I’ll take literally any excuse to draw my girl Bunnie.
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Also t he PROPER Bunnie with the chunky robotic limbs.
I always really liked Bunnie as a character, Her core conflict with the roboticization granting her an identity and capacity to help the resistance while also stealing from her aspects of normality she can never get back, constantly reminding her of the bodily violation she underwent, was a really fascinating conflict for a five-year-old who had no idea what any of those words meant. SatAM never really delved into it but the Archie comics had a few instances of giving a spotlight to Bunnie’s conflicting feelings and resolution.
I always figured it was a character thing for me, but Archie eventually introduced a storyline where Bunnie’s robot pots were poisoning her organic parts and she had to choose whether to attempt deroboticization (a highly risky procedure that would also remove the powers that her robot limbs granted her, permanently removing her ability to fight alongside the others in a meaningful capacity) or else undergo an upgrade that would permanently replace those robot limbs with a new, more stable iteration while removing any possibility of returning to normal (which includes the ability to ever have children and settling down with a normal family). Bunnie talks to Antoine about it and he encourages her to do what she thinks is right, and the decision is to undergo the upgrade and become a cyborg.
And it winds up replacing her iconic, clunky robot half with new, sleek limbs that more closely resemble her natural body proportions, and I’m not gonna lie I hated it. Bunnie’s asymmetry was always an integral part of her character design; it made it impossible to *forget* that she was half-roboticized. There’s also something just really endearing about the old, chunky designs most of the Robians had that gets lost in the more modern, sleeker interpretation, a particular sense of loss and horror that’s harder to grasp when the comparison is just You but Metal.
anyway bunnie’s pretty cool
…so I first got into Gargoyles because of this comic, and now I think I need to read slash watch more Sonic stuff. I have never heard of this character or her story but she sounds so cool?!? I personally gravitate a lot towards characters that struggle with feeling like they’re not a person anymore due to changes made against their will, and Bunnie’s story is like right up my alley. Is there anywhere these comics could be read for free or am I gonna have to find some at my library?
The Archie comics I read so much of as a kid are…not very good haha. Although I hear the new IDW comics are really fun! Don’t know if Bunnie is in those, though.
They go up and down in quality. I definitely recommend Sonic the Hedgehog (the Saturday morning cartoon) though!
You can find the Archie comics floating around on the Internet. Her best stuff was definitely earlier in the run. Up to Issue 50 was more or less ‘planned’, so if you’ve got the time I definitely recommend going up to that point. The execution of 50 is pretty hit or miss but it completes the story. The most infamous parts are definitely after that point, where the comic enters a ‘Now What?’ holding pattern for a long time and eventually just flies off the rails into Ken Pender’s personal fanfiction.
My perseonal favorite Bunnie story was from Issue #37, Bunnie’s Worst Nightmare, if you want a really specific one to look out for.
Oh man, I loved her design! The biggest loss to Sonic with the separation of the games from the Archie comics is that we never got her in a video game.
Not technically a weird gryphon, but how about a different variety of skvader, like a Netherland Dwarf / Budgie?
i can’t recall if you already drew one before, but do serpopard exist? did they ever get long with sphinxes due to crossover in their geographical locations?
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Also t he PROPER Bunnie with the chunky robotic limbs.
I always really liked Bunnie as a character, Her core conflict with the roboticization granting her an identity and capacity to help the resistance while also stealing from her aspects of normality she can never get back, constantly reminding her of the bodily violation she underwent, was a really fascinating conflict for a five-year-old who had no idea what any of those words meant. SatAM never really delved into it but the Archie comics had a few instances of giving a spotlight to Bunnie’s conflicting feelings and resolution.
I always figured it was a character thing for me, but Archie eventually introduced a storyline where Bunnie’s robot pots were poisoning her organic parts and she had to choose whether to attempt deroboticization (a highly risky procedure that would also remove the powers that her robot limbs granted her, permanently removing her ability to fight alongside the others in a meaningful capacity) or else undergo an upgrade that would permanently replace those robot limbs with a new, more stable iteration while removing any possibility of returning to normal (which includes the ability to ever have children and settling down with a normal family). Bunnie talks to Antoine about it and he encourages her to do what she thinks is right, and the decision is to undergo the upgrade and become a cyborg.
And it winds up replacing her iconic, clunky robot half with new, sleek limbs that more closely resemble her natural body proportions, and I’m not gonna lie I hated it. Bunnie’s asymmetry was always an integral part of her character design; it made it impossible to *forget* that she was half-roboticized. There’s also something just really endearing about the old, chunky designs most of the Robians had that gets lost in the more modern, sleeker interpretation, a particular sense of loss and horror that’s harder to grasp when the comparison is just You but Metal.
anyway bunnie’s pretty cool
…so I first got into Gargoyles because of this comic, and now I think I need to read slash watch more Sonic stuff. I have never heard of this character or her story but she sounds so cool?!? I personally gravitate a lot towards characters that struggle with feeling like they’re not a person anymore due to changes made against their will, and Bunnie’s story is like right up my alley. Is there anywhere these comics could be read for free or am I gonna have to find some at my library?
The Archie comics I read so much of as a kid are…not very good haha. Although I hear the new IDW comics are really fun! Don’t know if Bunnie is in those, though.
They go up and down in quality. I definitely recommend Sonic the Hedgehog (the Saturday morning cartoon) though!
You can find the Archie comics floating around on the Internet. Her best stuff was definitely earlier in the run. Up to Issue 50 was more or less ‘planned’, so if you’ve got the time I definitely recommend going up to that point. The execution of 50 is pretty hit or miss but it completes the story. The most infamous parts are definitely after that point, where the comic enters a ‘Now What?’ holding pattern for a long time and eventually just flies off the rails into Ken Pender’s personal fanfiction.
My perseonal favorite Bunnie story was from Issue #37, Bunnie’s Worst Nightmare, if you want a really specific one to look out for.
Oh man, I loved her design! The biggest loss to Sonic with the separation of the games from the Archie comics is that we never got her in a video game.
Not technically a weird gryphon, but how about a different variety of skvader, like a Netherland Dwarf / Budgie?
i can’t recall if you already drew one before, but do serpopard exist? did they ever get long with sphinxes due to crossover in their geographical locations?
Mmm, rabbet