Knuckles' Chaotix: The Archie Adaptation 

A “no dogs allowed” sign in a world of anthropomorphic dogs is a level of complexity I’m not ready for in a Sonic comic😑

The writer: let's make this serious The artist: let's have some fun The inker: what the fuuuuuuu...

Holy shit, Knuckles and the rest of the Chaotix meetup feel like a fucking DnD group starting up.

Archie Espio: invisible man Fleetway Espio: *chokes you the frick out*

Love how he's all giggly through the whole video lmao

I always assumed that in Bunny’s reflection, she didn’t have her robot parts.

Knuckles: “Sing out, Heroes!” Chatotix: does the singing ability from heroes!

Fun fact. That brown "hedgehog" isn't a hedgehog, he's a porcupine. His name is Dillan.

'Platypus? Platypi?' My dumb brain goes to: 'Platypeople?'

"Bad Redwall fanfiction" is the perfect way to describe the Archie books.

The dude who says “toot toot sonic warriors” at the end of every vid picks on the guy who once wrote “sing out heroes”

Honestly I'm really nostalgic for the archie Sonic comics and I love them a lot, but the people who wrote them were on acid. Not even probably on acid or maybe on acid, it's definitive. (Ken Penders was on acid AND weed)

Spaz's covers are godlike. They were one of the things that inspired me to get into drawing. And that Super Sonic vs Hyper Knuckles issue (9:14) is probably my favorite from the whole Archie run.

Listening to someone my age dunk on a comic that I definitely enjoyed the heck out of as a kid...is so charming.

This was my childhood. I once read this at the age of 14 in 2012. I was omitted to a Hospital because I had crippling OCD. My mom was able to get me out for an hour or two, and we went shopping. I got the graphic novel that had this story, along with that one where Hyper Knuckles and Super Sonic Duke it out. One of my darkest memories in life had at least this comic to highlight through it. I hope you get the chance to do the other stories done by archie (Hopefully Scourge!) Keep up the great work man. You're pretty much the best guy out here covering these stories and giving the Sonic Fanbase more positive points.

16:08 I’m gonna be honest, I was so hoping you’d say “Then Espio takes off Vector’s headphone so he can snap back to reality, then oop, there goes Gravity.” XD

Oh man, this was so much fun! I haven't read that story since I was a kid, and even then there was so much off about it. I did and still do adore the cover art; Sonic & Knuckles is one of my favorites. I'm impressed with your gumption and fortitude in theming an entire month's worth of content around a 32X game!

Seeing St. John looking all happy and cute almost makes you forget about Pender’s controversial tweets regarding the skunk’s relationship with Sally

7:48 * inhales * *U N L I K E S O N I C W H O H E C U -*

15:46 - Beleive it or not Vector is quoting "Do the Bartman" with those first two lyrics. You know that Bart Simpsons rap song from 1990 because... Penders is a huge dork who filled his comics with those kind of geeky references. I think in the actual Knuckles book there's a page of Knuckles actually reading 2001: A Space Odyssey for no reason and yeah lots of ridiculous crap like that. And I'll for goofy fun references but man do some of them age like cheese 20+ years later.

16:00 the way you talked in this skit made it seemed like vector was standing over you menacingly forcing you to say it

*oh damn I didn't know that vector was in the classic era*

Really well done as usual sir. Thanks for making such great content. It's the perfect blend of art, criticism, story telling, and comedy.

Spaz's art was. by far, the best in the Archie comics series. I used to sleeve up the comics with his cover art and plaster the walls of my room with them.

Deep down we all wish we were as passionate about anything as Ken Penders is about his writing.

How knuckles is put in the Archie comics really makes a good rival for Sonic.

8:31 That turtle reminds me of Cecil from the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Don't let that lackadaisical expression fool you; he might be just be packing a jet engine in that shell! On the plus side, Cecil would make a great Freedom Fighter. He's one of the only characters to consistently get the better of Bugs, so imagine how much trouble he would give the Badniks.

You’re honestly a really really good content creator, and you do not get nearly enough credit. I never watched these Speed Reading videos, but after watching this one, I really liked it, so I think I’ll go back and watch the others I missed out on. Keep up the good work, Nick.

Oh can't wait for the review of the fleetway adaptation

Game apologist: the power gems didn’t need to exist and the new metal sonic disign is stupid Shard the metal sonic: *cries*

4:50 Batter-..hahahaha..b-....I'm sorry *cough*... batteries not included? Is that a reference to the fact flying battery isn't actually part of angel island? If so that's cheesy as heck.

