Sonic 3: The Archie Adaptation | Sonic Speed Reading
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Welcome to a very tiny Knuckles Knovember celebration! We are finally taking a look at Archie's take on Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and the introduction to the infamous Knuckles the Echidna!
Some people here have no real idea how powerful and terrifying the phrase "Introducing Archie Knuckles" is. And I envy those people.
I always loved reading the Archie adaptations of games, just to see how they would integrate the game stories into their bonkers canon
Fun fact, the Knuckles story in issue 13 was added at the last minute. The space story and another story planned for that issue (probably obvious with the cover and design change). Fans were writing for the intro to Knux so badly and Ken and Mike and only played the first couple levels to tell the story (Ken admitted he was pretty bad at the game). It’s the main reason Knuckles isn’t even on the cover
The early Archie issues have a lot of innocent charm to them. The stories were about as nonsensical as most comics were back in the day as far as I can tell, but at least they’re a fun read to this day. Unlike Penders’ later work, which is downright disturbing at times…
The unwelcome mat missile still gets a genuine LOL out of me to this day.
"Greater love hath no enchidna than this, that a mobian lay down his life for his friends." Penners
I remember reading this comic, back then, on Sonic Mega Collection and how it taught me the insta-shield move for Sonic.
Oh god guys! We’re close. We’re getting close to Nick’s eventual Ken Penders video! And I just can’t wait to sit back and enjoy that video
I think that shield they were talking about was the “Insta-Shield”
Knuckles gives Sonic and Tails a 10- minute head start, which is about how much time it takes to read though the rest of this story. Oh well. I'm sure this popular new character would reappear within a year and a half...
Sometimes I wonder, what attracted Penders to Knuckles so much? Why did he get so fascinated with the red guy that he gave him a people, family, history, ect ect. Then again, I am part of a fandom that gave an entire universe to a character that popped up for only one episode. So maybe its a similar concept.
Curious to see if you'll cover Fleetway's adaptation. Not terribly long, but pretty neat
I always thought the hitting the drink Saturday night was a joke about Tails not wanting a bath. In alot of cartoon medias in the 80s and early 90s Saturday night was designated as "bath night" as kids would only bathe on weekends on TV. Fortunately i hadnt met many people who implemented this in the real world, but it was a common thing on TV.
You picked a good comic to start into archie! Every year around this time I like to reread Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog run. I'm around a little after the doomsday arc at the moment.
I absolutely
I know this is nothing but a simple, but enjoyable speed reading of Knuckles' first appearance in Archie, but I remember a certain comment from one of these past videos that involved the Archie Comics, where someone wrote something like "Ken Penders was a great writer. Emphasis on 'WAS'. He soon spiraled out of that position, tho".
The Super Sonic & Hyper Knuckles issue was the first Archie comic I saw Knuckles in, and...it was AMAZING (to me as a little kid). The concept of "Zones" was still being fleshed out in the comic, so having a bizarre "pocket universe" located in a random hole in the ground wasn't TOO unexpected. Knuckles' story arc would get more "complex" as the Archie comics progressed, but it certainly helped to turn him into the Guardian/Hero we know today.
Aged extremely well now he's gonna be playable in frontiers
I've been watching since your first upload. I've missed a ton of videos recently because of how busy I am with college. I don't know if this is your usual tone, but I feel like this video was really relaxed. It didn't feel rambly, but it didn't feel tightly scripted. I really loved it! It was comforting for some reason.
This was the first Archie comic I bought in a Barns and Nobel that I found when I was around ten or eleven. But I did not care too much for the other story in the book so I mainly focused on the Sonic 3 re-telling.