbage, _buddy_
I remember the first time I saw only volume one thinking it was a bootleg (really stupid of me to think that). But, I actually gave the series a read and my favorite thing about it was the the metal virus saga and how the characters act in this situation. Grief, doubt, and frustration found in all of the characters is something I didn’t expect. We need this story as a 3D or 2D sonic game.
> Ian Flynn should be given more creative input
I agree! And so does SEGA. xp He wrote the script for Sonic Frontiers.
He just wrote the dialogue
I believe SEGA’s main comic book artist is Tracy Yardley through in my mind, the most expressive faces for a Sonic comics back at Archies day and age
Honestly love the comics as well, I don't know why I didn't grab the comics earlier. What are your thoughts on the new additional characters like Tangle, Whisper, or Surge and Kit?
Haven’t gotten to Surge or Kit yet, but I think Tangle is really fun and Whisper really cool!
I’ve put my thoughts to words before on videos that specifically focus on the cast’s characterisation but to put simply here: the cast in this comic series is very different from how they were originally written over in Japan and that’s usually worse off, especially in Shadow’s case. Thanks, Sega Mandates!
Where's the IDW reviews at man because they are amazing.
In due time!
The book fair has idw comics now :D
While we're on the subject, Ranni what do you think about people's criticism that IDW Sonic is too forviging/compassionate? I've seen many, MANY people say they can't fathom reading the IDW comics because they absolutely butchered Sonic's character and made him a doormat of second chances for the story and characters to step on, and it makes me wonder: Huh??? Sure, Sonic does let his enemies go a few times, but he straight up tells Surge in one issue that he does that because he believes in the freedom to do as one pleases. He lives by that and doesn't want to take such an ability from others by killing or imprisoning them, because then they definitely will not be able to change; and, if they decide to use said freedom for evil once more, he'll just stop them again because that's what heroes do.
(SPOILERS AHEAD FROM IMPOSTER SYNDROME ISSUE AND FORWARD)
One thing people on Twitter complain a lot about is Sonic's 'big oof' reaction to the news Starline had died. Honestly, I would've reacted the same way. Sonic didn't feel bad about that because a) Starline had already caused enough destruction by being involved with spreading the Metal Virus and then unleashing Surge and Kit on him, and b) IT WAS HIS CHOICE TO STAY IN THE COLLAPSING BUILDING WHEN HE HAD A CHANCE TO RUN FOR IT HIMSELF TO TAKE BELLE'S HELP. I can see why people would say his reaction was ooc, but in my opinion, that was the most Sonic reaction to finding out Starline had passed. Sonic isn't a total doormat as people like to generalize-- the comic itself shows him being very close to tipping over the edge and losing his patience (there's this really good panel of him staring down Eggman that Evan Stanley did, I think, in issue 55 or 56? Yeah, that made my jaw drop because I'd never seen Sonic so angry before)
Hmm...I'm not in that part of the comic yet, but I will give you an answer when I'm caught up lol!
If you like this, then check out the Archie Sonic comics. It pretty much gives you all of what you liked tenfolds even though there was a point where the writing got bad for a time but that’s bound to happen with a long running comic.
Plus it feels a lot like a unified definitive continuity. Everything Sonic related up until it’s cancellation was pulled from and pieced together to make a giant world that pays homage to every form of Sonic media possible.
It’s a shame it got canceled, the world, the lore, the unique cast and their development, dynamics, and relationships just faded away so quickly.
I wish sega would remake the old sonic games, like sonic heroes, sonic riders, shadow the hedgehog, sonic unleashed, etc. ( before they made the bad games )
THEY MERGED TIMELINES the game and IDW
I heard Amy's personality was inspired by the Fleetway Sonic comics, but haven't read them yet, so can't confirm.
There’s a lot of issues I have with the way Flynn writes Sonic. He understands the character but gets A LOT wrong, I don’t hate the guy but I wouldn’t want him writing for the games too much or at all really. In terms of writing and characterization, Shiro Maekawa is this best the franchise has ever had
What does he get wrong?
