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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

#129 - Terry Wogan's Long Shadow (and other titles)

Sonic 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.

May 03, 20242 hr 9 min

#128 - Porker Lewis Is A Liability

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.

Apr 20, 20241 hr 51 min

#127 - A Surprise Nut

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 ooff

Apr 05, 20241 hr 53 min

#126 - Sonic's Inevitable Bulge

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!

Mar 22, 20242 hr 9 min

#125 - Buttocks the Echidna

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).

Mar 08, 20241 hr 37 min

#124 - An Ooshy-Gooshy Material

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!

Feb 23, 20241 hr 57 min

#123 - Porker's Steamy Secret - with @RikDraws

Is 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.

Feb 09, 20242 hr 46 min

#122 - A Certain Joy to the Hammering

You 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.

Jan 26, 20241 hr 58 min

#121 - Eating Just One PEZ

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.

Jan 13, 20242 hr 3 min

#120 - Hedgehog Puberty

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 Plan

Jan 02, 20241 hr 38 min

#119 - Reuniting With Their Pants

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!!

Dec 15, 20232 hr 1 min

#118 - Hologram Like A Bird's Hologram

A 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!

Dec 01, 20232 hr 8 min

#117 - To Be Normal

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 Zone

Nov 18, 20231 hr 47 min

#116 - Mr Burns' Hole

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.

Nov 03, 20232 hr 10 min

#115 - Toilet Is Timeless

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.

Oct 20, 20232 hr 5 min

#114 - Real Old People Stuff - with @RuairiColeman

We'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?

Oct 06, 20232 hr 9 min

#113 - The Fred Is Throgs

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 musical

Sep 24, 20231 hr 55 min

#112 - Subversive Lion King Nonsense

An 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.

Sep 08, 20231 hr 34 min

#111 - His Eggy Heartbeat

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!

Aug 25, 20232 hr 5 min

#110 - Kinda Floppy Now

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.

Aug 11, 20232 hr 4 min

#109 - If They're not Fffpphss, They're Wubblblblullups

An 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.

Jul 28, 20231 hr 51 min

#108 - The Notion of Poo

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!

Jul 15, 20232 hr 20 min

#107 - It Gave Us The Language of the Gibbon

Summer 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.

Jun 30, 20231 hr 59 min

#106 - I Appreciate the Dangle

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.

Jun 19, 20232 hr 27 min

#105 - Sega of Scandinavia

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!

Jun 02, 20231 hr 52 min

#104 - Something Interface Something Interface Interdiction Vehicle

FLICKY'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.

May 19, 20231 hr 48 min

#103 - The Testicular Stand-Ins

A butler tries to pour a tea and explodes, the Spice Maidens are actually quite good, Robotnik's got sycophants kissing his "nose", Tails is a cool dude, and something lovely happens in the fanart page, but you won't find out what 'til the end of the ep!!

May 04, 20232 hr 12 min

#101 - It's Got A Very Dollopy Appearance

Sonic! at the ballot box. Knuckles! tying up loose ends from #100. Rummy! canaster. A police of solidified serup! And in the Diary Zone you'll simply never guess what Dave's gone and researched for you this fortnight. You'll JUST never guess.

Apr 06, 20231 hr 56 min
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