with Yuji Uekawa himself doing the cover
IDW Sonic Annual 2019 Storytime
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Easton Martinez
Story 1: written by Ian Flynn, art (including colors) by Jennifer Hernandez
Juan Bennett
Kevin Murphy
Kayden Bell
Owen Bell
Juan Lopez
Zachary Turner
Aaron Gutierrez
Jackson Clark
Samuel Collins
Ryan Howard
Oliver Thomas
Xavier Smith
Story 2: Written by Caleb Goellner (the guy who wrote the TSR book), art by Jack Lawrence (Transformers: Lost Light, issue 15 of the main sonic book), colors by Leonardo Ito (the guy who did the colors for issue 14)
Adam Roberts
Jose Reed
Jeremiah Baker
Jonathan Anderson
Evan Davis
Alexander Barnes
it's amazing just taking off her coat makes her look underdressed
Xavier Bell
Isaiah Jenkins
panel 1 here makes sonic look retarded
Jayden Allen
Luis Ward
Story 3: written by Evan Stanley & Gigi Ditreux, art (including colors) by Evan Stanley
Dylan Gutierrez
shit forgot image
Jaxon Moore
Anthony Jenkins
Cameron Jackson
Lincoln Morgan
Friendly reminder that whenever Blaze tells you she is going to help you, she will actually be burning all your shit instead
Jonathan Carter
But why? There's no point keeping her. You can't sell her.
Joshua Jackson
Zachary Ward
you could ransom her
Julian Foster
Jayden Martin
that "it's no use" feels really shoehorned here
Parker Bennett
Story 4: written by Cavan Scott (a british author mostly known for writing licensed books kids books and comics, most notably involving Dr. Who and Star Wars), art by Diana Skelly (returning from Archie), and colors by Prisculla Tramontano (a regular artist on the IDW Transformers books)
Leo Ramirez
really not a fan of lawrence's stuff so far
Matthew Hall
Isaac Cruz
I liked Lawrence's art in issue 15 more than I did in the annual
Cameron Jackson
Josiah Morris
Benjamin Adams
Henry Butler
Ethan Carter
Aaron Flores
This final story's nice enough to reiterate the credits in the art itself.
Reggie (the colorist) has actually done art for StC Online.
and yes, *that* James Kochalka
Justin Price
interesting that Kochalka didn't do his own art: he usually does so when he does guest stories. Guess sega felt is art would've been too off-model or something
Angel Evans
William Allen
Lucas Gray
Elijah Bailey
Lincoln Gray
Christian Clark
to be honest Jewel's kinda hot
Brandon Richardson
John Nguyen
is it me or does that one butterfly member of the sonic fanclub really look like one of the animaniacs?
Blake Miller
Best story is the Silver/Blaze one, and honestly trying to make Tangle and Whisper a pair after just having an introductory issue each and shoehorning them into the climax of the last season was a bad idea. They really needed more than just an issue each, more like a whole arc.
Given how she’s hitting the Egg Pawn with a comic mace out of nowhere, I think that’s the joke.
Aiden Nelson
Best overall story was Curse of the Pyramid. Honestly felt kinda like something out of Sonic the Comic (in a good way)
Landon Cooper
>James Kochalka
Isn't that guy a pedo?
Elijah Ward
they were all mostly bland
the only thing I got from the Silver story is that Blaze knows chemistry
Robert Perry
protect Tumble
Liam Parker
It's a mixed bag for me. Sometimes the art looks cute and fun, but other times it looks sloppy and rushed.
Jack Green
the closest thing I can think of is that one weird American Elf strip where he talks about how he dreamed about his son having a weird clamshell testicles but I don't think anyone's brought up any actual allegations or anything, so it might be based entirely on that one strip
Christopher Green
I really don't care for Tangle. Her design and gimmick are neat, but she doesn't have much personality beyond being this hyper fangirl.
Samuel Young
i love him bros
Joshua Nguyen
I wish they'd tone down meme faces
Jayden Robinson
Oh joy, the bird trio. Guess it was inevitable.
>They really needed more than just an issue each, more like a whole arc.
They're getting a whole five issue mini this summer.
Angel Adams
> Amy told me I could grow my own plants
wat
what the fuck they eat in the future if Silver is foreign to the concept of fucking plants.
