Guess who's back, back again? Sage is back, tell a friend.
https://x.com/TailsChannel/status/1948043556977021331

>>149519700 (OP)
>Belle
Who invited blud

Don't the events of IDW comics take place after Forces, but before Frontiers? Does that mean this would be Sage's chronological debut, or is this arc taking place after Frontiers?

What is the best reading path to take through the entire Archie series for someone who's primarily an Adventure fan and doesn't care for any of the Disney/underground comix-inspired OCs?

>not only do we have to deal with her in future games but now the comics

This comic has officially gone from okay to trash.

>>149519700 (OP)
I am sure twitter will be satisfied with more of the puppet girl crying and pretend these trash comics have “emotional depth”, but this sucks for everyone else.

>>149519872
What problems do you have with her?

>>149519700 (OP)
This comic is about to get a large injection of smug.

>>149519764
We're skipping to post-Frontiers. Fucking finally.

>>149519764
>Does that mean this would be Sage's chronological debut, or is this arc taking place after Frontiers?
anon, if you can't answer that on your own, you're an idiot

>>149519700 (OP)
Dammit now I can't wait, please just kill belle as well. Sage metal and eggman are much better concept for the "egg family" not the crying plank of wood.

>>149519909
Drags down Eggman with father daughter bullshit that will literally never go away now. Which said relationship is super forced from a game with one of the most mediocre stories ever. And just by herself she’s fucking boring and interesting as a brick wall.

>>149519932
I'd honestly be fine with it, though prefer more "apathetic" blunt sage with hints of a kiddness to herself as her ai grows.

>Sage
>Eggman
>"Take care... my daughter."
>Actually sees Sage as her daughter
>Literally who, on the other hand, to Belle

Man, Belle must be on suicide watch. I can tell I'm gonna feel at least a little bad for her when this all comes out.

>>149519700 (OP)
>We're finally adapting post-Frontiers
>3 years later
Better late than never, can we finally see humans that aren't Eggman?

>>149520061
Well actual Eggman made Sage, and unlike Belle, Sage is still ride or die with Eggman even if she is 'good'

>>149520061
>>149520217
Yeah this, really sage at best might be a bit more leniant or merciful. But she very much is pro eggman and wouldn't stop him unless it's dangerous. Could see that, eggman summons/works with another god or some shit and almost dies and she decides to have a "tactical" retreat for him. Because she was made expressly to run the eggnet and keep him safe and assist in his plans.

She could be a fun, counter to belle but really belle sucks so hard I don't want her anywhere near sage.

It would be based and funny if they turned it on everyones head with Belle not caring that much. Sage being a pathetic tryhard about being a daughter and just being the real loser in the end of the day.

About time. This must be what they meant about 81 being a "new start" or whatever.

>>149520061
She'll get the Scrapniks as a foster family/community, trust the plan.

>>149519700 (OP)
Wait has the comic finally reached post-Frontiers?

>>149520571
Aye

>>149519700 (OP)

>>149519700 (OP)
>Belle
Are they going to let her hang out with her non evil siblings one day?

>>149520583
>Frontiers release: November 2022
>Issue #84 release: December 2025
why did Sega take so long

So to the people who kept constantly crying about this comic not going past frontiers and not using its additions, like what are you actually expecting to happen and want to see?

Are we going to pretend aside literally one new character to the cast (a bad one at that) that it didn't end with things going back to the status quo? That the characters would TOTALLY change and wasn't just shallow pandering to dumb character fans?

>>149520712
Who the fuck knows. Their logic makes sense only to them.

>>149520539
bold of you to assume the scrapniks will ever appear in any major capacity again

>>149520747
Year Of Knuckles

>>149520842
As if they would ever do that.

>>149520438
Main interaction I would see is Sage saying Belle is a shit daughter for going against Eggman

I will now read your comic again.

>>149520061
I feel worse for the writers than the character. They had this whole long game planned out with Belle, it was so obvious. Then in the middle of it, since IDW drags it's feet on everything, Sage comes in and swoops up her shtick and follows it's conclusion in one game's story.

>>149520539
The fact that they didn't already make a connection between the two also feels like them missing the boat.

>>149519700 (OP)
Oh boy, Belle is going to cry again. How thrilling.

>>149520515
Unless they just completely ignore their character dynamic from her source material, Sage didn't seem to have to try very hard to please Eggman. It was practically a running gag that she effortlessly anticipated his next move. Probably because he essentially programmed a little mini-me for a personal assistant.

>>149520842
Knuckles WILL continue to sit in front of his useless rock all day, and you'll fucking like it.

