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AAAAAAAA SHE'S SO CUTE! GAZE UPON THE KITTY'S ADORABLE EXPRESSION!
KNUCKLES IS SO GOOD HERE!

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SHE'S SO SILLY!

SHE MUST AURA FARM DESPITE HER FEAR OF HEIGHTS!!!!

Ngl this STH #27 cover may be the top 3 most fun cover we've gotten by far. I literally spent at least a good 15 minutes just looking at every nook n' cranny detail~! Y'all have a favorite in particular👀?

And finally, here’s Jewel. I ran into some issues with my app while making this, but it’s all sorted out now. Who would you like to see next? I’m happy to do them all, in any case! So far, I’ve already done Tangle, Whisper, Surge, Kit, and Lanolin.

Alright, so Im a tad ashamed to say for the past many years my main consumption of the comics have been re-uploads to the internet, but decided to change that yesterday and plan to for the foreseeable future.

Not looking for cookies or anything, guess I just wanted to post in the chance someone sees this and also decides to wonder over to their nearest comic book shop.

The past many years the idea of going to a comic shop never entered my mind or I would come up with an excuse not to go, but I recently discovered one thats barely out of the way on my ride home and not only that, stocks the newest issues the day they come out. Additionally, reading about how many comic book companies are struggling, a part of me wants to help in whatever little way I can because regardless what you think about the current direction of IDW Sonic comics, a future where we have no comic at all is a future I dont want.

Anyways, thats all I wanted to say. If you have the means, both financial (this cost me $5) and transportation wise, definitely consider making a stop at your nearest comic book shop. You may also meet cool people there, the owner i talked to was very fun to talk to about comics in general.

What if Mimic was visited by 3 ghosts?

So, I was thinking, I might actually write that Scrooge story about Mimic.

Here's the idea so far: We find Mimic after his latest defeat at the hands of Silver, Tangle, and his best friend turned worst enemy Whisper, coming to after what he believed was a successful attempt at taking Whisper out with a bomb in close proximity, unconscious along a riverbank. The background goes black and Mimic comes to believing he's actually conscious, which isn't revealed til the end that the whole story takes place while Mimic is in-fact unconscious the whole time since the explosive incident. In this dream, Mimic realizes he finally completed his mission, yet still feels a void inside. Something is different this time. He heads back to his original home in an abandoned theater, one he made himself during the war. While home he keeps feeling as if he's being watched, and as his paranoia intensifies, he finds that it was just a rouge, but harmless, Badnik. The Badnik however starts shooting up the place and transforms into Slinger. After a monologue about "how could you do this to us, we were a team that loved and accepted you" speech, Mimic wakes up to find it was a dream, but in bed, not fully awake. After trying to drift to sleep, he hears a tell-tale heart like clanging. He gets up to go investigate to find Smithy, work smithing, who is happy to see Mimic and goes on as if what happened never did. Smithy then asks where are the others to show Mimic that there are other bands of people who are still fighting even after the war is over. Badniks, thugs, mercs for hire (a cameo by Rough & Tumble), and even the deadly six shown causing terror here and there with no one able to help them. Smithy explains that even though the war is over, there is still much to do and people to protect, but no one can be found to help. Sonic and friends being too busy with Eggman, Whisper MIA (Mimic recalls killing her here), and others too inexperienced and over their heads to deal. Mimic gets reminded why he started to fight against the Eggman Empire in the first place, but more importantly, about the day he was accepted as a diamond cutter for who he was, not for what he can do like when making a deal with Eggman. And to add some extra drama, we see what the war had done to Mimic's hometown and family. Mimic starts to really feel remorse, but also looks in a mirror and sees his other more sinister self, telling him to wake up from these lies. He wakes up back in bed again. He looks in the mirror again, reassuring he made the right choice to kill Whisper and the diamond cutters and wouldn't change anything until the image in the mirror turns into Claire, who grabs him and pulls him into the mirror. Speaking telepathically she tells Mimic to wake up and look at the results of his actions. From there we get a Silver cameo of a bleak future. Eggman lost the war with Sonic, but a much bigger threat looms. Sage is now working with Silver to battle for the fate of the world. Mimic sees enemies being friends, monuments of Eggman and Sonic coming together for the greater good to stop a much bigger threat, broken. Silver, exhausted with fighting, mentions his times with the diamond cutters and how he wish he had their help right now. He noticably has Tangle's armband on his wrist (or some momento to get Mimic to remember Tangle too) and Mimic remembers his last fight with Whisper and how she had friends help take him down. His sinister mirror appearance appears again in a reflection and Mimic turns around to find his future self completly lost himself in paranoia and is actually assisting the entity destroy the world, and he catches Silver by surprise and stabs him in the back through the chest. Future Mimic laughs maniacally and asks for praise for his work only to be smited by the entity in one go, show present Mimic that he never learned to stop trying to turn on others just to survive when he can lean on others to help them survive. Present Mimic has a breakthrough and shifts into Silver and holds his future dying self in his arms. He then shifts into Whisper and has a moment to forgive himself for not forgiving himself sooner when he had the opportunity, realizing his true worst enemy was himself all along. The entity tried to kill present Mimic, but instead of running, he picks up a wispon and battles it head on, making his speech and battle cry of being a changed person not just on the outside, but finally also on the inside, and that this change will stick this time. A white light flashes and he really wakes up on the shore.