Joshua Hughes
Probably sealed astronaut food-tier shitnuggies.
Cameron Wood
>They actually remembered the fucking fan
Wow.
Leo Campbell
rocks
Adrian Harris
>Sonic actually flying his own plane.
Neat.
Oliver Ramirez
Does anyone even care anymore?
Isaac Sanchez
I'll give the IDW comics one thing; they do a real cute Silver.
Leo Miller
Iblis burnt the future to fucking ashes. I'd be surprised if Silver was even aware of half the things we take for granted.
Asher Carter
I think 1 per 3 stories is fine
Connor Russell
DULLEST SONIC MEDIA IN HISTORY
Lincoln Johnson
almost 50 pages where nothing is allowed to happen
I am sad that these artists are putting that much effort on such an empty comic, its not their fault it seems.
Bentley Gomez
Whisper is adorable
Andrew Nelson
Grayson Baker
She's basically wearing a corset. So in a way she is.
Luke Fisher
Fairly poor writing, worst art in the series yet.
Decent art, literally nothing story.
Good art, decent writing.
Fantastic art, strong writing.
I have always absolutely hated Kochalka's writing style, and I don't mind whimsy writing. I think he's an honest to god hack.
Jon's gotten better.
Brayden Sullivan
>where nothing is allowed to happen
Rough, Tumble and Rouge are better defined in a seven page story than the 4+ issues they show up in.
Blake Hall
She absolutely is.
James Kelly
It kind of bugs me that she's just opposite-Bunnie.
Xavier Gomez
>Top right panel
Is that Harriet?
Luis Fisher
>ywn handjob Jewel's girldick
Michael Scott
Whoa, I didn't see this coming.
Chase Foster
Looks like Dot from Animaniacs.
Adam Young
Is anyone going to storytime Tangle and Whisper 0?
Michael Reed
yumyum
Robert Baker
remember all thats in silvers future is sparse robotic plants
Nathan Martinez
They each needed it FOR their introduction, not after they decided to make them a pair out of nowhere.
Leo Carter
Yeah, why wouldnt they showcase rouge without Shadow, the whole concept seems strange since Shadow himself could sell interest without his little team or sonic, He's THAT popular.
At this rate Tails and fucking lemur girl has more exposure and panel relevance than fucking Shadow.
Ryder Stewart
The Rouge story was the best one.
Henry Kelly
>but she doesn't have much personality beyond being this hyper fangirl.
I feel like this has become a really common problem these days where entire characters are being defined by OMG SUCH A NERD! JUST LIKE YOU THE READER! RELATE TO HER FANDOM!
Brody Perry
With the movie coming out, do you think IDW would make tie in comics?
Jose Gonzalez
>Peridot and Lapis laying together on the pillow
Landon Moore
as always
Isaiah Green
This
Easton Robinson
I seriously hope we get to see what the fuck the future Silver is from looks like.
Juan Martinez
Are you seriously complaining that they're laying off the milking machine with the character who has more character writing devoted to him than anything else and giving his sidekick four pages for herself?
Owen Lewis
uekawa's art style makes my dick hard
Evan Lee
>YEETLE BEETLE
Zachary Lee
>Reflection continues off glass on to metal uninterrupted.
Holy dick.
Caleb Howard
Why can't the actual book be like this?
Sebastian Jackson
>Why can't the actual movie be like this?
Luke Gonzalez
>you came! you really came!
Elijah Carter
>I know how to draw characters, but not background: the pic
Brayden Ward
You didn't notice that in
earlier? The attempt to convey the idea of "bakery" and "salon" is terrible.
Benjamin Martin
Rough and Tumble are for sure the best new characters added to the Sonic comic since IDW bought it up. They're channeling the comedic energy of the Chaotix/Hooligans very well and their designs are really good.
Adam Jones
it's average. My part have completly fucked up perspectives everywhere.
Bentley Flores
>Literal fucking squares with a character inside.
>Average.
user, a completely flat image that fails its purpose is worse than a perspective bungle. One's a mistake, but the other is a failure to even try.
Brandon Stewart
This is the only story they actually do that in, though. They don't play off each other enough in the other issues.