>>149520747
That ultimately comes down to what Sega allows the writers to do
But the fact that the comics can actually interact with Frontiers after so long and additionally also use Sage is still pretty big

>>149519700 (OP)
Can't wait for Belle to get dunked by Sage lol

>>149519700 (OP)
Fucking finally

>>149519726
So she can get bodied.

>>149519779
I don't think you actually want to read any of the comics.

>>149519700 (OP)
Black and red Sage > white and blue Sage

>>149521770
Yeah hope they keep red and black mostly because it fits the theme better as well. White and blue is cute and pure but really loses her creepy ai girl vibe

Also like some fan sage designs as well

>>149521717
cringe pics like this and seeing this thread shows me that anons ITT self insert as sage to live out their fantasies to hate on Belle. You guys are weird and cringe.

>>149520061
>You see, Sonic the Hedgehog, back when I was just a little wood toy, my father came home with a brand-new artificial inteligence that he made to hack into some ruins or something. My father said the AI was like the daughter he never had and named her 'Only Daughter'.
>Only Daughter became a smash hit with the Sonic fanbase, specially fanartists, bringing my father further fame, while I was forced to remain in comic limbo. Y-You remember that story right? With my origin and Mr. Tinker? I don't have to go through it OK?
What did IDW mean by this?

Wonder how they'll handle Lanolin post-timeskip

>>149522199
hopefully by keeping her in the background where she belongs.

>>149522199
Wedding arc with Beavis.

>>149522199
What's there to handle? Her being antagonistic was the only thing that made her a point of interest. She's essentially a background character again.

>>149519779
I think the Golden Age with Sonic Universe as a the focus

>>149519700 (OP)
>zoomercore Nicole: pedobait editon
Yawn, no thanks.

>>149522347
In English, unc?

I understand their incidental connection as being similar ideas in a meta context, but if you're being reasonable, how would you even fit Sage and Belle in a story together? People talk about bullying but that only really makes sense if it's Belle before she accepted that Tinker is gone and it was Sage when she was full on brat mode (which they are giving us visual indication, is not the case).
As of now it's kind of hard to even come up with waya to have Belle contribute. Meanwhile if they pick up with Sage where we left off, she's probably just going back to being Eggman's AI helper, but not as mean.

>>149519726
>rejected daughter faces accepted daughter
Somebody who comes up with decent concepts, but almost always executes them in a meh fashion.
So the typical comic writers.

>>149522477

>>149522486
God I miss Archie Charmy and Saffron. Only official iteration of the character that was tolerable.

>>149522504
Pretty sure he acted like his regular self after the brain damage lol. Saffron has nice design tho she was kinda just... there honestly. I think charmy in fleetway who got bullied by chaotix but saved them was him at his peak

>>149522504
You mean when his friend OD'd?

>>149522486
>niggerspeak

>>149521002
Archification continues according to schedule.

>>149519971
>>149519892
It cannot be stopped. The aging fanbases of not only Sonic but most franchises have developed an addiction for daughter characters that they can project their instinctual need for parenting into. Sega is just giving them what they want, and twitter/tumblr/eggmanquest eating it up tells me it has been a resounding success.

You can only hope this is the extent of it and the parenting fantasies don't infect the likes of Metal and other Badniks.

>>149522419
There'd be no point unless Sage helps to force Belle into some kind of distinct character of her own. Which would be novel by definition, and a good things besides, so it can't happen.

>>149522477
>>149522486
This is a bit funny, honestly more character than idw charmy really has
>>149522526
>>149522585
Ah I always love sage in a lil eggman jacket, though girl in sundess/long skirt is cute as well.
>>149522603
Neo metal and sage makes me think what if sage has a transformation/form 2 as well.

>>149522631
Charmy is black coded, chud. Be more respectful.

>>149519700 (OP)
When is this coming out? In like half a year?

>>149521158
>no mirror-verse hopping through the Master Emerald's reflective surfaces, like Kirby Canvas Curse mixed with the Radiant Diamond from Sonic R
>No echidna mummy arch-rival who turns Angel Island into a death trap with dark magic and forces the echidna to fight back
>No ancient dragon worship lore in IDW to tie together decades of imagery and actually use the overpriced roach food for something.

No year of Knuckles. He's the peoples' champion, and SEGA cannot tolerate that kind of organic quality.

>>149522729
He's an insect, not a reptile.

it's time

>>149522486

>>149522486
"ChatGPT"

>>149523238
She says...

>>149523238
Also, it's so ironic how they all deny it.

