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Some unfortunate news for fan comic lovers - the upcoming SonicVerse Team Comic Con (SVTcc) 2003 has been postponed for several months. It was originally due to begin on August 20 (just days away), but will now take place in December. The reason for the push back is, according to a report on Sonic HQ, "a lack of preparation among participants." It seems that the general strategy for SVTcc has changed too, as the report notes, "although the original plan was to have a tri-annual event, SVTcc will [now] only take place once every year." Looks like we will have to wait a little longer for the latest projects from SonicAdventurer and co. Hope the delay results in a stronger event - we're looking forward to it. Original Post Content: View full story

After the success of last year's debut online Sonic Comic Convention, show organiser and SonicVerse Team leader 'SonicAdventurer' has announced that the event will return for 2003. SA is promising a bigger and better show for Sonic Comic Con 2003, which will run for two weeks and feature a host that will guide visitors through the booths. Read SA's announcement below (via Sonic HQ): Source: SonicVerse Team View full story

Some awkward news for the last leg of the SVTcc today, as the final polling booths for the event appear to be functioning incorrectly. Organiser SonicAdventurer told The Sonic Stadium that the cause could either be due to overwhelming activity, or bad actors trying to fix the vote. He's working on it, hopefully things should be back up and running soon. The below is a note from SonicAdventurer on the news: View full story

As we come towards the end of the first Sonic Comic Con, powered by SonicVerse Team, we catch up with event organiser SonicAdventurer to discuss the plans for Christmas. You might remember that the entire convention site could change, so we have an update on that. And, surprisingly, SA decided to share that one of SVT's comics could also be getting a complete overhaul. The below is straight from SonicAdventurer himself: View full story

Rumours abound! During the end of the SVTcc, several things are expected to happen. Some of these have been confirmed by the guy behind it all, Sonic Adventurer, while others are left for rumour milling to take its course... 1. Sonic Transformation: Unconfirmed - You know the Sonic turning Super Sonic on the left on the website? Well, it's rumoured that during the event, the image will be completely Super Sonic by the time the event ends. Wicked! 2. Special Christmas Edition: Unconfirmed - It's also rumoured that SA is working on a special Christmas edition (of Sonic Shadows, presumably) on the 25th December, so check back to the event straight after Santa's been at your stocking. 3. SA Versus Marie-Lu: Confirmed - This has been confirmed by SA officially. There's going to be an art competition between Marie-Lu (from the Sonic::Epilogue booth) and SA (from Sonic Shadows booth) to see who draws the worse Shadow the Hedgehog. Marie-Lu seems to think that SA is better than her and he think she's better than him, so this competition will show us once and for all who is the best! Exciting, huh? Keep checking back to the SVTcc 2002 website for more details! View full story

SVTcc continues, and we look at Shadow & Light, and A Bright & Shiny Future... Shadow & Light Sapphire Luna is the writer and creator of her comic, titled Shadow & Light. In the comic, which is set some time after Sonic Adventure 2, Dr. Eggman has created a complete copy of Shadow, called Shadow-0. Shadow-0 looks exactly like Shadow (except for the blue markings), but the difference is that this copy is totally lifeless - responding only to fulfil Eggman's requests and orders. Using Shadow-0, Sonic's mental state is attacked as well as his physical state - Shadow-0 is just as strong as Shadow once was. And for once his plan seems to have worked. But with Sonic snapping Shadow-0 to get a conscience, and a new adversary to Eggman by the name of Valantino B. Uteefull, what tricks may the hard boiled Egg have up his sleeve? Sapphire Luna's booth is the first in the SVT Comic Convention, and a fantastic one to lead the pack - a great storyline that keeps surprising the reader, and introduction of some really cool new characters and civilians. Click here to go straight to the booth. A Bright And Shiny Future A graphically excellent comic, A Bright and Shiny Future takes the Sonic Verse into a new timezone - a future where Robotnik's robots rule the streets, with word of a new Heir to the throne. And Sonic? Powerless to stop any of the corruption in the City, as Eggman destroyed Sonic's home and his entire life... This comic is certainly one for the older audience - and although very accomplished, seems a little disjointed in story. Maybe it's just us. Colour could have helped this comic become even more exciting and less hectic on the page - but with the preview on the booth for Issue 2, this may be already coming into effect. And the preview page for Issue 2 looks so much cleaner already. This comic could well be one to keep an eye on, if you managed to understand the story during the first few pages... To enter the Bright and Shiny Future Booth page, click here. Stay tuned for more SVTcc 2002 Coverage right here on TSS! Check out SVTcc's website by clicking here. View full story

