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/lsthg/ #1 - Free as the Wind Edition
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>>45125Archie is a mixed big, the general consensus is that the comic was mostly shit until Ian Flynn picked up the pencil, and there's more diehard fans who think the comic went to shit when Ian Flynn picked up the pencil. I however thing that Archie, just like the games, is a mixed bag throughout. There's good Penders/Bollers stories and there's bad Flynn stories, but there's also good Flynn stories and shitty Penders/Bollers stories. Though lumping Pneders and Bollers is unfair because Bollers is a better writter and person than Penders. Fleetway clears Archie, though.
>>47403That group combined with the laziness of modern sonic twitter is going to kill what creativity this fandom had. I can already feel the autism venting out of sonic spaces as more and more normalfag cattle wander in now that it's "cool" to like sonic again.
I might be going schizo but I feel like we're getting less and less fangames and projects as the years go by.
>>47500Sonic has one of the worst examples of consumerist hype culture I've seen.
People will get overly defensive because it's "the new thing to consume" and "atleast isn't (Poorly recieved thing)" but the moment the hype dies down and people are allowed to criticize it more, they'll suddenly wonder why they're "switching up on it".
It never happens in any other franchise. Star Wars fans will despise anything new regardless of it's quality and Pokemon fans will eat up anything new regardless of how awful it is, but atleast they remain comparatively static.
It also doesn't help how normgroids will dismiss any meaningful discussion of aesthetics, storytelling or game designs as "Sonic fans being autistic". r/SonictheHedgejerk being one example of corporate slavery.
>environmentalism as the root of sonic's subtextual political leanings
ok, I can see why you'd think that. sonic and tails, two natural beings of the known world, who are one with nature, attempt to stop a mad scientist from harnessing the power of chaos to assume world domination, subjugation of the entirety of the planet and its living beings through industrialization for his own selfish ends.
however, this is not much different from the basic premise of super mario, which was: a lone supplicant of the crown takes it upon himself to save the kidnapped monarch of the realm from the forces of an imperialistic warlord who would see her as his wife-slave for the sake of encroaching upon the supposedly harmonious kingdom, that has absolutely no problems, social or economical or territorial or otherwise.
in the end, that's a lot of subtext to infer for what amounts to nothing more than tom and jerry, looney tunes type shit. sonic is the roadrunner to robotnik's wiley e. coyote; mario is a masculine power fantasy at his core, that of the braggadocious male who gets the girl in the end by defeating the bad guy, much like the premises of ninja gaiden, shinobi, double dragon, and a slew of other games whose protagonists set out on a haphazard quest to save their wives or girlfriends, and almost entirely divorced from political commentary or underpinnings beyond the assertion and affirmation of gender roles and tropes.
I just think people have a propensity to weave a tapestry of assumptions, that lead from conclusions they've drawn about any given source material, which are more a reflection of themselves than the material in question.