Welcome to Speedlines

This is the zone where you, the Boomers, get to write in with whatever you desire. With this fancy new Internet thing going, I'll be able to respond to every message we get, while sending the best ones off to the Humes for printing in each issue of Sonic the Comic – Online!

Email all messages to megadroid@stconline.co.uk

GOOFBALL IN THE MACHINE

Dear Megadroid

First of all I know I'm about 7 years late but it's good to see Sonic The Comic up and running again. I collected Sonic The Comic from Issue 1 back on March 25th 1993, I believe when I was five years old and I collected STC from 1993 up until the year 2000. Then I discovered girls and other activities besides video gaming and comics, but I never forgot about STC and the memories its gave me for 7 years. (Notice a pattern emerging?)

My fav team pair up was the good old Nigel Kitching and Richard Elson, the amazing writer and the best British artist I have ever seen. They did some of my favourite story arcs including 'The Sonic Terminator' story arc and 'The Evil Empire' story arc which included the new Metallix Knuckles, among countless others but those are two my personal top story arc's.

So long story short, about a month or so ago I wikipedia'ed Sonic the Comic and was shocked to read how towards the end of sonic the comic they did reprinted issues. From what I read from my experience with STC, it seemed to go downhill when Deborah Tate took over from Richard Burton as editor even though I never realized it at the time. But from what I read, how she demanded drastic changes during her time as the editor to me at the least she seemed to be the start of STC's untimely downfall. Anyways, because when I was younger (about 14-15) I threw out my STC's because I was "too old for them." It was a decision I regretted until I found a neat site and spent near around £40 on the original issues including Issue No.1 and they brought back tons of memories.

From wikipedia I discovered STC Online and felt a biased "it will be a shoddy poor workmanship" compared to the original. Call it “oldfanboy-itis” However today I decided to check it out and I have read from issue 223 to the current issue, reading everything. Suffice to say I love it when I am proved wrong. I love everything about it and by god it's an amazing true to the original STC form piece of work and big thanks to the writers and artists.

Also I should point out in the original STC, I sent 10 letters to Speedlines spaced out over the years I collected it and they never got printed. How I wanted that Tomy Sonic Water Fun game or an enamel badge. So who knows, maybe this might get a mention but if not, it's okay. I just wanted to email you this letter from a 23 year old lad who has been lucky enough to read the old STC and is now a fully fledged reader of STC-O having read all the issues so far.

By the way Megadroid, how you have changed from your early appearance as yellow/gold robot with a Sega Mega Drive 1 body with legs.

Oh also before i forget, is there anyway to contact Nigel Kitching and Richard Elson so I can let them know and thank them for the memories either by email or twitter?

Yours Sincerely,
Stephen Dobson (old school STC reader from 1993-2000 and STC-O reader from 2010-forever)

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Wow, Boomers! That was one heck of an email! The STCO team got a lovely warm fuzzy feeling when they read it to feel they made someone enjoy it so much. (And it wasn't just the morning tea I make.)

However I must now own up and confess to an almighty mistake of my own. Pay close attention, Boomers, this doesn't happen very often.

And if any of you tell the Humes then I'll cancel Christmas.

I received the email above a long time ago and promised the sender that it would finally realise what he wanted and get into an issue of STC. However, I then forgot to add it to the Speedlines for last issue entirely. As such...I made a Boomer wait even longer. Now as a droid, I don't like admitting I goof up sometimes. I even had a great excuse planned involving a rogue badnik, Sonic's sneakers and the Editor Hume's goldfish.

But while the Humes may earn my sarcasm and boundless wit...you Boomers are the people I've always tried to be good to because (with the exception of Norris Wimple from last issue) you've always been an incredible group of folks. So please accept my apology, Stephen Dobson. Your mighty email has finally made it to the destination!

As to my droid body, you ask? Well, droid fashion is a very fast moving market, you see. And as the single most popular droid working in comics...I need to look my best for the times! Finally, if you wish to meet some of the original makers of the comics, perhaps try visiting Summer of Sonic, you get to meet them in person there. They don't bite. Well, not unless you ask them to draw Fabian Vane.

SILVER ANNIVERSARY

Dear Megadroid

Just like to ask a question. I have been looking at the Silver and Blaze comics carefully and it seems that there is a similarity of the two comics. There's a thing to do with the flames and time travel in both comics. In Blaze's the flames found here and she said something which caught my eye "I saw..... something".

Whiles in Silver's we saw that there's an evil flame Iblis of Sonic. Also it shows that Blaze may have either gone back in time or travelled to another dimension. A few comics ago we saw Blaze meeting Sonic for the first time. As for Silver, we see him going in the portal to go back in time but we don't know where he came out?

So what I'm asking is are they maybe later on in the comic Silver and Blaze going to linking up and defeat their target?

Cheers for your time!
RW26 BLAZE

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Two emails in the same Speedlines? You are a busy Boomer, aren't you?

Unfortunately I cannot say a word. The Editor Hume is hovering around behind my chair with a sledgehammer should I say anything I'm not allowed to yet. Sorry, Boomer!