Topic: Mega Man Archie Comics

[Ladd Spencer]

Is 19 out?

[The Great Gonzo]

Is 19 out?

Doubt it. It's still October.

[Turian]

So I get my comics digitally, since I like having them available wherever I go. Anyways, I thought I would just leave this description from Comixology here:

The legendary video game superstar kicks off the brand new ongoing series based on Capcom's long-running and best-selling video game sensation! When that malicious mastermind Dr. Wily threatens to conquer the world with his legions of Automatons only Dr. Light's greatest creation, the mighty super robot Mega Man can put a stop to him! The latest edition to this year's 15th anniversary celebration, that includes an animated series, toy lines and a slew of new videogames, this action-packed series promises thrills, chills and excitement for fans of all ages!

LOL, dafuq?

[The Great Gonzo]

I think I know what happened there: they reused their description for the Dreamwave comic.

New proper games (MMBN and ZERO?), a toyline (Jazwares), an animated series (NT Warrior), all around the 15th anniversary--there's no way this was specifically written for Archie-MM.

[Melsurigan]

I can't wait for the preview scans for issue 19 to come out. I want to see if they can get the art for this chapter right.


Speaking of which, has anyone received their subscription copies from the mail, yet?

[The Great Gonzo]

Speaking of which, has anyone received their subscription copies from the mail, yet?

Not yet; mine will probably arrive later this week or next week.

[Ladd Spencer]

Anyways, I thought I would just leave this description from Comixology here:

The legendary video game superstar kicks off the brand new ongoing series based on Capcom's long-running and best-selling video game sensation! When that malicious mastermind Dr. Wily threatens to conquer the world with his legions of Automatons only Dr. Light's greatest creation, the mighty super robot Mega Man can put a stop to him! The latest edition to this year's 15th anniversary celebration, that includes an animated series, toy lines and a slew of new videogames, this action-packed series promises thrills, chills and excitement for fans of all ages!

LOL, dafuq?

This is like salt on a wound.

[The Great Gonzo]

Something tells me they deliberately re-used a description for Dreamwave-MM, because they know as well as we do how depressing the 25th anniversary has been so far.

Xover just barely qualifies as a game, and the only real toy line we've got is D-Arts--which, while excellent or at least better than Jazwares (which I think were okay for the time?), isn't "all-ages".

[Melsurigan]

Destructoid just posted their five-page preview of issue 19. The art is a little off in some places, but it's not that bad. Also, I love the reference they made with Mega Man's slide ability.


Also, Tempo with her personality back is adorable. The blush and pose in the second page was an especially nice touch.

[Ladd Spencer]

the only real toy line we've got is D-Arts--which, while excellent or at least better than Jazwares (which I think were okay for the time?), isn't "all-ages".

What's not all-ages about them? The bourbon glass?

[Turian]

Nah, it's more the durability. One of mine had his arm fall off at the shoulder, because the joint was way to tight and after spinning it it twisted off. Sucked, but hey I fixed it. 

They would just be murdered in the hands of anyone that was very immature.

[The Great Gonzo]

So I recently received and finished #19. Very enjoyable issue, it was. Copy-pasted from my post about it on the Mechanical Maniacs forum:

[spoiler]Couple of things about Quakewoman: her serial number is LMN-001, she's terrified of being buried/sinking to the bottom (not only because it's happened to her before, but because she might get personality-wiped again) and she's currently very shy (she mentioned at the start that she's still re-calibrating). Doesn't seem to resent Dr. Lalinde.

Splashy's debut is suitably awesome, saving Quakewoman when she falls into the water and helping her, Roll, and Oilman to get everyone to safety. (All four of them were fairly awesome in this story, really)[/spoiler]

I also just now noticed the countdown to WWC on the cover (starts at 5).

[IQ-0]

Saw another possible reference. This one to Megaman 9 and 10.

[spoiler]During Dr. Light's repairs of Megaman's legs, he makes a statement about something that seems to stop working in modes 9 and 10. This may refer to the loss of Megaman's slide and charge shot.[/spoiler]

[The Great Gonzo]

"Possible"?


Solicitation for #23 (URL mistakenly says 24). CoJ Wily crashes Megaman's birthday party and Mega and Breakman finally meet.

[Karasai♪]

Break Man better have two busters like this guy

[IQ-0]

Yeah I said possible because that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw that line on the AC preview page. I could be wrong.

[Ladd Spencer]

Break Man better have two busters like this guy

omg his [parasitic bomb]'s gonna blow the [tornado fang] up man

[Karasai♪]

[Reaperoid]

Yeah, it's a funny little thing called references. Don't know if you've heard of them or not.

[Karasai♪]

uh duh obviously

[N-Mario]

[spoiler=Comic #20]
It's interesting how this one turned out. It was very confusing to me. But I think something happened to Mega Man when fighting against Dr.Wily, and he gets thrown into random fights with robots he has already beaten. It was weird because when he was doing one thing, when I turned the page, I got thrown off into something else that was happening in the comic.

It's nice to see some old robot masters in a couple of pages. Especially the rockman killers, including Quint/R Shadow.


I wonder if this is just a set up into going into the Mega Man & Sonic cross over, beginning with the count down. Like, how will they end up in Sonics world, or vice versa (Sonic ending up in MegaMan world). Who knows, until the comic is released.
[/spoiler]

[Melsurigan]

They put in a timeline for the Wonderswan game? Wow, they were not kidding when they said they'd reference every nook and cranny of the series.


Also, anyone else notice Roll was in her MM8 outfit during the MM10 scene?

[Zan]

With that design, I'm just going to say that was Quint and not R-Shadow. They need to do better research. >.>

[Rin]

With that design, I'm just going to say that was Quint and not R-Shadow. They need to do better research. >.>

Seriously, Zan?
SERIOUSLY?

[Zan]

Seriously. A five second google search will show you that his design is not identical to Quint's. As artists I expect them to be able to tell the difference.