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Wednesday, October 02, 2024 

Sega does a DC collaboration starring Sonic the Hedgehog cast dressing as Justice League members

Gizmodo says Sega corporation made a deal with DC to star the anthropomorphic cast of Sonic the Hedgehog in costumes of superheroes who comprise the Justice League:
Earlier today, Sega held a Sonic-centric livestream called Sonic Central, announcing new stuff coming from the blue blur. One surprising inclusion was the announcement that Sonic and DC Comics are collaborating on a Justice League comic book run due out in March 2025. [...]

According to Sonic chief brand and business officer Ivo Gerscovich, the Sonic x DC collab will “start off” with a five-issue monthly comic book run penned by writer Ian Flynn. Although the stream went out of its way to omit the artist behind the run, it wasn’t shy about showing off the DC hero-flavored designs of its Sonic characters. Rather than having the Sonic bunch work alongside the Justice League, the unnamed comic book will instead see them suit up as iconic superheroes. Key among them are Sonic as the Flash, Shadow as Batman, Amy as Wonder Woman, Silver as Green Lantern, and Tails as Cyborg.
It looks like Vic Stone's role is still being made out to look as though he were always a member of JL instead of Teen Titans. Well I won't be surprised if, despite the live action movie's failure several years back, DC's still intent on pushing through such a farce that did more harm than good for the Titans. And curious there's no mention here of Superman? What, is the Big Blue Boy Scout once again being sidelined in favor of Batman for the sake of PC? Considering Sonic himself is blue colored, you'd think he'd make a perfect parody for the Man of Steel, yet he dresses as the Flash instead?

In any event, I just don't see why these video game companies, or any other entertainment publishers, for that matter, still want to do these crossover projects with DC and Marvel, considering how bad they became for years already. There's long been comic adaptations of Sonic itself; aren't those enough? If Sega thinks this is going to actually draw attention to their famous anthropomorphs, or even give the League a boost, they're deluding themselves. This is certainly not going to convince anybody to buy the Justice League proper, since that title too, like many other DC series, fell into artistic decay long ago. I think it'd be best to just stick with Sonic merchandise that's unrelated to DC, or even Marvel.

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