Ian Flynn
James Ian Flynn (born May 31, 1982), also known by his Internet pen name Ian Potto, is an American-Canadian comic book writer. He was chief writer for Archie Comics's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' since issue #160, after the departure of the previous chief writer Ken Penders, until Archie's cancelation on the run at issue #290. As of April 4, 2018, he is the lead writer of IDW Publishing's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' comic series. He has also helped write the games '' Sonic Frontiers'' and '' Shadow Generations''. He is also known for Archie's ''Mega Man'', '' New Crusaders'', '' Archie (2015)'', as well as IDW's ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. Early life Flynn was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Career Flynn was hired as a writer on Archie's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' after sending in unsolicited proposals. He subsequently wrote ''Sonic Universe''; the Capcom series, ''Mega Man''; and '' New Crusaders'', a superhero title published by the Archie Imprint Red Circle Comics. In the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Midtown Comics
Midtown Comics is a New York City comic book retailer with three shops in Manhattan and an e-commerce website.Gustines, George Gene (May 8, 2019)"As Comic Book Industry Grows, Smaller Publishers Learn to Adapt" ''The New York Times''.Gustines, George Gene (November 16, 2005)"Some Caution Helps When Selling Fantasies" ''The New York Times''. The largest comic book store in the United States,Kaplan, Don (June 25, 2012)"It's a geek drama" ''New York Post''. the company opened its first store in the Times Square area in 1997. Its second was opened on Lexington Avenue in 2004, and is known as the Grand Central store for its proximity to Grand Central Terminal."Olivia Munn Signs Her New Book at Midtown Comics" CBR.com. July 2, 2010 Its downtown store was opened on Fulton Street in the Financi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Capcom
is a Japanese video game company. It has created a number of critically acclaimed and List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil'', ''Monster Hunter'', ''Street Fighter'', ''Mega Man'', ''Devil May Cry'', ''Onimusha'', ''Dead Rising'', ''Dragon's Dogma'', ''Ace Attorney'', and ''Marvel vs. Capcom''. Established in 1979, it has become an international enterprise with subsidiaries in East Asia (Hong Kong), Europe (London, England), and North America (San Francisco, California). History Founding and arcade games (1979-1984) Capcom's predecessor, I.R.M. Corporation, was founded on May 30, 1979 by Kenzo Tsujimoto, who was still president of Irem, Irem Corporation when he founded I.R.M. He worked at both companies at the same time until leaving Irem in 1983. The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japan branch were I.R.M. and its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., bo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sonic X
is a Japanese anime television series based on Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series. Produced by TMS Entertainment under partnership with Sega and Sonic Team, and directed by Hajime Kamegaki, ''Sonic X'' initially ran for 52 episodes, broadcasting on TV Tokyo from April 2003 to March 2004. A further 26 episodes aired in North America, Europe, and the Middle East from 2005 to 2006. The American localization and broadcasting were handled by 4Kids Entertainment, which edited it and created new music. The series follows a group of anthropomorphic animals that accidentally teleport from their home planet to Earth after attempting to save one of their friends from their enemy Doctor Eggman. Separated, Sonic the Hedgehog is saved by a human boy named Chris Thorndyke, who helps him find his friends while repeatedly scuffling with Doctor Eggman and his robots over control of the powerful Chaos Emeralds, and becoming celebrities. The final story arc sees Sonic and his ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Derek Charm
Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of Diederik, the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler" or "lead the people". Common variants of the name are Derrek, Derik, Deryck (included here), as well as Derrick and Derick. History The English form of the name arises in the 15th century, via import from the Low Countries. The native English (Anglo-Saxon) form of the name was ''Deoric'' or ''Deodric'', from Old English ''Þēodrīc'', but this name had fallen out of use in the medieval period. During the Late Middle Ages, there was intense contact between the territories adjacent to the North Sea, in particular due to the activities of the Hanseatic League. As a result, there was a lot of cross-pollination between Low German, Dutch, English, Danish and Norwegian. The given name ''Derk'' is found in records of the Low Countries from the early 14th century, and in t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jughead (comic Book)
''Jughead'' (also known as ''Archie's Pal Jughead'') is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Archie Comics character of the same name. The character first appeared in ''Pep Comics'' #22 (cover dated December 1941). Jughead proved to be popular enough to warrant his own self-titled ongoing comic book series which began publication in January 1949. Publication history Jughead first appeared in ''Pep Comics'' #22 in 1941 (also Archie's first appearance) and later grew into his own title ''Archie's Pal Jughead Comics'' in 1949, which also guest-starred Archie and his friends. Common story themes included Jughead's insatiable appetite for hamburgers, avoiding Big Ethel who has a crush on him and outsmarting his nemesis Reggie Mantle. The cover title was shortened to ''Jughead'' with #122 in July 1965, though the indicia continued to list ''Archie's Pal Jughead'' until also changing in November's #126. In #325, Cheryl Blossom made her second appearance after debuting in '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mark Waid
Mark Waid (; born March 21, 1962) is an American comic book writer best known for his work on DC Comics titles ''The Flash'', '' Kingdom Come'' and '' Superman: Birthright'' as well as his work on ''Captain America'', ''Fantastic Four'' and '' Daredevil'' for Marvel. Other comics publishers he has done work for include Fantagraphics, Event, Top Cow, Dynamite, and Archie Comics. From August 2007 to December 2010, Waid served as Editor-in-Chief and later Chief Creative Officer of Boom! Studios, where he also published his creator-owned series '' Irredeemable'' and '' Incorruptible''. In October 2018, Waid joined Humanoids Publishing as Director of Creative Development before being promoted to Publisher in February 2020. Waid left Humanoids to return to freelancing in 2022. Early life Waid was born in Hueytown, Alabama. He has stated that his comics work was heavily influenced by ''Adventure Comics'' #369–370 (1968), the two-part "Legion of Super-Heroes" story by Jim Shooter ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Riverdale