William Carter
Literally what Wave says next page. It's an ego thing because he's a Sonic villain.
Levi Allen
Remember to send mail to IDW telling them what you did/didn't enjoy and email the creators whose content you liked. Can't make a change unless you make your voice heard.
Caleb Green
I prefer Whisper as a character, she just hasn't done anything yet.
Eli Ortiz
>Whisper is a great character!
>She hasn't done anything yet
>But she's a great character!
God, you Sonic fans are stupid.
Jose Young
It's a five page preview for #1 and it reads almost exactly like the first three pages of their story in this issue.
Hudson Rodriguez
>She hasn't done anything yet
Neither did Rough and Tumble until this very issue. I'm just saying I prefer that character's traits to R&T's non-existent ones while acknowledging she's also shit because she does bupkiss.
You're arguing with someone who agrees with you about the writing, numbskull.
Juan Long
this is the best one, brilliant fucking art and a fun little story, i actually like rough and tumble here and i liked what they did with rouge, showing another side of her even if it was quick. it's a real shame the rest of the comic isn't like this. blaze & silver's story is definitely the second best but the rest of these were really boring.
Carter Garcia
Time for a new character breakdown nobody cares about.
Tangle's basically early Sally or super early (like first three stories) Bunnie. She has one or two traits (hyper, precocious) but they don't really inform the story, how she acts in it or her relationship with other characters. It feels like they're trying to do the last one with Whisper and Jewel now, but (at least so far) their interactions are stiff and sterile. They feel strangely neutral with little touches meant to make you feel like there's chemistry/conflict (Tangle giving Whisper hugs she doesn't want, Jewel's attitude towards Tangle) instead of letting the character traits guide interactions.
Whisper is a lot like early Bunnie, a highly competent, cute character with strong establishing traits and a few seeds for further development but no major flaws that can't be spun as positives. In fact, they both have the same "flaw" of being keen on distancing themselves out of concern for others. They also both don't really do much of anything outside of mandatory action scenes.
Rough & Tumble are Sleet and Dingo but less nuanced, which is saying a lot. The most we get is "they have bravado but are stupid cowards, big guy is slower, small guy is more excitable."
Dr. Platypus is a plot device so far. So is Jewel. Maybe they'll actually go somewhere eventually.
And, like I touched on a second ago, Tangle and Whisper feel like someone took Sally and Bunnie and asked themselves how to do a fresh spin. Tangle really feels like they took all the common Sally complaints and flipped them, making the center of the world, cynical quasi-bitch who wouldn't fit in a game into an unimportant, optimistic go-getter who could star in her own franchise. Whisper is even very visually similar to Bunnie, but she's reserved instead of outgoing and uses tech that requires organics instead of having tech replace her organics. It's odd.
Angel Lee
Of all characters, the Babylon Rogues? I guess...
Benjamin Cooper
Sonic fans are furfags, so they like any girl character with waifu potential. Even if they do absolutely nothing, they are a "good character" because they can fap to them.
Luis Harris
Who else?
Daniel Thompson
>Responding before checking the reply chain.
You're an even bigger dumbass than they are. I'd have the same opinion if Whisper was a dude.
Wyatt Baker
>Sonic fans are furfags, so they like any girl character with waifu potential.
Notice how the only Freedom Fighters these autists are screeching and crying about losing are Sally, Bunnie and Nicole, not Rotor or Antoine? They only give a shit about the furry waifus they can jack to, not the actual characters.
Adam Jones
Certainly explains why everyone in this thread hates Rough and Tumble but can't stop going MUH DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK over Tangle and Whisper, despite them all being equally shallow and terrible characters. Pure furry autism.
Thomas Edwards
The Sonic movie is exactly what these fags deserve.
Juan Young
Are you done talking to yourself yet?
Jacob Sanders
>Two people disagree with me
>MUST BE THE SAME PERSON
Let me guess, you also enjoy Thomas the Tank Engine?
Jason Torres
>Posts in sequence a minute apart, both ignoring all counterpoints and contrary evidence to say the exact same thing.
>I-I'm not samefagging and shitposting! Autism!
3/10, if you try harder you can get an actual discussion going.
Connor Cruz
SOИIC FAN CLUB?
