Yeah, it's a strange thing, huh? n.n; Even folks who have far bigger roles in mainstream Sonic media... Archie must be THE HEART. That, or we just love ourselves sum dramaz XD;
It's not my fault I'm random, blame the writers.XD Lol.^_~
I think as of late Archie has become more of a legitimate "merged Sonic universe." For instance, GUN and the United Federation that Station Square resides in has become more important, without diminishing the Kingdom of Acorn that the Freedom Fighters live in. Also, while we've pretty much had "Demonic Robotnik from SatAM that just looks like cutesy Eggman from the games" for a while, as of issue 200, Robotnik has been truly human and sympathetic for the first time(Even though he was still clearly in the wrong), bringing him a bit closer to his portrayal in the games.
For me though, it's not just the combining of the universes that appeals to me...I was honestly not sure if the new writer and editor were making the "drama for the sake of drama" problem in the book worse or better. But now I feel like things have truly improved in the last three years or so. Drama usually doesn't feel like it's happening "just because," anymore...Things feel a bit more like they were in SatAM, where terrible things happened to the characters, but some sort of hope was always brought out of it.
And the book now seems a lot more about The Power of Friendship and having fun fighting along one's heroic friends/family than about romance. Not that romance is bad, but in this book romance tended to lead to unhappy conflicts, so I'm glad it's been downplayed. The book feels a lot closer to its early days.^_^
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Date: 2009-06-03 12:46 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's a strange thing, huh? n.n; Even folks who have far bigger roles in mainstream Sonic media... Archie must be THE HEART. That, or we just love ourselves sum dramaz XD;
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Date: 2009-06-03 02:16 pm (UTC)I think as of late Archie has become more of a legitimate "merged Sonic universe." For instance, GUN and the United Federation that Station Square resides in has become more important, without diminishing the Kingdom of Acorn that the Freedom Fighters live in. Also, while we've pretty much had "Demonic Robotnik from SatAM that just looks like cutesy Eggman from the games" for a while, as of issue 200, Robotnik has been truly human and sympathetic for the first time(Even though he was still clearly in the wrong), bringing him a bit closer to his portrayal in the games.
For me though, it's not just the combining of the universes that appeals to me...I was honestly not sure if the new writer and editor were making the "drama for the sake of drama" problem in the book worse or better. But now I feel like things have truly improved in the last three years or so. Drama usually doesn't feel like it's happening "just because," anymore...Things feel a bit more like they were in SatAM, where terrible things happened to the characters, but some sort of hope was always brought out of it.
And the book now seems a lot more about The Power of Friendship and having fun fighting along one's heroic friends/family than about romance. Not that romance is bad, but in this book romance tended to lead to unhappy conflicts, so I'm glad it's been downplayed. The book feels a lot closer to its early days.^_^