#sonic sdcc

[tailschannel]

New exclusive images of the Sonic Speed Cafe at San Diego Comic-Con 2023

The Sonic the Hedgehog pop-up restaurant recently opened near the grounds of the San Diego Comic-Con International, and we got these new images to share with you, courtesy of Tails' Channel contributor FloofToon15.

#sonic the hedgehog #san diego comic con #sonic sdcc #sonic sdcc 2023 #sdcc2023 #sdcc 2023 #sonic speed cafe #knuckles the echidna #shadow the hedgehog #doctor eggman #miles tails prower #secret sauce society #sega #gaming #gaming news #sonic news

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #peter capaldi #michelle gomez #jenna louise coleman #i'm so excited for the ten and missy and paternoster gang audio to come out!!! #so i decided it was time to remake this bit!!!! #hi friends sorry it's been a bit since i've made some gifs #i was at sdcc and went to disneyland #very good time #i got fourteen's new sonic!!!! and got buttons of dt and ct's faces!!!!! #and posters of fourteen fifteen donna and ruby!!!!!! very exciting #and i caught up on some big finish audios #and i saw barbie and haunted mansion this week #hope you've all been well :')))

[davidmariottecomics]

The 6 Figure Theory

Hello! 

In today's blog, I'm getting *spicy*! In that I have a hot take that is of course related to the current state of the entertainment industry, but isn't as directly about comics or writing or editing or what you might usually expect. Anyway, let's get to it! 

The 6 Figure Theory The 6 Figure Theory states that once an individual is earning $100,000, to maintain that level of pay, they must sacrifice some level of morality. It only applies to individuals making over $100K annually--not families where multiple incomes may combine to be over $100K. And the level of morality sacrificed is hard to quantify, both because morality is deeply personal and often hard to quantify for an individual and because the extremes one is willing to go to are likely tied to the level of money being brought in. 

So, for example, let's say you're a big shot Hollywood executive who has been paid $500 MILLION over the course of about 5 years. Let's say you're making "384 times the average pay of a Hollywood writer." Chances are you are out of touch with reality and willing to make a bunch of business decisions that make you look like an incompetent asshole. Maybe you'll cancel competed and even released work as a way of getting tax write-offs. Maybe you'll attempt to sell your film music catalog. Maybe you'll repeatedly not come to the table in any sort of reasonable way in such a way that multiple unions go on strike. Maybe you'll spend your time at a retreat for some of the wealthiest people in the world turning down Venmo requests from the people whose projects you've canceled to save a dime. Maybe you'll be described as the most hated man in Hollywood.

Now, that's just one extreme example. He's so incredibly highly paid--if he was willing to just not take a salary for 5 years, he could single-handedly pay out the proposal amount from the WGA. And, let me check my notes, he would still be incredibly, unjustly wealthy and live his extravagant life. That's the sort of money that allows true ignorance. 

I don't know anyone making David Zaslav money, personally. And I'm pretty glad to not. But even at the lower side of that 6 figure theory, there are people who are being paid to make decisions that may compromise their morals--from freezing pay rates to letting people go to instituting AI. Or, maybe you're making that and can remain morally upright in your work, but like... become an anti-vaxxer or something. 

It's easy to look at the wealthy and famous and see issues. Humans are inherently fallible and scrutiny goes harder with more public visibility. But I have to wonder, truly, to what extent higher wages correspond with lower ethics. And I think that's a question a lot of folks are asking on the picket line now too. Make sure you send them your support, whether through the Entertainment Community Fund or direct action with SAG-AFTRA or the WGA. I have not specifically seen picketing actions at SDCC, but obviously, be aware and supportive if they happen. And I saw things like the Venture Bros creators pulling out of the show (though I'm unclear on if the new movie will still be debuting regardless). You don't have to cancel your streaming platforms--in fact, largely the request has been the opposite because the concern is fewer people on a streamer will be used as data justification that the work of actors and writers doesn't make enough difference to maintain an audience and therefore their labor is less valuable. And, finally, there are other unions going on strike, like UPS, and they deserve your support too. 

Passing $5 Back-and-forth Infinitely Forever

It stinks that this has to come back to those of us who are making less to support each other. But whether it's because there's increased morality for folks making lower wages (and, I'd describe the shrinking middle class as that) or, maybe, it's less a matter of morality than community and solidarity (though... I'd contest those are inextricably linked), it does come to us standing together. And sometimes, it means doing what little we can, supporting each other back-and-forth with the same $5. 

With that rant out of the way, see ya at SDCC next week! 

