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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

#72 - Cheesy-Ronk-Stinky-Feet-Dog-Poo-Stickers

The epic rerun of Sonic's origin concludes, Chris sees a new episode of Turtles, and we get the inside scoop from a Speedlines fib we all fell for. It's STC's smelly issue! Issued to you, our smelly listeners. I MEAN OUR LISTENERS!! Oh, what a giveaway

Feb 17, 20221 hr 44 min

#71 - Sonic Kissing Sonic

What are the top ten kissy smooches on the Sonic Web? Listen to this episode and you'll find out, Saucy! The Rs are very rhotic on this, our Valentine's ep. Also: we each lose our Sonic fanfics in the Diary Zone, and OH YEAH THE ORIGIN OF SONIC AGAIN!

Feb 03, 20222 hr 10 min

#70 - We Recognise That Egg

Sonic and Chaotix travel back in time to find out where it all went right in the build-up to the reveal of Sonic's origin story! Er... again. Also, back in 1996, Babydave gives a firsthand account of playing through S3&K for the first time.

Jan 21, 20221 hr 51 min

#69 - Nicechap

On a Metallixised Mobius, Sonic meets Dave's favourite cliffhanger. In a dinosaur graveyard Knuckles gets a faceful of funkydust. On a 1996ised Earth, a hypnotic headmaster leads us down a very merry path. It's ALL about Ape in our 1st episode of 1996!

Jan 07, 20222 hr 10 min

#68 - The Big Chrimbo Bash!

Come back to 1995 with us via the special STCTP teleport pad, as '95-Dave brings us an on-the-spot report from the big day. Plus! Metal Porker! The NEW Master Emerald! It's a general knees-up so bring A Big Egg nog etc etc etc, I'm going to bed!

Dec 23, 20212 hr 9 min

#66 - Deliciously Lickable

What sort of vibe do you get from Tracy? Was Coronation St a stealth game? What do Strong And Cool people do? Why don't you stop asking stupid questions and just listen to the podcast??

Nov 26, 20211 hr 48 min

#65 - Even Turns the Milk Chocolatey

Shredheads and Shredless Wonders alike will enjoy our cereal offences this fortnight. Chris works his way through a pack of Pastilles (here they are right now) that seem to be reading along, Ecco ends, and a new Knuckles strip brings us NIGEL DOBBYN!

Nov 12, 20211 hr 47 min

#64 - Pigs Are Squidgy

It's Halloween again, boo-mers! Our third! So we probably say all the same things about Halloween as ever. Never mind that! It's Brutus! It's Shorty & Tekno! Ecco! Knuckles & Tails! It's a banger of an issue

Oct 29, 20212 hr 5 min

#63 - I Don't Know What Pumps - with Sam Beddoes (@FreakZoneGames)

Brutus! Tekno! Farthing Wood! Reboot! Sugar Puffs! Holograms! School friends & enemies! The worst film a child can watch! Sam from Freak Zone Games is here, newly-minted copy of Spectacular Sparky in hand, to discuss Shadow's shaft and Beano sacrifice.

Oct 15, 20211 hr 58 min

#62 - School Rubbers

This episode: Breaking school stationary and "forgetting" PE kits. Also, the genuinely harrowing conclusion to the Brotherhood of Metallix story, Ecco goes to SPACE, and various things are wrong with Marsupilami. Plus: the music of Sonic Chronicles

Oct 03, 20212 hr 11 min

#61 - A Beeline To Carl

"UKCAC podcast!" you've been shouting -- at least, we think that's what you've been shouting. So here it is, the issue where Boomers were invited to meet the Humes-who-think-they're-in-charge. We had a roving reporter on the scene. Also: Metallixes! etc!

Sep 16, 20212 hr 4 min

#60 - Fist The Echidna

We join hands across the Irish Sea to reunite something we accidentally split up. Plus! Sonic gets a stick and whacks a Metallix's head off with it, Ecco bounces back, and it's Gibbon in goal! Gosh I've still got some characters left... give us a 5* revie

Sep 02, 20211 hr 50 min

#59 - A Shrieking Blancmange Man

We've avoided it for too long: this fortnight, He must be discussed. Also this issue: the Brotherhood of Metallix, the FINAL Kid Chameleon, why Nack is also Fang, Knuckles & Tails team-up, and a catastrophic misinterpretation of the popularity of barf.

Aug 19, 20212 hr 1 min

#57 - Slapping Sausages

Facts: All strawberries have warts in. Fact: There's a difference between the seaside and the beach. Speculation: Sonic and Shortfuse team up, the Wayne Gretzky title music must be by the same person as the Eternal Champions tune, STC is antifa. Hello!

Jul 22, 20211 hr 46 min

#56 - The Cool Newsagents

Chris looks in them windows, Dave has the nicest Whippy in England, Abby lends her dog expertise and Dave recounts a very rude joke a man told him on holiday in 1995. Plus! A Graphics Zone we've been dreading for a long time now! Hoooofffffyah.

Jul 09, 20212 hr 4 min

#55 - I Was Just Thinking About A Horrible Sweaty Man

How embarrassed would Dave be, do you think, if he talked at length about a man who drives a boat, but didn't realise that man invented Postman Pat? Find out! Also: Citadel Robotnik! Sonic on his hols! Emperor Metallix! Sac Magique! The joint is hoppin'!

Jun 24, 20212 hr

#54 - A More Powerful Boy Than Me

We answer all your burning questions. Who are the Chaotix? Why are there two Metallixes? What's the sourest thing Dave's ever had in his mouth? How do you eat an After Eight? Does Sparkster go to space? Find out! (Abby says Gamma is good actually, btw)

Jun 09, 20212 hr 2 min

Sonic Holiday Special '95 - For The Dude Factor

Buckets & Spades! A 99 with flake! Scatch on the beach! That's right, we're all goin' on a Sonic holiday special, with features you'll never believe: reprints, the opposite of a fact file, Kid Cruel AGAIN, oof, and WAIT til you hear the Chaotix review!

Jun 03, 20211 hr 28 min

#53 - Crying And Spitting - with Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK)

Our 2ND ANNIVERSARY EPISODE! Sooz is back for the FINALE of SONIC & KNUCKLES! AND the start of TOTAL CHAOTIX! AND! What are Smartians? Only STCTP has the answer. Sparkster begins, and Trippy's golden Knuckles finally explained!

May 28, 20212 hr 1 min

#52 - Huff My Jeans

The Floating Island vs the Death Egg! PLUS! What's the grossest thing Simon Cowell's ever done? Goodness knows, but we investigate a pretty gross one. Also plus! PJ & Duncan go snowboarding! Robotnik spurns a lover! And Chris says "martial arts gi" again!

May 13, 20211 hr 44 min

#51 - Virgin's Slippery Release

The DEATH EGG is launched, it has the Master Emerald, and it's poised to destroy the Emerald Hill Zone and all who live there! Plus: a Garfield hiding in plain sight, some 32X demos, the Beanoinest Sonic strip yet, and Bored of the Rings! (Speccy joke)

Apr 29, 20211 hr 48 min

#50 - Count 'em, FIFTY - with @TomCampbell

STC and STCTP both hit a landmark 50 EPISODES! Tom Campbell from A History of Sonic the Hedgehog joins the celebrations. Plus! it's one long fight scene for Metallix and Super Sonic! The Red Star and the blue star have a race! It's a GAS!*

Apr 15, 20211 hr 57 min

#49 - Dorrrrrrk Scummmm

Hidden Palace! Super Emeralds! Lava Reef! Death Egg! Eggrobos! METALLIX!! It's the Sonic and Knuckles story! Plus: what would 1995 Dave do with 4m quid? Who is Simpson? What if we LIKED a Tails strip? What's so good about Micro Machines?

Apr 01, 20212 hr 1 min

#48 - A Selected Virgin - with @edensthings

The most accurate game-to-comic adaptation ever? Sit down with your Control Old Man and enjoy another episode of STC's *great* S3&K adap. And! Party memories! And! Rock & Roll Racing goes wrong! And! The Sega "Neptune" doesn't happen! And! And! And! And?

Mar 18, 20212 hr 1 min

#47 - The Kind of Bloke Who Has a Name

It's here: the BIGGEST Sonic story of all is beginning! Plus! Things get sexy in Dave's 1995 diary, CAP'N PLUNDER sets sail, Shinobi returns, there's wrestling Monster In My Pockets, decapitated foot toys and Lego Aquanauts, and the last bit of Shortfuse!

Mar 04, 20212 hr 2 min

#46 - One Last Road to Cross

A Final Farewell to the Streets of Rage! Also: this issue gives away a pack of the most mysterious, the most enigmatic sweets ever known to man, Chris tells his sweety stories, Dave crafts his own News Zone, and it's full-time for Marko. (yes? full-time?)

Feb 18, 20211 hr 56 min

#45 - Horrible Bear Ham - with Abby Denton (@mizabitha)

Abby rejoins us (it's always the quiet ones) as we face the terrifying DEATH EGG, and watch it destroy our heroes, bodily. Also! Shorty makes his debut, and on top of all that, it's the Valentine's issue, so everyone gets paired-up with a pink counterpart

Feb 04, 20211 hr 54 min

#44 - What I Understand To Be A Basketball Player

You're a cool kid now. Sonic's got a bridge to blow up, Shaq wants a Mortal Kombat, we learn some Tennis jargon, we find out what Star Wars is, in the episode that "moves in physical time". Twadgequiddle!

Jan 21, 20211 hr 51 min
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