New Riverdale is the title used to refer to the relaunch of the core Archie Comics titles that began in July 2015. In December 2014, Archie Comics announced that its flagship series Archie would relaunch with a new first issue in July 2015. The new series would be a modern take on the Archie characters by writer Mark Waid and artist Fiona Staples, featuring serialized storylines. After the first three issues, Annie Wu drew an issue, followed by new regular artist Veronica Fish. The new title received IGN's "Best New Comic Series of 2015" award. In 2016, Archie Comics made a special edition of the first issue of the New Riverdale ''Archie'' series available as part of Free Comic Book Day. For FCBD 2017, a special edition of the first issue of ''Betty and Veronica'' was released. Titles The first title in the company's "New Riverdale" universe, ''Archie'' was released with a July 2015 cover date and came in at #7 for comic book sales for the month. The next title, ''Jughead'', was ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cosmo The Merry Martian
''Cosmo the Merry Martian'' was a comic book series published by Archie Comics between 1958 and 1959. The comic was created by Bob White as a way to provide a family-appropriate comic for children with an interest in the then-current space race. The title character was the first Martian to visit the Earth. The title only lasted for six issues. Every issue, including the last one, had a cliffhanger ending. Besides the title character, other characters are Orbi (Cosmo's astronaut companion), Professor Thimk (the scientist who invented the Martian spaceship, but was not on it when it took off from Mars), and Astra (Cosmo's girlfriend). In the first issue, while they are traveling toward their intended destination of Earth, a meteor damages their spaceship, and they crash land on Earth's moon. The moon turns out to be inhabited by beings named Oogs, who live underground. A reboot of the series, titled ''Cosmo the Mighty Martian'', began publication in January 2018. The new series is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Conflict Of Interest
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple wikt:interest#Noun, interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates to situations in which the personal interest of an individual or organization might adversely affect a duty owed to decision-making, make decisions for the benefit of a third party. An "interest" is a commitment, obligation, duty or goal associated with a specific social role or practice. By definition, a "conflict of interest" occurs if, within a particular decision-making context, an individual is subject to two coexisting interests that are in direct conflict with each other ("competing interests"). This is important because under these circumstances, the decision-making process can be disrupted or compromised, affecting the integrity or reliability of the outcomes. Typically, a conflict of interest arises when an individual occupies tw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sonic Dream Team
''Sonic Dream Team'' is a 2023 platformer developed by Hardlight and published by Sega. An installment in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series, it was released on iOS, macOS and tvOS through Apple Arcade on December 5, 2023. The game follows Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Rouge and Cream traversing across Reverie Haven which is corrupted by Doctor Eggman—using a mysterious device protected by a guardian named Ariem—to stop him. As of one of the six characters, the player will collect Dream Orbs by completing a series of missions across multiple stages. Every character, each with their own unique abilities, can be unlocked to the player after collecting enough Dream Orbs. The multi-character aspect of the game marks a return to similar 3D gameplay first in ''Sonic Adventure'' (1998) and ''Sonic Heroes'' (2003). ''Dream Team'' dream world was created as a result of shaping the game's narrative around bringing back Cream, wanting it to feel like a natural reason why she would ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sonic Origins
is a 2022 video game compilation developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It features remasters of the first four platform games in ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series—''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (1991), '' Sonic the Hedgehog 2'' (1992), '' Sonic CD'' (1993), and '' Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles'' (1994)—originally released for the Sega Genesis and the Sega CD. The games are playable in their original format and a new widescreen "anniversary mode". ''Origins'' adds additional game modes and missions, which allow players to unlock content in a museum. ''Origins'' was conceived following the release of the 2020 ''Sonic'' film. Due to the influx of new fans, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka wanted to make the older ''Sonic'' games available on modern hardware. The remasters of ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Sonic 2'', and ''Sonic CD'' are based on the Retro Engine-developed remakes released between 2011 and 2013, while Simon Thomley and his studio Headcannon, who worked on '' Sonic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Game Informer
''Game Informer'' (''GI'' is an American monthly Video game journalism, video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and video game console, game consoles. It debuted in August 1991, when the video game retailer FuncoLand started publishing an in-house newsletter."10 Years of ''Game Informer''" (August 2001). ''Game Informer'', p. 42. "In August 1991, FuncoLand began publishing a six-page circular to be handed out free in all of its retail locations." It was acquired by the retailer GameStop, which bought FuncoLand in 2000. Due to this, a large amount of promotion was done in-store, which contributed to the success of the magazine. As of June 2017, it was the fifth-most popular magazine by copies circulated. In August 2024, GameStop discontinued ''Game Informer'' after 33 years of publication and 368 issues. The associated website was also shut down with its digital archive removed. In March 2025, ''Game Informer'' announced that it had been ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |