Sharper than a Cyber-Razor Cut! This podcast is your online guide to the Sega-sational world of the 1990's and the UK's official Sega comic: Sonic The Comic. Join the humes who think they're in charge, Dave Bulmer (a.k.a. DemonTomatoDave on YouTube) and Chris McFeely (creator of Transformers: The Basics on YouTube), as they review each issue from cover to cover, adverts and all, and explain what it was really like to grow up with Sonic The Comic as a piece of culture. Sonic Boomers (that's y ...
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#153 - The Pretention of Coolness - with Mark Hughes (@thesketchsector.bsky.social)
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2:24:50Where does Sonic keep his ear muffs? What's more annoying than Doop?* When is it wrong for Sonic to rescue children? Join a professional Sonic artist, a socks fiend, and Chris, and drop dead! I mean - find out! *(It's Doop again)By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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You know what we've been telling you happened to UK comics after STC? We get a couple of disturbing glimpses of it this issue. Bags of tat, three poundsworth of hail Marys, and what happened to Dave when Jasper Carrott came on.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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It's a lovely day, and you know what that means (you soon will, anyway), it's time to grab your etheric beam locators and enjoy another STCTP! We've got the return of Robotnik, the end (whew!) of Sonic & Tekno, a polar bear, da wurx!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Cool, a worm! Time for a fun, safe and LEGAL time in our *150th* episode of this NONSENSE. And what a party STC have thrown to celebrate! I'm sorry, I'll read that again: What party have STC thrown to celebrate? That's right boomers, NONE. Oh well!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#149 - A Longish Thin Point And A Sturdy Build - with Zak Simmonds-Hurn! (@monstrouscomics.bsky.social)
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2:24:41Comic artist & OG Boomer Zak joins us, and he's brought a letter from 1999 written by... well, you'll find out. From one old pal to another, it's a mythic issue as we travel to Shanazar and meet the genie of the bloke's face and Amy punches the Minotaur.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#148 - It's Worse Than I Thought, It's Epic
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2:11:28Why is this the whole comic's weirdest opening strip? How do you make a citizen's arrest? How do you disappear flour? What is a deeper way to hate? What are the drawings of Super Sonic drawings of? Are YOUR oranges gay? Who should sleep in an alley?By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#147 - Percy-Having - with Tom McGrath
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2:11:29How far is it to Scotland, and what do they do there? How sinister is British meat? How crunchy do you like your orange juice? What is the latest in, and opposite of, sex? Also why doesn't Super Sonic destroy Mobius? Join us for some Big Beats once again.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Welcome to the Big Ride, Boomers! WHAT is Sonic doing in France? HOW do you get a Big Egg? WOULD you walk around in a custard T-shirt? Well cosh me with a black pudding, it's time to have a fern nernty-nern! .....*sigh* just, we read another STC ok?By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#145 - The Equivalent of Sticklebricks - with Jack Lawrence
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2:32:37It's Christmas 1998, and what did you get? We got IDW artist (and personal Windsor bodyguard) Jack. Chris guesses correctly, gets computerised and throws videos in the bin, and we all have our development arrested. Also, who made this issue? Who knows!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Who is worthy to break the Seven Seals and open this issue of Sonic the Comic? Who cares!? And it's come to this: the inevitable Garlic Bread conversation and Leygo argument. Also, the Sonic comic is still going on! If that interests you!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#143 - The Old "Robins and the Reindeer" Conversation
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1:53:33Can you imagine an evil version of Kintobor? What goes down in this issue? What does Dave go down in the diary? How did He-Man melt? What's Life? What's So-Called Life?? And what friends will unexpectedly appear to say hi? Find out! With listening!!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#142 - Milk Bottles with Airs and Graces
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2:11:00Crash! Bang! There goes another one! That's right, it's gunfire season and plot this episode with the art surprising us in multiple ways, an All-New advert, and insight into what dads shouldn't watch and what sort of computers they have in HeavenBy Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#141 - Everbody Has To Pile In, And @%#! off!
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2:15:26This episode stops existing at midnight, so hurry! We have multiple stupid arguments this episode, perhaps because we're cross about the Ctrl Zn being gone. There are two awooga moments, and only one involves an army general's top getting ripped.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#140 - The Most Unkindest Cut Of All
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2:10:56Welcome to the saltiest episode of STCTP yet, in which we become noodle-armed and squiggle-bent about the loss of two important chambers of the beating heart of STC to nefarious drone-punchers. PLUS! @SubsonicSparkIe reads STC's Sonic CD adaptation!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#139 - The Most Famous Warthog of the 1990s
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1:31:21Knuckles Metallix drawn by Bob & Dobbyn, what else do you want? How about hoop ignorance? A breaded Man shape? A topic so serious that we probably shouldn't have covered it except STC and the format of the podcast forced our hand? You get all that!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Dave fails to turn pages or edit out the ding-dongs as we learn Root's secret and wave goodbye to an important old friend. Sort of.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Spice up your cheese! Would you like to do that? Well now you can, as the Spice Girls launch the career of Cheetah the Cheetah the Cheetah. ALSO: We recontextualise "Tuesday" and collect our GCSEs, and worlds converge as me & Chris' memories sync up.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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In which we do not go on a tangent at the start. Straight in, we are. Sonic's fighting Putties, Knuckles can fly but not fly, Mulder misses the action, you can't even handle toffee any more and Diary Dave gets a new obsession... but will you join him??By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Imagine you were obsessed with introducing a popular American product to the UK, but the problem was that we already have it, and love it, just by a different name. What do you do? The answer will surprise you this issue as we find out all about Cheetos.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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WE'RE BACK! Why were we away? Because Dave moved house and also his PC died. But we're back! Or, if you're listening later than initial release, we're still here and it's normal! This episode: Dinosaur! Queer rep! Gormenghast! Good Amiga tunes!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Goalll! Off siiide! It's a football special! And actually it's fine and we don't mind. What's the best ice cream? Did you ever LOSE a pound coin? And as the reprints begin, we use them as time-wormholes in a coo-el new feature from Spanky!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#132 - Puffy Vest - with Abby Denton
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2:31:35We find out the many (many) things going on with Johnny, Bucky can't find his ears, Decap ends, another boy trips over another pet, and we switch Abbies for a Diary Zone special. Abby's show: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10813?tab=ticketsBy Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Are YOU yellower-ey? Are you crunklier? Do you want to go to bed, but want to listen to STCTP? Well why not listen to STCTP, THEN go to bed! This fortnight we get into a tiff over Tails again, go to Somerfield for a kiss, and Dave honks the horn of Maths.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#130 - Big Danglers - With Tracy Yardley!
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2:51:19It's our BUMPER like a sonic's bumper FIFTH BIRTHDAY EPISODE! So we brought in arch-Archist Tracy to help us celebrate, along with YOU LOT. One big huge Sonic story to end the year-long saga (and a Decap), plus Tracey's brought a bag of japes with him.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#129 - Terry Wogan's Long Shadow (and other titles)
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2:09:29Sonic fights Robotnik across every reality, Decap's got bats in its basement, and we go on such a flight of whimsy across the Diary Zone that it takes up an unconscionable amount of the show, but you'll like it, because it's funny.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Birds, like a bird's birds this issue as we enjoy a world without Sonic the Hedgehog. Plus! Why are Chris and Dave having a big barney about what "free" means this fortnight? Look back exactly one STC ago with us and find out.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Amy's origin story! Jelly Tots For Men! Everyone's eyes are kindof bonkers-googly about this exciting episode! Robotnik returns, and in the Diary Zone, we find out what Dave did between diaries, and you'll have to get your anti-cringe coat on because ooffBy Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Welcome, Residents, to the Digital Age! Degauss those screens and wac 'om on the computer desk because it's time for a bit of binary finery. ALSO: Equinox! The Good Folk! Belching with rage! Secret poo! How to speak zombie! And VIOLENCE in the Diary Zone!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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A thrilling conclusion brings Robotnik back and he's got all the Emeralds! Oh great! Plus in Decap this ish they just get a dog and it's funny, also there's a horrible bat in Amy & Tekno, and we are offered practical jokes (long as they fit in a sachet).By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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It's CHAOS EMERALD STUFF this episode as Grimer gets his asterisk out. It's Porkenheimer time as we learn Porker's secret shame: he used to be in the nud. And: Suddenly Sey-less!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#123 - Porker's Steamy Secret - with @RikDraws
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2:46:10Is Sonic dead? Is he sexy? Is Porker sexy? What is and is not sexy - look, this is a rude one, ok? Parental guidance recommended. Why is this episode stupidly long? Nobody knows! But it's full of funny bits so who cares? Rik Mack joins us.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#122 - A Certain Joy to the Hammering
