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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

#99 - Dad's Been Messing Around In The 3rd Dimension

What did you watch on Saturday mornings? It's live! It's kicking! It's SM:TV...! It's the last epic buildy-uppy episode before the big one-oh-countem-oh. Sonic flings a bomb over Mobius, Robotnik has another lever, and Young Dave gets on the internet.

Mar 02, 20232 hr 9 min

#98 - Two Arses and No Head

The revolution begins as Lew gives a call to action! Dave finally earns Chris' respect and loses it again! Two dangerous boys hack into a TV channel, only to play their normal content anyway! It'll make you come undone!

Feb 16, 20231 hr 57 min

#97 - Jimmy Carr Reading Rap Lyrics

After a few episodes of grumbling from the pod-Humes, we hit an issue that's banger after banger after banger. Inter-strip continuity, stakes, mature characterisation - but why? Why are all the strips ramping up, and towards what? Hmmmmm!

Feb 03, 20232 hr 18 min

#96 - It Isn't Clear What Bum-bum Is

We usually basically agree about STC don't we? Well not today, bub! One of us hated it, one of us loved it, and if you've been paying attention you'll guess which is which. But which way is your toast buttered? Oh yeah, also: our oldest-mannest derail yet

Jan 19, 20231 hr 46 min

#95 - Mac & Me's Oo-Face - with Jolene (@lesbianautica)

Newborn Jolene joins us (finally) for Amy & Tekno's first strip together as the team strengthens without Sonic. Er...? Also: Q is for Question, Q is for Query, and Q is for Quitting. (Not us. We're not quitting. But something is!! Can you guess what???)

Jan 08, 20231 hr 53 min

#94 - Great Responsibility You Sleyyyyg - with @darylbaxter

Merry Christmas, Boomers! Either you're doing your last wrapping or it's all over, your Argosses are all wrung and you've made your way through stocking after stocking after stocking. Now it's time to relax with us and look towards New Year 1997.

Dec 23, 20222 hr 5 min

#93 - I Shun the Twix

Yuuuu-el! It's tinsel time, Boomers, which means we can eat Heroes just for one day. So we've stuffed your stockings with all sorts of fun this fortnight. What have we got, we've got "Insect-Guy," we've got hot babes, Father Christmas, everything. Ho!

Dec 08, 20222 hr 13 min

#92 - Looks Gungey! - with ShayMay (@ShayMay_)

Hard men cannae abide thy milky drinks, but they can just about manage a pack of Haribo. Plus we find out we're being very mean about the literal nicest man alive, and we change our minds about Charmy.

Nov 24, 20222 hr 1 min

#91 - Going at Some Speed - with Owen (@MechaGamezilla)

It's distressingly late in 1996, and the boys are getting excited about Sonic in 3D. Dave lies to a teacher because the truth is too silly, Charmy reveals his big secret to a disinterested hater, and Owen dislikes good things.

Nov 10, 20222 hr 33 min

#90 - Blades the Pterodactyl

I can't be bothered to write a description for this one! Yeah! I can just decide to do that! How will you know what's in it now? Well, you'll have to listen to it obviously. What harm could that do? Eh? Find out: inside!

Oct 25, 20221 hr 52 min

#89 - Pumponic Technology

Due to a microphone gaffe we've had to do some reconstruction work on this episode. See if you can hear the enhancements with just your own bare ears and claim your audiophile crown. Chris also has a crown! The tooth will out! There's Sonic comics an all.

Oct 13, 20222 hr 2 min

#88 - My Scoots are Elongating

Another CONRTOVERSIAL issue this episode, we get the low-down on the time they tried to [unalive] Knuckles the Echidna. Plus! We drift off during an advert! Dave falls over backwards! It's Sonic! Yeah!

Sep 29, 20222 hr 1 min

#87 - Miles "Harvey" Prower

This is the episode where Tails is handed a sniper rifle and invited to take out Robotnik. It did really happen, and this is the issue. Also, it's a bit of a general shambles of an issue production-wise. Also: Fun online! The same cheats as last issue!

