WAW the Zonerunner
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Post by WAW the Zonerunner on Mar 14, 2004 22:40:48 GMT
Whilst everyone here remembers and loves all the Sonic strips from StC, it also brought us various strips of other Sega games during it's earlier times with games like Wonder Boy, Eternal Champions, Streets of Rage, Sparkster and of course Decap Attack all getting comic strips in StC.
Basically, I'm wondering what everyone here thought of these old strips.
Did you think they were a good way of adding variance to the comic, or were you only interested in the Sonic strips?
Should have there been more of them?
Do you think StC shouldn't have stopped them when they did?
Do you have any particular favourates?
Should we try to convince the StC Online lot to do some of these as part of their comic?
*gets evil glares from the staff*
Just an idea...
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Post by Samface on Mar 14, 2004 22:51:23 GMT
I liked the strips more as they went on, but I did like the fact that phasing them out allowed the writers to explore the Sonic universe more, and have some nifty cross-continuty like Tails' absence from the "Revolution" story (where Brutus launched an assault on Metropolis City and Robotnik destroyed him) because he was fighting in Casino Night. Anyway, my favourites were probably Chameleon, Shining Force, Eternal Champions, Streets of Rage, Ecco and Pirate STC ;D. I also held a fond spot for Marko's Magic Football. I seem to recall liking Sparkster, too, but since I can't really remember what happened in it (and I can with the others) it obviously didn't have that much of an impact on me. (The brilliance of Decap goes without saying.  ) As for non-Sonic strips being a part of STC-O, that idea was certainly thrown around not long after this forum started and I myself offered to write a Burning Rangers strip. I've been throwing a few ideas around about that, I should really start writing them down...^^; |
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Post by Admin Droid on Mar 14, 2004 22:55:33 GMT
At the time, I preferred the Sonic stuff. But increasingly I liked the other stuff as I got older. Decap was awesome and deserved a comic of its very own.
But Kid Chameleon, Shinobi, Kitching's Streets of Rage, the second Eternal Champions and even Marko were fun.
If only we could get writers/artists for the task, I'd love to bring these strips back.
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Post by supersonicjim on Mar 14, 2004 22:55:52 GMT
sonicthecomic.proboards22.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1077547361i liked the decap ones, I even had a decap attack soup flask! (cut-outs stuck on it with sticky tape) I also like the wonderboy stories which they added a nice mix. if I remeber rightly at about issue 100 the only non sonic (or plunder) stroy was decap attack, who doesn't like decap attack? show of hands please. to the point I don't think the humes in charge have the time to do a decap strip but I may be wrong. edit: mr ed got posted before me.
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Post by Omega Wants Cake on Mar 14, 2004 23:00:43 GMT
The Ecco strips where my favs, loved the art style  Reckon they should make Decap into a seperate fan comic, "DAonline" ;D |
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Post by Mighty Fan on Mar 14, 2004 23:01:53 GMT
I liked the strips as well, but I think that the Marxio brothers should have gotten one of their own too, I feel like they were extremly underused characters which had a lot of potential.
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Post by Ben2k9 on Mar 15, 2004 0:39:33 GMT
decap of coarse (I loved the story of Head becoming famous, also Mr Cuddlebunny was excellent! I also like The Bride of Chuck story, not only was it an excellent story but it was one of the best puns ever!)
I also liked Eternal Champions, Kid Chameleon and the Plunder stories.
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Post by ChaosX3 on Mar 16, 2004 0:26:35 GMT
I liked Decap. No, I loved decap! Peter the Perfect Pixie! That cracked me up. Plunder, however, seemed very shallow.
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Post by Omega Wants Cake on Mar 16, 2004 0:38:41 GMT
[Plunder, however, seemed very shallow. ] Dare I make the obvious joke |
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Zak29
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Post by Zak29 on Mar 16, 2004 16:03:57 GMT
Yeah, Ed, I would offer to draw other sega stories (would love to try burning rangers or Panzer Dragoon), but I'm having such a blast with Sonic stories, plus they're top priority!
Maybe after that 2 parter we've been talking about....?
