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A picture drawn for me by request by Nigel Kitching some years ago on the sonicthecomic Yahoo mailing group (my username there is buzz_bomberuk, though I haven't posted in years).

I'm ceaselessly amazed and humbled that Nigel took the time to draw this, especially since a lot of time clearly went into it. As I recall I was a rather precocious little git, so it's flabbergasting that Nigel would take time out of his schedule to fulfill the request. Proof positive that he is a top guy who cares about his fans (something people who follow him already knew, of course). If Nigel's reading this, I wish to extend warm and heartfelt thanks to him for the efforts put into this fantastic piece.

For those of you not in the know, Decap Attack is a somewhat bizarre Sega game that has recently seen light on various compilations of Sega's Mega Drive masterpieces. It would be an obscure footnote in Sega's history, were it not for the comic strip based on the game featured in the UK's Sonic The Comic, which I grew up reading. Nigel Kitching wrote or co-wrote every single Decap Attack strip (30 stories spanning 48 issues) and drew the majority of them.

The characters seen here are: Chuck D. Head, the reanimated mummy/corpse; Head, a talking skull; Professor Frank N. Stein, a looney scientist (Nigel established the Professor as being from Cardiff in spite of the heavy German accent he affected) and, in sillhouette, Mr Cuddle Bunny, a prolific writer of the most nauseatingly sweet and kind kids books ever created (the Prof was a huge fan). Also featured in the comics was Igor, the Prof's assistant who hated Chuck with a passion.

I have a canvas print of this in my room, as seen here: [link]

For those of you interested, please check out [link] the home of STC Online, the continuation of the original comic. I'm putting this here in the hopes it'll get more people interested in Sonic The Comic so they can see what made it so fantastic (the writing and art were streets ahead of near enough every kids comic on the market at the time, if not all of them).

Description
A picture drawn for me by request by Nigel Kitching some years ago on the sonicthecomic Yahoo mailing group (my username there is buzz_bomberuk, though I haven't posted in years).

I'm ceaselessly amazed and humbled that Nigel took the time to draw this, especially since a lot of time clearly went into it. As I recall I was a rather precocious little git, so it's flabbergasting that Nigel would take time out of his schedule to fulfill the request. Proof positive that he is a top guy who cares about his fans (something people who follow him already knew, of course). If Nigel's reading this, I wish to extend warm and heartfelt thanks to him for the efforts put into this fantastic piece.

For those of you not in the know, Decap Attack is a somewhat bizarre Sega game that has recently seen light on various compilations of Sega's Mega Drive masterpieces. It would be an obscure footnote in Sega's history, were it not for the comic strip based on the game featured in the UK's Sonic The Comic, which I grew up reading. Nigel Kitching wrote or co-wrote every single Decap Attack strip (30 stories spanning 48 issues) and drew the majority of them.

The characters seen here are: Chuck D. Head, the reanimated mummy/corpse; Head, a talking skull; Professor Frank N. Stein, a looney scientist (Nigel established the Professor as being from Cardiff in spite of the heavy German accent he affected) and, in sillhouette, Mr Cuddle Bunny, a prolific writer of the most nauseatingly sweet and kind kids books ever created (the Prof was a huge fan). Also featured in the comics was Igor, the Prof's assistant who hated Chuck with a passion.

I have a canvas print of this in my room, as seen here: [link]

For those of you interested, please check out [link] the home of STC Online, the continuation of the original comic. I'm putting this here in the hopes it'll get more people interested in Sonic The Comic so they can see what made it so fantastic (the writing and art were streets ahead of near enough every kids comic on the market at the time, if not all of them).