Switching gears from Mega Man, let's talk about Archie's other, much bigger videogame comic, Sonic the Hedgehog. This one might interest some of you non-Sonic comic fans, as it offers clues towards the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II.
Sonic Super Special is a quarterly magazine that covers the Archie Sonic universe. For the third issue, there will be a pair of special comic chapters included. The first is a Sonic CD adaptation, which is in fact a reprint that appeared in one of the earliest issues in the Archie Sonic chronology. The second is a prologue that leads up to the events in Episode II.
As of this moment, all we know of Episode II is that it relates somehow to Sonic CD and that Metal Sonic will feature prominently. The game is expected to release in the second half of this year, and the magazine should arrive this spring. If you are the kind of Sonic fan who dearly cares about the games' narrative and how it all ties together, this could possibly be worth your time.
Something, something, super long title... Sonic Super Special #3 [Kotaku]
StH #236, SU #39, & SSSM #3 Previews [BumbleKing Comics]
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7:00 PM on 01.22.2012 | 
That's the feel I got from the first episode with the cave one only really feeling somewhat unique, but then they added a fucking puzzle in it, a sonic game of all things.
Urgh I know a lot of people loved Sonic Gens but the little blue hedgehog is still in the shitter for me unfortunately, I hope this will be fun though!
Not a game that was released 20 years ago?
QUESTION: Shouldn't Episode 1 lead up to Episode 2?
ANSWER: SEGA.
ANSWER: Why the fuck would you want that to happen? Also, it sorta does. The ending "cutscene" after you got all the emeralds shows Sonic running off, then Eggman coming down to laugh at you to reveal Metal Sonic.
stupid i know
Not that I am excited or anything. Sonic 4 was nearly everything wrong about Modern Sonic 2D gameplay. It was pretty awful on all counts. Just a physics fix would not have saved the clashing and ugly art style, horrid animations, and grating soundtrack that sounds like Jun was using dying cat samples. It shouldn't have been that awful considering it had the guys behind the Sonic Advances, Pocket Adventure, who emulated classic style decently in the past. I expected a lot more out of Jun considering he's one of Sonic's music gods.
I'll need to see improvement and not just hear "yeah we fixed that" through a bullshit tease campaign that they have no business attempting.