"Ever since the Archie comic started using more humanoid proportions, she's found my rigidly-defined muscles kind of creepy and off-putting."

GarethGobulcoque said:
"Ever since the Archie comic started using more humanoid proportions, she's found my rigidly-defined muscles kind of creepy and off-putting."

They should have stopped years ago or whenever the whole controversy surrounding characters like Scourge happened and the artist at the time.

JohnathanKatz said:
They should have stopped years ago or whenever the whole controversy surrounding characters like Scourge happened and the artist at the time.

Ken Penders licks goats, yes, but having read the entire series and its spinoffs up to right before the necessitated reboot, there wasn't really ever a stopping point in the comic, and as bad as some things got towards the reboot, it was never the case that it was 'ruining the comic's legacy.' The first 50 or so issues were straight out of the coke-fuelled cartoon (one story actually included several Winnie the Pooh characters as integral to the plot), and even when it started to follow the good cartoon's storyline, it had its share of WTF stories and artistic missteps. The short-running Knuckles comic had a pretty wildly varying tone, with one issue actually including an homage of a poem about the Holocaust, and another being a romance straight out of the Archie comics, complete with unsettlingly realistic bodily proportions like the ones you see here.
There were some shitty character arcs and asinine plotlines that I could never defend, in fact I still froth at the mouth when I see the words 'Fiona Fox' or 'Sonic X Comic.' But because it's had such a long run, it's also given us a lot of crowning moments of badassery, and it takes all the buildup of the series to make those moments meaningful. In the end, being a fan of the Archie Sonic comics is like being a Star Wars fan or a Christian: you gotta take the good with the really bad.

But seriously, Ken Penders licks goats.

GarethGobulcoque said:
Ken Penders licks goats, yes, but having read the entire series and its spinoffs up to right before the necessitated reboot, there wasn't really ever a stopping point in the comic, and as bad as some things got towards the reboot, it was never the case that it was 'ruining the comic's legacy.' The first 50 or so issues were straight out of the coke-fuelled cartoon (one story actually included several Winnie the Pooh characters as integral to the plot), and even when it started to follow the good cartoon's storyline, it had its share of WTF stories and artistic missteps. The short-running Knuckles comic had a pretty wildly varying tone, with one issue actually including an homage of a poem about the Holocaust, and another being a romance straight out of the Archie comics, complete with unsettlingly realistic bodily proportions like the ones you see here.
There were some shitty character arcs and asinine plotlines that I could never defend, in fact I still froth at the mouth when I see the words 'Fiona Fox' or 'Sonic X Comic.' But because it's had such a long run, it's also given us a lot of crowning moments of badassery, and it takes all the buildup of the series to make those moments meaningful. In the end, being a fan of the Archie Sonic comics is like being a Star Wars fan or a Christian: you gotta take the good with the really bad.

But seriously, Ken Penders licks goats.

For true.