@@tomasfong40 Uhhhh Let's see. He writes Sonic as this weird mix of his SA Era and Meta Era versions, where on one hand he seems this cool, cocky, adventure-seeking, compassionate hero on the surface, but also spouts a bunch of patronizing platitudes to pass them off as "being deep" or to feel good about himself, and some of his jokes are way too on the nose or just has the same bored dudebro attitude towards some enemies (such as Neo Metal Sonic) like Colors/Lost World. Case in point, him refusing to help Amy because "he has his own way" in Issue #4, or gaslighting Shadow to deter him from killing Eggman in Issue #6. He's also has this ridiculous and unwarranted forgiving side, despite catching up with him in the worst ways time and time again, first with Eggman, then with Metal.....
Now it is cannon also
Not rly
A panel I don’t like is Sonic calling Metal a jerk for staying with Eggman and comparing him to Omega
Even tho Eggman himself clearly stated that even if Metal turned good his programming would make him go back to serving Eggman and turn evil again. Metal literally has no choice
Omega turned against Eggman because he threw him out
I like both idw and archie sonic
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Bro forget sonic frontiers happen 💀💀
Its sad that a year later all im seeing is "bad IDW" all because the comic pacing slowed down slightly. Like if you legit read Archie Sonic and didn't just skip to the good stuff after the fact, well IDW is still well outperorming Archie in overall quality. And honestly i just want to let IDW cook. Like i don't like the limits set by Sega, I'd like Sonic and Amy to at least have the sort of implied relationship that Peach and Mario have rather than this "he must forever be single so creepy human girls can kiss him guilt free" attitude Sega has.
And then there's the fun idea of teasing potential character deaths, but all of that is Sega.
Everything else has been great and I'm happy to watch and wait, and read. And im certain that by the time this hits issue 160 it will be as good as where Archie left off, as opposed to needing 160 issue to even start on thay journey, since these writers seem more to be both fans of fhe subject material and respectful of one another even if they don't agree.
Nah, Archie is still more interesting than the entirety of IDW comics, even the earliest parts where it like a mixture of Adventures of Sonic and Sonic SatAM, at least it had funny moments.
@@ashesGeek right read issues 1-20 and tell me that again good luck Robotnicing your way into that argument.
If you actually read those issues, yeah your rose tinted glasses might fall off as you realize that Archie was a snooze fest.
@codyraugh6599 I read these issues recently and yes, while Archie is a snooze fest, at least it's an interesting one unlike IDW which got its balls cut off by Sega of Japan. Good luck with searching for character development and drama in a 50 page game advertisement which will certainly not happen for a while now.
@@ashesGeek so Sonic a videogame character is a advertisement for Sonic the dame video game character... Much arguments, very good, so enlightened.
So which shadow out of the 160 different conflicting back stories and personalities was your favorite, which of the 80 main character Sonic's was your favorite? Which archie was "your" Archie and which Archie is the heretic? Because at least I don't need a syllabus of whose writing which issue to have a consistent setting, characters, tone, and lore.... You know the basic minimums needed for a continuous series.
@codyraugh6599 Yeah, every other media is games advertisement, but at least it must be good on its own even if the person doesn't want to play the games and IDW comics doesn't have anything ambitious to be its own thing other than games slave.
"Continuos series" which Sonic wasn't and still not really isn't in the games, and before you tell me about SA2, Heroes and 06 Sega of Japan themselves stated that Sonic isn't that heavily connected so the gameplay matters to them more than storytelling, which means all 2000's games don't matter in terms of everything.
While I agree Ian Flynn would be a boon to SEGA, I don't think they'll be doing it anytime soon because 1) They are a primarily Japanese company with different business values, and 2) SEGA is cautious of another Ken Penders event. But with the the success of the Paramount movies, the overall good reviews of the IDW comic series, and Ian Flynn being a lead writer on Sonic Frontiers, things may be looking up.
