At what point does Archie Sonic start to get good

Manak was a but limited, but I really enjoyed his art. What funny animal comics are we using as a measuring stick here?

DeCesare was better, in my opinion. Slott and Fingeroth also made the regular contributors look lousy with their phones in stories

Also because it allows for other characters to get their own small stories without hogging Sonic's spotlight, unlike Pender knuckles extravaganza

Issue 20

It peaked at 39 and Mecha Madness. Issue 40 meanwhile was absolute trash and an omen of things to come.

He came pretty close, he got mad enough to sprint to the coast in seconds and charge Eggman head-on in desperation

I think it also warped perception on Ian in general.
The guy's first year was trashy "canon cleanup" stories, and the next few years were pretty decent little stories that weren't amazing but implied later payoff. Then Universe launches right as he gets a less hands-on editor, keeping that formula in a new book while the main book becomes a perpetual soap opera again. A lot of Universe arcs are middling or even weak, but they're loaded with fanservice. The main book honestly goes to shit with the scattered good issue occasionally, but it keeps promising things will happen. Everyone starts treating Ian like he's amazing and he gets the impression people love the long form soap, but in reality he's doing a good to okay job with short stories on one book and a bad job on the other.

So when all the buildup and fanservice is stripped away and he's stuck on just one book, where he doubles down on the thing he thought people liked after a decade of not challenging himself as a writer, the resulting books are flaccid and people wonder "what changed."

Then Eggman thrashed him for it, and Sonic simply laughed as he got back up saying that was "only practice".

Nah, 40 is great if you're not a fag. It's written the exact same way 39 and MM are, just with goofy visuals instead of EPIC FIGHTING.

>he forgot when sonic did the LIMIT
Shame on you user

I didn't. It just didn't do fucking shit, and Sonic still acted like the usual cocky ass after his loss.