Archie: Talks With SEGA “Part Of An Ongoing Process”

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1. bw rosas will LOVE this….

   1. That guy is such a freak.

      1. If you told him that, he’d make something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROqVtM12DQ&t=689s

      2. Now that was just rude and uncalled for.

2. Maybe they’re in talks to change a few of the restrictions a little.

   1. Maybe if Archie can’t bring back Sonic with Sega’s wishes, the rights to Sonic in comic book form could move to IDW or BOOM! Studios.

      1. You do realize if IDW does a Sonic comic they will not carry over the SatAM/Archie characters right? It will be an entirely new clean slate of the game characters only.

         1. Sadly, all seems to point that if the talks falls through, any new Sonic Comic in the future will be with the Cannon Characters from the Games.

         2. Maybe only Sally Acorn, Bunnie, and Antoine can carry over from Sat AM and Archie to the new Sonic publisher with Sega’s wishes and IDW’s agreeable deal or something like that.

         3. Chances are, IDW would create their own characters.

         4. Legacy characters caused nothing but problems for the comic in it’s latter years, even if the Satam crew aren’t at any risk of causing problems I can see Sega still associating them with Archie’s cast meaning they’d want nothing to do with them. So if they went with IDW they’d create new characters probably in the similar veins while having steps put in place to prevent with what happened with Archie from happening again.

            1. And despite the Sonic comic fate and indefinate hiatus from Archie Comics with the Sega dispute or something like that, the first issue of the licenced from Archie comics MARVEL COMICS DIGEST just hit places where comic books are sold this month!

   2. And not even Ken Penders’ Sonic created characters will never be allowed again whatsoever – unless Mr. Penders’ on the back burner Lara-Su Chronicles ever gets a green light from a comic company or publisher (not even from a Kickstarter or Indiegogo or Patreon or GoFundMe campaign?) that’s not even Archie comics.

3. More attempts to drag this out for a long as possible into a time period where they think would be best for the massive fallout from subscribers and fans, it will be a PR disaster for them and their probably terririfed of it affecting their crummy tv show.

   1. And the next thing you know – Archie comics may file for bankruptcy or something like that whether or not a new deal with Sega to keep the Sonic rights remains unless the rights move to IDW and Sega agrees to transfer Sally Acorn, Bunnie, and Antoine to the Sonic/Sega world.

   2. And what does it mean by a PR disaster?

   3. You guys are inflating the importance of this by a couple orders of magnitude. The comic wasn’t even cracking six thousand units at the end. There’s not some huge coalition of readers ready to beat down their door. Most of them weren’t even reading most of Archie to begin with, so some big exodus isn’t going to send them into bankruptcy.

      As such, how is there much of a PR disaster in the making? I think the only people really noticing are the few people left who read it. It’s certainly not noticed much on actual comic sites. When/if it’s announced as canceled for good and the license lapsed, it’s probably going to come and go like a fart. The fallout would be mild, at best, and quickly forgotten.

      1. What does the PR stand for in PR DISASTER anyway?

         1. PR = Public Relations

      2. I even bet we’d be suprised if Archie Comics filed for bankruptcy or something like that before 2017 is over…

4. We’re never going to know if they’re canceled or not, are we? -_-“

   1. Wait for the next Sonic fate update from Archie, what else?

5. Next month they’ll say the same thing, as they’ve been saying this since last December with no new news

6. There is now a petition online to save the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book via ipetitions.com

   1. Any direct link?

   2. The link to the petition is:
      http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/project-all-freedom

      1. Yeah…..someone sent me this through YouTube.

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