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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

#43 - Wishful Thinking Ketchup Face

Sonic goes guerilla against the construction of the Death Egg, Knuckles' main antagonists remain the Marx Brothers somehow, Robotnik is feeling all a-Scottish and we meet lots of beautiful Girl Versions this fortnight.

Jan 06, 20211 hr 51 min

Poster Mag Special - Goin' At It

Happy new year, Boomers! But before we launch into a BIG 1995, there's a bit of 1994 spin-off content that we skipped in order to do it as a special, and here it is. The LAST of the Poster Mags. Enter: Nigel Dobbyn!

Dec 31, 20201 hr

#42 - Tim Curry Noises

It's the end of 1994! Robotnik gets his own strip and it's Knuckles vs Literally the Marx Bros in this second bumper-sized Christmas issue! Plus appearances from a very special surprise guest to mark the occasion. Merry Christmas, Boomers!

Dec 17, 20202 hr 16 min

#41 - Mike Hadley's Tummy Nipples - with LittleKuriboh (@yugiohtas)

STC fan Martin Billany (he also makes Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged) joins us for a BUMPER Christmas issue this fortnight, and we chat on about our Sonic memories together. Mega CD lusting,Tomorrow's World 3D Stereo, a big Xmas quiz, and strips for Megadroid & Amy!

Dec 03, 20202 hr 24 min

#40 - Mentally Adding the Pie

Sonic hopes for T-shirt weather, the Eternal Champions bow out, Gary Gygax fails to create an RPG, Tweety's identity is contested, the True Identity of the Red Ranger is revealed, and we find out the secret origin of Mobius Eggs. Plus! A weird Speedlines!

Nov 19, 20201 hr 43 min

#39 - A Mass of Unwieldy Nonsense

What's the most disgusting thing you can do with a chip? Why was there a Rambo cartoon? What do football fans famously talk like? We flat-out reject a Sonic strip. AND KNUCKLES!

Nov 05, 20202 hr 6 min

#37 - Telly's Good Sometimes

Feeliman and Bulmamuffin are in the house, Zig and Zag sty-lee, here to talk about The Den, and rattle off references to Dragon's Eye, T-Bag and all that old people stuff. ALSO: a really really good Sonic strip and some READERS' LEGO!

Oct 08, 20201 hr 58 min

#36 - The Tripledeckersaurus

Robotnik finally captures the Chaos Emeralds in the finale of the Sonic 3 adaptation! But why are they so unstable? How many Space Aliens are there? What is Sonic the Comic called?? Find out in STCTP(tm), "It's even more exciting than a sudden willy!"

Sep 24, 20201 hr 59 min

#35 - The Ultimate Question of This Podcast

Would you let Porker Lewis perform brain surgery on you? Are you a Girl With Kitten or a Biker Figure? Join the only philosophy group you need as we discuss lines cut from Hook and who isn't in The Pagemaster. #knuckleswaspink

Sep 11, 20202 hr 13 min

#34 - Sticker Zone

Knuckles fights Sonic, Dave gets closure on a teenage mortification, the Chuckle Brothers look for droids, and we talk about our sticker-collecting days as STC provides us with not one, not two, but four free sticker albums (by mistake).

Aug 27, 20201 hr 57 min

#33 - Pastille Day - with Richie Morgan (@wretchedmorgan)

Knuckles is here, what else do you want? Well Richie's here as well, to discuss the time he heard Knuckles in the toilet & obscure flavours of Pastilles. Are you a Chinless Wonder? Have you ever eaten a penny sweet off a newsagent floor? (open for CW)

Aug 13, 20202 hr 8 min

#32 - His Name is Mister Squirty

What happens in this issue? I can't remember! I haven't had to edit this one, so it's all slipped out of my mind. But we have a whole section about Boots and squirty cream, and you like that don't you. You like that stuff. Plus, the first mention of S&K!

