Mega Man Archie

Man, thats what everybody wants. Skip Classic, get right to X. Dreamwave did it, Archie did it...

>I can't help but thinking that would've eventually devolved into the sprawl that was the Sonic comic series as soon as they tipped off the 10-18 game adaptations.
I think that's why he was taking his time with the game adaptations, he was afraid of the comic spinning off the rails like the Sonic comic did.
I remember people used to ask him what he was going to do after adapting MM10 and his response was always something like "We're not even thinking about that right now".
He even wanted to do a Mega Man Soccer adaptation.

It's the first axiom that comic publishers want properties that can host spinoffs.

I hate it. I just want a good classic series instead of writers who can't wait for fucking blade runner with robot penguins.

It’s because X has so much more story potential than Classic. X deals with themes of what it means to be human or not, pacifism in the face of an enemy that will never yield to peace, whether a creation of a monster can grow to be a hero, are humans out of date and in need of replacement etc.

Classic gimps itself by technically not having the robots experience true free will, taking away that argument of man or machine, and by being more cartoony. Makes sense for a writer to be more interested in writing for them.

It’s like asking if you’d want to write for Bugs Bunny or Superman. Ones inherently more interesting to write about, despite both being silly.

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>what it means to be human or not, pacifism in the face of an enemy that will never yield to peace, whether a creation of a monster can grow to be a hero, are humans out of date and in need of replacement
You can do that just fine with the Classic series.
In fact, the comic did touch on those subjects except for that last one which the MM&B arc could have covered.

It sucks anytime Megaman gets out of his grave we gotta waste time with Classic first.

It’s a real shame this comic got cancelled.
>inb4 it’s on hiatus
Yeah, sure.

X is too depressing. Classic is more fun and upbeat.

No one really believes its ever coming back. We know better.

>The issue where X, Zero and Vile fight an abandoned Wily Machine prior to Mega Man X1 seems like it was a pitch for a full Mega Man X series that was never greenlit.
That's exactly what it was. They were pushing to start a separate X series comic, and that along with Dawn of X as well as Worlds Unite were attempts at getting reader interest, but it all fell through, then "hiatus"

My bad, it was The X Factor. Dawn of X was the Wily Walker story.

like that episode when mega meets x wa meant to be a back door pilot to a megaman x cartoon but got canned

youtube.com/watch?v=MVUlyaQwF7w

Yeah, the comic did get to touch on those themes, but it’s still limited by the fact that robots can never be fully sentient so it limits how far they can take their personalities.

X just gives you more free reign to do crazy anime/blade runner shit.
It’s no more depressing than stuff like Final Fantasy or Astro Boy can get. It’s not Robocop, it’s still just a goofy anime-esque tale of colorful robots using lightsabers to fight homo-skynet.

Its incredibly depressing when you consider what its all leading up to, and that in the end nothing X and Zero do really matter.

Unless you follow the "each successive MM series is just a possible future" theory.

>it’s still limited by the fact that robots can never be fully sentient so it limits how far they can take their personalities.
That just made those themes stronger imo.
The Robot Masters were in this awkward spot where they had emotions but no free will.
It was questionable whether it was even ethical to create such robots.
Some Robot Masters couldn't handle their lot in life and opted for suicide when given the chance.
Others were bizarrely content with the idea that they were disposable.
And Mega Man was caught in the middle trying to sort this out, but only because he was lucky enough to have the privileged position of being Light's robot son.

More like nothing Classic Rock does matters. X and Zero were foundational to the world order centuries forward.

Even after all these years I still have trouble thinking of Axel as anything more than some last minute addition

Ian is really good at autistically planning deepest lore and all that shit, but he’s horrible at delivering it.

X and Zero are a dynamic duo and Axl is the weak link. His backstory is stupid and he has a lot of personality overlap with both of them, as well as a terrible gimmick ability and a moveset too similar to X. He just came into the series during the era where it was being milked to death, and it shows.

I mean, you could argue the same for series like Batman or Superman where their futures end up somewhat disastrous (or in Superman’s case, lonely) but I wouldn’t call Superman depressing.

Shit, like this dude says Classic also gets nothing accomplished and is scrapped.

And by Legends everything kinda works out.

Yeah it’s interesting, but it’s still more limited than X. Mostly because Classic is still designed for kids and X is for teenagers, so it can go deeper into those themes than Classic can.

that’s cause he was