Good video!
Thanks!
When does Shadow Appear? I want that volume
Finally! Some content
thank you for making positive videos about the idw comics, it’s so annoyingly difficult to find people being positive about them
Idk what you're talking about, the vast majority of sonic fans glaze the idw comics. If anything it's kinda hard to find some real critics of the idw comics
@@ChibiSteak i dunno maybe i’m tired and biased from ending up seeing negative twitter posts about idw sonic constantly
@@chlozentimesI do agree with him it's hard to find idw criticizim
People say it’s good and I don’t think it’s bad at all but it’s just too tame and doesn’t take many risks for my liking. I liked how archie was. I do like starline however he was a great character (not calling it bad I just miss the less safeness of the older conics)
Exactly I was thinking. I was upset that Archie Sonic was cancelled but then I decided to give this series a chance. However, it’s not the same. It’s been about 75 issues now and nothing has gotten interesting as it progressed. It’s basically the same thing.
Needless to say. The fan continuation of Archie Sonic Online has given me more familiar feelings to the old Archie Sonic than this.
huh i really liked the Sonic Forces's story.
Here the thing I just bought my first Sonic comic and the ones I have is Sonic the hedgehog Scarpnik island IDW 2 but I don’t know which one the first one is or the next so can someone plz tell me the order of it cause I’m so confused.
Lol, at first i thought this video was about how IDW took Sonic rights from Archie
where can i read the sonic idw comics?
There are many free options to read it online if you Google it
Man I love sonic forces
Off topic but I hear that one of the Forces developers apologized for helpinng making this game and had suffered depression from the backlash.
Wow, that's really sad.
Well he shouldn’t it was a great story just a very short game.
enjoy Ian Flynn's work all you want, but don't you dare compare him to James Gunn. He's inflicted more trauma on kakologophobic people like me than you can imagine
oh heey look who wrote frontiers
This is also the Archie Sonic reboot done right (especially since the Freedom Fighters are absent and no, the Freedom Fighters will never appear in IDW Sonic), IDW Sonic also has much better writing and better written characters, I especially love Tangle and Whisper.
I don't like it
Sonic stories always have some kind of message behind them which the idw missing.
The only one I liked is scrapnik island because it's have the type of theme and massage you find is sonic games :-)
*"No kill code"*
That's it. Speedrunning for ruining Sonic the hedgehog.
Yeah Sonic doesn't have a no kill code, he just doesn't like killing people. He doesn't follow rules.
IAN FLYNN gets everything right except Amy Rose in the future of Sonic apparently 🤣🤣
IDW is doing well with the sonic stories so far, but I'm not optimistic about the future. I still haven't forgiven them for when they made Transformers massively gay. In two different continuities.
That depends on writers and and/or the franchise owners I guess. I don't believe Sega or Flynn/Stanley team will let IDW to force drastic changes on the franchise out of nowhere. Especially since the comic line is canon to the games now
I like how these stories take place between Sonic Forces and Frontiers. At least, I think they’re meant to. Either way, I hope we see Sage show up in the comics, granted, it’d need to be a time skip to make sense for her being there.
I remember ignoring the Comic for the first three years of its Existence. I was so disappointed with Forces and everything Sonic that I had completely lost interest in this Series.
One day in late 2021, I was randomly recommended the Comic Dub by Adrenaline Dubs (fantastic People btw) and clicked it on a whim.
BEST. DECISION. OF. THAT. YEAR.
Sonic forces is just easy not bad
Archie sonic: at least I’m more powerful >:(
And you never cared more about your enemies than your friends either.
My problem with blaze and cream shouldn't be allowed in the Sonic world But unfortunately I'm am concerned about confusion about blaze and cream haters You know but blaze should not be truthful trusted Ally issues
Wait i heard that people hate lan flynn so is he bad or good i can't tell the difference between these two arguments from archie fans and other fans like what is this hole drama about
Sonic idw is canon for multiple reasons
What are those reasons?