What I enjoyed this week: Blank Check (Podcast), Craig of the Creek (Cartoon), Honkai Star Rail (Video game) Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Links (Video game), My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon), the beach, Girly Drinks by Mallory O'Meara (Book), The Broken Room by Peter Clines (Book), Crime Scene Kitchen (TV show), all the folks I've seen being supportive of the joint WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike--including the many folks changing their SDCC plans, getting closer to finalized on SDCC plans myself! Oh, and I forgot to mention it a couple weeks ago, but Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger & Sara Kipin slaps. 

New Releases this week (7/12/2023): I didn't have any new releases this week, but it was a pretty big week for IDW as a whole!  Eddie Campbell's The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist, Van Jensen & Jesse Lonergan's Arca, the first issues of Stephen Mooney and David Messina's The Rocketeer: In the Den of Thieves, G. Willow Wilson, Chris Wildgoose, and Msassky's The Hunger and the Dusk, and the second issue of Andrew Wheeler and Ilias Kyriazis's Cat Fight, the My Little Pony 40th Anniversary Special, plus more TMNT and Trek than you can shake a stick at! 

New Releases next week (7/19/2023): Also an off week, but there's somehow even more TMNT to check out, plus the start of our big Star Trek event: Day of Blood! 

Final Order Cut-Off next week (7/17/2023 - AKA Preorder Deadline) Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors - All Hail the King! TPB (Editor)

Announcements:

I'll be at San Diego Comic-Con! I'll see you at Sonic the Hedgehog: Speeding to the 900th Adventure on Sunday at 10, room 25ABC! If we've planned something, I'll see ya there too! And if not, y'know, at least let me know you'll be around and hopefully we run into each other! 

I'm now on Patreon! A big part of it is a new way of accessing this very blog! But I'm also going to be updating it with some other cool stuff soon--from exclusive blogs to old scripts and pitch materials that I can share to funky one-off videos/podcasts (?) to group funded new comics pages! And there'll even be updates during SDCC (thanks, pre-scheduling)! 

Do you not want to read this pitch for my Patreon? Good news: If you subscribe to it, this is cut out from the blog! Ooo aah!

Lastly, because of SDCC, expect no or a very short blog next week. And Becca's Twitch stream won't be back until the 25th, I believe. But in the meantime, Becca's own Patreon has been very active, including some stuff they recently drew on stream! And their webshop is current (though orders won't ship til after SDCC). It's Non-Binary Awareness week and San Diego Pride, so now's a good time to support them! 

Pic of the Week:

I was in Old Town earlier this week and saw this very fun display of "Sonic" hats. Love that they come in every color. 

#wga solidarity #sag solidarity #entertainment ethics #6 figure theory #entertainment hot takes #eat the rich #sonic idw #sonic sdcc 2023

[thesonicstadium]

Of course, the BIG surprise reveal at the #IDWSonic Panel at #SDCC2023 was the news of a Fang and Knuckles 30th Anniversary special! Planned for 2024, more details to come in the future! #SonicNews

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic news #sonic #sega #idw sonic #sdcc #sdcc 2023 #icymi #fang the sniper #fang the hunter #knuckles the echidna #30th anniversary

[lordspoooky]

Im in San Diego for the convention so im gonna go check out the sonic the hedgehog restaurant and then report back

#sonic cafe #sdcc #sonic

[thedakku]

Had lunch at the Sonic Speed Cafe in San Diego! I met Sonic and got Takashi Iizuka’s autograph!

#sonic speed cafe #sonic speed café #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #Sega #video games #videogames #retro gaming #san diego comic con #san diego #sdcc #sdcc 2023 #sonic cafe #takashi iizuka

[yuf0h]

Comic Con’23 Day 1

I had a fuckin blast today made friends while volunteering with security guards, bunch of sick cosplays and I even tried that Sonic Cafe & dude you’re not gonna believe who was there, mother fucking Takashi Iizuka , doing signatures!! I’ve always love drawing Sonic so to have someone like him draw Sonic next to my doodle is a dream, next I’m gonna aim for Tyson Hesse, if I didn’t bump into a friend I would’ve gone home early, but instead, I had a lot of fun 😭

#sdcc #Indiana jones #Sonic the Hedgehog #comic con

[sonknuxadow]

ive seen some people say that theyre worried the third sonic movie is gonna suck because theyre using shadows solo game as the main inspiration for the story but like?? i dont recall anyone who worked on the movies ever saying that i remember hearing them say that theyd like to take some stuff from the shadow game but thats literally it i dont think they ever said the next movie is gonna be shth adaptation

