07-20-2017, 03:00 PM | #61 | |
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Sega's announcement yesterday was just a forgone conclusion; most readers pretty much accepted that Archie wouldn't be releasing the remaining issues and had lost the license. Sucks for the readership, to be sure, though I can't blame Sega for pulling the license so abruptly and not giving Archie the opportunity to tie its narrative up. Archie's incompetence got Sega dragged into multiple lawsuits in the past few years; Sega just said "enough is enough". |
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07-20-2017, 03:26 PM | #62 |
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How is that? What happened?
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07-20-2017, 03:39 PM | #63 |
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-Archie gets rid of Sonic writer of many years Ken Penders -Sega releases RPG game for DS where they dwell into story more than their usual games -Ken Penders says Sega stole his ideas -Sega says "lol no" -Ken Penders sues for his "original characters" which are just amateur palette swaps of Sonic/Knuckles -Archie shows photocopies of the contract during court; They laugh and Penders wins -Sega is pissed at Archie for being so stupid and puts restrictions on what they can do -Ken Penders now legally owns palette swaps of Knuckles and friends, decides to make a comic with said characters It really sucks for fans and Penders was an a-hole but the failure of Archie at everything here is just hilarious. Sega did not renew the license and the "longest ongoing series" has now ended. Read the long version of the story tho, it really is something else. |
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07-20-2017, 04:24 PM | #66 |
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Question for Dan. Had "Year of the Turtle" been allowed to progress into bigger and better things (or at least, an ongoing thing)... would you have been inclined to eventually revisit characters or story threads from the previous TMNT Adventures' comics?
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07-20-2017, 04:59 PM | #67 | |
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07-20-2017, 05:06 PM | #68 | |
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07-20-2017, 05:15 PM | #69 |
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It ended fine either way. Whatever The Forever War wound up being, I don't think it would have wound up nearly as good as some people think in their minds.
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07-20-2017, 05:59 PM | #70 |
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No one (including Steve Murphy himself, he says) even knows what "The Forever War" is or was about. There is literally no way to speculate whether it would be good or bad.
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07-20-2017, 07:31 PM | #71 |
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Haha, I love the fact that Murphy is so honest about the storyline being so opened ended. Makes me think they just chose cover previews based upon layouts that looked cool but figured out the details of the story as they went along. And, if I remember, Murphy never approached Forever War as if it was going to be a finale, right?
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07-20-2017, 07:41 PM | #72 |
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All I wanted from The Forever War was some final Shredder story or closure. We got that in Year of the Turtle, so that's why I don't really care anymore that it didn't happen. Of course if they greenlit it right now I'll buy a copy the day it comes out, but that's besides the point.
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07-20-2017, 10:44 PM | #73 |
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One of my first threads in the drome was about getting into Archie comics and one of the responses was "There is no better time than now to get into Archie since the Forever War is finally going to be published" Found the thread.
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07-20-2017, 10:53 PM | #74 | |
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07-21-2017, 04:36 AM | #75 |
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I'm honestly shocked an American Sonic comic lasted that long, even before I knew it caused two lawsuits.
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07-27-2017, 02:41 PM | #76 | |
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07-27-2017, 02:50 PM | #77 |
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Nah, dude. Archie hasn't produced any Sonic comics since January. Everything just stopped abruptly, as I assume that's when the license lapsed/was yanked. They can't make anything, otherwise the completed issues they have sitting around would already have been released.
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