Okay, this story is a big one. The art is still iffy, but this was the first strip to be written by Nigel Kitching, who would become head writer and bring STC into something to rival the very best video game themed comics of the time. This isn’t Sonic (obviously), but a Badnik meant to look like him and he is fucking FREAKED
Issue 4 was published on 10 July 1993, so this was of course before Metal Sonic, and even before Pseudo Sonic (the AoStH episode was released in September 1993, and his appearance in Archie wasn’t until 1994). So besides Sonic 2’s Mecha Sonic, this was the first Sonic robot, and the first one to actually be blue. This is also the first story to take place in the Emerald Hill Zone, which would become the main zone where Sonic and his friends would live from here on out
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Saving the world is a piece of cake when you’re a speedy blue hedgehog. And Sonic is about to go on his 900th world-saving adventure! Sonic and his friends are playing a game of hot potato! Only the potato is the Warp Topaz and it could warp the whole world into oblivion. The gang is passing off the Warp Topaz in a relay race to get rid of it once and for all
Authors: Ian Flynn, Evan Stanley, Caleb Goellner, Daniel Barnes, Aaron Hammerstrom, Nigel Kitching
Artists: Adam Bryce Thomas, Evan Stanley, Abby Bulmer, Min Ho Kim, Aaron Hammerstrom, Mauro Fonseca
There’s a lot of love out there for Fleetway’s Sonic the Comic, launched 32 years ago this week, and it’s good to know there are dedicated fans still celebrating the title
Who Did What for Sonic the Hedgehog's 900th Adventure
So the 900th Adventure was basically this years Annual in spirit, but instead of multiple shorter stories, it told one big story, but with the number of writers and art teams that you would get in a multi-story annual anyways. Sure you could easily read the credits, but it's more fun this way. Obviously spoilers ahead so everything past part 1 is is gonna be under a Read More
Part 1 (pages 1-6): Set-up with Tails
Writer: Ian Flynn (the original main writer on IDW Sonic and post-Metal Virus continues to be one of the main writers, including being the main writer of IDW's Classic Sonic specials. Been with the franchise since becoming a writer for the Archie comics back in '06 and served as the writer for Sonic Frontiers)
Artist: Adam Bryce Thomas (one of the main IDW Sonic artists. been around since the latter half of Archie's reboot)
Colors: Valentina Pinto (initially a secondary colorist whose biggest credit was doing the Imposter Syndrome miniseries, recently seems to have graduated to being one of the main colorists this year)
Part 2 (pages 7-12): Amy and the Orca
Writer/Artist: Evan Stanley (the other main writer of IDW Sonic post-Metal Virus as well as one of the main artists, been around since late in Archie's pre-reboot era)
Colors: Gigi Dutreix (regular cover artist and occasional inker and has even written a few stories; co-authoring Victory Garden from the 2019 Annual and its follow up Future Growth, which they also colored, and solo-writing The Catalyst from 2020's Annual)
Part 3 (pages 13-18): Knuckles and Metal Sonic
Writer: Nigel Kitching (one of the main writers of the old UK Sonic the Comic published by Fleetway Editions back in the 90s)
Artist: Mauro Fonseca (regular artist, major credits so far include Sonic Learns to Drive from the 30th Anniversary Special, co-designing Surge & Kit, doing the A-covers for the Imposter Syndrome miniseries, and doing a bunch of stuff in the concurrent and upcoming main book issues. Also relevantly used to be a regular contributor to the Sonic the Comic-Online fan continuation)
Inks: Rik Mack (recent regular inker, being the main inker on Mauro's more recent interior art for the comic as well as inking other artists, most notably on Tails' 30th Anniversary Special. Recently did some coloring on the back-half of issue 61 as well. Also another former StC-O regular)
Colors: Reggie Graham (one of the main colorists on IDW Sonic post-Metal Virus, after having been a regular on covers beforehand, as well as being another former StC-O regular)
Part 4 (pages 19-24): Eggman and his Mech
Writer: Daniel Barnes (writer of Weapons from the 2022 Annual and the Scrapnik Island miniseries)
Artist/Colors: Min Ho Kim (fairly recent addition of the IDW Sonic crew, being a regular cover artist since Scrapnik #1. Also the character artist on The Murder of Sonic)
Color Assistance: Evan Maly
Part 5 (pages 25-30): Blaze and Cream
Writer/Artist: Aaron Hammerstrom (regular artist, most prominently being the main artist for IDW's Classic Sonic stuff. Also previously wrote/drew the 2022 Annual story Rough Patch)
