#Phil Felix

[comicarthistory]

Marvel Fanfare #42 back cover. 1988. Art by Bob Hall and Phil Felix.

[balu8]

Marvel Graphic Novel #38: Judgement Day

by Stan Lee; John Buscema, Max Scheele and Phil Felix

Marvel

[the-gershomite]

Sonic Universe #27 -July 2011- Archie comics & Sega

"Fractured Mirror" part four finale: picking up the pieces

writer: Ian Flynn

pencil art: Tracy Yardley

inks: Jim Amash

colors: Steve Downer

letters: Phil Felix

[sonicpanels]

Sonic X #37: "Switcheroo!"

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: James Fry Inks: Terry Austin Colors: Jason Jensen

Letters: Phil Felix Editor/Managing Editor: Mike Pellerito

[onedegreeofsoniccomics]

Alien Legion: Jugger Grimrod

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Art: Mike McMahon

Letters*: Dave Sharpe, Phil Felix, & Jon Babcock

[theblackestofsuns]

"Your Best Friend"

Semper Fi #8 (July 1989)

Michael P. Palladino, Andy Kubert, John Severin and Phil Felix

Marvel Comics

[paulagnewart]

Sonic the Oz-Hog Act 7/12: Rodents in Disguise!

Sonic X issue 20 AU Publication Date: 20th July 2007 Price: $4.95

That… was certainly a historical month and a half for high-speed hedgehog enthusiasts. And 20th July was an equally historical day. A sentient supercomputer utilised some information superhighway down the telephone line to build an army of rampaging war machines. A dying species of faceless ones hijacked passengers from Gatwick Airport and stole their identities. A seemingly eccentric antique dealer 100 years out of time made off with a blue police telephone box as part of an overtly complex scheme to help his associate transmogrify lead into gold, while winning back his daughter from evil space pepperpots.

But enough of 1966. Flashing forward some forty-odd years and there's still plenty tales of conquest and mayhem, particularly across this great southern land. July 2007 saw Fergie begin an unbroken 9 week streak topping the music charts. First studio album in hand, she casually pushed Rihanna and Jay-Z into the rain, stole their shared Umbrella and tauntingly declared they down a cup of cement because "Big Girls Don't Cry". Harry Potter's fifth cinematic outing brought a dramatic halt to another fantastical war's two week box office domination, only for Hogwarts' finest to also lose out a week later. Amidst Canadian ceremonial cheers, a casually racist Rob Schneider boasted "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry". An alter audience of one, but these newlywed newcomers rolled on up and hosed the Boy Who Lived down.

Having witnessed Cheez TV bite the dust years ago, its spiritual successor Toasted TV trundled along as number one in a remaining field of one for early morning children's entertainment. Any kids or tweens left to tune in 20th July watched new Pokemon: Battle Frontier, a repeat of 1967's now-infamous Spider-Man cartoon, and new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward.

A decade in power is remarkable for any leader. Since his 1996 victory, John Howard's conservative government may have skimped over the line twice after their polarising GST legislation, but lightning would fail to strike three times. Cracks in their political prowess began to appear, and after the immensely unpopular decision to follow America's own King George the Second into what looked an endless overseas war, the new WorkChoices initiative would ultimately seal his fate.

"Working families in Australia have never been better off!", Little Johnny Howard declared to the masses with ghoulish glee on 26th March. Journalists were taken aback, labeling his announcement nothing short of "Hubris!" Media conglomerates smelt political blood, and despite years of shamelessly supporting Howard and Costello's regime, shifted allegiances accordingly. Bookies already predicting his demise in the impending November federal election were thrilled. Howard's self-aggrandising sentence became a heavily replayed attack slogan for leftist opposition leaders Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. But more on their contentious relationship last month.

