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Comix Zone

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, PlayStation 3 (PSN), Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade, Windows PC, Steam

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega Technical Institute

Virtucraft

Sound driver: GEMS

Genre: Action

Release	Date	RRP	Code

US	1995
EU	1996-03		MK-85011-50
EU	2002-09-11		AGB-P-ACZP
JP ▼	2007-01-30	600pts600
US ▼	2007-01-29	800pts800
EU ▼	2007-02-02	800pts800

ESRB

Sega

PEGI

OFLC

CERO
Missing Parameter!

GRB

Tectoy

Comix Zone (コミックスゾーン) is a platform action game for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Play involves defeating enemies with punches, kicks, and holds, managing your inventory, and solving puzzles.

The game's most remarkable feature is that it is set within the "panels" of a comic book. Each level consists of two "pages", and secrets are discovered by shredding the "paper" and revealing items. Dialogue is rendered within talk bubbles with the typical comic font. Sprites and backgrounds possess the bright colors and dynamic drawing style favored by superhero comics.

The plot concerns Sketch Turner, a cartoonist that during an unusual thunderstorm, becomes trapped in his own comic book while Mortus, the villain of his story, is flung out of it. Inside the comic book, he meets General Alissa Cyan, who believes he's a superhero that came to save their post-apocalyptic world from the evil. In the real world, Mortus would literally draw new villains on the pages of the comic book, trying to kill Sketch Turner, and so obtaining his "real" body to conquer the real world with. Sketch Turner would have to battle his way through the pages, his only help being his pet rat Roadkill, who got electrocuted during this thunderstorm, enabling him to zap enemies.

punches and jumps, with combinations of , , and the D-pad doing different moves.

The game is hidden within the Japanese version of Sonic Mega Collection and is locked part of all region versions of Sonic Mega Collection Plus, which is unlockable with having a Sonic Heroes gamesave, or is unlocked over time.

The original Genesis game came with a bonus music CD, which had vocal tracks of the 6 main tunes in the game. The music was performed by the band "Roadkill", which was lead by Howard Drossin.

Comix Zone was ported to the GBA and released in Europe in 2002.

Production Credits

Mega Drive Version

Concept, Design & Art Direction: Peter Morawiec
Technical Director & Programmer: Adrian Stephens
Music & Sound Effects: Howard Drossin
Backgrounds: Kunitake Aoki, Chris Senn, Fei Cheng
Animation: Tom Tobey, Chris Senn, Bob Steele, Ross Harris, Craig Stitt, Dean Ruggles
Conceptual Art: Tony Dezuniga, Alex Nino
A.I. Scripting: Adrian Stephens, Peter Morawiec, Robert Morgan, Dean Lester
Character Voices

Howard Drossin - Sketch, Mortus, Strigil, Kung-Fung

Deborah Costa - General Alissa Cyan

Peter Morawiec - Gravis

Fei Cheng - Styx the Monk

Sue Ortlip - Mongoria

Executive Producer: Dean Lester
Associate Producer: Mike Wallis
Lead Tester: Kim Rogers
Testers: Sean Doidge, Fernando Valderrama, Steve Wong, David Wood, Chris Colon, Mark Dawson, Mike Williams, Arnold Feener, Aron Drayer, Abe Navarro, Roger Sommerville, Michael McCollum, Rob Prideaux, Joel Breton, Tony Lynch, Jeff Junio, Janine Cook, Rey Alferez
Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Roger Hector, Sidd SN Systems, Sue Ortlip, Sheri Hockaday, Deborah Costa, Terry Tang, John Duggan, Tim Gedemer, Mrowa "The House" for the Best Lamb in Town!
Copyright © 1995 Sega

Promotional Material

ComixZone MD US PrintAdvert.jpg

Mega Drive US print advert
ComixZone MD FR PrintAdvert.jpg

Mega Drive FR print advert
SegaPC PC US PrintAdvert.jpg

PC US print advert
PC US print advert 2
PC ES print advert

Digital manuals

Steam manual

Physical Scans

Mega Drive Version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

90

^[2]

Alaab Alcomputtar (SA)

85

^[3]

CD Consoles (FR)

56

^[4]

Cool Gamer (RU)

90

^[5]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

92

^[6]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

79

^[7]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)

90

^[8]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 2 (RU)

80

^[9]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

75

^[10]

Fusion (US)

100

^[11]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

72

^[12]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[13]

GamePro (UK)

81

^[14]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

78

^[15]

Joypad (FR)

89

^[16]

Kiber Zona (LT)

68

^[17]

LeveL (CZ)

100

^[18]

Mega Force (FR)

PAL

93

^[19]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

75

^[20]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

PAL

89

^[1]

Player One (FR)

95

^[21]

Playjoy (YU)

94

^[22]

Power Up! (UK)

86

^[23]

Saturn Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

67

^[24]

Sega Magazin (DE)

PAL

84

^[25]

