Apparently Ben Hurst would have us believe this is what love looks like

I don't think that's certainly the intended message. As a matter of fact, there isn't really a message here for us to learn. It's simply Sonic and Sally going off at each other with bouncing forth and back cocky talking, with part of its point being to pronounce comedy off them, and the other to pinpoint their love. Their goofy bickering was essential on both clarifying their key character, and justifying the essential of them together.

Love can be expressed in infinitude ways, and Sonic and Sally shows you don't need to restrict yourself to just love partners being gentle or romantic to the other.

More exactly, it was under the plan to end the comic at the 50# milestone (moreover, Penders was just frustrated he was told to stop pairing Geoffrey with Sally). That however was shifted out, upon SEGA's intervention at ordering Sally to not die. Interesting, so to speak.

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I always liked that Sally was the one person that could get one over on Sonic. And it was obvious that Sally was always trying not to get swept away by Sonic's charisma.

na it was Steve Butler

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>#69
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>Penders was just frustrated he was told to stop pairing Geoffrey with Sally

Like, isn't all media about the customers anyway? Since when do people whose customers are paying them get to call the shots?

I don't know about you, but the best romantic relationships of my life were when I was cocksure and charged in first, and the girls pretended they didn't think it was hot. Nothing better than knowing deep down a girl still sees the good in you when she's supposed to go for calm, logical choices in her men.

I'm older and more boring now. It's nowhere near as good of a dynamic with any girl I meet. Being unequivocally supported is boring and lame.

Why are there stink lines coming out of her ass?

Here's your mandated reminder that Sally was never faithful to Sonic.

This goes for SatAM too. Don't forget Grif.

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Chipmunk braps.

Archie Sonic was an unsympathetic douche who deserves to get cheated on.

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Sup Wally, we still racing this Saturday bro?

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>Stink lines
>Glowing blue

They'd be making them green if they were stink lines. This GIF is from Blast To The Past. Without spoilers, it's about 9 minutes into part 1

Is the yellow bird supposed to be a chicken? Is that what the fries joke is about?

>Fifi la fume

Ugh, they gave us the one genuinely believable case for a guy rejecting a stalkerish chick. I could see myself not minding an ugly face or annoying voice; at least if she doesn't demand to keep me all to herself; but stench sounds damn near impossible to ignore.

Would a guy like Sonic even give a damn about something like marital fidelity? Sally could be the biggest slut in the world, riding Tails, Knuckles, Rotor, Antoine, Robotnik, Snively, etc... every god damn day and he'd be like "hell yeah, I'm the 'boyfriend' to the village bicycle, baby!"

1, 2, button my shoe! Princess Sally Acorn. There's a lot to say about this character. She's the heir to the throne, Sonic's first official romance, the only character that used to not wear clothes, brave and athletic, the most humanoid character, and is like a mother to Tails. In the TV show, Sonic SatAM, one Freedom Fighter, the cowardly Antoine constantly tries to woo Sally, but doesn't succeed because... he's a coward! The Princess is also a semi-perfect example of an excellent love interest, although there were a couple of times when she really snapped and acted like a lunatic; in the comics, that is. But overall, Sally Acorn really stands out amongst the slew of females not just because she's Sonic's first official love interest, or because she's the only one who didn't wear clothes, but because in the comics, she grew very long hair, and married Sonic in the future, becoming the Queen.

I definitely see your point. In my personal opinion, the ideal is that both the writer and its fans would collaborate together on improving their beloved comic. The writer unleashes its full vision and creativity onto the comic and puts his efforts, but the consumer base also takes its part on informing the writer what could be righted out, and if the current state of the comic is doing well. Both should work in harmony.

In the case of Archie Sonic, Penders was practically just the perfect example of how can having a immense inflatable ego can do harm to oneself and to theses around: he always would write at his own, alone, never much consulting other professionals, insisting others to follow his way, being uncooperative in general when others would touch his material, and so on. He listened to the fans, albeit only for constructing his own savior image.

Geoffrey was one of the early doings of Penders that would much later sting the comic a lot (triangle drama relationships), to which the character was seemingly created for mere self-inserting purposes for then assaulting Sally always. You may perceive that for most stories Penders has wrote, Geoffrey was very frequent to appear under him, and he visibly pushed the excuse of Geoffrey being a necessary rival for Sonic in order to falsify the justification of the character's existence. To my knowledge, the audience never really asked for this kind of content.

Hence, the major reason for the planned Sally's death: because if he was forbidden from pairing himself with Sally, he went for her death out of spite.

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Man, sounds like Penders is the worst.

How did the risk of not losing customers to online fan comics not rein him in? Or at least make the rest of his colleagues throw him out on his ass?

*the risk of losing customers

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