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1:57:43You gotta pop this ep in, because we find out *everything* that's going to happen with Hobson & Choy all at once, we learn who can beat up Knuckles, and we manage to get into arguments about burgers AND typewriters and we play pocket tricks with Dicky.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Join us in the Sexy Zone this episode as we delve into a proper good little issue full of: SONIC! Hobson & Choy! KNUCKLES! Oscar the Pig! DIARY! Dave listens to a phone-in! STUFF! ...I can't think of anything misc.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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With a new year comes a new old year, as STC enters 1998. A solid little parcel of goodies. The Emerald Hill folk join the Manosphere, Decap gets its best* page (*we are not in agreement about this), and Shorty escapes his cozzie! And Teen Dave has a PlanBy Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Elson draws two pages of Sonic beating up Santa this issue and if you want ANYTHING else in your Christmas special then you're just being greedy. But we've got MORE for you, as a surprise is dropped on Chris. Also: Rednex! BEADLE! I mean come ON!!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#118 - Hologram Like A Bird's Hologram
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2:07:40A big bumper-sized issue to celebrate... nothing, actually, it just happens to be one. Lots of stuff happens in this episode, but I'm late uploading it, so your special covert task is to listen and find out what they are. Merry December!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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It's a comic of two halves this issue, ygot Sonic runnin' about wallopin' a big sentinel, got Biohazard trashing a coffee shop, frisbees everywhere, and worlds collide in the Diary ZoneBy Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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A real return to the full power for STC this issue. Emeralds, Drakons, Metallixes, you name it. Sonic dips his nose in someone's birthday cake (not his!) at Hamley's! And in the Diary Zone, a discussion of this very issue arrives from the distant past.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Sometimes we might be accused of being two old men going on and on. Lots of those times happen in this episode. While Sonic revisits Megatox, the lads revisit what you should spread on what, what should be on telly when, and what to write on a poster.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#114 - Real Old People Stuff - with @RuairiColeman
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2:09:26We're joined by comics hume Ruairí Coleman who was worried he'd get a rubbish issue, but he didn't! Also: When rulers are exciting, how many Rangers is too many, and can you imagine the excitement of installing Internet Explorer?By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Sonic goes on a minor tour through Tails' imagination, Tails gets framed, Chuck talks a big game, the boomers force-femme everyone, and Amy makes no bones for the jelly-boys. Plus! 15-year-old Dave talks to A Woman and starts writing a musicalBy Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#112 - Subversive Lion King Nonsense
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1:34:24An experimental issue of STC leaves us worried and confused this episode, as the comic pivots to aim at a new audience that doesn't include us. Still, we get to talk about some toys and think about newsagents and remember when things were a little rosey.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Sonic picks up a fish, Dave describes an ice cream, we say goodbye to an old friend, Nigel brings the Deep Lorre, we mistake budgies for mistaking budgies for parrots, Dave is surprised into summoning the Lilt Man, unsafe rod-sticking, AND click for MORE!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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It's Sonic vs Knuckles Metallix in tria-by-combat! Tails fights the mob (seee) and both Chuck and Young Dave have a tooth removed! We disagree strongly about a strip and get into a big fight and are now enemies irl, and then we go on about KFC for ages.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#109 - If They're not Fffpphss, They're Wubblblblullups
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1:50:41An alien empire puts Sonic on trial, Tails encounters the worst possible spelling error, Wales gets the rumble-oohs, Amy & Tekno meet a man who knows what he wants. Also, in the past, young Dave's hormones finally get the better of his so-called life.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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Yes, it's a Long One, but that's because we got distracted by DINOSAURS, so. Also! KNUCKLES METALLIX! The final Plunder! Plus nostalgic robots: good or crap? You'll be surprised which one of us says which. And! Smushy feelings about the STCTP community!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#107 - It Gave Us The Language of the Gibbon
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1:58:51Summer starts here, with a surprise from Sonic's ancestor, Bravehog. Back luck for the Spice Maidens, Stein joins Dave in reliving his childhood, Sonic blasts Portmeirion, Chris talks about Batman Forever, and Dave talks about Fanfics Incessantly.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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A bumper episode this fortnight (because Dave's been on holiday and had half the usual time to trim it down), but it's bumping with goodies: Sonic meets a Drakon and goes to Portmeirion, spinner toys, Action-Men, Doozers, and adolescent woes.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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We're all plunged into some classic STC game adaptation at the moment with more Flickies' Island. Plus! Igor goes nice in Decap, Amy & Tekno become scouse mums, and it's a close shave with the bigger boys in the Diary Zone!By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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#104 - Something Interface Something Interface Interdiction Vehicle
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1:47:59FLICKY'S ISLAND! Another game adaptation begins this fortnight! Also! The Spice Maidens set sail, the Decappers watch footy (don't even play it!) and what's that falling out of the sky? It's Dick! PLUS! Young Dave figures out how to write music on PC.By Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeely
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