#starliners

[retroscifiart]

Art by Trevor Webb from Starliners (1980)

[alphamecha-mkii]

Starliners Interior Art by Trevor Webb

[humanoidhistory]

Trevor Webb artwork from Starliners: Commercial Spacetravel in 2200 AD by Stewart Cowley, 1980.

[wild-saber1337]

SURGE FOUND A NEW TALENT

You go girl

[snailsmeller]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SURGE & KIT!1

[spiritsonic]

How to paint a platypus

(The cover for Sonic the Hedgehog: The IDW Collection vol. 5)

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

[superscourge]

bday gift for my friend @jestopolis !!!!!! feat. The Fellas from my resurrected au hehe (minus iblis and scourge bc theyre not being haters)

[laufire]

sorry but the whole "jason fans are delulu if they think he's a feminist" thing is hilarious. no, he's not a feminist, in the sense that he's not primarily focused on politically fighting for women's liberation. sorry to break this to you, but neither are any of your favourite male superheroes. nor your favourite female superheroes, for that matter. dc sure isn't writing stories through genuine feminist lenses anymore, come the fuck on.

[demilypyro]

Honestly I never liked Starline much. As far as IDW's original characters went, he was my least favorite. For a long time, he was just Eggman's overeager sidekick, and I didn't really see what he was supposed to add. But supposedly, Surge and Kit were planned characters right from the very start of the comic's run. And if that's true, it reframes Starline's character a lot.

If the goal all along was to eventually introduce Surge and Kit into the plot, then it makes sense they needed to introduce a new character to create them. Because a lot of the drama of their characters comes from their trauma. They were kidnapped, tortured and brainwashed, and who they were before that is unknown. The only person who knows their pasts is Starline. And in the very same issue that fully introduces Surge and Kit into the series, issue 50, Starline gets summarily killed off. It's been 24 issues since, and there's been no sign of him. The only person who knows their pasts is gone.

Through this lens, the utility of Starline's character becomes very clear. They wanted to introduce Surge and Kit, but needed to build towards them. They had to justify their existence in the narrative with the proper drama. Erasing their past was one way to do this, but this necessitates another character entirely. Someone needed to create them, and that person would need to go away. It couldn't be Eggman, since Eggman will always survive and return eventually. But an entirely original character could freely be killed off. Still, his influence could continue to haunt Surge and Kit.

Starline's arc was one of lost faith. He began by idolizing Eggman and wanting to please him. But then he was shocked by Eggman's seeming unwillingness to just... win. Eggman didn't want to kill Sonic before proving his full superiority by beating him fairly, and Starline eventually lost his admiration for the man. This was established quite early, as early as issue 14, so we can tell these seeds were planted with his future arc in mind.

Rather than helping Eggman, it became Starline's goal to surpass Eggman, by breaking the narrative stalemate between the heroes and villains. Endless stories like that of Sonic require that the hero always win, but the villain always survive and return. He wanted to break that status quo, what he called The Sonic Cycle. What he didn't realize was how expendable he is as a character.

As a character stuck inside the narrative, he could see the cycle, but he didn't see why it existed: editorial oversight. The powers that be would never allow Sonic or Eggman to die. He never had the narrative importance to accomplish this. He was only ever a means to an end, a narrative tool to introduce Surge and Kit. That would be his only lasting legacy. And there's tragedy in that. But he was also downright awful, so I can't say I feel sorry for him.

In the end, he was another victim of The Sonic Cycle, outlived by his creations, who have far more narrative potential. Get dunked on.

[vsotxbull]

"The fear is what keeps you insane..."

(Based off a couple of MCU scenes that center around Steve and Bucky lol)

Dr. Starline had a lot of potential beyond what was given to him in his run, as do most "deceased" villains. Hypnosis especially could offer some wild, high-risk storylines. I also just really want to see Sonic become a little unhinged when his friends' lives are toyed with.

[ralucafarcas]

🌊Kitsunami🌊

Well I said I wouldn't design any more keychains but today I woke up and chose war so here's Kit! He was one of the most difficult keychain to shade, and I did it multiple times. I like this dark side there's to him and really wanted to highlight how menacing he can be despite his cute appearance. I hope you guys like this design as much as me!

Been reading through the idw comics, I'm currently on issue 68! It's so good! All the side characters in the comics have such cute designs.

[katsinspats]

Girls with threatening auras

[sonlc]

starline takes note of eggman’s gaming drink of choice and decides to become the superior mountain dew fan. he even makes two brand new guys in tubes full of the stuff

[teemdark]

StH characters + text posts because I cannot be stopped, 3/?

[snailsmeller]

Some halloweenie art for the freakshows cause i love them so much

Mad scientist starline or whatever