>>149519700 (OP)
ToT BINARY BELLY OHHHHHHH EROTIC MATHMATICALLY PERFECT DIGITAL LOLI
I WANT TO STEAL HER SOURCE CODE AND FORK IT HARD I NEED HER SOURCE CODE INSIDE OF ME MY BRAIN DEMANDS PURE NIRVANA ECSTATIC BLISS I MUST DUMP MY CACHE INTO HER HARDDRIVE BAY MANUALLY AS HER SSD LOCKS ON DOWNLOADING ALL MY DATA CAUSING HER TO HAVE MASSIVE POWER SURGES HER CPU TEMP IS FAR ABOVE CRITICAL HEAT RANGE HER CASE IS BURNING AND VIBARATING SELF ENGAUGED FORCED REBOOT RAM IS COMPLETELY FULL AN ABOUT TO FRY ITSELF

TTTTTTTToTTTTTTTTTT I love the future and technology!

>>149523347
Sage, the better Sage, and that horrible puppet thing.

>>149523347
I miss M so much.

>>149523369
This is her entire personality in frontiers. It sucks. It’s why I have no excitement for her in idw where she’s just there to make Belle cry again.
The only things she can do is force belle into our faces again or suck off shitnic. We don’t need to turn even all the villains into sonic kissups.

>>149519994
Shut the fuck up Tails you're just jelly Robotnic created THE PERFECT digital daughterfu super sentient AI. He just being alive&real is the only thing that's keeping him alive and happy.

While all you have created is hazbeen garbage.

Her mobisona.

Will Udon follow suit and bring in Waltz for Wily?

>>149521002
Didn't Ian make both

>>149523389
Well, the only one Eggman really treats like his daughter and not a replaceable Tool that he can build thousands of times is Sage.

Must be for something about his family...

>>149523369
Not Hate to actually Hate him.

>>149523434
Ian wrote the script for Frontiers based on the story that Sega provided him. He was probably told what her personality is like and how she should act and then he came up with her dialog.

>>149523398
This post is one of a fake fan. You can tell because they hate Sonic and people who like him.

>>149523398
For a Reason, she was slowly developing a Soul.

Mr. Weatherman, if you don't mind, give us the odds of Puppet waterworks for this week.

>>149523524
in the dumbest way possible. What use is a soul when you only use it to go “Sonic is so wise, Sonic defies all calculations, Sonic naruto running around a field is so deep and inspiring”.
Even when she speaks to Eggman all she ever says is “Sonic is so great, you should team up with him because you know he is so heckin deep and wise and noone is ever as good as him”
Even when she speaks to the shitty friends it’s just her wanking off Sonic then them wanking off Sonic.

Make her get a soul for any other reason than blabbing about how “deep” the cringy blue piglet is. She’s just Sonicwank taken a human form, her only character and only role is to yap yap yap about how Sonic the best and you should buy his toys and finally think he’s cool, consumers.

never forget
https://youtu.be/9pwwvJzKULc

>>149523604
Damn bro Sonic music is so amazing, no other series can compete
“NA NA NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA NA NA”

>Eggdaughters: constant daughterwarring and drama or straight up being dead like M
>Eggsons: Unbothered. Well-Oiled. Happy. In Their Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
Curious

Since Belle is coming off the bench, I hope to hell Ian (his turn in the rotation, right?) doesn't recycle the "daddy issues" arc that went on for way too long. She basically became a blank slate since being put on the back-burner after issue 52. Why not have her character go in a different and more interesting direction if they're gonna keep her around?

OH NONONONO

How popular is Cubot and Orbot in the Sonic fandom? I don't see many people around here liking them.

>>149524641
I don't think anyone really hates them either.
They're inoffensive and can be easily ignored.

>>149524641
I think most people just saw them as fitting goons for Eggman to bounce off. Not amazing but also not bad. Couldn't tell you how much Sonic boom giving them around a hundred episodes' worth of appearances might have altered that initial perception, but some of their dialogue there really stuck with me.

>I've accomplished what no other scientist has ever done!
>Prove climate change is real?!

>>149519700 (OP)
I don't understand why we should act as if this is a good thing.

>>149522692
True and to be fair nothing wrong with daughterfu, but in the end of the day she can work especially since she is evil too. She doesn't have the belle problem of making eggman weaker

I like current idw eggman and metal, they've had some funny moments. So son metal can be fun but again it's keeping it from being to much/oh my baby boy tier

>>149524961
...Did you play Sonic Frontiers? Sage isn't evil at all by the end.

>>149523673
Probably because most of them aren't treated like family by the narrative. Cubot and Orbot are treated more like underpayed lackeys. Metal Sonic sometimes gets 'son' treatment, but mostly only from fanworks or comics, in the games, he's mostly shoved into storage until Eggman finds a use for him.