Honestly can't wait to see so much Chaotix coverage.

17:50 Power Gem is another term for Power Stones, I’m guessing, something used in SATAM and Underground. Also, Sonic vs Eggman in the Chao side story notes they are magical gems made by Robotnik himself.

I can already smell the views on this video

Oh god, I still have that comic... and all the other Archie Sonic game adaptation comics before Sonic Adventure. Unfortunately, all the ones I've read followed the same formula - a rushed story barely using any elements from the game followed by some other story, using beautiful art for the covers and generic (sometimes bad) art for the interior. Even though most of them were 48-page specials, they didn't use all 48 pages for the game adaptation. Some of them would use 1-or-2-page spreads to show Sonic running through every stage of the game rather than tell a story about him progressing through them, as if to get the fanservice out of the way. It really felt like the Archie team was forced to do those adaptations and just wanted to get them over with. Maybe I'm wrong. Regardless, even without a detailed story from Sega or Sonic Team, they could've used more of the backgrounds and badniks from the games in those comics. Anyway, good review.

I always found it weird how in these comics Mighty looked in line with the sonic cast while arlo the armadillo looked really realistic.

"Sing out sonic heros!" Needs to be your new tag line or outro. 😃

"A powerful rat named "Ringfield T. Rodent""

14:09 always loved how that bottom left panel made it look like the roller coaster was Robotnik’s mustache

*Oh god do I write like ken Penders* Nah don't feel bad we all have that bad fanfic writer in us your good 👌

Book: Tells a deep and compelling story some random-ass sign: *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED*

Knuckles is the last one in his species? Well, you KNOW what he NEEDS to do to avoid extinction..?

I just realized... the “no dogs allowed”.... isn’t that racist in the Sonic world? LOL.

you're questioning the logic of a blue cartoon Hedgehog fighting a big fat scientist that makes robots using animals

I really like the Archie Comics. They have good art, and story. I also love the different designs that the Archie comics did. However, I am surprised that Knuckles's fart had the Freedom Fighters trapped in mirrors.

Wait , its my birthday, and its gonna be a knuckles November, Shadow:Damn

I like the classic chaotix alot. Wanna see mighty and knuckles return to the team in the modern games.

"Meet heavy and bomb..... oh god!" Lol, that delivery! 16:57

man I miss the archie sonic comics. I wish the mobius free fighters, and all those echidna made their way into a game

Knock Knock It's Knuckles

23:58 "So... This was the first ever story in the Archie series featuring the Chaotix. It is RIDICULOUS." 😂🤣😂🤣😂

"[...] Thankfully they didn't butcher any designs I *do* care about!" silence inhale "So, Mighty--"

One of my favourite of your speed readings 😄 Hope you might cover Archie comics again in the future! I worked my way through these comics as a kid too so seeing you attempt to decipher it's silliness is rather cathartic 😆

The voice you gave Knuckles...…. I love it.

7:25 The best of them, tougher than leather

Someones been watching to much Jon tron because half the time you sound just like him and I'm loving it

Writers “hmmm we’ll everybody knows knuckles is basically piccolo from dragon ball let’s just make him big now”

It's so silly now, but as a kid I was captivated by this issue. It was one of my favorites and I read it so much the cover fell off. Knuckles was my favorite and getting to see him being a badass was rad. Great video man. Nostalgia turned up to 11 now xD

5:33 Didn't think there would be the equivalent of animal racism in a sonic comic but... Alright

The Chaotix team is precious and so was this 1st story

I love this video, had me laughing! Thank you so much!

I would like to see Sega take this idea if they ever make Mania adventures a full series.

cool

HERE HE COMES, ROUGHER THAN THE REST OF THEM

Am i the only one who just loves how full of joy he is throughout this video

At 16:06 I lost it! I'm literally in my car in tears from laughing so hard

Amazing video Nick! Can’t wait for the rest of Knovember Chaotix.

i really like the gusto you bring in this episode! it has a very nice quality to it, and you can tell that you really care.

