Sonic the Comic Yahoo Groups archive

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/9679
Re: And Straight On 'Til Sunset
Jan 9, 2002
The comic ends publication, and Nigel Kitching posts the full version of the text he wrote about his history with the comic (intended for issue #200, but published in edited form in the final issue).

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/13753
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Collected Nigel posts - Ed Reynolds
Nov 14, 2004
Ed Reynolds reposts some of Kitching's oldest emails:
#1 - A Discussion of the plan post-157.
#2 - The Big Announcement (Kitching back on STC for the Sonic Adventure adaptation)
#3 - Kitching responds to Ed's accusations that some of his strips were "tripe" :P
#4 - Nigel's discussion of his post-185 plans...

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/3622
3622 Beyond 184
Nigel Kitching Jul 6, 2000
The original source of Kitching's post #4 above. (I see that archive.org's copy of this is used as reference #3 on https://info.sonicretro.org/Doctor_Zachary )

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/topics/13362
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13362 Shanazar Proposal
Nigel Kitching Jan 23, 2004
Kitching posts his pitch for the Shanazar story arc, and planning multi-part stories. Followed by some discussion of how the Sonic Adventure Robotnik design came to be incorporated into STC.

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Re: SEGAs input
Kitching talks about Sega's hands-off approach ("The organisation of Sega Europe did seem to be a bit chaotic and as time went by seemed to show little interest in the contents of the comic. Also it came to the point the we on the comic had been involved with Sonic and co longer than any of the people we came into contact with."), the link between Sega and Copyright Promotions, and the way that the book Stay Sonic was referenced. The idea that Sonic should be a freedom fighter came from someone from Sega, before he was aware of the SatAM cartoon.


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The STC 2002 year in review (including the 2002 highlight of the year award)
Jan 1, 2003
Doctor Zachary (Tom) sums up one of the list's most active years with lots of frivolous jokes/juicy gossip, including a collection of context-less quotes from Kitching:
	"What is 133t?"
	"I've never quite got this whole business of imagining sex lives for these genitally challenged characters."
	"Things were about to get better. But first Mark Millar had to go..."
	"I spoke to Steve McManus today by the way. Just to see if he could send me my missing issues. He told my that an irate STC fan turned up at the offices and had to be calmed down. There are some strange people out there..."

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Re: Digest Number 1008
Roberto Corona Sep 19, 2002
Roberto Corona talks about the model sheets from the Sonic 3D era, which restricted the artists in how they could draw certain things - like the rule that Sonic's pupils must always make contact with his brow.


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8160 Richard (Decap) Rayner and the Road to Perdition
Doctor Zachary Sep 6, 2001
"Apparently the visual for the Irish priest in [the Road to Perdition graphic novel] is based on Nigel. :-)"

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8282 STC dead... now it's official (sob)
[email protected] Sep 17, 2001
Alessandro (of the old Sonic the Hedgehog Info Page) announcing the news that the comic would be ending in January 2002.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/8329
Re: Reply to Nigel
Sep 21, 2001
Misc questions to Kitching...

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8910 Pirate STC
Roberto Corona Nov 21, 2001
Roberto Corona says that the Pirate STC strip (by Stephen Bliss, whose name he forgets) was originally going to be Toejam and Earl:
	"He worked on Deadline Magazine at the same time as Ed Hillyer and me, and he
	was a friend of Dave "Bastard Bunny" Anderson's. Pirate STC was based on the
	characters in the Sega TV ads at the time, and was knocked out pretty
	quickly. The guy-who's-name-I-forget was supposed to do a Toejam and Earl
	strip, and I think he got a fair way into it before it became apparent that
	the licensing wasn't in place, nor was it going to be. Hence, Pirate STC, as
	a last minute replacement project."

	https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/8912
	... Kitching replies: "I got Decap Attack in a similar way when the license for Chuck Rock fell through."

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9500 One comic dies... another rises from the ashes?
Doctor Zachary (akazac)
Dec 29, 2001
The thread on the comic's final issue.

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9985 Re: RE:1994 Sonic Summer Special: Credit's not given where credit's due.....
Nigel Kitching - Feb 4, 2002
Credits on the 1994 summer special

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/10000
Subject "Unknown" (message ID 10000!)
Roberto Corona talks about character designs

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/10344
10344 Re: Continuity stuff. Rambling really.................
Feb 28, 2002
Kitching on Sonic's callous sense of humour, and writing Marxio Bros dialogue.

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10354 - Canned.
Roberto Corona - Mar 1, 2002
Corona talks about hearing the news from Deborah Tate that the comic was going to be 75% reprint, and that she subsequently passed his portfolio on to 2000AD.

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12532 Re: Umm, just trying to break the ice here....
Nigel Kitching Sep 24, 2002
Kitching on writing dialogue in amusing accents. Charmy Bee's dialogue was *not* based on Ned Flanders!

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/12696
Interesting to me at least
Kitching posting the dates his strips were commissioned

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12730 Re: Interesting to me at least
Nigel Kitching Nov 17, 2002
Nigel confirming the Floating Island guardian robot design was based on Ghibli's Laputa

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13863 Re: Porker Lewis (also thoughts on the evolution of the STC universe)
Nigel Kitching Oct 10, 2005
... and if Big the Cat had been in the SA adaptation, his "take on him would have probably
been partly inspired by Miyazaki's Totoro"

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/13701
Re: question concerning Amy Rose
Oct 31 2005
Kitching on Amy Rose's characterisation, Deborah Tate's editorial.

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Re: knuckles colour in the first strip
Nov 12, 2004
Kitching on why Knuckles appeared pink not red in the 1994 Summer Special that introduced him.

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Re: Hi, few things I would like to say.
Kitching on how Snively was originally used as Robotnik's assistant, before being changed to Grimer (including part of the script for his first appearance).

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13847 Re: Porker Lewis
Nigel Kitching
Oct 7, 2005
Kitching talks about Porker Lewis's design, and the balance between his drama and Lew Stringer's comedy

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13855 Re: Porker Lewis (also thoughts on the evolution of the STC universe)
Nigel Kitching Oct 10, 2005
Kitching disliked Robotnik's "ex --> eggs" dialogue puns!

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/13882
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13882 Re: [sonicthecomic] The Tails strips
Jul 27-28, 2006
Nigel Kitching and Mark Eyles on the switch from Tails' Nameless Zone adventures, to Eyles' strips with the Flock in the Chemical Plant Zone.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/13894
Re: Streets Of Rage
Doctor Zachary
Dec 9, 2006
Doctor Zachary (Tom) posts about Mark Millar's scripts all being written in one batch.



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6782
A Couple Of Scripts
Nigel Kitching - Jun 20, 2001
These scripts for issue 18-19 (the Casino Night storyline) were attachments, and so aren't preserved in Yahoo's archive. I have both of these .doc attachments saved, but as Nigel says in the thread, the end of each one got corrupted during the file conversion to .doc.
	After a few replies, the subject got changed to "Sonic the Comic, issues 18-19 (Re: A Couple Of Scripts)": https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sonicthecomic/conversations/messages/6788

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6792 Decap 1
Nigel Kitching Jun 21, 2001
The first Decap Attack script - again, sent as an attachment so not in the Yahoo archive.


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8344 Re: Reply to Nigel
Nigel Kitching Sep 22, 2001
Script for issue #7 - Super Sonic's first appearance!

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Re: Reply to Nigel
Scripts: Decap Attack - first story, parts 4,5,6

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STC #22
Nov 12, 2002
Script for issue 22: "Sonic's Girlfriend" part 2 of 2.

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Script to issues 24-25 (truncated in web interface)