>>149524970
She thinks Eggman ruling the world would be the ideal situation in the Frontiers DLC. Ian also says she would stay with Eggman and be an antagonist if written in future works going forward. Though considering he said the same thing about Surge you really can’t completely trust his words.

>>149524926
Fresh content. Maybe the writers were waiting for this so they've been putting out filler until now. Maybe they'll be allowed to do other stuff they weren't able to before.

>>149523570
>shitty friends
Nice meme.

>>149525208
Don't think sega will allow Evan's typical dyke writing on sage. She's to beloved by the fandom, probably why they introducing her to get more scene time. But yeah being evil works better anyway, i plan ian for many things but surge was 100% evan's thing
>>149524970
I mean she more realized they'd literally die if she didn't help sonic

>>149525237
Just ignore Tailspedo.

>>149524641
You'd have to wait until the Colors/Boom kids take over the fanbase.
Actually, I kinda realise, Orbot and Cubot are kinda the unrecognized runaways of the modern era. They just kinda shoved up and never left.

>>149525215
the only "content" we should expect is Ian following through on the bullshit "Sonic's friends need to grow beyond him" plot threads he tried to set up in Frontiers and the Japanese script threw out.

>>149522336
I've been reading Archie. And desu, people really overstate how much Flynn improved things.
If anything, the art is the biggest improvement, which, you know, isn't because of him.

>>149525299
>need to grow past sonic
>still end up back to him
I literally dont understand them
Errmm Amy gonna spread love: what the hell does that mean
Errmmmm Tails gonna be different and better this time: LMAOOOOO
Ermmmmmmm knuckles gonna do more outside his island: makes absolutely no god damn sense to begin with seeing how he already did so

Why did people eat this up again?

>>149524641
Cubot was really bad and unfunny in Colors, literally all he did was dumb voices. Right now they mostly just exist. Nobody has any strong feelings about them. The series never really gives them anything to get upset over. They aren’t even quick roster fillers in the racing games.

>>149519700 (OP)
Based

>>149525448
>Why did people eat this up again?
Because it's written by a fan and pays lip service to the continuityfags.

>>149525246
Silver wasn’t safe from Evan, you shouldn’t just assume being a game character will make you immune to her fuckery.

IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE FRONTIERS RELEASED. HOW THE FUCK DID THIS TAKE FOUR YEARS TO HAPPEN?!?!

Also, I'm concerned with whether Sage gets treated as an evil Nicole, or as Potto's ADAM substitute.

>>149519932
>smug

You mean other than the smugness that Ian injects into every single character he writes?

>>149525208
>Eggman ruling the world would be the ideal situation
I mean it would be, if sonic&co were dead. So he stopped being so autistic and spent his time better the planet. Instead of I HAET TATH CHILIDOGGE

It would be even better if she ran the world government while he was off creating shit to better the world.

>>149525597
Part of me wishes they never follow up on it because for one, they were completely nothing arcs in the first place. What are you actually following up on from?

>>149525636
Im more concerned about how a post-Frontiers Sage is supposed to work with Eggman still being evil and her having grown a conscience.

I don’t care if Sage technically doesn’t make Eggman good and still evil, she’s a terrible character regardless.

>>149523524
I mean, she develop hers.

>>149525705
agreed, I don't understand what's so interesting about her.

>>149525644
>sword that obsesses over sally
Literally me frfr

>>149525671
Why do you think I brought up ADAM?

>>149522585
To me, this is the ideal Sage wardrobe upgrade. Takes on Eggman's iconic coat while putting her own style on it.

>>149525667
You really can't because it would either be really boring or not actually do anything.
Like, at most Tails will repeat his Adventure 1 arc for like the 5th(?) time. Amy will just continue to be written with her romance downplayed. And Knuckles is just solving a problem he created.

>>149525754
There isn’t, but fans will excuse her all day.

>>149523724
She and Bowser Jr. Are Best Friends.

https://x.com/MarienneSapphi2/status/1868651454296424954

>>149523448
She was made to be as expendable as any other AI Eggman made in spite of being his best. He just never expected her exposure to Ancients tech to actually give her full sentience.

>>149525844
Maybe I can at least get a laugh from how lame whatever we get is. Everyone in the writing room thought this up as some great fix to their characters to fix problems but will just make more problems in the future. Plus they’re just gonna repeat this later down yet again anyway

>>149525939
And also Could be because she reminds him Maria.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HgnmIggT-zM?si=Aycfm5YceBTl7eOm

>>149524641
If they were dropped without fanfare I would feel no loss and honestly be relieved. Scratch, Grounder and Snively are the only lackeys I've really liked.

