Trivia / Sonic the Comic – Online!

• Approval of God:
  • The webcomic has received praise from many of the original Sonic the Comic team members, (Including head writers Nigel Kitching and Lew Stringer as well as head artist Richard Elson) with several even collaborating with them on a few issues.
  • Issue 261 was officially approved by Sega when it was given a physical release at Summer of Sonic 2013, with Sega even paying for said printing to have an ad for Sonic Lost World to be included.
• In Memoriam:
  • Issue 275 is dedicated to Matt Ditmer, who passed away months before its release. This was his final issue, having already finished the art for the top half of page 2.
  • Issue 277 was dedicated to original Sonic the Comic team member Nigel Dobbyn, who passed away in late August 2019, just before the issue was released.
• Milestone Celebration: Exit: Sonic was created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sonic the Comic.
• Schedule Slip: Apparently they have enough scripts to last a few billion years; it's just that the artwork takes a long time to get finished, resulting the almost annual issue releases, and sometimes seemingly (or genuinely) aborted story arcs (not to mention the inevitable storyline compression, after all the Sonic stories in STCO are only seven pages long, while backup features have a five-page length). This is justified because since is a work out of love, the artists are not getting paid to draw it.
• Staff-Created Fan Work: Sonic The Comic Online is a Fan Sequel to Sonic the Comic that has been running for over a decade. A few issues have been worked on by the artists and writers of the original comic. Nigel Kitching and Nigel Dobbyn worked together on a Distant Finale called Exit:Sonic which acts as the ending for the comic (even though Online is on-going).