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Is he trans, or just poking fun at himself? Cause he just looks like a dude. A pretty thin dude but still just a dude
Jordan Murphy
The environments are really pretty in-game and I really appreciate when artists draws backgrounds as it seems like it's not a common thing to do.
Chase Nelson
I almost forgot about the StC summer special (as well as a few others). This one has a relevant Knuckles storyline in it so I will dump that before moving on to the Sonic 3 stories.
Kayden Richardson
it's just clickbait
Juan Thomas
Something compels me to post this Knuckles' profile from the Summer issue. What are the current official character ages anyway. I though Knuckles was supposed to be older than Sonic.
Jose Edwards
The video itself was cringe.
Joseph Fisher
>Sonic 15 Knuckles 16
Dominic Perez
Kitching wrote an entire Knuckles Knock Out Summer special in 1996, with Chaotic and everything. Don't let me forget to post it if we get that far > tfw these are over 20 years old
I recognise this artist, but I don't remember the name. It looks similar to the Decap Attack artists, so Steve Potter maybe? I am very tempted to dump the Decap Attack stories to /co/ or maybe /vr/. Not sure where they're on topic though.
Wyatt Anderson
early knuckles looks seriously fucked up
Logan Stewart
Actually in-game I think Knuckles was tall and fairly built. I think most early StC artists stayed in classic Sonic pot-belly mode though. I appreciate when an artist notices little things like the tooth. Does knuckles even have the fangs anymore?
John Diaz
>zoom tube
delete this
Isaiah Hernandez
Zoom Tube >>> Zoot Toot
Prove me wrong faggots.
David Jackson
What's the official term for the pipes anyway? I'm not sure if this ship is supposed to be the Death Egg or not. By this stage Sonic 3 had been out a while. Maybe this was an early Sonic 3 teaser story that got shifted to the Summer Special?
Three pages in and the writers of even the earliest comics made note of the fact that Knuckles was alone and presumably waiting for his people to return or wondering about them. They made a point of him being a guardian as well. We had this discussion a few threads back about the basics of Knuckles' original backstory and how when you take it away there's way less of a character left. And again I don't know why the interior here looks like a submarine.
Brody White
In the Fleetway canon, the Floating Island starts with its own set of Chaos Emeralds. It won't be a big issue really.
Also, did any other spin-off go into details about how Robotnik met Knuckles? Did Archie ever have a side story about it?
Jose Smith
COME ON LIGHT THE FUSE HE'S A ROCKET AND HE'S READY TO GO
Caleb Long
So do they pull an Archie and combine into the Master Emerald?
Noah Nelson
Early Knuckles is cool. He has that air of mystery to him on top of being strong and capable. Really resent how Adventure de-mystified him and Angel Island all at once. Would've been cool if they only implied what Chaos's origin was instead of outright taking several characters to the past.
/vr/ would probably appreciate Decap Attack more.
Jace Bell
for whatever reason I am reading this with dan green and long john baldry's voices
it's glorious
James Hall
Not really. By the time issue 13 starts, Knuckles and Robotnik have already met.
Isaiah Rivera
CAUSE NOW THE COUNTDOWN HAS STARTED AND HE'S READY TO BLOW
Ayden Ross
Attempting to find flowers in every media is kind of suffering.
Jack Collins
Zoot Schute, dummy.
Luis Wilson
Close but no. We'll get to it eventually. > Adventure de-mystified him and Angel Island all at once Gonna have to disagree user-senpai. SA1 gave the Emerald and the Echidnas more depth but not actually Knuckles himself. I still think there's a lot there left to explore. youtube.com/watch?v=8SKSyq1ivBs youtube.com/watch?v=xNIp-sOzr58 Just declared as having met, or there was an on page first meeting? OK. Back to the regular issues. I'm getting a sudden urge to dump more since the thread is kind of quiet but is this a good idea.
I think Fleetway are retconning the Death Egg crash at the End of Sonic 2 back into their own canon here, since it was still floating around a few issues ago.
Brody Kelly
Knuckles is dumb and stupid. And fat.
