SEGA Confirms Sonic Forces & Archie News Coming Later This Week

18 July, 2017 23 August, 2020

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The more we hear about San Diego Comic Con, the more important it looks to be for news.

Not only is it looking like Sonic Mania news will be happening, but Sonic Forces and even Archie Sonic news is coming later this week. The former was confirmed on Twitter and the latter was confirmed on the Sonic PR live stream (the topic is brought up roughly 16:30 into the stream).

As for the latter, they specifically say “the silence will be broken soon”, and thanked people for their patience. It was a question they have been getting from fans a lot lately, so it was the “elephant in the room” pre-SDCC.

News on the Archie Sonic comic this week, by way of the Sonic stream.

— Chris (@MykonosFan) July 18, 2017

Expect more Forces news later this week. 🙂

— Aaron Webber (@RubyEclipse) July 18, 2017

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

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12 Comments

Does this mean Archie is keeping the Sonic comic book rights from Sega at least 1 more year?

Paramount Piglet says:

18 July, 2017 at 5:59 PM

Hopefully not……
Paramount Piglet says:

18 July, 2017 at 7:02 PM

What I meant was hopefully not cancelled

Will we finally see something other than City Heights/Park Avenue and Green Hill?

Kid Kaos says:

18 July, 2017 at 9:28 PM

I wanna see a Story Trailer.

I remember that Webber was talking about a “cutscene sneak peek” for Sonic Force in one of the last stream, it could be that and so the first somekind of “story trailer” for SF

Well let’s see how this goes for Sonic fans.

DTH1971 says:

18 July, 2017 at 10:15 PM

You may find out via the SDCC Archie panel…

Do call me out on this if this turns out to be true, but I have a hunch that the whole reason on the hiatus is because most or some people working on the Archie’s Sonic comic are probably involve in some part on the Sonic games as well, either Mania and/or Forces.

What makes me think this? Tyson Hesse, artist on the Mega Drive comics are working on the animation on Mania. And Ian Flyn, writer on the comic book even gave a suspicious comment on twitter when one fan suggest that Forces story would be great if Ian was the one writing it.

Like I said, it’s just a hunch. Seeing how many indie Sonic community people are involve in the Sonic game (Tee Lopes, Falk, Taxman), it’s not surprising if Sega hired people from the Archie’s side as well. Maybe more Archie people are involve in it, or maybe NONE AT ALL, but do call me out if this is true 🙂

Ilikecomics says:

18 July, 2017 at 11:54 PM

What makes me doubt that is that several of the comics that were cancelled were already produced. and several artists also implied that they were looking for other work.
1. DTH1971 says:
  
  19 July, 2017 at 8:19 AM
  
  Or maybe it’s a miracle the Sonic comic book rights are no longer with Archie and Sega struck a deal with another comic company (maybe the My Little Pony comic book series publishers whose company starts with I that I can’t mention?).