BumbleKast Q&A for July 26th, 2021

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PRIORITY Q&A

Scruffymatt

There have been so many memorable boss battles in the Sonic series over the last 30 years, but I was wondering what your personal favourites are? Classic, modern, end of zone, super Sonic end game epics... all are on the table here.

DaniTheLight

If you could choose a way for Clutch to be defeated, what would you think would be justifiable from what he's done so far?

Jib

I'm not sure if this is too on par in terms of what you already know from the last mighty question in the podcast but, I was curious what knuckles and mighty's dynamic is considering mania and idw

Diane W.

I know what you did with Thrash was not your intended plans due to outside forces but do you think that Zonic or the other Zone Cops should’ve stepped in and arrested Thrash for his crimes against the entire echidna race, and have him imprisoned in the No Zone Jail and be separated from his sisters for the rest of his life?

Speed Weed

So, I'm not TOO sure if either you or Kyle have seen the many endings to Hollow Knight, or if you got into the lore throughout the game, but I'm throwing this out there because, hell, I'd be interested to see it from a professional writer:

From the looks of it, the World of Hollow Knight seems to have kingdoms that are entirely isolated from each other through what could be assumed to be a gigantic, lifeless(?) wasteland, and ruled by god-like beings. The only kingdoms we know of are Hallownest, which is totally dead as can be, and Pharloom, which seems to be a lot more lively than the aformention Nest of Hallows. With that said, and this could TOTALLY be considered Ian-tier fan headcanon, but if you were to be given a chance to try your hand at injecting a bit of extra world building to Hollow Knight, through the collaboration of Ari Gibson and William Pellen, with the backing of either a comic or straight up trading ideas with the two and designing it with 'em, what would you want to see expanded upon the most?

N'Oni

In Lost World, Master Zik mentions that they'd much rather be tending their garden at one point. It seems odd that he'd even take out the time to do something of the sort, seeing general Zeti behavior, so uh, what sort of things do ya think he's growing in there? Does he even bother to try and keep people out of it? Does he have potential lethal ways of protecting it?

I just wanna know about Zeti having gardens, man...

Scurvy Piratehog (Kofi)

Considering how... bizarre she can be...what the heck would a romance with Sticks the Badger be like? Like, what would happen if she met the right guy and got a crush on someone? Cause I don’t think it would be "normal" by any means.

Fionan M.

the two worlds apparently have the same locations like central city. How dose that work do they have all the same locations in terms of both city’s and geography or is it just natural formed locations like mountains and fields. Is that why green hill is on a island off the cost of central city according to the world map of sonic adventure 2 Or since that is just a bonus level is that considered non canon. Are there any difference in the two different worlds different versions of locations or are they geographically the same. Also in sonic battle it is pecificly stated that the planet is earth in emerald story so I think you made a mistake there.

Andrew D.

Here is something that's been bothering me lately, and the 30th Anniversary comic just added to it. It's about Ray's height in relation to the other characters. In all of his video game appearances (which seems to just be SegaSonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Mania Plus and its animations), Ray is the same size as Mighty and Sonic. That means he is taller than Tails. In Sonic Mania Adventures and from what I can sort of tell in the 30th Anniversary comic however, Ray seems to be about the same height as Tails and therefore shorter than Sonic and Mighty. I know he is written as the Tails to Mighty, but with the height constantly changing, is he still younger than Mighty but as tall as Mighty? Or is he the same age as Mighty but shorter than Mighty? Which height is the canon version? I feel like I'm the only one who has noticed this inconsistency for years, and it's been bugging me!

Dove (Kofi)

We've had ghosts, aliens, and Werehogs. The next logical step is a vampire (energy not blood) villain. Have there ever been plans for such a villain that you know of? If not, would it be something you'd like to write?

SonicSonicsSonic

Is there a possibility that there will be a comic where “certain” retcons in a certain series are addressed and the plot holes created by them are filled in. When the story it is run through a “certain group of people” it could provide some insightful feedback for “someone”to bring to a “certain”fandom Someway. dose this count as a fan idea I tried to make it a vague as possible so it dose not count.

Digamma

Someone in a previous bumblecast brought up the idea of a crossover between Metroid and Sonic, but let's take this to galaxy brain territory

A crossover between Metroid: Other M... and Other M

Awf

Question for Kyle: In light of Sonics recent anniversary concert, other gaming companies want to do an hour-long orchestrated concert of their video game music, and they're letting you pick! What gaming series do you choose to do a symphonic arrangement for? I guess Ian can answer too.

STANDARD Q&A

Dragons' Den of Variety

Hi Ian and Kyle my question is if you were to pick one Sonic cartoon to reboot and write for which cartoon would it be and why? And no you can't pick Sonic Mania Adventures.

Snootyboy55

Let's come up with a hypothetical situation, where Sally was to be written into a relationship with Shade the Echidna, how well would you be able to adapt that into story form and how would you build up to that moment within said story, for me it would depend on how canon you wanna make Sonic Chronicles (icky law issues aside) if you get rid of it entirely. how would you write this out, [...] would love to hear your ideas on how to make this work, if you wouldn't mind of course

Aaron M.

how old is the character Lanolin the sheep of the sonic idw comics suppose to be? I saw online that someone listed her as being 20 i was wondering if that's true or not? If there's no set age for her yet how old would you speculate she probably is?

Xeric Studios

In Archie Sonic #215, the Artic Freedom Fighters were reintroduced. During the 2 issues they were in, Augutus had no dialouge despite talking in the teams original appearance. Any particular reason why? Did he suddenly become mute like Bark? Or was it lack of space in the story?

Ivan F.

Hey, not to disrespect you, but it kinda felt like your RoÆ comic could fit into 6-7 pages. Can you tell which parts do you consider necessary and which do you cut?

Vlad C.

Ian, what were the main differences between writing Archie's Mega Drive and IDW's Classic comic? Production wise, dialogue/character wise, canon wise, and Sega-guideline-wise.

MirrorScalingNinja

Bumblekast, who do you think wins in a free for all fight between Sonic and Shadow and Espio? Also who wins in a single fight for your take, Sonic vs Shadow, Sonic vs Espio, and Espio vs Shadow.