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Posted 17 January 2017 - 10:30 PM
LOL. It was just a joke. Mind you I had been saving that one since it happened...
I think I only had a dozen or so posts, anyway. No hard feelings.
EDIT: And, um...we might've jumped the gun?
https://www.sonicsta...kely-cancelled/
Now the rep is saying the subscriptions were just temporarily offline. Don't know what to think now.
Edited by ZakuConvoy, 17 January 2017 - 10:48 PM.
My Nyah brings all the girls to the yard
Posted 17 January 2017 - 11:03 PM
Well if it does happen hopefully SEGA will license it out to someone else.... Like maybe IDW. They have had some good luck since Nickelodeon gave them the TMNT license, but even if Archie allows their old material to be used I'm sure they would be under the same current restrictions on the older material as well. But most likely we'd start from ground zero and most likely lose the SATA.M. characters. 
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Not a Maverick! Maybe.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 01:57 AM
TOY DRAMA THEATER!
1 minute of (minimal) lights, (steady) camera and... ACTION FIGURES! (mostly Transformers) - Episode 031: Combiners and chest envy
Let's not lose our heads
Posted 23 January 2017 - 01:11 PM
New solicits came out.
Comic's not cancelled.
Praise Ian.
"Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance.
The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people."
Let's not lose our heads
Posted 23 January 2017 - 04:52 PM
The fear was that they were immediately halting production.
Soliciting issues months away goes against that.
"Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance.
The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people."
My Nyah brings all the girls to the yard
Posted 24 January 2017 - 04:13 PM
Immediately? Never thought that was the case myself. But stopping subscriptions would cause the concern for the future past what was known. Though I can't say April's Sonic solicits have me really hyped to buy either issue.
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Quyzbuk
Posted 31 January 2017 - 10:07 AM
As far as I understand it...they actually do own these characters. From what little I remember reading about this, Archie never actually had any of these writers sign a work-for-hire contract. Without that, technically all these comic-only characters from that era are the rightful property of their creators...unless they are deemed derivative. Of course, somehow, "evil Sonic" was deemed not derivative and I guess Penders has a right to him, so who even knows.
Common sense and legal right are often in direct conflict with each other.
Of course, if this gets the comic killed off...or even if they decide to make the Mega Drive books the new "real" continuity...I'm going to be mad. Ian just got done trying to rebuild this universe, it be a shame to let all that just be a waste.
They did have them sign work-for-hire contracts. It's just that those contracts were thrown out by a warehouse worker while in storage, and the photocopies that Archie has aren't eligible in court.
IIRC, they claimed the contracts were lost in a fire.
Also, surprised this got its own thread. Was the topic in danger of getting lost in all the posts the other one gets each day? ;P
--LBD "Nytetrayn"
Edited by LBD "Nytetrayn", 31 January 2017 - 10:08 AM.
Posted 23 February 2017 - 03:41 PM
Sorta an update? Maybe? Archie Comics' solicits for May are out, but no Sonic comics:
http://majorspoilers...omics-may-2017/
Mind you, they also don't have any of their Red Circle superhero stuff or horror series on there either, so maybe they're just taking a month off. Or maybe these solicitations are incomplete, but I don't think so. And the Sonic comics are usually pretty reliable for coming out monthly, usually.
Let's not lose our heads
Posted 23 February 2017 - 10:23 PM
Sorta an update? Maybe? Archie Comics' solicits for May are out, but no Sonic comics:
http://majorspoilers...omics-may-2017/
Mind you, they also don't have any of their Red Circle superhero stuff or horror series on there either, so maybe they're just taking a month off. Or maybe these solicitations are incomplete, but I don't think so. And the Sonic comics are usually pretty reliable for coming out monthly, usually.
This happened when the comic's release was delayed before. This happened last year.
Just keep that in mind.
Edited by Razorsaw, 23 February 2017 - 10:23 PM.
"Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance.
The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people."
I don't care
Posted 08 March 2017 - 08:55 PM
"ORIGINAL CHARACTER, DO NOT STEAL" is a meme commonly associated with Sonic "original characters," or OCs, who are often just recolors of existing characters. It mutated into "DONUT STEEL" because the internet has a deep love for horrible puns.
Anyway, what's going on is that people who have actually officially worked on Sonic are claiming Sega stole the characters that they made for Sega. It's why they retconned so many of the old cast out of the comic - Ken Penders claimed the characters he created to be his own, so he sued Archie. Archie couldn't find the rights to the characters they owned - they claim that they burnt the documents accidentally. And thus Penders got his mitts on all the echidna characters like Julie-Su and Enerjak, and used thim in his own horrible comics.
Edited by Evac, 08 March 2017 - 08:57 PM.
Let's not lose our heads
Posted 09 March 2017 - 07:08 PM
"ORIGINAL CHARACTER, DO NOT STEAL" is a meme commonly associated with Sonic "original characters," or OCs, who are often just recolors of existing characters. It mutated into "DONUT STEEL" because the internet has a deep love for horrible puns.
Anyway, what's going on is that people who have actually officially worked on Sonic are claiming Sega stole the characters that they made for Sega. It's why they retconned so many of the old cast out of the comic - Ken Penders claimed the characters he created to be his own, so he sued Archie. Archie couldn't find the rights to the characters they owned - they claim that they burnt the documents accidentally. And thus Penders got his mitts on all the echidna characters like Julie-Su and Enerjak, and used thim in his own horrible comics.
Ken Penders never sued Archie. He sued Sega and Activision for "Sonic Chronicles" allegedly infringing on his copyright, and Archie in turn sued HIM.
"Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance.
The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people."
Opinionated idiot
Posted 09 March 2017 - 09:19 PM
As a general comment, I've long felt the guiding rule for Sonic fan characters should be "How would this character handle in a game?".
If people could use that going forward, we'd see less 'hedgehog head on a human body' designs going forward.
Posted 10 March 2017 - 03:04 AM
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