IDW Update: “Mobian” Banned Term, Unlimited Story Arcs, How To Pre-Order, & More

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1. What does it mean “not having a limit” on story arcs? Did Ian had a limit on how long the story arcs could be at Archie?

   1. maybe they mean limit in how long the arcs can be?
      you know, how In Archie pretty much every arc was 4-issues long. That’s the only thing I can think of.

      1. Yeah you’re most probably right, in the article it kind of sounds like if they were talking about quantity and not length lol.

         1. Was the Sonic were hog arc long during the last Archie Sonic years?

         2. the werehog was more of an element in a larger multi-arc Saga. but the arc in which Sonic transforms is also 4 issue long.

2. If they’re no longer using the term “Mobian”, I wish they’d come up with something else to define Sonic’s species. It’s kinda wierd to just call them “Animal people” or “Furries”

   1. What, you can’t call them by their actual species? Ya know, hedgehog, fox, echidna etc.

      1. Yeah I kinda agree. Mobius and Mobian are basically fan terms to describe Sonic’s World and the anthropomorphic animals in the American cartoons and Archie Comics.

         Back then in the Genesis Era, Sonic Team of America were trying to tell their own version of Sonic’s origin and story.

         But then Sonic Adventure came out and the terms no longer exist in games lore. Though Archie Comics still stuck with it since it was based on Satam in the first place.

      2. Here’s the thing: how do we diferenciate them from regular animals? Or stuff like the flickies? I know it’s a nitpick but I’d like some clarification.

   2. I was just having this conversation with my brother. Humans are “humans”, little animals are “flickies”, and normal animals are just “animals”, but all of the anthropomorphic characters are kind of just referred to as “Sonic’s friends” regardless of how they feel about him. It’s kind of ridiculously clunky. I don’t even know what they could go with in all honesty.

      1. I don’t see the problem, in the comics they have been referred as people/persons before.

         Considering they can’t use the word mobian I will assume they are living on ‘Earth’ so they could also be referred as earthlings.

   3. You can called them Fuzzy wuzzies.

   4. “Anifurrian”

3. Could the Sonic planet get a new name? And IDW and Sega still haven’t green lighted Sally Acorn and the Freedom Fighters! There’s still a chance to approve!

   1. I don’t know about greenlighting but you should stop gaslighting yourself.
      The planet’s name is probably going to be Sonic’s World as that’s the approved term used in recent games thanks to hack fraud Iizuka.

      1. So Mobius is now Sonic World?

      2. What do you mean by gaslighting?

      3. I think you need to chill with that Lizuka stuff dude, he’s nowhere near as bad as you seem to think he is. He may be head of a largely successful franchise but he can still mistakes as we all do. Aside from a few mainstay artists, he’s the only member of classic Sonic Team left. Keeping a franchise together this long despite multiple direction changes is practically a miracle, me personally I wouldn’t knock him so hard.

         Being upset and having an opinion I understand but having little regard for what someone has done seems like seeing what you want to see. I’d appreciate a management change up or stronger series direction with Sonic as much as the next guy, but circumstance and limitations are a thing in the games industry, especially nowadays and SEGA’s financial situation probably doesn’t help that. I don’t think we should just settle for what we have, but venting in a news comment section won’t do anything but satisfy our individual selves. Last I checked, we were a community of fans, not self-entitled lone wolves.

         You seem like an intelligent guy with ideas for how to do this series right, why not do a piece on how that could work. Getting yourself noticed in a modern day setting isn’t all that difficult (youtube, personal sites, prose documents and so on), nothing stopping you. If you think you can do it better, then show don’t tell, know what I mean?

         Don’t mean to come off sly or anything, just a friendly suggestion from the average fan. Have a nice day.

         1. I tried to reason with him in the past but he keeps posting the same stuff in every important news articles over and over again, nowdays I just ignore him.

4. You can’t even use the word MOBIL in the IDW Sonic Universe – That’s a gas station brand anyway…

5. So what the hell are we supposed to call them? “Duuur, Sanic’s Friendz?”, as if everyone Sonic ever met are his best friends and they’re all one big Happiny family?

   Anthropomorphics characters, and then have casuals and normal people look at you strange? Rolls off the tongue. doesn’t? And like other franchise like Star Fox haven’t done this before.

   Or “Who cares!? Sonic is the only important character! The others hardly exist!”

   Sonic characters (the 2-3 ft. animals, who you don’t free from robots) need their own term more than ever. Mobian was the only term we could identify with. Hell, Forces refers to one you can make as simply Avatars.

   Even the species identity of Sonic characters has taken a backseat to Sonic’s inflated popularity.