William Edwards
Cute Sally
Isaiah Jones
>Just declared as having met, or there was an on page first meeting? They just met off-screen. When Sonic and Tails encounter Knuckles, he's already met Robotnik.
>I think Fleetway are retconning the Death Egg crash at the End of Sonic 2 back into their own canon here, since it was still floating around a few issues ago. Not really. The one in issue 6 is the Death Egg I. The one in the Summer Special was Death Egg II.
Jaxson Sullivan
meant to respond to
Samuel King
ROLLIN' AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!
Austin Davis
Team Dark
Nathan Jackson
More like Team Dork LMAO
Ian Ramirez
There is another Death Egg in the Special Zone, but I think the (wrecked) one seen in Issue 6 is the one which crashed. I'm not certain really. I think Elson changes his art style in this issue to move Sonic closer to the Sprite set seen in Sonic 3. Overall he's drawn less .... angry ... than in previous issues.
Henry Sanchez
...
Elijah Allen
heh. pretty clever for a kid.
Connor Hughes
I don't ever know how to feel when we get mentioned outside of Veeky Forums.
I like Shade the Echidna to be honest. Much more than I like Tikal. Fuck Tikal.
Ian Turner
if it was that easy to find why didn't anyone find it before
is the tornado the only aircraft in the world or what
Nicholas Smith
MORE LIKE TEAM DIARRHEA
Jonathan Howard
You'd think people would be more receptive to ancient legends considering shit like Little Planet, the Special Zone, the Chaos Emeralds, etc.
Caleb Lewis
because of megaman
Asher Collins
This game is going to be so good no one will even buy Mania or Forces.
Jeremiah Hill
Kintobar triangulated it while tracking the Death Egg's descent. Sonic may look more cheerful, but he's no less nasty to Tails. I'm still reading Johnny Lightfoot in an Auzzie accent.
Carson Morris
No, that's the Egg Fortress.
Angel Peterson
Johnny seems more like a Rob Paulsen character to me.
so here's an intro dialogue scene from Injustice 2. let's say there's a sonic fighting game in the same vain. want to try and write some of them for the sonic cast?
Vector: you still own me money Eggman! Eggman: you're not a getting penny out of me Vector: looks like I'll have to rough you up!
Knuckles: I took you out with one punch when we first met Sonic: I didn't have the hang of going super Knuckles: and I guess the sun was in your eyes too?
Shadow: those aliens aren't here to help you Sonic: weren't you made form an alien? Shadow: don't remind me.
Luke Nguyen
I AM ROFLING OVER 9000 LOLS HERE
Chase Rodriguez
IS THIS AN ACTUAL THING?
Lucas Foster
...
Blake Hall
Yup.
William Bell
In my headcanon that was another Death Egg. I have no idea why. We're in Marble Garden Zone for anyone rusty in the memory department. And there is no mercy or respite for Fleetway Tails.
Asher Cooper
I wanna pet that Blaze
Jordan Martinez
Sonic is overal a lot more cheery in these issues, but I think Elson reverts back to surly/smirk later on. I'm pretty sure he's changed the way he's drawing Sonic as well, but I have 0 art training or terminology so I can't really tell here. His Tails is a lot better though, but I think this is as good as it gets. For whatever reason, Elson could never get Tails "right".
Owen Nguyen
I think we've basically covered all the main gameplay additions in Sonic 3 by now. Also, I have no idea why there is a Pointdexter in Marble Garden instead of a Bubbles.
Mason Cox
Does Sonic ever tell Tails about it later?
Jacob Brown
Suddenly Knuckles Knuckles will be sporting the lip curl/smirk for quite a while. Next up is the Bargey in the Gargey. And fuck it it's Alone-day night so I may just dump.
>E3 barely even started and yet, we have Bubsy and Atari returning from the dead
Michael Hill
> Steve Potter Actually, it may be Kitching himself who drew these. I have no idea really. Not Tails, but it is explained. Bumping with ENTER THE KNUCKLES: PART 2 that's the actual story title Knuckles' leer here haunts me, but not as much as Robotnik's rear side profile.