@@feeplemurphy4618 I know one of them sonic frontiers it mentions tangle
@@griffinholmes8024 just because some of the characters are canon doesn't mean the story is canon
@@feeplemurphy4618 well I heard some other idw stuff is mentioned
@@feeplemurphy4618 Ian Flynn already confirmed that IDW is canon, plus, there's no contradiction in the comics that affects the story of the games.
I call cap
Yay and Ian flin did get hired by sega
Sonic is a good guy, but he is a terrible hero and also kind of a dick. First of all, he has a huge ego and things the world revolves around him. Second of all he doesn’t care about any consequences. he is always facing egg man and other villains and you want to know why, because he doesn’t kill them. Of course his villains always find a way to come back like is he stupid and of course they’re gonna go on another chaotic rampage for world domination because he doesn’t end their lives. How many deaths and how much collateral damage do you think sonic indirectly caused because he never finishes the job. Always letting these villains go just for them to come back and repeat the definition of insanity just like Batman and daredevil. I call them the insanity trio. That’s all I have to say.
1. He's actually pretty humble and gives tons of compliments and props to his friends and others
2. Sonic has his morals and way he goes about life, he's not gonna change who he is because he loves who he is, and that's what makes Sonic himself
3. Sonic doesn't like killing and imprisoning unless he absolutely 100% undoubtedly has to, that's just who he is
@@SillyTron_ sonic is too much of a pussy to do what needs to be done. If I had sonic villans, I’d kill them without a second thought. His villains are pure evil and beyond saving. 😡
I only agree with metal sonic criticism...it was stupid as hell but sonic Killing his villains everytime just feels out of character from the start it was never his thing except killing god like beings but that's a different case..but still.
Same way you wouldn’t picture Mickey Mouse kill Pete it’s the same for Sonic. That seems out of character for him to outright kill without hesitation
@@togucvinw7 Pete isn’t a threat but eggman is. There’s a difference.
Who would win:
Sonic’s wondrous characterization throughout the entirety of the comics;
Or a single comic panel where sonic wasn’t depicted in a good light?
They don't
I'm not interested in Sonic characters and Pokemon characters Are not favorite either and such As Pikachu isn't My favorite pet is still not the same as dangerous mouse and Mice for kid's age but I You know what I'm not saying
Great video, but i'm getting sick from the forces hate tbh, the game wasn't even half bad.
It wasn't half game you wanted to say
Wasn't Flynn involved with writing frontiers
The dialogue but not the overall story.
Just the scripts and dialogues not the concept of the story I think kishimoto wrote the concept
The art is cool but the writting, power level and character developpement is so bad in those comics 💀
You want to explain why those aspects are bad? I'm not saying your opinion is wrong. I'm just curious as to why you feel that way
IDW Sonic is good man
I... disagree I mean the potryal of IDW shadow might be bad but the writing and characterization of other characters are mostly good like blaze and Silver's dynamic,Amy and sonic's dynamic and whisper, tangle's friendship and the character development and growth they had in their own mini series so I disagree there's so much positive to love about these comics and it really does have it's moments etc yes... not perfect have it's highs and lows of course..but for the most part it's a good comic series
@@earlrice8095 because they make many characters seems weak, mostly Metal, as well as having bad writting
The mid OCs gets more attention than the main cast or legacy characters like Metal Sonic
Ah yes, the annoying stereotype of a once matured and developed character is the best Sonic appeantly💀
I swear it isn’t a Sonic IDW video without fans going on about *terrible* sonic forces is.
Get a grip, dude.
I think it’s ok but not great I wish they’re was a sonic manga by sonic team. So characters like sonic,shadow and Amy could be written correctly.
What’s wrong with how they are? Sonic and Shadow are the same in a good way and Amy got a great character development.
@@justynhill4814 agree... I think they got Amy's character right and silver specifically!