Summary: Not much news, so straight to the Q&A!<br> <br> Support the show on Patreon and Ko-Fi!<br> Shop the BumbleStore!<br> <br> <br> <br> Show Information<br> Your hosts:<br> <br> Ian "BumbleKing" Flynn - Head writer of Sonic the Hedgehog comics for IDW Publishing and Mega Man for Archie Comics, Narrative Director for Rivals of Aether, writing for Archie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more<br> Kyle "KyleJCrb" Crouse - Founder & Administrator of the KNGI Network, host of the Nitro Game Injection video game music podcast<br> <br> Subscribe and listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Play<br> <br> RSS Feed for podcast apps and readers<br> Check out BumbleKing Comics and the KNGI Network<br> Like BumbleKing Comics & KNGI on Facebook<br> Follow @BumbleKast, @IanFlynnBKC & @KyleJCrb on Twitter<br> Get some BumbleGear at the BumbleStore<br> <br> Original music in this episode composed by Ken "coda" Snyder, used with permission – Check out his music on Bandcamp<br> Special Thanks to our friends at Noise Channel! Pay what you want for the theme song and more great music as part of their charity compilation Noisechan & Nugget: Adventures in Chiptunes<br> <br> Want to have your product promoted on the show? Check out the Patreon site to find out how!<br> <br> Want to ask us a question? Ask at:<br> <br> Twitter at @BumbleKast<br> Email bumblekast [at] yahoo [dot] com<br> YouTube comments<br> Patrons can post on Patreon – https://patreon.com/bumblekast<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Priority Q&A<br> Scruffymatt<br> Hi Ian and Kyle, how are you guys doing today?<br> Ian, when the ArchieSonic comics got rebooted in issue #252, you were given the opportunity to do a lot of new world building and create a number of new freedom fighter characters from various parts of the world... Did you have any plans for stories or characters in this area of the world that will eventually see the light of day in Lost Hedgehog Tales? If not, what do you think you'd come up with if you were asked to pitch a new team of characters from this region?<br> <br> Alex M.<br> In the last two Sonic IDW Annuals, why is it that Amy didn't really physically appear but was still featured in the covers? Will she ever actually appear in an Annual or is there just no ideas/interest on a story featuring her? And two, I notice that despite the leadership/tactician role she's been filling, she is a lot less physically active that she was before. Is that because of her role in Forces and is it permanent or will she become more of an active fighter as the comic goes along? Lastly I wanted to thank you for what you said in the last Q&A about Tangle & Whisper and creating them to have more active female characters in the story. I'm glad to hear you want there to be more active female characters. You see i'm a trans woman, and it is very important to me to see more relevant female characters in the stories i'm into. I hope this means there will be even more of a push for female characters in the comic and more female focus in general. Or at least more balance between the male and female characters.<br> PS. Can you guys say "trans rights!" please?<br> <br> Diane W.<br> About your Sonic stories before joining Archie...Ian, why do you always write your Sonic the Hedgehog fan-fictions as grim, dark, and mean-spirited where you portray the characters as hypocritical terrorists, evil generic villains, being jerks to other characters despite their actual dynamic in the official games, GUN as villains, and either brutally killing off characters, or giving them downer endings where they lose everything and everyone that they love, sometimes deciding to take over the world for the sake of world peace? Did you use to have problems as a teenager or do you just like writing dark and gritty stories of a franchise targeted...