#i remember they talked about this in a panel at a convention somewhere but i Cannot find it bc searching just brings up sdcc stuff #which isnt what im looking for #sonic movie spoilers #sonic 2 spoilers #if anything i think the shth inspo is just gonna be like. stuff from shadows past that isnt shown in sa2 and maybe the gun commander #but thats all i feel like if the main story is heavily based on a specific game its gonna be sa2 #like how the second movie was mostly based on the third game plot wise but also took some stuff from the second game #tbh i dont even see what would be so bad about them taking inspiration from shth but. whatever #if anything i really want them to take inspo from shth because i want movie shadow to be half black arms like in the games #it fits too well with the movieverse ok. with the mobians already being aliens and other alien species being known to exist

[shanie-the-komania-toyaddict]

DOCTOR WHO MERCH COMPANIES FUCK UUUUUU

Go suck a rancid festering DICK with you making all the 14th doctor merchandise SDCC and UK exclusives, SOME of us still collect these figures and toys, fuck you very much.

#i didnt realize the 14th doctor vinyl figure was an SDCC exclusive #until just now #and there is less than no way to get it #suck on the salty end of my swizzle stick you shitgibbons #and now you telling me the sonic toy is also an SDCC exclusive #GO FUCK YOURSELVES #I'm so mad right now

[sableunavailable]

chat is this real

#sdcc 2023 #sonic the hedgehog

[tailschannel]

Take a look at this Sonic the Hedgehog pop-up restaurant near the San Diego Comic-Con

It's called the "Sonic Speed Cafe", a Sonic the Hedgehog pop-up restaurant that will be opening near the grounds of the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con International.

The collaboration between SEGA of America and Secret Sauce Society's Andy Nguyen will serve several Sonic-themed foods, drinks, and even exclusive memorabilia.

What's on the menu?

Among the food served is Sonic's iconic Chili Dog and other tasty treats like the "Knuckles Sandwich," a crispy fried chicken sandwich, and "The Evil Genius" egg salad sandwich.

Several drinks are served as well, including Sonic's blueberry slushy, Knuckles' cherry slushy, Tails' mango orange slushy, and Shadow's mocha milkshake.

Times and location

The "Sonic Speed Cafe" is located at 910 J Street in San Diego, California, taking over what used to be a Chick'nCone establishment, according to the SDCC Unofficial Blog, an independent expo documentarian.

The soft launch will begin on 13 July through 18 July, with regular hours scheduled between 11 am to 9 pm Pacific Time.

Meanwhile, Comic-Con hours will kick off after the grand opening on 19 July through 23 July, between 11 am to midnight Pacific Time.

Regular hours will resume 24 July to the final operating date, 20 August 2023.

(Story contributed in part by Spectre from the Tails' Channel Newsfeed. Images distributed by the SDCC Unofficial Blog.)

#sonic the hedgehog #san diego comic con #sonic sdcc #sonic sdcc 2023 #sdcc2023 #sdcc 2023 #sonic speed cafe #knuckles the echidna #shadow the hedgehog #doctor eggman #miles tails prower #secret sauce society #sega #gaming #gaming news #sonic news

[smashpages]

IDW announced two upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog projects for later this fall: Tails’ 30th Anniversary Special and Scrapnik Island. The former, a four-issue miniseries written by Daniel Barnes and illustrated by Jack Lawrence with colors by Nathalie Fourdraine, will kick off in October 2022. Sonic The Hedgehog: Tails’ 30th Anniversary Special will come out in November, featuring a new 30-page (for 30 years!) story by series regular Ian Flynn, with art by Aaron Hammerstrom and colors by Reggie Graham inspired by the classic games.

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#sonic the hedgehog #tails #idw publishing #sdcc 2022 #comics

[davidmariottecomics]

SDCC 2023 Recap (Abridged)

Hello! 

This is a funky thing, but welcome to an abridged blog?! This won't usually be the case, but if you want to know more about my time at SDCC, including a couple lightly funny stories and a LOT more pictures, the full thing is up on my Patreon. 

What do you do during SDCC? 

Doing things around the show is very hard! 

I was up by 6 and out of the house before 8 most every day of the show and--while we took it pretty easy with our after con events--besides the shorter Preview Night, they were 12+ hour days! Also complicated by having a friend staying with us, which was lovely, but complicated because we were not on the same schedule!

But what does someone like me do during SDCC? Why would I have 12+ hour days?!

I am at a point, where thankfully, my conventions where I'm working on IDW's behalf are often self-directed. As you can see in a few of these photos, I had the Sonic the Hedgehog: Racing into the 900th Adventure panel that I moderated for IDW on Sunday morning, but most of my other time was spent taking meetings I had set up ahead of time and impromptu meetings that naturally occurred over the course of the show.

