Mega Man is so hot right now. Tons of new games are coming and to compliment all of them Archie Comics announced at NYCC that they will be publishing a brand new Mega Man comic. Now don't instantly slap our forehead here, as any comic fan will tell you Archie Comics does some good stuff. They also do the Sonic comic, which is not so good.
The new comic book will be drawn by Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante and written by infamous Archie action/adventure writer Ian Flynn. I'm not sure why he's infamous; maybe he killed somebody to get the job or something. The comics will be told from the persepctive of Rock/Mega Man and chronicle his battles against Dr. Wiley and his army of evil robots.
I'm ten years out of the comic book loop, but judging from the cover and preview page it's looking pretty solid. I'm definitely digging the artwork as I think it fits perfectly with Mega Man's universe.
Archie Publishing MEGA MAN Comic + Exclusive Art! [Newsarama]
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1:00 AM on 10.10.2010 | 
Was even fun to read for a while... but then they retconned Sally's death and killed off Robotnik. In the same issue, if I remember correctly. That's about the time it became absolutely painful to read, and I never picked it back up after that.
Mega Man getting penned by the same guys is bad news, but then again, maybe this is just what the writers need: a new start. It takes a miracle to have a comic series go on for 100+ issues and manage to not become complete dreck, and Sonic was not somehow exempt from that.
Of course, if this ends up going on for that amount of time too, it's assured to suffer the same fate.
Maybe not as interesting as this, but still, y'know. Interesting.
I'll take a look when it comes out.
You do realize... that it was Archie's success with Sonic that led Capcom to make this happen, right? And that Archie's hedgehog is so vastly different from Sega's mascot, that, just because Sega is struggling with Sonic, doesn't make Archie's hedgehog by association "suck" too.
Flynn and Spaziante are two longtime Sonic fans. Flynn is "infamous", only because he's an ascended fan, who impressed TPTB at Archie with his fan works enough to have become the chief writer for Sonic for the last 5 years. And in that 5 years, the previous writers' "Furry Soap" was discarded, artwork improved and sales went up. As for Spaz... he's just a damn good artist. No one's asking this new Mega Man comic to win an Eisner, but I do think it's in capable hands.
I'm ten years out of the comic book loop, but judging from the cover and preview page it's looking pretty solid. I'm definitely digging the artwork as I think it fits perfectly with Mega Man's universe.
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