Christopher Walker
>everyone in this thread can't stop going MUH DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK over Tangle and Whisper
I don't think there's even a single post implying they're good characters.
Luke Johnson
>??????!!???!
That one arouses my heart
Ayden Ramirez
There are posts comparing them to Sally and Bunnie, which is retarded
Nolan Torres
>I don't think there's even a single post implying they're good characters.
Except this autist:
Joshua Torres
>Except this autist
They said Tangle is also shit, she just has a few character traits they like while Rough and Tumble do nothing for them. That's not calling her good. It's saying she's slightly less bad.
Andrew Wilson
And now I'm sad her and classic Bunnie will never rmeet.
David Fisher
She was a major influence in Forces, Silver explained the whole thing
Brayden Gonzalez
You forgot make it easy for fans to have Tangle/Whisper lesbo off each other as well.
Jason Evans
Angel Campbell
any of the sonic comics good
Elijah Carter
Well Tangle and Jewel are now the confirmed duo
Alexander Diaz
In the MST3K sense yes. I grew up reading these and can't say they are objectively good. Compared to the current IDW series though they do have more flavor/spice except around the 90s-130s period.
Brody Ramirez
>any of the sonic comics good
The majority of them are hilariously awful in both script and (especially) art. They look and read like something you'd see on Deviant Art.
Jackson Wright
But this is a reboot, shadows a blank slate with no toe in to anything bar the ark incident. So far Shadow has no real important set up to expand like Knuckles, Metal, Silver and Eggman. All he's done So far is be a ally that has a salty attitude in being outdone by his rival.
Adam Butler
Backstory accomplishment aren't the same thing as having characters act in a story. If they were, Locke would be an interesting character with tons of relevance to the story and a lot of agency.
Xavier Martinez
How is Shadow milked when they barely use him plot wise anymore or compared to the core 5 heroes and villains he can't be advertised and more generally showcased as a character that is supposed to have as much bulk prominence as sonic.
Lucas Harris
>shadows a blank slate with no toe in to anything bar the ark incident
And Heroes.
And Battle.
And his self titled game.
And he has plenty of character moments in games like 06 and Forces.
>So far Shadow has no real important set up to expand like Knuckles, Metal, Silver and Eggman. All he's done So far is be a ally that has a salty attitude in being outdone by his rival.
He doesn't need any more until the comic is ready to actually use him in a story proper. Nobody got a proper setup despite a year of "setup." If anything it's better that minor characters like Rouge/Blaze get a short 7 pager to establish their character, range and activities while major characters like Shadow get a proper issue or two somewhere down the line once it becomes relevant.
Josiah Brooks
Jet the Hawk more like Jet the Hawt, amirite.
Zachary Roberts
>Jack the Off
Carter Morgan
>that third panel.
Nolan Rogers
Why would they care?
Ryder Long
Did you forget just a few years ago when they tried to sell a year's worth of Sonic Universe issues with a throughline of a ShTH followup? Or how Shadow got a DLC for Forces as a big selling point for the game?
Shadow is a simple character occasionally trotted out for another milking. You guys are complaining that the comic has the gall to barely use him when he's not relevant to the stories at hand. Shit, they've already made it clear he's Mr. Super Badass who can go toe to toe with Sonic.
John Rivera
>Three years later
Cameron Fisher
At the very least give other characters more attention, like Tails and Amy.
Ethan King
>Why does a company with a very small consumer base care what consumers think?
You think it's a coincidence they canned that asshole's GI Joe comic after he talked shit about 9/11 survivors? If enough people say "I like writer x/artist y/story style z," editorial is more likely to return to that.
Nolan Clark
>Terror from the Beep
Matthew Mitchell
I mean I don't disagree with you, this is what the comic should have started as. There's no good reason #1 wasn't two stories like Curse of the Pyramid, one focused on Sonic and Tails, one about Sonic and Amy. There's no good reason why almost any of the comics are 20 pages instead of 10, they don't use their space effectively anyway. After 20 issues we totally should be able to say "here's a good Tails story, here's a good Amy story, here's a good Knuckles story, here's a good Espio story, here's a good Rouge story," etc. That's the whole point of an introductory arc.
