Sonic The Comic The Podcast

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. (Ctrl Zn is how I used to write it in my episode notes! -Dave) There are two awooga moments, and only one involves an army general's top getting ripped.(Also this was recorded blimmin' months ago, so there will be no reflection of things being bad. We imagine that's what you were hoping, but in case it would confuse you, that's why.)

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! A feature, in which we invite Youtube's Sparky, a young Sonic CD expert who has never read STC, to experience STC's Sonic CD adaptation!Here's the big epic 8-hour long Sonic CD video, you'll love it. And don't worry, I KNOW it's long, but you're a grownup, you can handle it. You've binge-watched a series before! Anyway youtube keeps your place, break off and go back to it whenever you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORJryigA0Ck

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! Actually maybe skip the magazine advert, if you're listening with kids. If you ARE kids, skip the magazine advert. And don't listen to this. In fact I'm ticking explicit content so your mum won't let you anyway. So there. Sorry.

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.

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.

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??

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.

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!

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!

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

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, Johnny reveals himself, we go to Somerfield for a kiss, Dave honks the horn of Maths, and we get right to the top o' the 'ead of the thing.

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.

Sonic fights Robotnik across every reality, Decap's got bats in its basement, and... Ok, look. I apologise for the Diary Zone this fortnight. 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. We share exam cheating stories, bang. We talk about stuff we watched on telly while we had unusual time off to revise. Bong. The time I do the biggest Mr Beaning yet. Bing. We find out that a fansite I visit in the diary is still there and we sign the guestbook. Beng? Bung. Anyway look, I've had too high a workload recently to do my usual chop-down of the section, but it's Good Content! There's like three title drops just in the diary zone! You'll like it. You'll like it!! won't happen again.

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? What is Mrs. Robotnik's most striking feature? And what would it be extremely cool if STC always did? Look back exactly one STC ago with us to 1988, and find out.

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

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: When is the Vernal Equinox? How do we consult the Good Folk? Belching with rage! Secret poo! How to speak zombie A brief explanation of Jimmy Nail! And VIOLENCE in the Diary Zone!

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).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 PlanHey remember I said my mic quality was bad last time? Well this time there was a software update we hadn't noticed that caused my volume to fluctuate wildly, so you might notice that. Also this one was edited while at families' houses for xmas, so god knows what the state of it is. Probably should've cut the Diary Zone this episode as well, because it's hardly relevant, but what can you do, I've got booze in me and I'm so full of marzipan, you don't even know

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!!

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!I've ticked "explicit" in this one just because I can't tell whether to censor a couple of pretty mild words that I find amusing

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 Here's the link to "Sonic & Chill," which came out on like *the day* I needed chill Sonic music for Ebony's place, weird how this stuff happens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6oEC4fpBhQ

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.

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.

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? Plus stay tuned for a big coincidence about Ruairí's latest comic that we didn't realise before we arranged for him to come on!

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! Back in the 90s, 15-year-old Dave talks to A Woman and starts writing a musical.

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.

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, Eggman vs Eggman, we say goodbye to ANOTHER old friend, we happen to sing a theme tune neither of us is very familiar with exactly in key with the real theme tune, Chris does a cracker of a joke on the way into a Joker advert, and STC get controversial years ago!Why did I go on this much about the contents of the episode? Dunno! It must just be a feature-packed one! Mustn't it! Or maybe I'm just feeling weird because I've got a big cold! Wehey! Potential titles this episode that I escaped having to choose between because Abby got excited when a phrase came up and I used that: Tummy Aliens; The Wordless Noise of Orgasm; I Reckon I Could Stick A Rod In That; That's the Level Of Thinking That Gets You Mr. Bean

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. Bonus Puzzle! Try and spot if there's a bit where I erroneously claim this issue has a two-page spread! It doesn't! I just feel like I say that at some point.

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.

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!

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. Hey try and ignore that I forgot to centralise my voice for the Plunder synopsis, I'm trying to get back on schedule after that holiday so I'm not going back and redoing it now I've uploaded the file. What was the other thing... there was another thing but I can't remember it now.

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.

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!

FLICKY'S ISLAND! Yeah! 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, and finds out why there are so many versions of the Monkey Island theme.

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!!

In which we have a very silly argument, and spend nineteen full minutes failing to describe something that isn't quite a maze. But YOU'll be a maze! d, that is! By another episode of Sonic the Ponic the Bomic.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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???)

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. Do I hear the clipping and clopping of reindeer hooves in the distance? No! It's the clipping of all our mics being turned up way too loud for some reason. Never mind! Here's that discord link we promised. Come and hang out with basically most of the people who listen to this. https://discord.stctp.zone/

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!

