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Sonic The Comic The Podcast

Dave Bulmer and Chris McFeelystctp.zone
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 you, listeners) may also expect the occasional tangent about other pieces of 90's UK culture such as Woolworths and El Dorado.

You can also read along with STCTP on each episode's webpage which can be found at stctp.zone and if that's STILL not enough content for you, join our Patreon at patreon.com/stctp for reviews of the Martin Adams Sonic novels (including an exclusive interview with the author!) as well as livestreams of Dave reading the awful Sonic fanfics he wrote as a teenager to Chris.
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Episodes

#158 - A Hatch Leading To Some Udders

A bag in the shape of a splat, fey gentlemen, what's custard and how many are a "supply", what killed the Jetsons, and a new tape - it IS gonna be a good podcast!

Jul 05, 20251 hr 42 min

#157 - Bob Monkhouse Condemning the French

Everybody get up, it's the start of the FINAL YEAR of STC, and what an episode it is. Grotesque desirable triangles, ideas from the Fun Factory, incredibly sexy insects, a suss six, a sunny seven and two familiar fives.

Jun 20, 20252 hr 17 min

#156 - The Jingle For Paint

Some thumps and bumps on the banjo this fortnight, and a couple of tearful farewells as the Nord taketh away.* But they're not taking away the podcast!

Jun 06, 20251 hr 25 min

#154 - A Preponderance of Jim Cummings

They made a vow their comic would be sound, so here's another podcast about it. Sonic proves he's faster than a man's fingers, Action Man hasn't got any fans, we hear Plato's Allegory of the Funkopop, and Chris reads Dave's day-one Underground review

May 09, 20252 hr 6 min

#152 - Pulsing Dog Parcels

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.

Apr 11, 20252 hr 1 min

#151 - Cuddling La Vida Loca

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!

Mar 28, 20251 hr 52 min

#150 - The Lowest Form of Cake

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!

Mar 14, 20251 hr 50 min

#148 - It's Worse Than I Thought, It's Epic

Why 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?

Feb 14, 20252 hr 11 min

#147 - Percy-Having - with Tom McGrath

How 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.

Jan 31, 20252 hr 11 min

#146 - Oi Luv Custerd Oi Do

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?

Jan 17, 20252 hr 7 min

#145 - The Equivalent of Sticklebricks - with Jack Lawrence

It'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!

Jan 03, 20252 hr 33 min

#144 - To Stop The Sausage Rolls

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!

Dec 20, 20241 hr 59 min

#143 - The Old "Robins and the Reindeer" Conversation

Can 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!!

Dec 06, 20241 hr 54 min

#142 - Milk Bottles with Airs and Graces

Crash! 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 Heaven

Nov 22, 20242 hr 11 min

#141 - Everbody Has To Pile In, And @%#! off!

This 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.

Nov 08, 20242 hr 15 min

#140 - The Most Unkindest Cut Of All

Welcome 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!

Oct 25, 20242 hr 11 min

#139 - The Most Famous Warthog of the 1990s

Knuckles 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!

Oct 11, 20241 hr 31 min

#138 - A Simple Question of Biff

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.

Sep 27, 20241 hr 57 min

#137 - Frontload the Grumpery

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.

Sep 13, 20242 hr 10 min

#136 - Tall The Gentleman

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??

Aug 31, 20242 hr 5 min

#135 - Pachinko the Wombat

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.

Aug 31, 20241 hr 54 min

#134 - The Agony of Being Sonic

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!

Aug 11, 20242 hr 14 min

#133 - Bobby Wobby

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!

Jun 28, 20242 hr 3 min

#132 - Puffy Vest - with Abby Denton

We 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=tickets

Jun 14, 20242 hr 32 min

#131 - Solve For Eggs

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.

May 31, 20242 hr 13 min

#130 - Big Danglers - With Tracy Yardley!

It'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.

May 17, 20242 hr 51 min
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