Adam Bennett
In that she has all of her body parts and hasn't married the only person with a worse accent than hers?
Caleb Evans
I think these analysis are a bit stretched. Sally was never as goofy as Tangle and Bunnue was never as serious as Whisper.
Isaiah Richardson
I suppose they can't use Fang, Bean, and Polar everytime they need secondary villains.
Camden Baker
>Did you forget just a few years ago when they tried to sell a year's worth of Sonic Universe issues with a throughline of a ShTH followup?
Its not a big deal compared to the fapping knuckles got through out the entire run, which shadows arc tied in with. Shadow barely had arcss worth(he's was basically a fucking guest star in his own arcs and other character shared arcs) it's established premised since it barely put Shadow on par with Knuckles in the end and also made him a glorified extra.
Shadow doesn't fucking get attention by his own merits, he always has to sell a high level of plot with other characters which he feels poorly tacked on and useless via wolverine.
>Or how Shadow got a DLC for Forces as a big selling point for the game?
No one likes forces shadow, a glorified sonic skin. Who dis nothing in the main plot. Shadow was lazily half assed and basically poorly executed like the game, and once more Knux and the others had more plot relevance than Shadow due to actually moving the story and helping the oc.
>Shadow is a simple character occasionally trotted out for another milking.
Shadow being milked in small amounts and Shadow being recognized as a iconic and useful character by himself are two distinct things. Shadow isn't he former and he's not really impressive in being fanservice compared to the others, Knux once more had an arc centered around the main villain not to long ago, shadow was minor player in it and basically debut in one of his worst depictions since boom shadow.
Joseph Stewart
What's Tangle's purpose?
Blake Ross
>Shadow is a simple character occasionally trotted out for another milking.
And Tails, Eggman, Knuckles and fucking of course Sonic isn't? at least they play more important roles and are always more important main players around Sonic himself than Shadow will ever be or has been. He'll Shadow still can't beat Knuckles iconic world building and being generally more a iconic rival to Sonic.
>You guys are complaining that the comic has the gall to barely use him when he's not relevant to the stories at hand.
He's not relevant at all. It's gotten to the point where he barely can't be shown without a context why. That's not how you market one of your most popular characters. It makes him feel like he's pointless to have a cameo in plots period, his popular isn't uniquely capatilized since he plays just like sonic and not like how he is his own main lead, He's basically sonic reskin as a result of his so called appearances, the main issue here is he's not treated like he's a popular ataring role to depict from knuckles or sonic, He's just a extra.
Elijah Price
A vehicle for the reader
Gavin Moore
Right? It feels like they're made specifically for the tunblr/twitter fandom.
Hudson Martinez
They're good and we haven't (hadn't) seen them in IDW yet
Tyler Jones
>they give Rouge the brap gas
Oliver Ramirez
>And Tails, Eggman, Knuckles and fucking of course Sonic isn't?
Not really, no, aside from Sonic on a meta level. They're expected to be there. Shadow's a selling point.
>He's not relevant at all. It's gotten to the point where he barely can't be shown without a context why.
Yeah that's the point. It means he's a big deal. That's literally why they do that. It's one of the only intelligent brand decisions Sega makes.
>That's not how you market one of your most popular characters.
Sure looks like It works to me. You're frothing for more Shadow content. Borderline scarcity for the beloved aspects is a key part of keeping an IP healthy and naturally slots in to the narrative arc. Lightsabers are cool, but not when there's a hundred on the screen for a whole movie. By limiting his appearances you simultaneously make his appearances more important to people while stopping him from overshadowing the other characters. If anything I'm worried IDW is going to USE him too much for cheap sales boosts like Archie did in the mid-00s.
Sebastian Lee
There's a better one page guide somewhere but I ain't got it with me soooo
Landon Cruz
>Sonic fans are furfags
Yeah go look up "Yoshi" on one of those sites and come back before you want to start throwing bricks around this glass house.
Andrew Wilson
Bingo. As I stated before, each of these characters really needed a full arc dedicated to them and their interactions with the main Sonic cast to see how they’d properly fit in both thematically and dynamically. Just one sole issue and a small bit part in the climax at the end of the season really didn’t cut it.
