Haha look! He said the thing! P-please clap

Haha look! He said the thing! P-please clap

OH NO!

what a stupid thing to get outraged about and then try to get other people outraged about it
grow up OP

thawne is epic
shut up fag, just because his quotes are beyond your understanding.

I hate when the draw Thawne like Hunter. It's bad enough that every non mainline Flash adaption is just a vague Wally Allen amalgamation. But now everything about Hunter has been absorbed into Thawne.

Sonic, you're supposed to make him EAT THOSE WORDS by stuffing the speech bubbles into his mouth.

Until Ian is ousted from his position as head writer I will not stop being outraged. If one of your favorite ips was shackled to subpar hacks for decades you too would be angry. Do you know how many times he has rehashed the same reference across the main series as hes filled it with the ocs of autistic fans given power

I used to get pissed at these references, but at this point I almost feel sorry for Ian. It's obvious at this point any love he's had for Sonic is all but gone now, but hes too much of a hack to actually make it outside this wretched franchise. So he just regurgitates references and quotes ad nauseum because he knows that the braindead fanboys will clap like seals for this shit.

This shit is as depressing as it is dire.

Amy cosplays as Wonder Woman

Doesn't even fight her villains

Tails does nothing with the Cyborg costume aside from talk to the Teen Titans off-screen

Which Flash did Sonic replace, anyway?

Is a constant reliance on fanservice lines just an admittance that you can't write anything memorable yourself?

If one of your favorite ips was shackled to subpar hacks for decades you too would be angry.

Where do you think you are?

yup, this is Ian Flynn alright.

I think the part that depresses me the most is that I know for a fact that a not insignificant portion of the fanbase is eating this shit up purely FOR the references.

I don't even know what the reference is

go play sonic adventure 2.

He's saying the thing that a character from the game said.

hunter sucks ass

pic related
I think this is the second time flynn has referenced SA2 dialogue in this series

I could just be giving up and giving the people what they want.

And if some author did try to write the next Great American Novel, putting it in comics form for Big 2 would be pearls before swine.

And if some author did try to write the next Great American Novel, putting it in comics form for Big 2 would be pearls before swine.

This is the kind of negative attitude that keeps the whole medium down. We all understand comics but there have been stories FAR FAR better than this. I don't think it's asking too much to at least try harder.

giving the people what they want

I feel like these references are the exact opposite of what people want from Ian's writing.

putting it in comics form for Big 2 would be pearls before swine

Maybe, but at the same time it would probably help Ian actually get regular work that doesn't involve Sonic, which is apparently what he's wanted for a while now.

Barry

I feel like these references are the exact opposite of what people want from Ian's writing.

This is the really weird part. With the sonic fandom, especially outside this hole, I can easily see them loosing their goddamn minds any time someone makes a reference. For however bad comic fags are with nostalgia it is NOTHING compared to video game fags hearing someone say something from their childhood. If a comic could play a Crush 40 song this would be porn to them.

faster than the eye can see

have time to stand around and spout off monologues while fighting and throwing fists

This is the kind of negative attitude that keeps the whole medium down.

Maybe. But if an author really has it in them and wants to write a classy oeuvre d'art then they have better options available to them than going to Big 2. There's patreon and kickstarter where they can create unfettered by the constraints of Big 2 editorial and the responsibility they have to creators past and future to leave the toolbox in as good or better condition than they found it.

Fair enough.

As I expected. He didn’t get to do anything in the first two issues either.

Honestly if he did do just one measly thing and then the entire fandom crowed over it performatively like “AYO DIS SHIT PEAK THEY PUTTIN RESPEC ON TAILS NAME IAN FIXED TAILS” i’d be more annoyed. That’s what happened in the movie where all he did was try and fail to jump after Sonic then pass out.

This was something /sthg/ pointed out but Tails should've gotten Shazam's lightning instead of a tacked on Cyborg armor

Make him a Green Lantern. He's supposed to be creative.

Cyborg announces his appearance with a "BOOYAH!" despite not being the 2003 design

Very depressing.

Cartoon Titan fags are the worst of the lot.

Yeah and turn him into Titan Tails.

So tapping into a single emerald puts you above the entire negative speed force?

