#buzzbomber

⚙️ Badnik Blowout Collab 87 artists drew 172 Badniks from 8 classic Sonic games. These guys often get overlooked, but I think they're a big part of what makes the classic games so charming. It was fun to focus on them for a while.

We’ll cover the first one in this post:

This one is interesting in that it goes into some depth on both of the Sonic TV shows that were beginning at the time of the Magazine’s release, and I’ll post it all here because it’s a nice little read

The first set of pages give a brief synopsis of the characters featuring in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH), which was the one with all the surrealist slapstick, although if you’re reading this blog you likely don’t need me to explain what AoStH is to you. It’s strange how Scratch gets a section to himself but Grounder doesn’t.

Then the second page spread has some of that interesting concept art of the predecessor to SatAM, and I’m somewhat surprised that they were still using these images for promotion so far into 1993, because at the point this was published, a kid could have turned on the Television and seen SatAM for themself. Hell, there’s finalized artwork for Snively, Antoine, and Bunnie, the character that Johnny Lightfoot would evolve into on the very next set of pages. Perhaps there wasn’t enough high-quality artwork from the late stages of SatAM’s production to be used, but still, it’s blatant false advertising.

The third page actually gives us some interesting tidbits on SatAM which were either completely retconned later. Antoine is said to have saved Sally in the past, presumably from Roboticization. That actually would have been an interesting plot point to have explored in an alternate version of SatAM, where it turns out that Antoine, the guy who is afraid of his own shadow and is a liability on every other mission was actually responsible for there being a freedom fighter resistance in the first place. But I don’t know if this was something that the writers of SatAM came up with or that the advertisers made up themselves. Rotor is still called Boomer and is a Sea Lion. Crabmeat and Buzzomber are said to be some of Robotnik’s main lackeys, just like how they were in Archie. Buzzbomber would only appear in one episode (the pilot which was still weird), and Crabmeat never appears in SatAM whatsoever.

Dear Breastforce Bountiful,

There are indeed a group of Autobots that were built with Breast Animal partners! Created after the battle against the Decepticon leader Steelcondor and his thrall, Devil Raijin, the Autobot Breastforce was led by the heroic, loyal, and swift Lightsteed, who transformed into a jet airliner and was partnered with the majestic Pegabreast. His second-in-command was the armored personnel carrier Hardshell, who was stalwart and steadfast alongside his partner, Turtlebreast. Other members of the team included the playful but mischievous Dolfleet, who turned into a speed boat and was partnered with Dolphinbreast; Crushfoot, the boisterous monster truck whose partner was Zoubreast; the stealth bomber, Buzzbomber, and his partner, Hornetbreast; and finally, Armighty, an all terrain vehicle, and his partner Armadillobreast.

Together these Breast Warriors combined into the powerful Pegacaeser, whose might exceeded that of previous combiners. He wielded a mighty weapon combined from his components' arms, which was feared by evildoers far and wide and known as the formidable Plasma Halberd.

I drew a buzzbumber from the first sonic game as a warmup