Sep 16, 20222 hr 5 min

#86 - Sticky Technology

Dave and Chris make exciting observations about the cover, Chaotix lose their Tardis, mobsters turn on children for a Skittles ad campaign, and Dave exercises what Chris calls his "unrestrained horniness".,

Sep 02, 20221 hr 51 min

#85 - The EggRogenous Zone

Will Chris give Dave his cherry, in exchange for Dave's strawberry? Find out in this thrilling episode, in which fire clowns attack, chocolate digestives don't exist and we encounter an unserious Jobling.

Aug 18, 20221 hr 46 min

#84 - Rubber Chicken

26 years ago Dave wrote a song that will never leave your head ever again. I apologise. (I don't.) Plus: Just what is a superhero and why doesn't Dave know? Why can't Sonic trust the pigs? Who's the Pink Man in the Green Man? Harmless Auld Rot!

Aug 06, 20222 hr 9 min

#83 - I've Got A Fridge And That's A Fact

This issue we blow open the whole stinkin' operation of the Graphic Zone with our EXCLUSIVE SCOOP about their nefarious practises. Plus! Metmorphia's story ends, and Dave composes a silly ditty.

Jul 23, 20222 hr 16 min

Sonic Holiday Special '96 - I Lean Towards The Egg

Is there any better feeling than the first day of the summer hols? And what happens when childhood summers end? We get very silly and giggly in this, the FINAL, and undoubtedly the BEST STC special.

Jul 15, 20221 hr 54 min

#82 - How To Crack Nanna Up

WHAT was the Chewits monster called? HAS Super Sonic killed his friends? WILL Robotnik defeat Brutus? WHAT's going on with Sonic's crotch in this one? Plus: Tails' sexy pants! More flippin golf! STCTP: even chewier than Barrow-in-Furness bus depot!

Jul 07, 20221 hr 58 min

#81 - The Omni-Pooer (with Stuart Gipp @Stupacabra)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's what you'll say if you a) listen to this episode with our Retronauts guest Stuart Gipp, or b) kill all your animal friends in an uncontrolled "fury", like Sonic does this issue. Also: no golf games are not good, STUART.

Jun 23, 20222 hr 16 min

Knuckles Knockout Special

The world's gone Knuckles-mad, but it happened before! Here's a magazine, separate from STC, and ALL about Knuckles. A bit of extra STCTP for you between episodes for you dime-bars this summer.

Jun 03, 20221 hr 46 min

#78 - Arr-Arr-Doo

The sega Superstars finally flutter out this issue, as STC becomes a Sonic-only Zone. Plus! We have a minor breakdown about the Playstation, Dave is accused of being "twee and absurd" if you can imagine that, and it's still Robyn with a Y.

May 13, 20222 hr 2 min

#77 - Johnny Is A Snack - with Euan O'Leary (@EuanParticular)

Join us to find out what button clamps are for and whether they really changed Opal Fruits. Join Sonic for some antifash statue-yanking and some "comedic or cartoonish bonk-the-subordinate". Also, learn what Sonic cartoon fans are called.

May 12, 20221 hr 58 min

STCTP The Movie TWO!

We saw the film, we talked about the film. Yes! It's somehow been TWO YEARS since we last did this! Jehan's back, of course. Full spoilers discussed.

Apr 07, 20222 hr 54 min

#75 - How To Reach That Very Tricky D-Zone

What would happen if you won a big Pritt Stick? Did you use to go swimming? Are Badniks people? Do you believe the reason they're called Tazos? We answer all these questions in this giggly episode, so stick that in your glue-hole-yoo-hoo!

Apr 01, 20221 hr 56 min

#74 - The Catsplat Challenge

"This is the best thing that's ever happened on this show." What made Chris say that? Get your mum to download this episode for you and find out! Also: a 90s detective diversion, a means of Space Harrying, and a Willy Baronet.

Mar 17, 20222 hr 14 min

#73 - Dexter Fletcher's Audible Smurf Train

The Sonic strip that "shouldn't have gone to print,"* the 1st part of UK comics' only adaptation of a JRPG,** a Mars a day, and a trip on Pippa's train to Once Upon a Time

Mar 04, 20222 hr
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