Ahead of time, I had set up around 6 meetings a day, with a lighter Wednesday and Sunday. And that's about what I was hitting every day. A few times, due to the natural course of events, things got cancelled at the last minute or folks got trapped in the wrong place and couldn't get to where we were supposed to talk before I had to run to my next commitment, but almost inevitably, those times were then spent talking to other folks.

While I probably can't talk too much about the content of any of these meetings or who all I was talking to, as an editor, I mostly met with creative talent and a couple of licensing partners. To break things down a little bit further, there are a few broad categories most of my editorial meetings fall into: Project-Specific - I want to work with person X on thing Y and this is a chance to meet face-to-face about it; Introductory - Person X and I are aware of each other's work, but haven't previously had a chance to really talk, so this is a chance to get to know each other and for them to share samples; Relationship Management - I, or someone else at IDW, have worked with person X before and would like to again, but maybe don't have a specific project in mind, so this is a chance to catch-up and explore what our options could be, as well as just make sure they know they're on the company's mind. 

And while many of my meetings were very enjoyable because there are a lot of excellent folks working in comics who wanted to make the time, I also got just a little bit of time for my own fun stuff!

Highlights included the Junji Ito exhibit, where I got to see original art pages from the course of like a 40 year career, attending the Best and Worst Manga Panel (which got cut short due to a false fire alarm!) and the Magma Comix panel right afterward, and getting to try the food and enjoy the atmosphere of the Sonic Speed Cafe! And Becca got to meet and get a little sketch from Matt Groening in the booth they were working at!

What I enjoyed this week: Blank Check (Podcast), Craig of the Creek (Cartoon), Honkai Star Rail (Video game) Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Links (Video game), My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon), the beach, The Broken Room by Peter Clines (Book), Crime Scene Kitchen (TV show), Dumbing of Age (Webcomic), SDCC which kept me from most new things! 

New Releases this week (7/19/2023): I didn't have any new releases this week! Hope you picked up something else cool!

New Releases next week (7/26/2023): Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors Summer Smash (Editor)

Final Order Cut-Off today! (7/24/2023 - AKA Preorder Deadline) Godzilla Rivals: Vs. SpaceGodzilla (Supervising Editor) IDW Endless Summer: Sonic the Hedgehog (Supervising Editor) Sonic the Hedgehog: Scrapnik Island TPB (Editor) Sonic the Hedgehog's 900th Adventure Special (Editor)

Announcements:

I'm tired! But no big disruptions in the foreseeable future! I'll only plug that I do have a webstore and the Patreon now, as well as things like Becca's Patreon, webstore, and Twitch which I mention because we also got the fun news that our rent's going up! I'm also gonna see if I have anything else I can throw up on my Kofi so you can get some rewards besides just tipping me! 

Pic of the Week:

This R2-D2 looks like a trash can, but I think it's actually maybe an electrical thing? Whatever it is, it was on the street during SDCC and seems like it might be that way year-round and I thought it was funny! 

#comics #comics editorial #sonic idw #godzilla idw #sonic sdcc 2023 #sdcc 2023 #comic con

[thesonicstadium]

IDW Publishing has announced its Sonic the Hedgehog comic panel for San Diego Comic Con 2023. The event, which will take place on Sunday July 22, is being teased as "one for the history books".

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic news #sonic #idw sonic #San Diego comic con #SDCC 2023 #900th Adventure

[movyman32]

#funko pop #san diego comic con #sdcc #2022 #exclusive #he who remains #super sonic #digital stan #scarlet scarab #press release #funko

[thankskenpenders]

I received an item of great importance in the mail today. My good friend Jake, who currently lives in San Diego, dropped by SDCC this year. And after the con, he told me he’d gotten me a little present

Ah, Archie Sonic Archives vol. 8, containing issues 29 through 32!

A classic era of the series where it was starting to get more of a serialized plot. We had such seminal stories like the return of Uncle Chuck and Muttski, the introduction of Dulcy, Tails fighting Auto-Fiona, Rotor traveling to the arctic to find his brainwashed family, that one where Sonic and Geoffrey bicker the whole time while fighting a transformer on a train, a truly classic Robotnik line, more of those little backup stories where Knuckles wanders around Angel Island talking to himself while they continue to tease the reveal of Archimedes, and, of course... Mobie.

While I know Jake picked this one out arbitrarily based on what was available, this was nonetheless a good one to get! An important era for the evolution of these silly comics. What a nice little thing to have.

Oh, and also there's something special on the inside, too

#tkp post