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. (Um, also, thanks to a billionaire's blundered bluff, I feel a bit weird about just crediting guests via their twitter handle these days, so Seumidh can also be found at https://mastodon.scot/@ShayMay)

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.

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! (lol I was having a very bad day when I uploaded this, which is why I uploaded it several days earlier than usual, because my PC's dying. I am grumpy about it!! It'll be fine, I've probably fixed it by the time you read this lol)

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.

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!

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!

Dave and Chris make exciting observations about the cover, Chaotix lose their Tardis, Skittles shoot children, and Dave exercises what Chris calls his "unrestrained horniness".,

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.

Here's the thing. 26 years ago this week, I wrote a song onnnn the Amiiiiiiga, and you're going to hear that song this episode, and you're never going to un-hear it. It will never leave your head, ever again. You will sing along with it. 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!

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.

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.

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!

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 kill all your animal friends in an uncontrolled "fury", like Sonic does this issue. Also: no golf games are not good, STUART.

It's the One. THE Super Sonic story starts here. It's a longer episode, but we had to really get into this. You know it, it's famous, and this is it. Also: what's going on with Gex, Chris rolls a six, and power water gun cow suit.

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.

It's the podcast's THIRD BIRTHDAY! So we got Guy & Cat round, we got cakes out, and we had one of the silliest, giggliest episodes yet. We visit Segaworld, have a little rave in the living room, do crimes at the Garden Centre, share Sports Day memories, find materials in the woods and prove Sonic is without Original Sin. What's the best way to end a four-day weekend? Join us and find out

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.

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.

You already know OF it: the episode where Porker leaves. But what's the context of that scene and how does it pay off? Dave's old pal from the STC days joins us to discuss this BRILLIANT issue.

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. (I don't believe there are any uncensored swears in this, but it's too long to listen to to check, so I've ticked E just so we don't get in trouble in case.)

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! (marked explicit just in case I would get in trouble for the bit where I inexpertly pronounce "easter egg-hunts" or the non-sweary but still non-ideal bit where I reference the name of a parochial Irish sitcom island we try not to reference any more, both of which are marked only by a soft-touch half-censoring. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!)

"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. Can you spot the continuity error? And if so, can you figure out how it happened? (I mean other than when I only noticed it after I'd already done all the exporting and couldn't be bothered starting again just to cut it)

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 *That's a quote from Chris during this episode though like **Far as I know. It must be, mustn't it?

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 smell listeners. I MEAN OUR LISTENERS!! Oh, what a giveaway

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!

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. (And by the way, my tease in this description last episode can be ignored, this episode wasn't late in the end, even though it ought to have been, because I caught Johnson's Plague. Thanks, Boris!) Special thanks to Sam Gabriel for making Dave's life much easier during the pandemic!

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! The topic of this podcast may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guidelines. (This episode was delayed due to Christmas galavanting. Wait til you find out why the next one's likely to be delayed!)

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!

Where should Espio have the horn? Why all the Garfields? How on earth do you crowbar the anniversary of your nan's favourite soap into a kids' comic? Find out, on the Eldorado of podcasts! (This one's a bit longer than usual, because I've got a big cold this week and am too poorly to be arsed with choosing bits to cut, so this episode all listeners will get to hear extra side-giggles of the sort we'd normally make patron-exclusive)

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?? (Eagle-eared listeners with a Sonic bent may notice an interesting discrepancy this episode. Know this: it's what I (Dave, who edited this one solo for various scheduling reasons I can't now remember) used to whistle back in 1995/6, and now I had the chance to make it real, so I did.)

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 with a belly-flop, and a new Knuckles strip brings us NIGEL DOBBYN! Zingy!

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

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.

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

"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 (@reaperfox) on the scene. Also: Metallixes! etc!

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

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.

What was Jonny's first horror story? What's so hot they're cool (other than us)? What was it like to be shown round Psygnosis? What are the Brotherhood of Metallix called? What's the meta-game of Kid Chameleon? What does Robotnik's nose look like and why does it mean this episode's marked E for explicit? FIND OUT, IN OUR NEW-LOOK EPISODE! With Jonathan Sims (@jonnywaistcoat) from the Magnus Archives

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!

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.

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'!

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, chuckle-heads! (that isn't to do with the comic, I'm really calling you chuckle-heads.) My wife would like to point out that there IS a point to Gamma and that she really likes him.

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, like reprints, the opposite of a fact file, Kid Cruel AGAIN, oof, and WAIT til you hear the Chaotix review!

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! (Sonic 3 prototype ending tune punched-up by Bouncy Glow's Music Room, Nack's theme remix by Noah N. Copeland for "Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit" SAGE Demo. Find them on youtube!)

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!

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)

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?

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!