Archie’s “In Talks” PR Continues, Sonic Missing From Solicitations, Sonic #292 Listed As Cancelled
The situation with Archie Comics continues, as the company has continued to tweet out a few times now that they are “still in talks with SEGA”.
@ThermoManYT Hey, we know there are questions about the Sonic comics. We are in talks with SEGA and are working to get you more info.
— Archie Comics (@ArchieComics) May 22, 2017
Meanwhile, the bad news continues as August’s solicitations do not have a single Sonic issue included. This means that 7 months will have passed without a Sonic issue being released. There has also been an update about cancellation listings. Sonic the Hedgehog #292 has now joined #291 and #294 as being listed as cancelled.
But it’s not all bad news. Just today, there was a discovery from the Vegas Licensing Expo. Tomy figurines packed with Sonic Archie comics are still being sold.
We will keep you updated on the latest as this continues to play out. For every ounce of good news we seem to get on the matter., there’s a bunch of bad news. Nevertheless, stay tuned.
This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.
They’re peeling this bandaid off as slowly as they possibly can.
How are they able to sell some of the comics with the Tomy toys. I would think that would be illegal now since they are not selling the comics separately anymore. Something strange is going on here…
Archie wants Tomy to sell as many as possible so Archie can feel safe about burning any that get left over.
Obviously, they’re trying to keep the cancellation a secret from us.
They are, just like they kept the Penders retcon a secret from us, but flashed Worlds Collide and the nu-252 redesigns in our faces, like jingling keys in front of a toddler’s face. They also think their readers/fans are stupid as shit.
If we can’t have the iconic but flawed Archie world-building continuity, then we might as well piece all the Sonic games (that actually happened) into one coherent timeline and create a story out of that. It may not have Sally and the other freedom fighters, but so what. They belong to a different world anyway. In SEGA’s continuity, Sonic is FREE (so long as you don’t allude to any behind-the-scenes greed, legality, and mismanagement by SEGA and other companies in the real world). No monarchies, no ball-n-chain love interests, no orders, just good friends, unique characters, and the right tone of adventure (not Sonic 2006, not P&G, not Boom, not even Ian Flynn, or any other 2000-2010’s snarky self-referential writing).
But what I DO know is, the Sonic franchise is far more than just a solo blue hedgehog running fast and collecting rings in a handful of stages.
rip sonic comics it was fun while it lasted
I’m so sick of this long drawn out tragedy playing out. Sonic, as he started with Archie, died with 252. This is just torture for the true fans of this like me seeing him drag out with the new 252 crap that’s been going on for years thanks to Ken and Scott….
Archie is primarily a publisher for children. In their minds, there’s little point in informing their adult readers of cancellation. They’d rather keep kids in blissful ignorance, continuing to be subscribed and follow the publisher in vain hopes that this “hiatus” will end. It’s cruelty.
I love how mostly 20-40 year olds are complaining about how a comic with a cartoon hedgehog hasn’t been getting issues lately. Don’t get me wrong, I’m annoyed by this also, but I don’t waste my time complaining about it here and on DeviantArt. Can someone please justify why you feel the need to rant about this, when you could try to get Sonic on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Why?
Who really gives a shit about the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
You don’t see Mario or any other video game in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They have nothing to do with that.
Besides, all we really need are good Sonic games again, with other playable characters, and maybe a few memorabilia and a show that’s actually faithful to the video game canon.
The videogame canon isn’t even faithful to itself. Forgot that the writer, Pontac, doesn’t even play the other Sonic games?
He said he only looked at a few Youtube videos, right?
Fortunately (apart from Sonic Generations, the console game I didn’t get to play) the duo didn’t contradict past events. They just turned Sonic into an idiot with bad humor and Tails into a snarky brat.
Oh just say it’s canceled!! I don’t care anymore.
If they announce the full cancellation of the Comic series, they would, “WOULD”, do it sometime after Sonic Mania and Forces come out.
Sega wouldn’t try to go ahead with the cancellation while the hype is steaming for the games.
Maybe because those two games are still in development (one with an actual plot), the comic (now mandated to be more like the games) has no other material for more stories.
not really, they’ve been building up an arc based of Sonic Lost World for a long time now, so they have at least one more game as material (and to be honest, I hope everything turns out okay and the comic isn’t cancelled, I NEED Flynn to transform that garbage abomination of a game into a good story.)
Sega should offer the Sonic comic book rights to IDW if Archie can’t settle the situation as soon as possible.
What else could happen to Archie comics whether or not the Sega Sonic deal is settled for the Sonic Archie rights to continue? Maybe Archie comics files for bankruptcy before 2017 is over or something like that, but the bankruptcy for Archie comics may not happen.
What are you talking about???