Those not engrossed in impending election annihilation instead skipped to their local newsagents, where Gordon & Gotch delivered a desire many had requested. Two completely unique yet intrinsically linked franchises poised, primed, ready to collide in a shameless attempt of cashing in on the winter's hottest box office hit. Or… second-biggest hit. Would you believe third?

It's ironic. For all their love and dedication from countless audiences and corporations over the decades, Sonic the Hedgehog and Transformers have never shared simultaneous peak popularity.

1994 saw Sonic enjoy two cartoons, two comics, multiple games and adoration from gamers and mainstream media alike. Transformers? Generation Two, and although it offered exciting new ingenuities setting up a successful future, was seen by Hasbro's bean counters as an unmitigated failure. 1997 saw Beast Wars save the franchise. It rose to 3rd highest selling boy's toyline, while all Sonic had to celebrate was the opening of short-lived SEGA World Sydney. Both Sonic Adventure games ushered a hedgehog pinnacle in 2001, compared to the dying gasp of Beast Machines. Dreamwave Productions and Transformers Armada jumpstarted the series and rode a nostalgic 2002-3 high, while SEGA and IGN's 'Year of Sonic' failed living up to its own hype.

If such a year exists, a case could be made for 2011. Transformers once again pulled spotlight, strong sales and a billion dollar box office success in Dark of the Moon, then the fourth highest grossing film ever. Sonic had plenty of love from the media and fans, yet in spite of initial hype and reviews, SEGA's 20th anniversary flagship game Sonic Generations crashed within a month. Close, but not quite.

A quote equally applied to their status as potential crossover mates. Both might've shared a swath of writers, artists, musicians, voice actors, plots and publishers, but nor have Sonic the Hedgehog and Transformers shared a proper official in-universe crossover. There have been fleeting instances like 2014's Mega Drive Megatron, or the World Bee Day promotion on Twitter, but both treat one-another as fictitious products rather than battlefield allies. At this rate the first crossover will end up being something like a fleeting glance at two characters in a Paramount+ commercial.

Archie Sonic has never been a stranger to the ever-changing world of those robots in disguise. Be it casual references in issue 21, 31, 125, 154 or 161, the antics of artist/inker Nelson Ribeiro constantly conveying 1984 supremacy, and who could possibly forget when issue 152's Sonic's Angels featured a cyber-terraforming plot lifting more than a few cues from Chris Sarracini's 2002 chart-buster Transformers: Prime Directive? With that in mind, it's arguably all the more befitting Sonic and Transformers' thus far only in-universe collision happened in the pages of Riverdale's finest.

Never let it be said Archie aren't quick to chase the latest hypes. Still locked in their DC Comics era, opening the comic reveals a full page advertisement for Teen Titans Go!. A popular all-ages spinoff alas not long for this world, cancelled exactly one year later when upper management saw no reason for a comic to continue promoting a cancelled show. Not that such ideology ever stopped local publishers Otter Press reprinting Justice League Adventures and The Batman Adventures stories as late as 2017. And speaking of the Caped Crusader, flipping to the middle offers an 8 page exclusive story featuring The Batman, baseball and chewing gum, ironically printed on paper stock glossier than the main comic itself.

So who better to lead the charge of this rodent and robot rumble than Cybertronian stalwarts James McDonough and Adam Patyk (unless asking the ever-accurate Archie Sonic Wiki's opinion)? A writing partnership of long-time fans who gnashed their teeth during the latter Dreamwave days, there's plenty to enjoy for readers young and old. Robbie Nick, the "giant floating head" gimmick's comeback, Sam Speed being Sam Speed, paraphrased yet fitting dialogue lifted from a certain 1986 animated movie, a robot design which screamed the long-lost love child of Hot Rod and Starscream, and Patrick Spaziante signing his cover in the classic Transformers font. Topping this energon goodie of a tale off? A back cover dedicated to advertising Michael Bay's impending million-dollar megahit.

