Welcome to Speedlines! Since the first issue was released only a few short weeks ago, our e-post bags have been positively brimming with letters from fans! Unfortunately, we can't print them all, but here's some of my favourites!

Send all your e-mail messages to: megadroid@stconline.co.uk

Hey Megadroid - I remember you as a short yellow robot with legs!

Your going to get this from a lot of the old boomers but I started collecting STC from the BEGINNING! And didn't stop until the very end. I still have them all in a huge box in my room. After I recently discovered an old love for my Sega Mega Drive (still the best ever games console) I took it upon myself to re-read all the comics. I came online to see if any dedications to the old comic still existed when I stumbled across this! I was ecstatic. Its return is fantastic and as I never got one of my letters printed in the old comic, I thought it was about time I wrote in again. I remember Richard Elson's art work as it was by far my favourite. Does he still kick around the old STC office? Once again, I think it's great that your back and it means more to O.A.B.'s (old age boomers) such as myself. I can't wait for the return of Knuckles.

Keep up the resurrection,
Mark

Hey Megadroid,

I was just sitting here at my computer, getting all nostalgic about all the old comics I used to read when I was young, when I decided it would be fun to enter some of them into Google and see what I came up with. Guess what I tried first? Yup, that's right! Sonic the Comic!

It's fantastic that this great comic is being kept alive online, especially now Sega are slightly less prominent in the industry than they were.

Keep up the good work,

Martin Harder

P.S. To give you a clue of when I first started reading STC, does the name Mr. Oldfash ring any bells :-)

Hi Megadroid,

I know I've already written once, but I've got to say thanks again for bringing StC back to life! I was a bit worried for a while, when you created Johnny the Zombie, but I waited for the second half, and I wasn't disappointed!

I'm up for a forum too, if no one minds me making random comments every now and again!

See you now, keep up the good work!

Steph

I mentioned the forum idea to designer hume Mike Corker, but he lunged at me with a spanner. I’m taking that as a “maybe later”.

Dear Megadroid,

Hello! I missed this comic so much. I collected it when I was younger. I'm now 17 but I took it up again and realised how much deeper it was than it first seemed!

I collected the comic avidly up until the end of Robotnik Reigns supreme - I heard that it went into print after that, but I've since found the Shanazar and the brilliant Chaos Saga. The Chaos Saga completely rewrote the idea of an "adaptation" for me and I laughed my head of when the SA style Big was stuck in randomly.

Also, where does your catchphrase "Boomer" come from?

Hope you're looking forward to Sonic Heroes.

Thanks!

Wetflame.

Dear Megadroid,

I was a loyal reader of STC up until issue 100 and found every issue to be thrilling and inspiring to my own individual artwork. Anyway I was hoping you’d have it in your cyber heart to give me a short summary of what happened through issues 101 - 223. Also I thought maybe the inclusion of new releases, reviews, news, features, et.c on the new consoles such as Gamecube would broaden the variety. Cheers and congratulations on successfully still attracting many readers to your ace comic.

Luke Porritt

Dear Megadroid,

First off, I'd like to say that your all doing a great job with STC. The stories are great as is the dialogue and art! Anyway I was looking through Speedlines and I noticed one person was asking whether you could have a forum. I think that would be great idea as then you could meet all the people who think your comic rules! I agree also with the Evil Omni Viewer resurrection that would be a great story!
Keep up the good work.

Sam Dudley
P.S. Thanks for reviving Zac, he's my fave, underrated character!

Dear Megadroid,

AI am a great fan of the whole series of Sonic The Comic. When I found out that this site existed, I was amazed, and now at the fourth new instalment I am waiting and checking every time I use the computer. I think putting Nack into the story is great but I also think that several other older characters which were only in games could do good .

Some characters I think you should put in to the story are:
Bark the Polar Bear and Bean the Dynamite (he's a duck really), they are from Sonic Fighters, an arcade fighting game, Bark is supposed to be really strong and Bean can make and use bombs, like the ones in Sonic and Knuckles perhaps. However they all get beaten easily by Knuckles.
Ray from Sonic The Arcade Game is also a character I would like to see, he is a squirrel who flies (like Tails but he only has one tail) and glides (like Knuckles), he's got yellow fur, you'll find a picture of him if you search on the web.
Bomb and Heavy, robots who were on the side of the Chaotix in Knuckles' Chaotix, are two of the apparently worst characters, but I think they could march back in style. I've only played the arcade games once or twice and have never played Knuckles' Chaotix so I am not sure about this info but apparently Bomb explodes in any sign of danger and Heavy is just incredibly slow. Perhaps it seems rather comedic. Anyway, I think Bomb could be a bouncy ball/pinball like character (I've only seen one picture but he looks a bit like the bombs in Mario), perhaps coloured blue, and Heavy could be a huge cylinder who squashes everything in his path, I haven't seen any pictures of him so I don't know what he looked like in Chaotix, so this is my portrayal of him, he'd also be blue.

You’re doing great in bringing Sonic back to life in Britain, and I think this complements Sonics move onto Xbox and especially PS2, or the other way around. I can't wait until we get deep into the new Sonic stories.

Best of Luck,
Hex

Dear Megadroid,

I'm a French fan of Sonic the Hedgehog. I knew Sonic the comic in Sonic Mag in the French version, after I collected Sonic the comics with the help of an English friend. I always prefer your version of comics about Sonic, until Chaos saga. The Chaos saga was not really good because of the introduction of the Drakon Empire, if Chaos was not a Drakon but a mystical monster who killed echidnae and Drakons, the story would be better but it's only my opinion.
The other thing I don't like is the attitude of Sonic against Amy: it's too much.

Thank You
Steve McClane