Archie Mega Man

Archie Mega Man is an ongoing comic book series published by Archie Comics, featuring Capcom's video game character Mega Man. The comic takes part in the "Worlds Collide" crossover storyline with the Archie Sonic series, spanning across this series, as well as the main Sonic comic and the Sonic Universe comic. The series itself is currently over 20 issues long as of December 2012, but only the 24th-27th issues, as well as the Mega Man story featured in the 2013 Free Comic Book Day issue, are considered canon to the Archie Sonic universe. Issue 28 also serves as an aftermath of the crossover on Mega Man's end.

Part of the Crossover

 * Sonic/Mega Man Free Comic Book Day 2013 (contains a partial reprinting of Mega Man #23, which is a prelude to the crossover)
 * Archie Mega Man Issue 24 (Worlds Collide: Part 1)
 * Archie Mega Man Issue 25 (Worlds Collide: Part 4)
 * Archie Mega Man Issue 26 (Worlds Collide: Part 7)
 * Archie Mega Man Issue 27 (Worlds Collide: Part 10)

Related to the Crossover

 * Archie Mega Man Issue 23
 * Mega Man's prelude to the crossover. It shows Dr. Wily dissappearing into the Skull Egg Zone to set off the Genesis Wave with "Ivo". The issue ends with Mega Man and Break Man looking on as their world is engulfed in white. The second half of the issue is reprinted in FCBD 2013.
 * Archie Mega Man Issue 28
 * Mega Man's epilogue to the crossover. The beginning of the issue starts with Mega Man's final dialogue in Worlds Collide and shows the Chaos Control's restoration of his world. Upon their return, Mega Man's damage from Break Man, prior to the Genesis Wave is undone. In addition, Mega Man's internal diagnostic scan reveals a few extra hours of missing memory space, Robot Masters Bomb Man, Guts Man and Cut Man are completely functional, and Break Man's damage to Mega City has been undone. Dr. Wily, meanwhile, has no recollection of the crossover and his video logs only detailed a plan involving Ra Moon with no mention of Dr. Eggman or the blue Chaos Emerald. He does, however, mention an unexplainable, violent urge to stomp a carton of eggs...
 * Archie Mega Man Issue 38
 * As comic-exclusive villain Xander Payne topples forward in time, he gets brief glimpses of events set to occur in Mega Man's future. One such event includes Mega Man aiding Sonic in defeating Tails Man. This makes sense considering the second Genesis Wave simply made Earth 20XX jump forward in time rather than reset it, meaning that, from Mega Man's point of view, the events of the crossover are set to happen in the future.
 * Due to copyright reasons, Sonic and Tails Man's appearances are obscured. The two of them only appear in a single panel, where Sonic, as a spinning ball, hurtles towards a silhouetted Tails Man. Though Xander does comment about the fact that Sonic is a "giant, talking animal". Sonic's dialogue from the scene is also visible in the last panel.

Other

 * Archie Mega Man #42
 * While the contents of the issue itself bares no relation to the Sonic series, the issues variant cover is the second in a 3-part set of "Smash Variant" covers, alongside Sonic Universe #69 and Sonic the Hedgehog #266 respectively.

Background information

 * This article only covers the four issues that are part of the "Worlds Collide" crossover, as well as the Mega Man story from the FCBD issue. For more information on the Archie Mega Man comic universe, outside of the crossover, please refer to the website MegaManMonthly
 * While not an official part of the crossover, Mega Man #23 has Dr. Wily mentioning his plans with Ivo (Similar to Dr. Eggman addressing Wily as Albert) and departing through the Interdimensional Gateway, followed by Mega Man and Break Man experiencing The Genesis Wave. The second half of the comic along with Sonic The Hedgehog #247 is reprinted in Sonic/Mega Man Free Comic Book Day 2013.
 * It's interesting to note that a considerable number of Mega Man game characters that had not yet made their debut in Archie's series made their first appearances during this crossover.
 * The overall Mega Man comic series is written by Ian Flynn who also handles the current Sonic titles. The comic also shares several artists with the Sonic series, namely Ben Bates, Jamal Peppers, Matt Herms and Patrick Spaziante. It's worth noting that Spaziante also served as an artist on another American Mega Man comic released by Dreamwave. On several occasions, Spaziante has even inserted Mega Man into the backgrounds of some of his Sonic-related artwork as Easter Eggs (something he's been doing since even before Archie's Mega Man series began).
 * After the crossover, the Mega Man series would share space with the Sonic series yet again in the 2014 Free Comic Day issue, which, just like the previous year's issue, was printed in the form of a flipbook. Since the Mega Man story featured there has no kind of relation to the Sonic universe, it will NOT be covered by this site.