And I have found artifacts long forgotten... And some would say, they are best left that way.
Dare we look further? Hell yeah, let's see some tidbits of this stuff.
One thing that always struck me about the Archie comic series was how wildly varied the art style became over the years. It tightened up eventually, but even late in the run you had pretty different interpretations of the characters. This style was always controversial, but I secretly loved how expressive it was. Plus, Sally just looks awesome.
And then there were less... Favorable depictions. And characters.
Mina the Mongoose, everyone.
Honestly, that's not even the half of it.
Anyway, everyone else remembers that before there was Sage, Eggman* had a robotic daughter? Right? Mecha "M" Robotnik? That looked like she stepped out of an 80s workout video crossed with a scifi film?
And that Eggman ordered her to kill herself?
Yeaaaaaah.
The less said about the Echidna/Dingo storyline, the better. But I just... I mean, I just...
In a storyline that already has fascist overtones, you put a character in that outfit, give her a whip, call her Kommisar, and draw her like that? And then add in the family tree nonsense???
Penders has a lot to answer for.
But at least we have this wonderful moment:
That's about all I could bring myself to look through last night. I still can't believe I have these things, physically.
But, more honestly, ever since SatAM I have loved these characters, so I would have followed them into any circumstance to see more. Jank storylines and all, it's a special kind of trainwreck that's close to my heart.
*Technically this isn't Eggman. It's Robo-Robotnik, an alternate-universe robo-clone of the original Robotnik that took over when Julian Kintobar was erased from the timeline by the Doomsday machine. Archie Sonic was a hell of a thing.