This video is amazing. I love how you’re not taking this seriously whatsoever

Well this just made my birthday month really awesome and also all your November events take place close or on my birthday which is just awesome and also you're comedy is gold or should I say emerald!!! Can't wait for more Chaotix Knovember and the Archie series!!! Also no your writing is wayyyyy better than Ken Pender's writing and you really care about characters you're not extremely serious about it you're serious about taking care of Sonic characters. Also you have a great day Game Apologist!!!

I cherish all of your videos they all provide me with lots of good entertainment to watch

3:25 Let us all hope as writers. that we never ask ourselves this question. I promise you. you don't.

Just subbed. Going through a big sonic phase right now . Love your vids

I am so, SO, glad I grew up in the UK with Sonic the Comic.

You sound like you're having so much fun with this video. It's great.

From what ive see in from the video the plot makes as much sense as tails asking sonic to do a flip, and doing the flip while chaos is sucking the energy out of the planet... With a straw

I love the humour in this video and how much he's laughing lmao

I did like that Dynamic between Sonic and Knuckles. They hated each other for the most pettiest of reasons. Now I think you have to tackle the biggest part of Knuckles in the Archieverse. His huge backstory and of course his own ultimate villain, Enerjak.

Japanese:Chaotix ft Knuckles America: KNUCKLES OWNS THE CHAOTIX.

"she's Blair Witchin the lot of you". *WHEEEZE!!!*

hey man i just wanna say i love your content and you are the reason i am a sonic fan now

Love the review so funny and great this helped my day thanks nick.

Oh my God, I read the Archie comics as a kid, but I didn't read this one. This whole thing is goofy as hell and listening to you giggle and roast the comic is some S Tier content. I'm so glad I subscribed to you

This was a ridiculous video, and I very much enjoyed it. Great job!

It's just 30 minutes of coping and I love it

Everytime I try to read through the older Archie series it makes me ultimately grateful that I was raised on Fleetway, especially in this case with the Chaotix introduction. With that said, I look forward to the next video.

Great video dude. It is too bad that people miss a lot of the great stuff in the Archie Sonic comics. To me, issues 160-230 are absolutely fantastic. Stories like Birthday Bash, King Scourge, Enerjak Reborn, Eggman Empire, Thicker than Water, Genesis, the list goes on. That’s not even mentioning the Sonic Universe stuff, or some of the great pre-Flynn stories like Mecha Madness, Super Sonic VS Hyper Knuckles, Sonic vs Metal Sonic in issue 25, etc. Don’t get me wrong, there are some really weird, and absolute garbage (Sonic Super Special 15). But I think people overlook some of the great characterization, great artwork (Patrick Spaziante, Ben Bates, Tracy Yardley, etc) and great stories.

I just noticed how much Ken Penders' art style looks like early drawn webcomics. It has that charm of, "Well they aren't the best but they are trying hard and it at least has some level of skill" Except he was paid big money for that wtf

I love this video, keep going with this type of vids.

Hey man, thanks for your videos. I have just started to go down the rabbit hole of your content! I plan on creating content myself in the near future, as a media reviewer as well! So watching new and upcoming creators like yourself, I say new in the sense of your trend, gives me lots of good hope and ideas for future videos and edits! Thanks again, for touching topics I can really just zone out and listen. Also, I have one of these digests lol.

I only played Knux Chaotix a few times and i'm basically the same as everyone else in saying it's not the best game. but i've never really been bothered to dive into the lore surrounding the game. So i'm pretty excited to see whats to come! looking forward to it! (you're doing the lore work for me my guy)

Lmao, Eggman looking at some anthro hedgehog ass and remarking “this is delicious” Guess that explains a lot about that character dynamic! 🤣

This is more my memory of childhood comics. Overly busy images, characters looking not looking quite right and dialogue that even at a young age I thought "No one talks like that" 5:39 to be honest, this scene was strange to me because of the rather large, red , every phallic, uuuum building in the background. All that its missing is some vibration lines.

"Knovember" -- love it.

Robotnik stole Mirror Master's tech!!

We went from finding a computer room, to angry crock noises. ... I love it. XD

5:33 I haven’t laughed that hard in a while...

Old Spaz art and old Vector design are still some of my fave Sonic art.

"A Thundering Herd of Dingoes!" Come on, Knux. Don't diss on the chad lads like that. Australia deserves better respect, you prickly red aardvark! I'm just kidding, of course. I love Knuckles, and I also love that the "thundering herd" are anthropomorphic too. XD

3:25 Game Apologist currently reflecting on his past decisions, 2020 colorized.