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Post by Admin Droid on Mar 16, 2004 18:26:22 GMT
Sounds great, Zak. Plenty of time to think it over, anyway. |
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Post by Agentgrey on Mar 16, 2004 18:44:30 GMT
OH! OH! I wouldnt mind sinking my teeth into writing a sega game story |
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Post by Knuckles on Mar 16, 2004 20:21:49 GMT
Yah Kid Chameleon or Streets of Rage were my favourite
*suddenly remembers Shinobi
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Post by Samface on Mar 16, 2004 21:04:44 GMT
Dang!! How could I forget Shinobi?? How?? And Zak, my script for a Burning Rangers strip is coming on very...veryyy...slowwwwwllllllyyyyy.....^^; Yeesh, it's almost the holiday you know. You can't expect me to concentrate on anything. But anyway, I'll let you know when it's done. |
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Zak29
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Post by Zak29 on Mar 16, 2004 21:49:10 GMT
Cool! Shall be interested to have a browse of that when you're done!
Plus it just struck me, one of my all-time faves, JET SET RADIOOOO!
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Tom
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Post by Tom on Mar 16, 2004 22:40:12 GMT
In the very early days, someone pitched a JSR strip, but in my infinite wisdom I had no idea what JSR was like, so I didn't ask for a series of it.
(Although it probably wasn't a very good script anyway...)
I think that of all the Sega franchises, JSR is probably the one that would make a good strip. Think Streets of Rage meets Pirate STC. It'd be a riot. ;D
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Zak29
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Post by Zak29 on Mar 16, 2004 23:35:33 GMT
I think I may just give it a shot Love that game! Also, chris and I were talking earlier about Pirate STC, how it would be cool to put all of sega's weird characters, like Amigo (samba de amigo), Monkey ball charas, cool cool toon characters (it was snk, I know, but sega exclusive) and Chu Chu Rocket thrown into the zaniness of the pirate stc world. Time to bring the cyber razor cut back in fashion I say! |
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Dimension
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Post by Dimension on Mar 17, 2004 9:51:38 GMT
I used to love marko's magic football, don't remember decap attack so much though  |
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Post by madhair60 on Mar 17, 2004 12:22:26 GMT
SEGA published Worms 3D, so that could go in the comic. A return for Decap Attack is NECESSARY.
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Post by Samface on Mar 17, 2004 23:31:48 GMT
A return for Decap Attack is NECESSARY. Well, obviously. Okay, I've now worked out the basic narrative thrust of my Burning Rangers script (not too hard, it existed already...  ) and what will happen when, but before I start actually writing it properly I wanna check what sort of length you'd like. I took the old STC non-Sonic strip standard of a 6-part comic with 5 pages per part (i.e. a thirty page comic). It strikes me this'd probably be too long. Cutting it down wouldn't be hard, so what sort of length do ya fancy, Humes-in-Charge? |
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Post by Admin Droid on Mar 17, 2004 23:57:56 GMT
Well depending on the artist my baseline estimate for any release is a page a month. 1-3 parts would usually be about right. Although I'm not sure I'd recommend compressing a 6 parter to fit...
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Post by Samface on Mar 18, 2004 0:07:28 GMT
*thinks* Compressing it to three parts may just about be possible. I only have the bare bones at the mo, and they could certainly be squished together. I'll give it a try. |
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Post by Admin Droid on Mar 18, 2004 0:19:03 GMT
Cool.
(Although come to think of it, didn't Nick Rollins do a script for us? Hm. Although I never saw a plan for the rest and don't rmemeber it too well anyway).
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JJ
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Post by JJ on Mar 18, 2004 0:21:28 GMT
Samface is doing a Burning Rangers story? Cool! |
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Post by Samface on Mar 18, 2004 0:35:57 GMT
That I be Hopefully. ^^;; *scurries back to notebook* |
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) and what will happen when, but before I start actually writing it properly I wanna check what sort of length you'd like. I took the old STC non-Sonic strip standard of a 6-part comic with 5 pages per part (i.e. a thirty page comic). It strikes me this'd probably be too long. Cutting it down wouldn't be hard, so what sort of length do ya fancy, Humes-in-Charge? 