This is one of those things that's been
on my mind more than it should be of late, so I may as well try to do
something with it.
For awhile now, I've been reading
through some old reviews for the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics
that a guy named Dan Drazen has been doing for quite a number of
years now. Well, that's kind of understating it in order to maybe be
a little too nice about it. I'm up to 1998 now, and he'd been doing
them fairly consistently for at least a couple years by then, so it's
really been for pretty much the entire 20-year, thus far, run of the
book. I'm sure I had a reason in mind when I started, because I
chose to start with either 1996 or 1997 when I started going through
the back issues
of Drazen's reviews.
One thing I've noticed, even in the
year or two's worth of these that I've read recently is that changes
have been a fairly common thing, as has been a rather loud fan
reaction, so that's not exactly new to the whole “reboot” thing I
see people talking about, mostly on deviantART, but a few other
places as well.
I've been a fan of pretty much
everything but the games for most of the twentysome years the Sonic
franchise has been around as well. I know I've written a few things
about it before, in various places, so what I'm doing here is nothing
new, really. I'm thinking this might make an interesting little
series, but how far I'll be able to go with it, I'm not sure as yet.
All I know is that I'm at least getting started now, which is a good
thing, I suppose.
I'll get a little bit more down to
business in Part Two: Saturday Morning and Early Archie Comics. I'll
try to get to that soon enough, of course, but I think this is as
good a place as any to stop for now.
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