Sonic X never quite managed to reach the heights of its main counterpart sales-wise, but nonetheless captured a passionate audience. Colourfully described at the time as "If comic book fandom was like a college dorm, STH would be the Emo kid who likes to act all dramatical while listening to Evanscence and My Chemical Romance, while Sonic X is the fat guy who likes to party and carries a beer keggar around.", this issue was no exception.

"I'm notone who usualy likes SX comics because I don't feel that it has the same charm the show had. But you know what I actually LOOOOOOVED this issue! It seemed to almost capture the experience of watching a SX televison show! Coloe me impressed!" fans said. "It's like reading a Sonic comic created alongside Sonic Adventure, in a way. It's a good escape for people like me, who deals with enough emotional draining in real life, that don't want to sit down and read even more drama.". Fun was order of the day, and so long as readers enjoyed what they purchased every four weeks, Archie Sonic was in good hands. With luck the series might even last about, say… ten more years to that day?

Sandwiched neatly between the unthinkable issues 175 and 176, Speed Lines! offered a breath of levity amongst the manufactured mayhem of Knothole's destruction, and the reunion of McDonough and Patyk a welcome albeit brief surprise. Neither returned to write for the comic or anything Sonic generally, but presumably they were at least promptly paid in full this time around. Then again after what Archie pulled on the likes of Dan DeCarlo and Stan Goldberg, one can never be too careful.

More Than Meets the Dime indeed.

Next Time: What makes a journey worthwhile? The self-gratification of an ending well done, or memories and friendships made along the way? For Sonic, Sally and Tails, their all-Aussie adventures were about to reach an abrupt end in a post which can only be titled… Journey's End!

[fryday]

don't even know how to articulate the nature of the thing that exists between dnp anymore. what are they to each other! they're danandphils, in the same way you would call two people boyfriends or husbands. they're dan and phil, emphasis and importance placed on the 'and'. they are 'and's. they're together. they're side by side. whatever

[lilirari]

𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⊹ ( ⚽ ) . . . FAKE TEXTS ⁵ !

ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ꩜⋆ we're back, baby ! please take this as a compensation for not posting any writing in the past week... i promise i'll work on all my drafts soon 🤞 anyways, who wanna be the cockroach to my lobster ? 🫣

© LILIRARI, 2023 ★

[cherrynflowergarden]

༘⋆𐙚⋆𖦹 football masterlist .✧˚

joão félix

→ demon in my head more of dimh (★)

héctor fort

→ bf!héctor headcanons (h)

→ drunk reader x bf héctor headcanon

marc guiu

→ bf!marc headcanons (h)

pablo gavi

→ text messages with gavi (★)

pedri gonzalez

yet to come...!

jobe bellingham

→ passenger princess jobe headcanon

→ date night with jobe

jude bellingham

yet to come...!

trent alexander arnold

→ braiding trent's hair

arda güler

→ baking with arda headcanon

kenan yildiz

yet to come...!

key; (s) smut, (f) fluff, (a) angst, (h) headcanons,(★) social media or text or snap au

[the-gershomite]

Sonic Universe #26 -May 2011- Archie comics & Sega

"Fractured Mirror" part two: Warped Reflections

cover by Tracy Yardley, Jim Amash & Ben Hunzeker

writer: Ian Flynn

pencil art: Tracy Yardley

inks: Jim Amash

colors: Ray Dillon

letters: Phil Felix

[mikyapixie]

12 years ago today Wreck It Ralph released in theaters!!!

P2

[thingsasbarcodes]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x06 - FZZT

[theblackestofsuns]

"I See Him!"

Semper Fi #7 (June 1989)

Michael P. Palladino, John Severin and Phil Felix

Marvel Comics

[slaughter-books]

Day 16: JOMPBPC: Love Love Love

I love, love, love these three beautiful books! 💕

[way222ethereal]

I’m 🤏🏾 this close to taking matters into my own hands when it comes to these footballer fanfics. Ik the World Cup is finished but can I at least enjoy a Phil Foden fanfic 😭