I should really give the Shattered World Arc another read, maybe reading it all in one go (sans the unnecessary crossover) may qualm some of my issues with it.
Eli Price
To basically be Buddy from Sonic Forces except no guns and all trip wire.
Whisper is Buddy except no trick wire but all the guns.
Eli Thomas
what're all these OC's doing here? I thought they put an end to that
Kayden King
If they put an end to that they wouldn't have put them in STR.
Dylan Allen
>Whenever I'm asked to "write" a comics script for someone, I always draw it. Here's my original rough for comparison with the finished art by @jongraywb and @Ziggyfin
Dominic Rogers
I don't agree. I think they needed multiple short stories over time, like early Archie or StC.
Gabriel Martin
>Draws his idea instead of writing it.
>Layouts are so shit that Jon ignores them.
This is just reaffirming my beliefs about Kochalka.
Jack Bailey
So, is there some mandate from Sega that keeps the books from world building too much... Because there's kind of a desperate need for it.
Jason Williams
>Reboot sucked because it focused on "DUUUDE WORLD BUILDING" instead of telling good stories.
>"DUUUDE, YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED, WO-
No.
Just write good stories and build off of what works. Bring back stuff like the pyramid bats if you have a nice story for it, give places names and unique aesthetics to build a sense of place, but for the love of god don't focus on trying to "worldbuild" a comic that could last anywhere from four more months to forty more years.
Matthew Anderson
Why do they need to world buikdnanyway? They are borrowing so much from the games' canon.
Jayden Nguyen
>lul NO WORDLBUILDING FUCK MY FACE DADDY SEGA ABLUBLUBLYBL
Faggots like you are exactly the reason why Sega keeps giving the go-ahead to godawful shit like the movie and this utterly bland current run.
Anthony Martinez
>>Reboot sucked
Absolutely wrong.
Blake Evans
You should world build through good storytelling. You shouldn't come up with plots for the sole purpose of world building.
Brandon Cooper
In that case, then they should have just standardized Buddy as that stock red wolf avatar and bring him to the comic instead wasting time with creating Tangle.
Jackson Cook
The Chase and Champions were the only good STH stories. Arcs for "worldbuilding" like Waves of Change were too obsessed with setting things up for the future instead of being enjoyable on their own.
>IT CAN ONLY BE ONE EXTREME OR THE OTHER.
Oh piss off. The comics would be much better if Ian was the kind of guy who goes "I want Sonic to fight a mummy this month" and then puts some thought into the setup and carries it forward instead of the kind of guy who goes "okay I need a Freedom Fighter group on each continent, time to roll out stories to explain they exist and then come back later!"
Gabriel Kelly
They should have.
Xavier Foster
At this point you should follow Legacy if you need a new Sonic comic.
Jayden Perry
Why make one Buddy that Sega can and will flip flop on the portrayal of when you can make two Buddies and pretend they aren't?
Ethan Adams
The world building was literally completely fine. It was halting everything for another crossover event that ruined the pacing that was the issue.
Robert Robinson
>Follow garbage genomics just because they're not the licensed material.
No, I think reading non-Ian IDW comics like
and
will suit me just fine. And I only exclude Ian because he's proven across multiple books to be incapable of letting go of his continuity boner.
Henry Wood
My ass. Three issues out of 38 is piss all.
Most of the issues just weren't good stories. They were working under the assumption they had another decade at minimum, just like Archie Mega Man.
Zachary Jones
too cute
Logan Lewis
>pyramid bats
I thought those were Fennec Foxes
Angel Turner
You're probably right, I'm just stupid.
Daniel Lopez
And if there's a mandate, which I was asking about, that might be limiting their ability to do that.
Henry Stewart
Cryptic Reference to Whisper's Pat Count: + 1
James Harris
Were you thinking of head pats half way through that sentence.
Lincoln Young
Er, no...not that YOU know of...
Matthew Brooks
>Yuji Uekawa
Way past cool.
Levi Howard
The comic OC's are in Sonic Team Racing? Really?
Jonathan Gray
>Comic started
>Sonic just goes through no-name cities, in unknown parts of the world.
What do you think? Sega cannot have any other sonic media look more thought out than their games.
Noah Brown
They can't use Fang, bean, and Bark at all.