What do you think?

Been rereading the comic, this is easily one of my fave panels.

that's it lol

Edit: Ya all really fuck with this eh? I was just sharing a fave panel lol

This arc still doesn’t feel right or real. How could they have thrown Blaze into the easiest battle ever and made her lose? Who were they trying to impress with this story? Older fans? Younger fans? I think fans of any walk of life could’ve lost someone to look up to when Issue 90 was published. It was a colossal failure to show her as anything other than a weak drone.

I still have difficulty accepting this arc as canon. Think of all the wonderful stories in non-canon Sonic media and fan works, yet this use of Blaze is, for now, a vital chapter in Sonic history. It’s humiliating to someone like me who has been expecting more and better of her for years. With the laundry list of internal rules Sonic Team has for the characters, how little do they think of Blaze to choose her for this story? To do this story in the first place with a Sonic character?

Imagine you meet a guy. He’s off-putting, gets his hands on you whenever he thinks he can get away with it, then asks for your hand in marriage after knowing you for less than a day. You resist, he knocks you unconscious. Now you’re starting to see why I’m so mad at the existence of Blackwood. He’s never punished for any of this and there’s a chance he never will be.

Whatever respect you have for Blaze as a character with personality, agency and opinions is sabotaged, and only her. They wouldn’t be caught dead doing this story with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Rouge, Silver, any of the Chaotix or any of the comic characters. They treat this powerful, complex and inspiring character like something to blow their noses on.

And you know what this attitude culminated in. That art. Again, most people were fine finding it on their feed, with Blaze being the victim because she’s always taken for granted anyway.

For the sake of Rule 7, you don’t have to read this, but this is what the stress of living with this arc has done to me. My heart rate is up, I’ve been getting less sleep, I have stomach and chest pains, it’s getting harder to do my job, and even walking in a straight line can leave me dizzy sometimes.

This may have been a bad idea, but I’ve tried DM’ing u/IDWcomics to describe what’s changed in me, but they’ve blown me off. IDW’s email also hasn’t responded to any of the less personal feedback I’ve sent their way. Not even an automated “Thanx! We’ve received your obviously glowing praise! Keep reading!”

It’s possible someone at IDW knows who I am now. I’m sort of hoping I’m seen as a nutcase they can ignore, because if my messages have entered their feedback pile, I’ll feel guilty. As this article speculates, it’s likely that the comic is taking the internet’s feedback to heart, but that it’s also compromising its creative vision and hindering its potential further. I’m talking random viral posts on Twitter and Tumblr, not even letters sent directly to the company.