Sega Magazine (UK)

PAL

90

^[26]

Sega News (CZ)

90

^[27]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

81

^[28]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

83

^[29]

SuperGamePower (BR)

76

^[30]

Svet Kompjutera (YU)

91

^[31]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

75

^[32]

Sonic the Comic (UK)

PAL

91

^[33]

Todo Sega (ES)

92

^[34]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

85

^[35]

Última Generación (ES)

82

^[36]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

81

^[37]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[38]

	84
Based on 38 reviews

Comix Zone

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart 50x50px Roadkill

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart 50x50px Roadkill

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
Cart Manual

PC Version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer & Video Games (UK)

70

^[40]

Dimension-3 (US)

92

^[41]

Digitiser (UK)

PAL

78

^[42]

The Games Machine (IT)

88

^[43]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

87

^[39]

PC Gamer (UK)

71

^[44]

PC Review (UK)

40

^[45]

Score (CZ)

70

^[46]

Secret Service (PL)

90

^[47]

Svet Kompjutera (YU)

91

^[31]

Sonic the Comic (UK)

PAL

82

^[48]

	78
Based on 11 reviews

Comix Zone

PC, US
Cover
Jewel Case Roadkill

PC, EU
Cover
Disc Jewel Case

Game Boy Advance Version

Game Boy Advance, EU
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Cart

External Links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network version)
SCEJ catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 3
Comix Zone on Xbox Marketplace: GB, US, JP, KR
Sega of Japan Virtual Console page (Japanese)
Comix Zone on Steam

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File:MeanMachinesSega36UK.pdf, page 74 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega36UK.pdf_p74" defined multiple times with different content

↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 49

↑ Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 1996-xx-xx), page 21

↑ CD Consoles, "Novembre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 148

↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 53

↑ Computer & Video Games, "October 1995" (UK; 1995-09-14), page 78

↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 35

↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 301

↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 2, "" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 55

↑ Famitsu, "1995-09-08" (JP; 1995-08-25), page 30

↑ Fusion, "Volume 1, Number 1: August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 72

↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 8 August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 60

↑ GamePro, "August 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 66

↑ GamePro, "November 1995" (UK; 1995-09-xx), page 40

↑ Game Informer, "August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 28

↑ Joypad, "Octobre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 56

↑ Kiber Zona, "Spalis/Lapkritis 1997" (LT; 1997-xx-xx), page 3

↑ LeveL, "Leden 1996" (CZ; 1996-01-15), page 44

↑ Mega Force, "Octobre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 43

↑ Mega Fun, "09/95" (DE; 1995-08-23), page 68

↑ Player One, "Octobre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 96

↑ Playjoy, "Novembar 1995" (YU; 1995-11-xx), page 33

↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, October 14, 1995" (UK; 1995-10-14), page 1

↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 December" (JP; 1995-11-08), page 70

↑ Sega Magazin, "September 1995" (DE; 1995-08-16), page 22

↑ Sega Magazine, "September 1995" (UK; 1995-08-13), page 84

↑ Sega News, "Leden 1997" (CZ; 1997-xx-xx), page 28

↑ Sega Power, "November 1995" (UK; 1995-09-21), page 50

↑ Sega Pro, "October 1995" (UK; 1995-09-07), page 54

↑ SuperGamePower, "Agosto 1995" (BR; 1995-0x-xx), page 35

↑ ^31.0 ^31.1 Svet Kompjutera, "Februar 1996" (YU; 1996-xx-xx), page 86

↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 172

↑ Sonic the Comic, "15 September 1995" (UK; 1995-09-02), page 10

↑ Todo Sega, "Octubre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 32

↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 11

↑ Última Generación, "Septiembre 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 96

↑ Video Games, "9/95" (DE; 1995-08-30), page 100

↑ VideoGames, "August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 77

↑ ^39.0 ^39.1 File:MeanMachinesSega42UK.pdf, page 89 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega42UK.pdf_p89" defined multiple times with different content

↑ Computer & Video Games, "April 1996" (UK; 1996-03-14), page 58

↑ Dimension-3, "Volume 1, Issue 7: December 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 38

↑ Digitiser (UK) (1996-04-09)

↑ The Games Machine, "Febbraio 1996" (IT; 1996-0x-xx), page 77

↑ PC Gamer, "March 1996" (UK; 1996-02-22), page 105

↑ PC Review, "April 1996" (UK; 1996-03-15), page 73

↑ Score, "Březen 1996" (CZ; 1996-03-14), page 36

↑ Secret Service, "Marzec 1996" (PL; 1996-03-01), page 30

↑ Sonic the Comic, "15 October 1996" (UK; 1996-10-02), page 12

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Comix Zone

From Sega Retro

Contents

Production Credits

Mega Drive Version

Promotional Material

Digital manuals

Physical Scans

Mega Drive Version

PC Version

Game Boy Advance Version

External Links