It runs for two weeks. Two whole weeks people. Comics. That is the name of the game in the SonicVerse Team Comic Convention (SVTcc). Online Comics. Mostly the kind that are hand drawn, but you'll also find some sprite-based comics here too. The Sonic Stadium has been given exclusive rights to cover this event, and with a show this newsworthy, we'd say that's a pretty big honour! In this first part of our special SVTcc coverage, we'll tell you how we'll be covering the show, and what booths are available during the course of the event. As time goes on, we'll focus on different booths at a time, so that you can easily digest the info per day. It also allows us to cover more ground and gives us more time to check out what's on offer. We'll also be interviewing some of the booth members, including (we're pretty much certain), Sonic Adventurer (aka 'SA') - the head guy behind it all. The convention website itself is a joy to behold - silky smooth menus with quite a lot going on. SA has done a very good job in gathering a huge amount of comics. Although it was once rumoured that close pals J. Axer and Dawn Best would be making an appearance, but this now seems not be the case. Still, the comics on offer are in good supply, and are full of vibrant colour and excellent quality. Here's a rundown of all the booths on show: The Booths A Bright and Shiny Future: A mostly-serious sequel to Sonic Adventure 2. It's 100% SegaSonic, no Archie characters. Created by: Sapphire Luna Sapphire Luna: A comic based on the characters created by the Sonic Team and Rafael Valencia. Sonic finds himself in the future, sent there by a mysterious figure. Coming December 2002. Also, several other comic shorts and some lost pages from the ill-fated Sonic Hype. Created by: Digital Addiction Produtions & Others SU2 - The Sonic Manga: Sonic, Sonia, Manic, Tails in one manga and... No Songs! What do you want more? Created by: Chalcara Sonic :: Epilogue: Set in the SatAM world, several years after Snively’s rise to power. A witty, teenage Tails - now an official Freedom Fighter with an attitude - must face off against Sonic himself, after Snively mutates the hedgehog’s mind (perhaps permanently). Can Tails choose between his duties and his loyalties? Created by: Marie Lu Chibi Amy: A sprite comic about cute lil' Amy (yeah right), bad puns and humour aplenty, if you can call five comics 'aplenty'. ;P Created by: Cinossu The Ceramic Heaven: A site with Ceramic Figurines of Sonic, Mario, etc. It also has a Sonic Sprite Comic and a rare Custom Sprite Comic on Legend of Zelda. Go check it out! Created by: MacX Sonic X Comics: This booth is for the fan comic series Sonic X and the sprite comic The Erratic Emeralds! Filled with tons of stuff you won't find anywhere else, like new issues, trailers, cool art, games, contests, and tons more, you'll surely want to check this colossal booth out. Created by: Sonick13 Nessa's Comics: Colorful Sonic Comics made by Vanessa Zucker! Created by: Vanessa Zucker Bumbleking Productions: The mind and talents that brought you Other-M strut their stuff with new issues, new titles, and greatness galor! Created by: Ian Potto Live and Learn: This is a musical comic meant to go along with the "Live and Learn" song on the Sonic Adventure 2 album. Created by: Christine Chong SegaSonicFanComic: Retelling the Sega Story, SegaSonicComic stays true to the series with a few new twists. Prepare yourself with a superb art and a suprisingly engrossing story no Sonic fan should miss! Created by: Tarik Sonic Shadows: SVT's newest fan comic comes in crashing into the big leagues with an intricate storyline of many twisted SegaSonic story plots. Inspired by events preceding Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Shadows delves into the idea of Professor Gerald's "Ultimate Life Form". To put it simply, the mystery behind Sonic and Shadow... Created by: Sonic Adventurer White-Ash: It ended in a bright flash of light and a bombardment of fire, and with a snap of a finger everything we knew was gone. The following years were complete chaos and ruin, but slowly we are rebuilding our world... but what are we building it into? A utopia? Or something even more worse than our imaginations can conceive? Enter the world of White-Ash and find out for yourself. Created by: Matt Potts Sonic V: The true story of Sonic the Hedgehog, beginning to end! Every Sonicverse has been thrown into a melting pot, leaving no characters left out, no locations unexplored, and giving you the truest version of the Sonic legacy. Created by: TCMSonic Splatterfication!: This is my popular sprite comic, Splatterfication!, which is based on the friends I've met at The Sonic Foundation Message Board. Be warned, for they are insane people so... insane things do happen in this comic. Created by: Sega Hedgehog El Zorrito Zurrado: A sprite comic strip starting Mails "Tails" Prower, and an entire cast of cool characters. See Tails overcome the dangers of becoming a greater hero than Sonic, and have a good laugh. Created by: Alfonso Rodriguez (Big Al) Butterflies by Sonic HQ & Studio Agnes: Butterflies is a new SatAM-based comic presented by Sonic HQ and Studio Agnes. It started out as an attempt to continue the old Invasion Mobius project and eventually became a comic all its own. The comic features spectacular visuals and an exciting time-travel plot. Created by: Vector Let The Show Begin! And that's about everyone! Just for the record, The Sonic Stadium had planned to create a Comic Series in order to be shown in a booth to SVTcc earlier this year, but time restrictions including the reworking of the site prevented this. Maybe next time... Check out the SVTcc Website here! View full story