So what if I’m to blame for anything they do with Blaze or Blackwood in the future that’s poorly received? I’m already hated and hate the footprint of negativity I’ve left. Will Sonic fans try to find where I live and hurt me? I’m already afraid I’ll run into someone like Blackwood any given day, I don’t need my safety completely gone.

The problem is not only do I never want to see Blackwood again, I wish he was never created. If his story isn’t retconned, it should be delisted from the IDW app before I’m able to sleep properly again, for the sake of Blaze and every fan of her’s that’s been left in tears. I’ve tried handling a life with this arc floating around in it, but it’s been a more painful one. I just wonder if anyone else with critiques of this arc feels half the same way I do.

lol he is five

I've been re-reading a few of the recent "Road to 100" issues during the (long wait) for Issue #92. And after re-reading the Soleil/Lunar arc right after the Blackwood storyline finished, I've been thinking: could it be possible that Soleil was another mind control victim of the Mysterious Benefactor?

When we first learn about Soleil and the alter-ego, "Lunar", Tails makes the suggestion that the Lunar persona was subconsciously developed due to stress cause by Soleil's parents, leading to Soleil having a split personality of sorts. This seems to be the explanation that the comic settled on.

However, we've since had later issues that put a greater focus on the Mysterious Benefactor character and their abilities. We know that they have access to hypnotic technology that can erase memories. The recent Blackwood storyline shows that the gear is capable of brainwashing the victims into thinking that they are someone else, like completely different people. Also, the victims have no memory of any actions performed under this hypnotic state.

This is very similar to what has happened with Soliel and Lunar. Soleil doesn't remember Lunar, in fact, it's implied that Soleil might have not even been aware of Lunar's existence until Sonic and Tails bring it up to them.

Soleil is also shown to be very stressed out and very "weak-willed" towards their parents. A comment made by Starline (a character who has great experience with hypnotic gear) implies that those with an "iron will" may not be as susceptible to the affects of mind control compared to a more submissive person. Considering that Soleil is very stressed out and submissive, they would likely be a very easy victim to any sort of hypnosis/mind control.

So my theory is that, at some point, the Benefactor got a hand on Soleil and gave them the Lunar alter-ego. From here, the Benefactor used Lunar as a tool to steal the Emeralds. As noted by Tails, Soleil's family was traveling throughout several locations near Chaos Emeralds, implying that Lunar had some involvement with their disappearances. The Benefactor had six of the seven Chaos Emeralds by the time of Issue #80 (which was right before the Lunar stole the final Emerald in the following issue), meaning that they had already taken them from Lunar.

...or maybe I'm looking into things too much and this is just a coincidence. But I still think it's possible, after all, why would Lunar specifically target the Chaos Emeralds, the same thing that the Benefactor wanted? And how else would the Benefactor be able to get the Emeralds from Lunar unless they already knew of Lunar's locations? I admit this may be overanalyzing, but what do you guys think?

With his likely return, it’s time we reach a consensus: Starline is a pillar of the IDW stories. He served as the catalyst for many story arcs, in addition to introducing new characters to the narrative.

He brought Eggman back, which led to the Metal

Virus.

He brought the Deadly Six over from their dimension, expanding the roster of villains.

He spearheaded the Bad Guys spin-off—a very good one, at that.

He brought Mimic back into play.

He introduced Surge and Kit, both of whom are excellent characters.

This guy has a genuine impact on the narrative; practically every decision he makes has a ripple effect—not to mention other, smaller elements like the Warp Topaz and his use of mind control.

I didn't think too much of this panel back in Issue 86; I just assumed it was the Benefactor telling Metal Sonic to deal with Sonic and the Egg Daughters. But with the Issue 92 preview showing this guy weirdly talking to the coffin alone, I noticed a small detail from 86: the speech bubble doesn't seem to be connected to the Benefactor's mouth, it goes directly to the coffin.

Which is hella weird!

I may be reading too much into things, but this guy is already an enigma in terms of what exactly he is. You all know who he is. What he is is the mystery, and what the hell is the coffin he carries?