It’s your Duty
I’ve been in the Sonic Fandom for over ten years. I started when I was eight, playing the games and reading the first of the comic series. I even frequently slept over at a friend’s house anticipating the watching of the cartoon show the next morning because we didn’t have TV at home. That and Mighty Max, mostly. At age twenty, I’ve subscribed to the comic series for five to six years now. I watched as the comic series had its ups and down and read the comical reviews by middle-aged Sonic fan Dan Drazen.
The trouble with the comic though is that it’s seen a lot of downsides lately. I’d have to agree with Dan Drazen on one thing. Last summer, a new team with a new art style and new character attitudes appeared. As with every time that this sort of thing happens, this meant trouble. Fortunately, this team, as all the others do, only appears once every couple of issues. But when they do… ugh, they don’t know what they’re doing. The characters look like dorky anime inspired bastard children and they don’t behave with the level of grace that the other teams gave them.
It was also this team that, several months ago, started a conflict between the two lead characters, Sonic and Sally, that ultimately led into them breaking up. It’s surefire that they will eventually wind up together again though, because they end up married in the future stories, but right now they don’t act like themselves. Sally, who for so long was a tough leader and the brains and beauty of the bunch, now fears for Sonic’s well-being and wants him to stop being a hero.
Whatever happened to the brave female lead that graced this comic for so long? Obviously, the brains behind the comic are lacking the creative integrity of their predecessors. When this happens, the comic winds up sucking. Pure and simple.
In this month’s issue #144, the hackjob tag team has returned for another session of raping the comic of the beauty it once had. By now though, I’m somewhat used to it and I found the majority of characters finally acting in character. Perhaps they got one of their better writers for this issue? Except at the end of this issue, Sally winds up explaining her behavior. It’s not the new writers who don’t seem to know what they’re doing, but the fact that Sally feels that as future queen, she feels her duty should first be to her people, then to Sonic. She still loves him, but loves her people even more.
While this does explain her priorities properly, it doesn’t explain her suddenly not wanting Sonic to endanger himself for the sake of his people. Although he did disappear for a year in a recent story arc and everyone thought he was dead, that sort of thing has happened a million times before in the comic. It’s not enough to explain her sudden change in behavior.
It’s this sort of thing that make dedicated readers such as Drazen promise to not continue subscribing to this comic. Thus, I beg of the authors to fire the schmuck artists that are convoluting my eyes with their crappy art and squeeze some balls in the story section. If you want this comic to live, please do something.
The trouble with the comic though is that it’s seen a lot of downsides lately. I’d have to agree with Dan Drazen on one thing. Last summer, a new team with a new art style and new character attitudes appeared. As with every time that this sort of thing happens, this meant trouble. Fortunately, this team, as all the others do, only appears once every couple of issues. But when they do… ugh, they don’t know what they’re doing. The characters look like dorky anime inspired bastard children and they don’t behave with the level of grace that the other teams gave them.
It was also this team that, several months ago, started a conflict between the two lead characters, Sonic and Sally, that ultimately led into them breaking up. It’s surefire that they will eventually wind up together again though, because they end up married in the future stories, but right now they don’t act like themselves. Sally, who for so long was a tough leader and the brains and beauty of the bunch, now fears for Sonic’s well-being and wants him to stop being a hero.
Whatever happened to the brave female lead that graced this comic for so long? Obviously, the brains behind the comic are lacking the creative integrity of their predecessors. When this happens, the comic winds up sucking. Pure and simple.
In this month’s issue #144, the hackjob tag team has returned for another session of raping the comic of the beauty it once had. By now though, I’m somewhat used to it and I found the majority of characters finally acting in character. Perhaps they got one of their better writers for this issue? Except at the end of this issue, Sally winds up explaining her behavior. It’s not the new writers who don’t seem to know what they’re doing, but the fact that Sally feels that as future queen, she feels her duty should first be to her people, then to Sonic. She still loves him, but loves her people even more.
While this does explain her priorities properly, it doesn’t explain her suddenly not wanting Sonic to endanger himself for the sake of his people. Although he did disappear for a year in a recent story arc and everyone thought he was dead, that sort of thing has happened a million times before in the comic. It’s not enough to explain her sudden change in behavior.
It’s this sort of thing that make dedicated readers such as Drazen promise to not continue subscribing to this comic. Thus, I beg of the authors to fire the schmuck artists that are convoluting my eyes with their crappy art and squeeze some balls in the story section. If you want this comic to live, please do something.
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