Carson Perry
The 90s are back. Prepare for the next Nickelback album.
Aiden Long
If anything, this feels like a response to Sonic bringing back Classic games and harnessing the autism of OC's.
What a world.
Thomas Roberts
I like it when Robotnik's raw cunning is emphaised. He's an evil genius, so he should be able to use guile and deceit to get ahead as much as technological mastery. "Play with my Emuralds?"
Cameron Phillips
I really don't like seeing Robotnik from behind his mustache. His upper lip area just looks weird.
Jack Martin
Did you know that Animaniacs is returning to TV ?
Gabriel Ortiz
And Cowboy Bebop is getting a live action TV show?
Caleb Long
What the fuck is happening
Blake White
Laziness mostly
Not just children shit. Fuller House, PrisonBreak, 24, im sure much much more shows having reunion seasons
Caleb Jenkins
And The Rock is running for president in 2020? And The Incredibles 2 will release next year?
Chase Morgan
I don't know if I wanna see Dot Warner do wrecking ball.
Adrian Bennett
We live in the cursed timeline
Leo Parker
Can modern animation studios even animate something like Animaniacs?
Jeremiah James
Hope you enjoy flash.
Jace Torres
I think it's nice that's there's at least one canon (Boom) where Sonic actually has feelings for Amy. She usually is friendzoned in everything else.
Josiah Taylor
COULD they? Sure.
WILL they? Nope.
Charles Phillips
No, they'll just use cheap flash animation just like with the new megaman cartoon where Mega is a teenager named Rock who transforms into megaman to fight crime in hilarious 5 minute episodes.
Tyler Hughes
Yeah, but they can only barely imply it, because if they do anything more, Sega'll cancel the shit out of it.
Sebastian Price
Shouldn't there be hair there? Or does it all just pring out from the centre. Was it Generations or Lego Dimensions that made the fake moustache joke? This is now a Rival Fight. Most media treats Knuckles' spines as relatively rigid I think, but early on the rastafarian influence turned them more into dreadlocks.
Matthew Nelson
>Rock
lol get that nip shit outta here
his name is Aki now
Gabriel Cook
OK. Look. This is a stretch. But in the first two panels, are we not looking at some form of Tornado Jump from Heroesa and Knuckle's digging abilities from SA1/2? My headcanon is making meta-inferences that won't support scrutiny, but I cannot remain silent: Did the comics influence the later games?
Zachary Ross
Knuckles was always able to dig. It was mentioned in both Western and Japanese manuals for Sonic 3.
Carson Butler
We live in a timeline of Sonic memes, electro music, gacha games, bad CG animation and moeshit, all of this in the entertainment territory only. And we are all in our late twenties, either failed our studies or in shitty jobs, arguing about an era we were too stupid to fully enjoy, while stupid kids diss everything that isn't 3D or Minecraft. It's unbearable.
Brandon Rivera
When alone and exposed above ground, Eggmen are vulnerable to air predators such as red foxes.
Aaron Adams
>implying based Nippon would associate with filthy Gaijin It's a fucking miracle that Mania exists.
Brandon Thompson
allahu akbar -tails
David Russell
Not really. Sega of Japan barely knew anything about international media during the production of the Adventure games or Heroes. In fact, communication was so barren between the Segas of the world that the Fleetway staff only had a single promotional poster/screenshot to work with for the Adventure adaptation.
Thomas James
are we forgetting that sonic adventure was made in LA?
Jose Fisher
Geez user you laid it a little thick there. I go to sonic for escapism. This is literally the opposite.
Owen Martin
Best insult coming through!
Liam Young
Sorry. All that nostalgia-baiting got me too nostalgic. I need Forces and Mania as soon as possible.
Jayden Jackson
>not faker
Jack Butler
I'll bet no-one saw this coming. How often do you see Robotnik getting kidnapped by Tails? Knuckles! Rescue me! Also, Knuckles' chest patch is being drawn as a metal collar here. Was it always supposed to have been white fur? I remember being confused about this.