ou guys are talking about the comics? well i wanna bring up a certain topic from archie comics. it's one of the controversies regarding the archie comic series.
but it's not Ken Penders this time. it's Karl Bollers.
OH, that issue is legendarily bad. After I read it myself, I can confirm. Notice how in the cover Sally looks very furry-bait-ish, a thing that had been happening every year: making the females more and more furry, while the guys stayed more or less the same.
the issue started and went on alright and good. but these three specific pages are what made fans hate this issue. they call this controversy, The Slap.
This is one of the things that even Marvel would have hesitated to pull off, and both Marvel and DC used to casually kill characters, especially women, in terrible ways to force a plot. But it gets better! Later on Snic decides to cuck Tails as he was too young to date a girl, so he stole her in front of his face, and then he date-rapes Bunnie. But that's fair, later it was retconned to be Evil Sonic doing ti with Bonnie and later Fiona! Sonic did date Fiona anyway though, so the reveal was wasted.
the issue was panned and caused outrage among fans. who all said that sonic and sally had their relationship building up those years before, and their argument and break up from these three pages rendered all of that build up completely pointless. fans even criticised how unlikable sally was and started the sally hatedom
TO be fair, Sally had a lot of ressentment being built up due to how her father and mother treated her like shit, but this was uncalled indeed. The best part is that it's done in front of literally everyone. No surprise for a time they pretend this scene didn't happen, alas, this slap effecitvely killed the pairing for good. And then Ian makes Sally flirt with a monkey (kek), Khan, to both waste time and to piss of Sonic I suppose, as it was never going to work (the dude literally lived on the other side of the world).
I think an extra factor that added to it was the light hearted cool looking psuedo-manga chibi style they were doing for a bit here.
It's strange indeed, especially because the next arc involved mass-genocide of the Echidna. That comic is a good example of what NOT to do when writing a story.
Framing sonic as in the wrong for deciding to not give up his whole deal for "safety" is just the cherry on the shit sundae.
It's not the first time that Sonic's allies shit on him and decide to exile/kick him out for whatever reason, as in, their best soldier, then start crying when they need him again and he obliges. Over, over and over. Ian made a council of literal tools who displaced the increasingly brain-damaged king... But all of the council members were useless and moved by petiness. Then there's that Mongoose girl, made useless as her role is redundant by Amy, and she was made into a tool to move the plot.
I liked how the council dissed Sonic AGAIN for daring to defend them from an evil wizard that walked into the place and demanded the crown with a flimsy reasoning. Said wizard also tried to both conquer them AND destroy all of reality by becoming a god before this latest stunt, but apparently Sonic forgot to include that in the report.
In the end you understand why Robotnik had it so easy to trick these dumb animals.
I admit I miss the hub world in SA2. Adventure, Unleashed, and yes even 06 had interesting towns and stuff. Would have been interesting to see but they already had so much budget going to literally everything else. Also apparently they're in San Francisco.
I hope next game remembers that there are other characters like Sonic and we get non-Sonic focused characters like a Tails game, another Shadow one, or even a Knuckles one.
