Fleetway Sonic Comics
Sonic the Comic, known to its many readers as STC, was a UK children's comic published fortnightly
by Fleetway Editions (the merged companies Fleetway and London Editions, which progressively became
integrated with its parent company Egmont until it became known as Egmont Magazines) between 1993 and
2002. It was the UK's official Sega comic, featuring stories about its mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, other
Sega video game characters and some characters that appeared in Sega's consoles.
The mascot of the comic was a robot named Megadroid, comprised of parts of a Sega Mega Drive. Megadroid was
the persona used by the editors of Sonic the Comic to answer letters and provide story recaps and general
magazine news (much like Tharg in 2000AD, and in fact created by former Tharg Richard Burton). He acted as a
liaison between the readers (whom he called "boomers") and the "humes who think they're in charge".
Megadroid had a one-off strip, in which he ran away from the STC offices to a seaside town only to return from
his harrowing experience to attend to the needs of the boomers.
Megadroid was dropped from the comic in 1998, and with him the "Speedlines" letter page vanished. Speedlines
returned in 2000, though it was no longer a regular feature and instead of Megadroid, the letters were supposedly
answered by Sonic himself (actually editor Andy Diggle and later Steve MacManus).
As part of STC's unofficial fan-created revival in 2003, Megadroid was brought back, with a mid-section now made of
a Nintendo GameCube.
The comic went out of publication for some reason and people online whined about it.