Jul 30, 20202 hr

#31 - Everybody Is Just Splatty Splidges & Squidges

It's a pop-packed episode this fortnight as the stars (plus one of the judges at a village fete in Skeggy) line up to cuddle Sonic and Tails at the Sega/Capital Radio Roadshow, but can you remember any of them? Plus: MUTANT LEAGUE begins; "North" is bad.

Jul 16, 20201 hr 41 min

#30 - How Is It NOT A Pig?

Lew Stringer packs a page and Mark Millar packs-in Rage. The 32X is revealed and the advertisers pull out - coincidence? Plus Pirate STC starts to genuinely wear Dave down. Plus we talk about Yikes! pencils, why not.

Jul 03, 20201 hr 59 min

Poster Mag #5 - Snouty-Hooters

A little nibble of a minisode as we cover the last of Summer 94's STC specials, a little-seen strip with a lot to offer - including the debut of Lew Stringer!

Jun 25, 202014 min

#29 - Tony the Tiger's Dimly-Lit Bedroom

A mystery from the depths of the Aqutic Ruin Zone nopes out as soon as it's yepped in, Mark Millar straps a bomb to a man to a toilet, Tails goes "durr", and something presumably happens in Pirate STC. ON THE AMEEEE-GER!

Jun 18, 20201 hr 41 min

Sonic the Summer Special - Sonic Used To Have a Bigger Chopper

It's the summer of '94 and you're spending a lot of time bored in Nanna's living room while she chats to Mum in the kitchen, or stuck in the car on the way to Skeggy. So Fleetway gave us this magazine to pass some time. Featuring a special KNUCKLES strip!

Jun 12, 20201 hr 48 min

#28 - Sonic Was Further Tortured

White shorts on a Spurs kit, Denis? It's the FINAL PART of Sonic Terminator, and the first part of something very strange called Pirate STC. Plus: Footie kits, a footie kid in 3D and a feetie kid in need.

Jun 04, 20201 hr 48 min

#27 - STRIKE ONE! With David Mariotte (@IDW_David_M)

It's STC's (and STCTP's) first birthday! To mark the occasion, we've got a special guest to enjoy time travel shenanegans, the first time Sonic and Tails met, and the end of Wonder Boy: the current editor of Sega's official Sonic comic!

May 21, 20201 hr 56 min

#23 - Swapping Shinies

The Real STC is here! This fortnight, POLYGONS have been invented, and are coming to the "Saturn"?? Cap'n Plunder wobbles his ugly chops, the Champions show us their guns, and Shinobi cheats his way to the top. Plus: a good Wonder Boy!

Mar 26, 20202 hr 3 min

#22 - More Like a Biology Lesson

Robotnik emerges from his Regeneration Egg, and we review an impossible joystick in a News Zone almost entirely stuffed with things that never happened. It's utterly hatstand! (There's one procedurally generated f-word at the very end, parental boomers!)

Mar 12, 20201 hr 46 min

STCTP - The Movie!

It finally happened, and we couldn't just NOT do an episode. Sonic has a movie, and not just two obscure VHS tapes slammed together this time. We're joined by Jehan (@maustallica) from Serious Disness, for a special crossover episode! Nnnnaaaaiiiled it!!

Mar 08, 20201 hr 59 min

Eternal Champions Special

STC releases a spin-off publication to promote Sega's upcoming fighting game, convinced it's going to be the thing to take down Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

Mar 05, 20201 hr 41 min

#21 - Smurf Archists

The real STC starts here! It's the big one, as Amy Rose enters the comic, and with her comes the Kintobor Computer, Grimer, and a new start for Dr Robotnik. Not a new series, call it a "regeneration". Plus: can you trust kids with a small green frisbee?

Feb 28, 20201 hr 59 min

Poster Mag #3 - The Bad Issue

STC blows a big raspberry in its trousers in this deeply regrettable spin-off pamphlet best left in the past. But we said we'd do it, so we have to.

Feb 21, 202021 min
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