Yeahp. You get to hear it here. FIRST. The Sonic Stadium has been open not even a week and already there's partnerships coming along. But it's not just any old team up here. The Sonic Stadium has officially teamed up with the biggest and world renowned Sonic Fan Media group, SonicVerse Team, in some hugely exclusive deals between the two website groups that aim to benefit you, the Online Sonic Fan. It has been suggested for quite some time now that The Sonic Stadium and SVT were gonna do something big together. For a long time the two websites have become very close friends, each respecting one another for their fab work and, in our case anyway, admiring what each other has to offer. In the case of The Sonic Stadium, that has very much been the case. SVT have been pally with us in the past - when Sonic_Hedgehogs himself had been running Sonic News for some time, the two sites collaborated on ideas, including the Sonic News exclusive Unofficial Sega Magazine, which has since been carried down onto The Sonic Stadium since the two sites merged. Dreadknux however has been a fan of the works of SVT since he came across their website at this year's February/March SAGE event. SonicVerse Team have also been known to be a fan of The Sonic Stadium - Sonic Adventurer expressed his excitement about the team-up, and also included that he had grown attached to the information/fan submission website. Obviously, this team up has come as a huge surprise to the entire Sonic Community, not to mention an exciting one. The best is yet to come - The 'Stadium and SVT have only just made it official, and marks a breakthrough in team-ups! Ironically, and classically for Dreadknux, this exclusive collaboration also seems to be quite an innovative step, as he so rightly points out... So, what will come out of this partnership? Well, this twosome seem to be joined at the hip in terms of respect - The Sonic Stadium already has Unofficial Sega Magazine, and it has also been confirmed that Sonic Shadows, the popular SVT comic that has been given rave reviews by such sites as The Sonic Foundation, is coming to The Sonic Stadium exclusively as the first stage of this partnership. The Sonic Stadium will also be creating some very exciting events and media productions, which will be exclusive to SVT in return. Dreadknux is keen to point out something very special in the wings though. Hmmmm... tasty. Sonic Shadows is enough to get anyone going, and as The Sonic Stadium exclusive, this should further shove the site into super-site status. But, this is in no way a one way partnership - SonicVerse Team has done well making special pals with the leading (and only) Sonic website with the imagination to create huge Sonic events and media forms to entertain Sonic fans forever, so this site will definitely have something to return in the matter. SVT and the 'Stadium will go hand in hand for the considerable future - and that, we shall round up, must be the BIGGEST Sonic Fan News to hit the Internet this year!!! Keep an eye on this site for more news! View full story

Things are moving forward for SonicVerse Team's 'SVTcc' event, now re-named as simply 'Sonic Comic Con'. After announcing the show in June, and a few updates in July, organiser Sonic Adventurer is finally ready to open the doors for fan comic artists to register their online booth. Read on for the full statement. View full story

It's only late July, but work on SonicVerse Team's inaugural Comic Convention in December continues apace! The Sonic Stadium has been given some new information on the upcoming Winter fan event, including a new deadline for comics that are looking for a place on the site. There you have it - if you want to show your comic to the world in the first online Sonic comic convention, then you best get it sorted before November 1st. View full story

Fan comic production group SonicVerse Team has announced that it will be launching a brand new online event that is being tipped as, 'SAGE for Comics'. The convention, called SVTcc (SonicVerse Team Comic Convention), will take place every March, June and December - with the first show kicking things off just before Christmas 2002. Fellow fan comic groups can register to set up a booth where they can show off their latest graphical projects. There will be awards up for grabs for the comics that impress the most, and SVT head 'SonicAdventurer' has revealed that a number of big names have already signed up including Other-M and SU2. Read the full statement from SonicAdventurer below, with details on how to register and where you can find the event when it goes live! View full story