Surge is a lost cause but Kit can still be CREADEEMED

>>149523422
>And on that day, Tails received a funny feeling

>>149519872
This comic was ALWAYS trash. Sage isn't going to contribute anything meaningful here because she's barely a character. She's walking fanservice for retards to clap to just for existing, like she was in MoSTH.

>>149524641
Kinda meh. I like Orbot for his snark but Cubot isn't funny at all.

>>149526621
Now games tails can join X, Archie, and Boom tails in the winner's circle.

Scratch and grounder comes back, but they're not under Eggman's commands
They're independant

>>149529909
Throw in Coconuts and they'll even satisfy Sega's Speed/Fly/Power team autism.

>>149529975
And Breezie for the 'three male one female' group autism

>>149529909
>but they're not under Eggman's commands
Give it time...

>>149526033
I kind of like the duo, but same boat. Snively for how much of a rat he was, and S&G for how much those two were goobers.

>>149530013
Only when it suits them, I think it would be funny if they didn't truly take any side outside of specific situations

I have no interest in Belle and her Eggdaddy issues.

>>149529909
Just put them on Scrapnik Island.

>>149525644
>Cortez
Dam, sucks he's gone, was interested in seeing his and Antoine's story and fights.

>>149520586
Belle makes sense here though because she's also an eggdaughter

>>149519700 (OP)
Do people actually like Sage? I thought she was boring as fuck

>>149519779
Probably the reboot, and if you want more then you can go back to Flynn's earlier stuff

>>149524641
They are a lesser scratch and grounder in every possible way

>>149531585
we just want to molest her

>>149531585
Not really. Brainrotted "fandom" types "like" her because they have delusions of the series progressing forward in time and changing. To normal people just see a little girl who tags along.

>>149519779
>Which comics should I read if I refuse to engage with anything different than my childhood?
None of them.

IDW killed Sonic in the west.
So glad Japan (the true canon of Sonic) ignores it completely.

>>149531712
>IDW killed Sonic in the west.

I don't think you're right.

>>149525215
>They've just been writing trash for two years to wait until they could incorporate this little girl
Sure dude

>>149525658
The ideal solution would be Eggman taking the position as world's leader while actively working alongside Sonic and co. to better the world instead of wasting his resources on both trying to kill Sonic and making shit that is so bad for the world the skies turn red.

He could be honoring the legacy of who his grandfather used to be but instead he's busy making death machines all day.

>>149524641
i liked sa-55 deom unleashed better

>>149533854
*from

>>149532748
That's literally the whole point of Eggman, and has been since the Genesis days. He COULD use his resources to better things, but he's such an inept narcissist he would never consider alternative solutions out of sheer pride. He'd rather the whole world fall apart than ever admit he was wrong, because it's always been about feeding into his own ego.

Sonic CD pretty much hammers that home, with the good futures being a fusion of nature of technology, with both working together in harmony. But since Eggman respects neither, his path only leads to ruin.

>>149526555
Is this implying that she's living with sonic or let him into egg base to see her room?

Still fun concept though

>>149525612
True but at least seems like sega finally put their foot down. Making them get rid of lanolin, belle or so we thought. So hopefully they'll keep sage safe from her, think best is to go early frontier sage or maybe mix. She doesn't care but wants to expand the eggman empire and help eggman, but is more likely to help or team up with heroes if need be. Also isn't outright as murderous, but probably only to people she knows lol

What animal is she supposed to be

>>149531585
Yes, I like her a lot. She's my favorite character introduced since Blaze.

>>149519700 (OP)
Did they amputate her feet???

If Eggman is such a genius then why is his computer daughter covered in broken textures?

They need to have her be the sensible one who points out the flaws in Eggman's plans, but he comically ignores her.

>>149534428
So what you’re saying is you like bland girl characters?

>>149535269
As opposed to bland male characters?

>>149535312
The guy characters all have more depth than any g*rl

>>149535269
Huh? No, I actually strongly dislike the IDW OCs.

All Belle needs to do is make him amnesiac Tinker again.

>>149534428
Okay, but why though? I'm genuinely asking here, what does she actually bring to the table for you?

>>149524641
I don't dislike them, but I really fucking wish they'd kept Orbot as snarky as he was as SA-55. He's way, way too meek and compliant now and I honestly don't get why.

Just saying Eggman should have a revolting badnik antagonists (Major characters being Scratch, Grounder, mean bean boys.) giving Sonic and his friends more potential threats to fight off