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Post by silentstorm on Oct 18, 2017 17:03:20 GMT -5
IDW did those god awful Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, and Castlevania comics. With that in mind, I'm not keen on giving them another chance. They have some good stuff, the Disney comics are actually good, Jem and The Holograms is better than it has any right to be(and apparently is also in the same universe as the Transformers comics because...i have no idea), Locke & Key is a great horror comic, the Godzilla comics are great and the TMNT comic is the best iteration of the franchise too. And apparently the Transformers comics are amazing but i dunno, my knowledge of the Transformers franchise is pretty limited and never touched those, particularly after seeing just how much has been written already and how it now shares an universe with G.I Joe, Rom, M.A.S.K, Action Man, The Micronauts and more like freaking Jem and The Holograms making their own connected universe for some reason with crossovers that require reading multiple series, because apparently IDW decided that was a good thing to copy from Marvel and DC.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 17:13:02 GMT -5
Wait a minute. GI JOE is set in the same universe as Rom: Space Knight and M.A.S.K. now, too? Ye gods.
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Post by paperchema on Oct 18, 2017 17:17:35 GMT -5
Wait a minute. GI JOE is set in the same universe as Rom: Space Knight and M.A.S.K. now, too? Ye gods. Yes. In fact, Hasbro is planning to make movies in that new shared universe.
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Post by paperchema on Oct 18, 2017 17:19:29 GMT -5
IDW has always struck as a comics publisher that is wasting too many resources on licensed comics and novel adaptations. Every once in a while they publish some great original work, like Winterworld or Ragnarok, but they never go beyond that.
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Post by lurker on Oct 22, 2017 21:01:44 GMT -5
Oh Sonic Boom...
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Post by silentstorm on Oct 23, 2017 3:17:39 GMT -5
I love the Sonic Boom cartoon, easily among Sonic Mania as the best things involving Sonic in ages, even if it's first few episodes weren't that great. I just love Eggman in that show. As for the Sonic Boom comic? From what i read...it was alright, i guess? Not very memorable and not as good as the cartoon, still better than the games though that's not saying much. Still, it had Sticks going on a trip through the universe and ending in the Street Fighter universe where they all got bewildered at a talking badger and ended up befriending them with Chun-Li even calling her cute...and no, that is not a joke, that actually happens, Sticks just ends up going to game universes meeting characters from Panzer Dragoon, Nights, Billy Hatchet, Classic Megaman, Megaman X, Skies Of Arcadia, Alex Kidd, Okami, Golden Axe, Ghosts 'n Goblins and freaking Viewtiful Joe. It was the most random crossover of game properties of all time and none of it is a joke: Seriously, it's a crazy crossover you guys!
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Post by ResidentTsundere on Oct 26, 2017 22:41:41 GMT -5
I love the Sonic Boom cartoon, easily among Sonic Mania as the best things involving Sonic in ages, even if it's first few episodes weren't that great. I just love Eggman in that show. As for the Sonic Boom comic? From what i read...it was alright, i guess? Not very memorable and not as good as the cartoon, still better than the games though that's not saying much. Still, it had Sticks going on a trip through the universe and ending in the Street Fighter universe where they all got bewildered at a talking badger and ended up befriending them with Chun-Li even calling her cute...and no, that is not a joke, that actually happens, Sticks just ends up going to game universes meeting characters from Panzer Dragoon, Nights, Billy Hatchet, Classic Megaman, Megaman X, Skies Of Arcadia, Alex Kidd, Okami, Golden Axe, Ghosts 'n Goblins and freaking Viewtiful Joe. It was the most random crossover of game properties of all time and none of it is a joke: Seriously, it's a crazy crossover you guys! I need to look into this comic further.
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Post by paperchema on Nov 11, 2017 6:26:05 GMT -5
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Post by GamerL on Nov 11, 2017 7:08:11 GMT -5
I love the Sonic Boom cartoon, easily among Sonic Mania as the best things involving Sonic in ages, even if it's first few episodes weren't that great. I just love Eggman in that show. As for the Sonic Boom comic? From what i read...it was alright, i guess? Not very memorable and not as good as the cartoon, still better than the games though that's not saying much. Still, it had Sticks going on a trip through the universe and ending in the Street Fighter universe where they all got bewildered at a talking badger and ended up befriending them with Chun-Li even calling her cute...and no, that is not a joke, that actually happens, Sticks just ends up going to game universes meeting characters from Panzer Dragoon, Nights, Billy Hatchet, Classic Megaman, Megaman X, Skies Of Arcadia, Alex Kidd, Okami, Golden Axe, Ghosts 'n Goblins and freaking Viewtiful Joe. Alex Kidd but no Toejam & Earl? I call shenanigans!
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Post by novicola on Nov 11, 2017 11:45:48 GMT -5
Sega does not own the Toejam & Earl IP. They only own the copyright to the first three games.
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Post by silentstorm on Nov 11, 2017 21:24:30 GMT -5
That would also assume that the writers and artists from Archie would want them which i doubt, from what i understand, the writers didn't even want to do the crossover and were forced by the company to do it anyways, regardless of what stories they were telling at the moment or the fact that some issues of the event were milestone issues for Sonic comics, all because Archie thought that many game characters coming together would attract readers.
There even jokes in the comic making fun of the whole event and the writers actually ended everything with a reset button by making everything go back in time and no character remembering that they came together to fight a super powerful version of Sigma that had allied himself with Dr. Willy and Robotnik and used their technology to become so strong that only Super Sonic and Super Mega Man(Classic Mega Man also getting powered up by the Chaos Emeralds) could stand against him.
So yeah, the Archie writers wouldn't even want Toejam and Earl, they didn't even want the crossover characters to begin with so much they went out of their way to retcon the whole event by the end.
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Post by lurker on Nov 28, 2017 17:53:17 GMT -5
So it turns out that Marvel's Akira Yoshida was actually C.B. Cebulski writing under a pseudonym.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 20:53:40 GMT -5
What an asshole. Wow.
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Post by GamerL on Nov 29, 2017 3:28:37 GMT -5
What's stupid is people should be upset he was being dishonest with a pseudonym in general and not because he used an Asian name to write manga style stories.
It doesn't matter whether it was "Akira Yoshida" or "John Bigboote", I've heard people compare it to "yellowface" which is utterly laughable, it's a fucking pen name!
If he was Asian but just used a different Asian name, would that make it ok even though he was still being dishonest?
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Post by JoeQ on Nov 29, 2017 4:16:48 GMT -5
A lot of mangaka actually use pen names to separate their private and professional lives, it's common practice.
That's beside the point though, he and Marvel deliberately tried to pass him off as Japanese to increase sales and add to the credibility of those stories. There's most definitely a difference between "Akira Yoshida" and "John Bigboote".
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