   1. How about as a reference to a previous SEGA System: Dreamcadians. Or Genesisians.

      1. Or Planet Master System.

      2. How about the M planet?

         Maybe Ian should have never written for IDW Sonic in the first place…

      3. I vote for cross promotion by calling Sonic and his friends ‘Neptunians’ who live in their own little quadrant of Neptunia.

         1. Sorry: Sonic’s world is not set on the planet Neptune.

   2. Just call them by their species, even the term mobian was misused since it was meant to call the inhabitants of Mobius but in Mobius there were humans too.

      But even then the fact that the comics can’t use that word doesn’t mean that you can’t, just keep using it as you have always done, this is a restriction for the comics not for the fans.

      1. Did there used to be a Marvel comic years ago called Möbius by Monius?

         1. I meant Mobius by Mobius.

   3. By their names?

      1. So collectively, we should refer to every last Sonic being and their relatives (even the ones that may or may not exist) by each individual’s known name.

6. “And some folks have shared online shops where you can even set a subscription!”

   WHO?! WHERE!?

   This has been the ONE stumbling block that’s kept me from preordering. I read Sonic comics for years via subscription, I refuse to have to now order each issue individually.

7. I was thinking they might offer a digital subscription but that doesn’t seem to be an option? Guess I’ll just grab the physical graphic novel collections when they come out.

   1. I read somewhere you can order them difigitally from comixology, I was planning on doing it but haven’t investigated further yet.

8. Vague “maybe later we’ll bring back non-sonic game things”

   Concrete “mobian is banned, only egg mobile, no *o-matic* or whatever other names it has”

   Goddamn ian stop beating around the bush and give a straight answer about the characters we’ve asked about.

   1. Why VAGUE?

   2. That didn’t sound ‘vague’ to me, that actually sounded like a definite NO.

      For what I get only stuff from the games will be in the comic, the only stuff NOT from the comics is the new and probably exclusive stuff created by IDW comics, so please stop waiting for the Freedom Fighters or other non-game characters, you got your answer already.

      1. I DON’T CARE! I STILL WANT IDW AND SEGA TO APPROVE SALLY ACORN AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS TO BE PART OF IDW SONIC BEFORE 2018 IS OVER!! AND THAT’S FINAL!!! (Though sometimes I wish Ian Flynn never got the IDW Sonic writer job!)

         1. AND AS I SAID MANY TIMES IDW AND SEGA HAVE TO AGREE ON USING THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS IDW SONIC BUT AS OF CURRENTLY THEY ARE STILL ON STAY TUNED NOTICE SINCE THE 2017 IDW SONIC TOWN HALL PANEL! (It’s not up to Ian himself, of course)

            1. Stop with the caps.

            2. Sorry…and I’ll be calm until IDW and Sega approve to use Sally Acorn and the Freedom Fighters in IDW Sonic. Honest!

         2. Seriously? How many years have you been alive?

9. @DTH1971

   Sorry if I made you upstet but I just paraphrasing what has been already said about the comics. Also I don’t think is wrong wanting the Freedom Fighters back in the comic but I agree with SSF1991, you should calm down a bit and cease with the multiple post and cap letters while you wait.

   1. Thanks, Axis. Apology accepted. And when IDW and Sega agree to have Sally Acorn and the Freedom Fighters (More or less) included in IDW Sonic even with Ian Flynn at the writing desk for IDW Sonic, everyone will be in the know or something like that.

      1. I don’t want you to be upset or anything dude but Sega and IDW did confirm from the beginning that if it’s not game cabin or newly created, it’s not going in the comic. You may find that unfair but they are just trying to start afresh, not everything can be as it once was. You can continue to request that the freedom fighters make a comeback and maybe Sega will surprise us and they’ll be referenced to some degree in this series. However was things stand at the moment I just wouldn’t count on it, some things you do have to just let go of.

         1. Game cabin? You mean game canon!

            Also: Why not a seperate Sonic the Hedgehog newspaper comic strip that takes place where the Archieverse Sonic left off?

         2. Another thing: It could be within the next year or two when IDW and Sega can agree to use the Freedom Fighters in IDW Sonic comics – That’s when the 2 companies feel in IDW Sonic when the time is right depending on the fanbase or something like that.

10. It’s too bad no more Mobius, but I assume it’s because it won’t be called Mobius in the movie.

    1. Maybe Sonic World in the 2019 Sonic movie?

       Maybe The Freedom Fighters – if they make it to IDW Sonic – will be part of this Sonic World (formerly Mobius).

11. To be fair, the term “Mobian” was already considered a dirty word long before IDW took over.

    1. I didn’t know it was offensive…

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