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Changed my mind about the Archie tribute and decided to have them be two separate pictures instead.

Like many fans I was saddned by Archie and Sega ending their comic contract and cancelling the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog series as well as Sonic Universe. I can't help but feel this will also soon happen to the Megaman comics if it hasn't already. I am sad that after such a great run that it has to end, even though it was very close to a milestone issue, but at least they at least waited until they completed the current story arcs in both the main comic and Sonic Universe. While many had mixed feelings over the quality of the comic's stories near the end, especially after the Pendering and Super-Genesis-Wave rebooting the series, personally I liked where the comic was going since it was incorporating more elements and settings from the games, introducing characters from less common animal species and giving obscure characters from past Sonic media excellent updates.

I wanted to draw something to show my appreciation to a comic series that has greatly inspired much development for my own fancharacters and whose artists helped me develop my art style (by basically emulating them). It was difficult coming up with an idea to express my feelings towards the comics and the great characters it introduced (or carried on from the cartoon), who should I draw? which of my characters should interact with them? should it be nice and simple? should it be and epic project? etc. I settled on drawing a simple scenario with three characters I felt best represent the comics and my personal favourites, and only chose two of my own to interact with them.

In this pic I had Umbra who is my main Fan Character shaking hands with Sally, wishing her the best for what is to come. While Ruby would of been a good choice instead of Umbra, I felt using wolf boy would better represent me in this situation (plus I've been using Ruby too much lately ).

What are my thoughts on Sally overall? I like her, I feel like she's the face of the non-game Sonic cast and she was a good leader type I've used as an example for Ruby's own leadership in her stories. I wasn't around to read the "Dork Age" in the comics as fans called it, during which Sally went downhill in her characterisation (The infamous Slap, chickification, etc), I came in sometime after Ian Flynn took over writing and was in the process of cleaning up the mess left by previous writers, so I'm more familiar with his Sally who was more than just a Princess/love interest for Sonic, but who was the leader and caring friend of all the Freedom Fighters. I greatly enjoyed how after the break-up she and Sonic were slowly and gradually fixing their relationship (first as friends, seeing other people, etc), rather then jumping right back into it. And the whole Mehca-Sally Arc was a great twist to the status quo that had me wondering how they were going to save her in the end, before it got cut off by the reboot *sigh*. As for her new design, I quite like it, especially the new ring weapons she has on her wrists, it gave her a unique fighting style that made her stand out amongst the other heroes and made me grin as it was a little similar to Umbra's Omni Rings in a way ^^ .

I surely hope that the fact Sally was originally from the Sonic SatAm cartoon and not the comics means there is a chance she'll show up in the IDW comics due to come out next year. If not then I guess this is goodbye to Princess Sally in an offical sense, but I'm sure dedicated fans will continue to create great artwork and write stories about her for a long time.

In part 2 Rej expresses his feelings for my two favourite ladies from the comics.

Umbra the Wolf (C)
Sally Acorn (C) SEGA

Description
Changed my mind about the Archie tribute and decided to have them be two separate pictures instead.

Like many fans I was saddned by Archie and Sega ending their comic contract and cancelling the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog series as well as Sonic Universe. I can't help but feel this will also soon happen to the Megaman comics if it hasn't already. I am sad that after such a great run that it has to end, even though it was very close to a milestone issue, but at least they at least waited until they completed the current story arcs in both the main comic and Sonic Universe. While many had mixed feelings over the quality of the comic's stories near the end, especially after the Pendering and Super-Genesis-Wave rebooting the series, personally I liked where the comic was going since it was incorporating more elements and settings from the games, introducing characters from less common animal species and giving obscure characters from past Sonic media excellent updates.

I wanted to draw something to show my appreciation to a comic series that has greatly inspired much development for my own fancharacters and whose artists helped me develop my art style (by basically emulating them). It was difficult coming up with an idea to express my feelings towards the comics and the great characters it introduced (or carried on from the cartoon), who should I draw? which of my characters should interact with them? should it be nice and simple? should it be and epic project? etc. I settled on drawing a simple scenario with three characters I felt best represent the comics and my personal favourites, and only chose two of my own to interact with them.

In this pic I had Umbra who is my main Fan Character shaking hands with Sally, wishing her the best for what is to come. While Ruby would of been a good choice instead of Umbra, I felt using wolf boy would better represent me in this situation (plus I've been using Ruby too much lately ).

What are my thoughts on Sally overall? I like her, I feel like she's the face of the non-game Sonic cast and she was a good leader type I've used as an example for Ruby's own leadership in her stories. I wasn't around to read the "Dork Age" in the comics as fans called it, during which Sally went downhill in her characterisation (The infamous Slap, chickification, etc), I came in sometime after Ian Flynn took over writing and was in the process of cleaning up the mess left by previous writers, so I'm more familiar with his Sally who was more than just a Princess/love interest for Sonic, but who was the leader and caring friend of all the Freedom Fighters. I greatly enjoyed how after the break-up she and Sonic were slowly and gradually fixing their relationship (first as friends, seeing other people, etc), rather then jumping right back into it. And the whole Mehca-Sally Arc was a great twist to the status quo that had me wondering how they were going to save her in the end, before it got cut off by the reboot *sigh*. As for her new design, I quite like it, especially the new ring weapons she has on her wrists, it gave her a unique fighting style that made her stand out amongst the other heroes and made me grin as it was a little similar to Umbra's Omni Rings in a way ^^ .

I surely hope that the fact Sally was originally from the Sonic SatAm cartoon and not the comics means there is a chance she'll show up in the IDW comics due to come out next year. If not then I guess this is goodbye to Princess Sally in an offical sense, but I'm sure dedicated fans will continue to create great artwork and write stories about her for a long time.

In part 2 Rej expresses his feelings for my two favourite ladies from the comics.

Umbra the Wolf (C)
Sally Acorn (C) SEGA