Inks: Matt Froese (regular inker, mainly works on Aaron's art. Most notable non-Aaron credits include the two Yardley-drawn issues of Zeti Hunt and the first and last parts of Trial by Fire)
Colors: Nathalie Fourdraine (The 1:10 Retailer Incentive variant cover artist for every issue the main book as well as semi-regularly doing covers for side books. Served as the colorist for the Classic Sonic stories Dr. Eggman's Brithday and Amy's New Hobby, as well as the colors and A covers for the Scrapnik Island miniseries)
Part 6 (pages 31-36): Babylon Rogues & Shadow/Rouge
Writer: Caleb Goellner (writer of the Team Sonic Racing one-shot, the 2019 Annual story Jet Set Tornado, and the 2020 Annual story Reflections)
Artist: Abby Bulmer (regular cover artist, as well as artist of the 2020 Annual story The Catalyst and the 2022 Annual story Hero Camp. Notably way back in the day was the artist of the very first StC-O story, and her time on 2000 AD often involved her serving as a colorist for Richard Elson, one of the main StC artists.)
Colors: Heather Breckel (IDW MLP's main colorist, who's been a recurring secondary colorist throughout IDW Sonic's run, often filling in for other colorists)
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Why Fleetways Sonic the Comic deserves a collection release
I want to put forward a case on why Fleetways Sonic the Comic deserves to be re-released as a collection.
Since we've seen discotek pick up AOSTH, I've been hoping to see the British Fleetway Sonic comics get the same level of love because they feel like a piece of lost Sonic media now since the only way to read them is through ether scans or picking up old print comics on eBay for high prices.
Sonic the Comic has some absolutely amazing world building and original ideas along side a touch of that dry humour well known from the UK comic industry at the time. Its sad when people think of Sonic the Comic its just “Oh Evil Super Sonic” because there is so much more there and it sucks Evil Super Sonic is the only thing people really know about STC.
Understandable with the events that shook the archie comics years ago that Sega might be reluctant to dig this stuff up but Nigel Kitching and the entire team that worked on Sonic the Comic are really cool guys and I wager they would be happy to sign off on a collection set and even do some commentaries for it.
It would be wonderful for these stories to be picked up by a new generation as well as having a nice print collection for old time fans to own.
Fleetway brand is owned by Rebellion now who I think have worked alongside Sega in the past so working out rights might not be that bad since the brand is no longer within the hands of Egmont.
It would be a dream for a chance to own copies of these stories and give them the respect they deserve so both old and even new fans can have a chance to rediscover them.
Also would love such a collection to have the other series like Decap attack and the game adaptations but I could understand the mess of rights issues with that but I can dream.
But STC is just as much a part of the Sonic Multiverse as SATAM, AOSTH, IDW and a part of the franchises rich history and it hurts to see it abandoned to history like this while archie got stuff like the Sonic archives and a number of anniversary collections at least before the legal drama happened.
I wouldn't say this is an open letter but I would ask people share it around and even add their own desires or input.
The decision to make StC Sonic a bit of a dick is one that doesn't sit well with a lot of the wider fandom, but I'd say many fans act as if the StC writers took one look at the Storybook games and went "fuck this shit", when in reality (and what makes the creative choice a lot easier for me to swallow) they were primarily working with Sega of America's vision of the character (which emphasized on him being a Cool Dude rather than a genuinely nice guy) mixed in with the early Mark Millar stories being written by, well, Mark Millar (Kitching has mentioned in a podcast interview a while back was that part of it was that he felt that cool people are just generally jerks; again a creative decision that I feel is a lot less deliberately disrespectful of the character if you take into account the context of Kitching mostly going from SoA marketing). And it's not uncommon for Sonic to get some blowback and comeuppance for being a jerk either, as seen here when everyone tells him to lay off of poor Porker, and needing Porker to save his bac-
Okay I just got completely sidetracked by noticing The Omni-Viewer's expression
