#locke the echidna

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

[guardian-of-da-gay]

Knuckles was convinced his smooth-talking advice got his dads together, nobody corrected him and to this day he thinks he's got a way with words.

[thefakehedgehogaroundhere]

reminder that ken penders once wrote an issue of archie where knuckles asked if he could just be gay and his dad said "no no son we don't do that here"

[dunkinbublin]

Barry’s going to lose his mind when I sees this.

barry aint the only one

[jadeyarts]

athair existing in sonic underground implies the existence of locke in sonic underground, and knuckles meeting aleena as a younger kid implies the likelihood of locke having met aleena at one point

so here’s locke and aleena annoying each other!

[rapidhighway]

do i need to say anything

[gamerzylo]

[julie-su]

POV you are Aurora

... I think it's so funny that it was AURORA of all people who projected into Locke's brain that he should do this incredibly dangerous procedure on his unborn son. AKA the Hot Pocket of Destiny

[disabled-battlekukku]

There's something so satisfying about seeing Locke and Geoffrey St. John being properly portrayed as the assholes they are

[tired-old-men]

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride!♥🏳️‍⚧️

[incorrectsonicquotes]

Locke: "There was a time in this country, when sports were revered. But people today, their values are all outta wack. *chuckles* By the way your mom and I are getting divorced."

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

[guardian-of-da-gay]

And then Maddie won't even let him kidnap one little mailman smh.

[julie-sufan]

The In-Depth Look at Julie-Su Part 6: Knuckles #16-23

Issue #16 is a one shot. Here Knuckles is upset after finding out that his mom plans to marry her new boyfriend. He runs off not wanting to talk to anyone at the moment.

First (But definitely not the last) time that Julie kisses Knuckles. Then they share a nice quiet moment together.

Issue #17 & 18 features yet another past echidna guardian with a ton of backstory. He meets Julie-Su who is riding an absurdly evil looking horse type of creature.

Love that she's giving him attitude even when in the thrones of death.

In issue #18 she stops by Lara-Le's house (Knuckles's Mom) for some tea and cookies and to hear about of Tobor's (The echidna with the unique eyes) backstory.

Another moment I like. Here we see Julie-Su going from being in complete denial about wanting a relationship with Knuckles to hugging him on the exact same page. Kind of reminds me of Michiru from Fruit of Grisaia who would also fail at trying to be a tsundere type.

Second kiss scene.

Issues 19-21 barely has Julie in it and centers around the Royal Acorn Family. It really feels like a plot that should have been in the main Sonic comic series but for some reason ended up here.

Issue 20 features the first full appearance of Elias who would later show up in the Sonic comic.

After this point Julie gets knocked out for pretty much the rest of the arc.

Next arc 22-24 is going to be a bit tricky to talk about without getting political because it features politics. Please keep in mind that this arc was written way back in 1999.

It features a importance first appearance of Julie-Su's half sister Lien-Da working with the Dark Legion to smash stuff up. No matter what you're views are I like to think that people would come together against the anti-flat screen party.

Did some quick research and found this from howstuffworks. Flat screen tvs used to be called HDTVs when they were first released around 1998.

"Those sets came from manufacturers like Panasonic and Sony, and had a different appearance -- they were wider than standard televisions. That's because the new HDTV standard also included a new aspect ratio. The standard aspect ratio was 4:3, the new ratio was 16:9. They also came with a hefty price tag -- the first sets on the American market cost $7,000 or more."

Lien-Da has never looked more sinister. You can really tell that the artist (Jim Valentino) enjoyed drawing the Dark Legion and it's various members.

Nice Chaotix group shot. This upcoming full page scene I'm going to let speak for itself and that's all I'll say on it.

Hope you enjoy seeing Julie hang upside down because that's what she spends the most of issue 24 doing.

Next up: More hanging around and the Dating arc.

[linesonwhite]

LOCKE JUMPSCARE! WATCH OUT HE'S COMING FOR YOUR BABY HIDE THE MICROWAVE

...ever since I drew that comic of Shadow glowing and had that throwaway drawing of Shadow and Locke included in the post, I've wanted to draw Locke doing that reaching-out-to-the-viewer meme.

I think this turned out amazingly and I keep giggling at it when I look at it.

Also here it is without the green background.

If anyone out there is making... Locke...memes... or anything, feel free to slap text on this for whatever purposes you need. :3c

Got this on twitter toooooooo

[jadeyarts]

since both angel island and the master emerald both still exist in the boom universe, i find it highly amusing how boom knuckles has utterly rejected his connection to the island and what would effectively be his birthright. and it’s fascinating every version of knuckles has gotten at least one line that suggests there’s basis for the idea of boom knuckles chose to be like that specifically in rejection of the role as guardian of the master emerald - though he embraces his role as guardian of team sonic instead.

you know what would make that funnier? if a lot (but not all) of the archie/kenders echidna bs also took place in boom. no, it wouldn’t be very in line with what sega approves of regarding the setting but i don’t care about that? so anyways think about how funny it would be when knuckles was just like “man this shit sucks.” and left.

SO. here’s my proposal: boom locke. a very comedy-oriented setting with tongue-in-cheek jabs and references is exactly the kind of place where the amount of jokes about him being pathetic and divorced would be numerous. he’d be like a furry bill dauterive.

he receives a lot of flack from the rest of the guardians following knuckles’ departure from the island, since he’s the first and only one to have gotten divorced. he can’t exactly provide them with a new heir to the role, so he’s exiled to the surface until he’s able to find knuckles. that’s where he’s been for six years - traversing the lands, looking for his son... but he’s been looking in all of the wrong places.

if he ever finally finds knuckles it would not take very much for team sonic to convince him to just not go back to angel island like knuckles never did. they could forcibly subject him to meh burger. amy would try to play armchair psychologist with him. it’d be great.