IDW: Rough And Tumble Introduced

16 February, 2018 2 September, 2020

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We heard about Rough and Tumble in the solicitations, but now we get to see them. Kotaku has posted an article about the two new IDW Sonic characters, including some remarks from IDW’s David Mariotte. That, as well as an image of Rough and Tumble, are below. Rough is the small one, Tumble is the big one.

Rough and Tumble are the first of a whole host of new characters planned for the new series. Associate editor David Mariotte, speaking to Kotaku about the new characters, said, “They’re independent agents, and more bullies than masterminds, but they’re tough enough to maybe become someone’s henchmen down the line.”

Adding new characters to the Sonic comic book universe involved a bit of back-and-forth between IDW and Sega.

“Ian’s pretty much able to come up with folks on the fly and any major characters we run by Sega for approval,” said Mariotte of the creation process. “There are a few stages, from Ian’s initial paragraph or two description of the character, to getting someone like the talented Tyson Hesse to draw up designs and turnarounds for Sega to see the character, to having a final design and solidifying their personality in the script.”

Rough and Tumble’s final approved designs are quite a bit different from the initial sketches IDW showed me. While I can’t share them here, I can say the eyes are more defined, there’s less clothing, and Tumble looks a lot less rabid.

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

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11 Comments

Wow.. they really “stink”.

Help meh plz

…….Alright, put on a pot of coffee and leave your bibles at the door. Time to fire up the Bara Kenmono Trash Machine.

Huh, ShayMay was right. Those are pretty good designs. Tumble reminds me of Bark the Polar Bear in a good way.

I like their designs, sleek and stylish just like Tangle’s, kind of give me ninja turtles vibes in a good way.

Interesting Desings, I like how they don’t have the usual Sonic Proportions but still feel like they fit Sonic’s World (Kinda hope we get to see some “EggBoss”-like characters later though… I liked the uniform they had and how each was a distinct outfit based on Eggman’s).

Axis says:

19 February, 2018 at 12:38 PM

I like the concept of the Egg Bosses as well, hope they could bring it or something similar to these comics or even to the games, they add more variety to the villains and more options for Eggman to bounce back and forth than just Orbot and Cubot.