FAQ: STC Online

[Dave]

Sonic The Comic Online FAQ


Q) What is Sonic The Comic Online?

A) Sonic The Comic Online is just what you read, and online continuation of the Egmont STC comic that ran from 1993 – 2002.

Q) Is Sonic The Comic Online (STCO) made by the same people who did the original comic?

A) No, STCO was launched by Ed, Mike and Tom in 2003, this was the culmination of over three years’ work by many people. It carries on from where STC ended with the Chaos saga in issue #184.

Q) Is STCO released every fortnight like the original comic?

A) No, STCO is released every 2-3 months, due to it being a part time project of the Humes real lives. (It isn’t always out on time though, Megadroid is getting lazy nowadays.)

Q) When did STC start reprinting old issues?

A) Sonic The Comic had all original stories in the first 132 issues. From 133-154 they only had three new stories. Issues 155 & 156 had 2 new stories, and from 157-184 there was just one new story. From 185-223 there were all reprinted stories. The comic stopped being published after issue #223.

Q) Do the writers and artists of STC know about this comic?

A) Bob Corona, Nigel Dobbyn, Richard Elson, and Nigel Kitching have all shown their interest, and support of this comic. They’re fans of it.

Q) I stopped reading after a certain issue, is there some place I can read the old comics and online comics?

A) There is. To read the old comics, you should check out the STCA (Sonic The Comic Archive) run by JC and Ezekiel, though the site is currently down.
To read back issues of the online comic, go to the latest issue, and in the Control Zone part of it, on the top right of your screen you should see a link saying ‘Back Issues’, click this and enjoy back issues from #224 onwards, not to mention some poster mags.

Q) Who makes STCO?

A) STCO is comprised of artists, script writers, and editors. The current staff list consists of:

ARTISTS:
Adamis
Matthew Allan Smith (TeamSmithy)
Bakasam
Calisto
Amy Clarke
Mike Corker
Steve Davis (Spydaman)
Thalia Evans
Kiwi (Morain on the boards)
Rich Morgan
Orin
Stiv



OTHERS:
Mike Corker (Editor from #224-#234, site manager)
Charles Ellis (Editor from #235-#252)
Stiv (Editor from #253 onwards)
Jamie J (writer)
Ed Reynolds (Editor from #223-#234)
Megadroid (Official welcoming committee for each comic you read)

Note: Different artists work on different stories. The artist who drew the cover is credited at the bottom of the control zone of the issue, and the artist(s) for each strip is credited above the first panel of the story.


Q) Can I become an artist/scriptwriter for STCO? If so how?

A) You can apply to become an artist for the comic, just send an example of your artwork to Stiv, a comic book page would be a good example, or if you have a website which shows a lot of your artwork, then that can be viewed and you may be considered to become an artist.

Currently, there are no script writer positions available for writing Sonic stories, however, if anyone feels they have talent to write a Sega related non-Sonic story then they should also pm Stiv.

Q) Is there a place where I can discuss the latest comic?

A) Yes, the messageboard. In the Sonic The Comic part, you should see a topic entitled ‘Sonic The Comic Online(issue number) Discussion Thread’.


Many thanks to: Arch, Ray, Retro, Ed and anyone else I annoyed asking for help with the questions. Appreciate it.

[sonicguy]

im new here and ive downloaded the first Sonic The Comic but it wont run it says that the program is run by an unknown applicant or something like that how do I make it work?

[Pete]

Although you may want to use the Q-Zone for questions like this, you need CDisplay, a program used for viewing pages clearly. I can't remember where you can download it from though.

[Turbocharge]

WinRAR gets my vote. Mainly becuase I loathe pointless file types. You can open these files in WinRAR to view or extract the images. Personally, I prefer this methond.

[The Shad]

This is going to sound so bad, but I would truly love to be printed in a Sonic comic, and with STC (officially) gone, the only major international Sonic comic is Archie. I was wondering if you have any advice for getting my name offered a job with you guys? And then maybe Archie?

[Ed]

Well, we don't offer jobs per se 'cause that implies... well... money. Ha. And seriously, most scripts don't get made for around 2 years and never get made so we'd be a really bad calling card for Archie.

You can pitch an outline for a non-Sonic universe story to Charles Ellis (who posts as CharlesRB) the editor (or to me and I'll forward it). Generally something based on a Sega game -- either one STC has treated before like Sparkster, or something new like Super Monkey Ball. We don't really offer many slots for the Sonic universe because we only really need ten or twelve new scripts a year and we have dozens stacked up from five or six different writers already. But if you impress with a non-Sonic pitch or fanfics or what have you, we may drop you a line.

Actually, though, the only new person we've brought on board as a regular staff writer in the last six years is Jamie and we hadn't seen a word he'd written and we didn't know if he'd be remotely interested when we asked him, but he made smart and insightful comments on the board, had a good knowledge of STC as well as film, was personable and seemed reliable.

[JJ]

ed2 said:

Actually, though, the only new person we've brought on board as a regular staff writer in the last six years is Jamie and we hadn't seen a word he'd written and we didn't know if he'd be remotely interested when we asked him, but he made smart and insightful comments on the board, had a good knowledge of STC as well as film, was personable and seemed reliable.

And I fooled you all! Bwahahahahaha!

[Ed]

I, for one, feel rather foolish.

[The Shad]

Thanks. I'll start working on something over the weekend. I'd make it sooner, but...
How about Soul Cliber 2?

[Pombar]

Soul Calibur is a Namco title rather than a Sega one, just fyi, but not sure how much that matters since it was indeed on the Dreamcast (or at least, the first Calibur title was, rather than its sequal).
But from what the STCO team has thus far told us, I'm guessing that it's not so much the game series which will appeal to them as the quality of the writing and/or idea behind the pitch. By all means go for it, if nothing else it'll give you practise pitching and writing.

[Ed]

Yeah, what Pombar says.

[Pombar]

ed2 said:

Yeah, what Pombar says.

I'm like a parrot; expose me to enough of a message and I can regurgitate it at will!

[Mobiusman]

D'you think someone should get rid of Madhair's addition relating to comics and fun? >_>

[RedsDrive]

mobiusman2 said:

D'you think someone should get rid of Madhair's addition relating to comics and fun? >_>

Well considering he was just abusing his power to win an arguement it shouldn't have been there in the first place.

[Spudiator]

The artist list needs updating!

[mezo]

hiiiiiiiii

[rj]

I'm sorry, but that was spam and off topic. Please direct yourself to the intro thread to make your introductions.

[almozayaf]

Apr 16, 2006 23:28:51 GMT Dave said:

Sonic The Comic Online FAQ


Q) I stopped reading after a certain issue, is there some place I can read the old comics and online comics?

A) There is. To read the old comics, you should check out the STCA (Sonic The Comic Archive) run by JC and Ezekiel, though the site is currently down.
To read back issues of the online comic, go to the latest issue, and in the Control Zone part of it, on the top right of your screen you should see a link saying ‘Back Issues’, click this and enjoy back issues from #224 onwards, not to mention some poster mags.

STCA is offline where to find it now