Tails should've gotten Shazam's lightning

Damn that's genius
Super rule-breaking, but genius

Chaos Energy is limitless.

I'm glad you're suffering. Sonic is for literal babies. I bet you also seethe nonstop about Star Wars as well

I don't geddit.

and i think Shazam would make a way better "partner". It would be fun. Billy's a much goofier kid than Tails, but also sometimes morose when it comes to his duties
Cyborg's not even smart, he doesn't invent anything. Super intelligence is one of Shazam's powers

all cyborg's done is spout technobabble while he hooks up his usb to a computer. it's mind-numbing

OK, but did he shit the other guy's pants yet?
Oh wait, he can't do that since no pants.

Just finished reading, wtf that was DOGSHIT
Lmao at least Amy got to fight Grodd with Supergirl
You weren't kidding Tails is literally the only one who doesn't get to do anything. Sonic even steals some of his technobabble at the end at least let Foxboy be the smart one you pickme prickly-pig

That's basically all """genius""" characters in comics, but what makes Cyborg so boring is how they go out of their way to strip him of any personality outside of that. For all the people who bitch about 03 TT, that was also where Cyborg shined as a character. But they never actually transferred that personality to the comics, at best they just go for shallow fanservice like him shouting booyah every now and then.

I respectfully disagree, cause DC for one has lots of fun genius characters and they picked the WORST FUCKING ONE who isn't even a genius because let's be real he's black, that's why. He's not even been on the league since 2016, it makes no sense to put him back on the league out of nowhere.
Ted Kord would have built a flying vehicle with Tails. T.O. Morrow would have introduced Tails to the Metal Men. Ray Palmer would have shown Tails his shrink ray.
What the fuck is Cyborg gonna do? Nothing, he hooks up a cable to his arm and says "ayo i be trackin dem emeralds n shiiet"

and you know who has been prominently on the Justice League since Rebirth? Martian Manhunter.
And he's not the best fit either but even he'd do more fun things, like exploring Tails' brain telepathically. But nope, Martian Manhunter now has disappeared and noone knows him and Cyborg took his place. Total coincidence.

for

now thawne is the one getting jerked off at super-speed

somewhat related, but comparing between the DC and sonic characters leads to some interesting factoids

case in point, shadow’s loss is singular and drives him to do something positive, like protecting the world, while batman’s losses are multiple and often drive him to do something negative, like resorting to excessive violence and making a backup personality for himself

this is hunter. They got the two of them mixed up, he tells sonic about his backstory which is Hunter's backstory

Yeah that's one reason I thought it was cringe and forced that Batman can magically tell someone in Shadow's life died so they're now the same. Everyone has someone in their life who died.
Batman has had his Uncle, his Surrogate Father, 4 or 5 of his girlfriends, his adopted son, his biological son, his other adopted son, his female robin, his resurrected father, his resurrected mother and his possible brother all die in front of him

honestly out of all of these choices, ithink alfred might be the better maria analog; considering they both give dramatic speeches before they give in to death, as well as the fact batman more-or-less reevaluates his promises to the world the same way shadow does after maria was mentioned in SA2

(+ DC still isn't considering bringing him back so might as well make good use of it)

hilarious to think 90% of those were casualties of just the clown

...and then shadow cleaned his clock

(guess that's the price to pay for being written as the joker rather than the more pretentiously psychopathic jonkler DC uses these days)

Joker in classic days was a baby killer too. His first appearance was kidnapping and trying to kill robin by an injection.
wimpy Joker as people know him in btas is fine too but he's not the only version

actually on a bonus note, it's kinduva shame most of these segments are 3 pages; there's so much potential in seeing sonic and friends interact with the DC universe

(i personally see stephanie brown bein' a fun foil to shadow due to her similarities to archie's hope kintobor)

(also ithink this pic might be a reference to rankles the other?)

Shadow of the Bat

Go to hell, Ian. That's worse than everything else combine.

My hero is so FUARKING powerful...

it 100% is a reference. The green, the feet, he says otter.

I will not stop being outraged

You are pathetic

Has Ken Penders snapped at seeing green Knuckles in a comic he isn't writing?

ye but there also an air to it; there's a lot less grit and "trying to be the next alan moore/christopher nolan" in there

(which is justifiable as these two weren't born yet but y'know)