#problem sleuth redraw

[nictelsm]

Had room to experiment a little so I refined most of the Problem Sleuth character sprites while tweaking the Midnight Crew a little. Less MS Paint sloppiness and more of that "2010's look" you would see with each Felt member.

EDIT: Forgot to put the shitload of tabs for each character

[liliox-ciel]

Actual representation of how Timekilling Time ended(?)

[themonsterghost]

wanted to do a redraw because i've been drawing paul for over a decade, wild

[starry-eyes-is-me]

a pixel art redraw of that one problem sleuth page

[hippoinspector]

THIS SATURDAY........... i will be opening preorders for my first round of intermission/problem sleuth/mobswitch merch on etsy!! preorders will remain open for 2 weeks (but i do plan on running them again in the future so dont worry if you cant get em this time around!) the lineup is as follows: -2" GUMMY CHARMS ($12 each, will have discounts available for bundles): lineup consists of ss, dd, ps, and pi (regular and mobswitch versions) as well as ad. im sorry hb/cd/delinquent fans i swear i will have them available in the next run i just do Not have human designs for them rn </3 -3" PERNICIOUS INNOVATOR PLAYING CARD CHARM ($15, different design on each side): based on a fun design i did for a sort of calling card for innovator a while back. front side is his magician outfit, back side is his regular outfit -3" PROBLEM SLEUTH OFFICE CHARM ($15, different design on each side): based on sleuths office, front side is more detailed version while the back has that classic problem sleuth feel. having this charm is said to make you feel particularly... hard boiled -DIAMONDS DROOG BILLIARDS REDRAW 8X10 PRINT & 58MM BADGE (print $10, badge $5, together $13): i like him :) i want to make more stuff in the future (including felt related stuff!!!), feel free to send me an ask if theres any specific kinds of merch (charms, stickers, standees, etc) that you want to see or any specific characters! please note that while i do ship internationally, i am based in the us and international shipping can be high! if you live outside the us, i would recommend gathering friends near you to order with to cut down on shipping costs! all prices are also in USD!

[juney-blues]

sorry chat i need to go home and sleep with my wife to recharge my energy before i get back to the problem sleuth redraws

[daily-problem-sleuth]

(Here have a collection of my favorite panels thus far out of context and in one post)

(The link to the fan adventure is a recent reblog before this post by the by.)

[fcrkdoesart]

randomly chosen problem sleuth panel redraw 4

pg. 1597

[gambitgambino]

Lvl 2 Sleuth Diplomacy

[nictelsm]

Redrew the titular protagonist of the first MSPAF fanadventure with an additional, colored alternative.

[meow-moment]

Guys I'm looking for a thing it's a gif of a 1920s black-and-white detective thing where something explodes and everyone has wild reactions including jumping out a window and throwing a baby please

[themonsterghost]

2021 ➡️ 2013, I remember being super proud of this drawing of problem sleuth but looking back it's... not good LOL so i wanted to doodle a redraw that looks cute! i'm floored over the fact that i've been drawing this guy for a decade 😂

[hebezuart]

c: @problemsleuth

Problem Sleuth (c) Andrew Hussie

please reblog if you can!

[fernsnailz]

your archie redraws are everything! whats the context of the first page, with tails crying and shadow looking THE MOST angry ever? what on earth is going on there?

hi i’m so glad you asked this because it gives me the chance to talk about what i consider to be one of the funniest series of events in the archie sonic series

unfortunately there’s a bit to explain here (as is usually the case with the archie sonic series), but i think it’s worth it for the FULL cultural impact of this one specific panel

lore dump below the readmore, and spoilers for archie sonic i guess? idk the series ended in like 2017 lmao

TL DR: shadow and tails mourn the death of one of the least popular characters in all of sonic history

so. let me introduce you to tommy turtle.

in the 117th chapter of archie sonic, sonic goes undercover to rescue a childhood friend of his named tommy. when robotnik took over the world years ago, everyone thought lil' tommy had been killed or roboticized - turns out, tommy is alive and has been living in enemy territory for quite some time!

anyways, surprise surprise turns out this was all an elaborate trap organized by robotnik and one of his spies named sleuth “doggy” dawg (which is the best name for any character ever). sonic and tommy make an elaborate escape where sonic uses him as a skateboard - unfortunately, a grenade gets in the way of their happy ending, and tommy turtle sacrifices himself to get sonic out of there alive.

tommy, as a character, was created to have a bold sacrifice, live for one issue, and give sonic a heartbreaking lesson on friendship or whatever.

here's the problem: the writers kept bringing tommy turtle back.

about 20 issues later, sonic goes on ANOTHER undercover mission and finds tommy AGAIN, who claims he survived the grenade because he hid in his shell.

unfortunately, this tommy turns out to be an impostor - a robotic duplicate that infiltrates sonic’s home, tries to kill him, and then nearly kills sonic’s robot dad.

so tommy is gone for real now, right?

NOPE! after this, the freedom fighters set out on ANOTHER undercover mission to find tommy AGAIN, who is about to be executed by eggman’s robots. at the very last second, he somehow outruns his fated death once more.

for some reason, this cartoon turtle simply cannot die.

after he’s rescued, tommy keeps showing up in random arcs of the comic. he has a mini story about how he isn’t good at anything. he saves three of the freedom fighters from being electrocuted to death by using a leather glove. when sonic, shadow, and metal sonic have an epic battle over a four-issue arc, tommy is just... THERE.

despite tommy getting a decent amount of time in the story, he paled in comparison to the rest of the characters in terms of personality, motivation, and general charm. because of this, he was relatively unpopular in the archie sonic community (which is a kind way to put that SO MANY PEOPLE HATED THIS IMMORTAL TURTLE).

thus begins the downfall of tommy turtle.

as a member of the freedom fighters, tommy was included in all of the wacky science shenanigans because i guess that’s what the writers decided he was good at?? in this period of his seemingly eternal life, tommy helps the gang study nanites (microscopic robots), which suddenly have a reaction to tommy. the robots conform to his seemingly indestructible shell, and give tommy… shapeshifting abilities. tommy turtle gains the ability to grow wings, fly with a jetpack, and make his already indestructible shell extremely powerful.

they gave tommy fucking turtle shapeshifting abilities

however, when the head writers of the series changed around this time, the new writers began to wrap up old storylines and characters that previous writers had left unresolved. and one of the first things the new team did was finally complete the tommy turtle saga.

those nanites that gave tommy turtle superpowers? turns out, they’re under the control of one of robotnik’s evil AI programs called A.D.A.M, who has secretly been working on a master plan to become an all-powerful being. his secret weapon? tommy turtle.

A.D.A.M, now controlling tommy, wreaks havoc among the freedom fighters, kidnaps shadow and tails, and uses both super shadow and turbo tails (aka the super version of tails in archie sonic - it’s just tails wearing a cape) to summon every chaos emerald in the universe. note that archie sonic has very different chaos emerald lore than the games, there’s like... a bajillion of them. just go with it

sonic goes into his super form and fights a super version of A.D.A.M/tommy while super shadow and turbo tails chaos control the emeralds to a different dimension - that way, A.D.A.M. can no longer harness their power.

(i'm very obsessed with the panel of eggman going "WAKE UP!! GET OUT!!" to the two superpowered animals)

once the emeralds are gone, tommy takes control of his body again - however, his survival is temporary this time. tommy can't remove the nanites from his body, and there's no way to stop A.D.A.M. from returning. with the eggman fleet about to take both him and super sonic out, there's really only one thing for him to do.

tommy finally does the one thing he has constantly failed at - he sacrifices himself and dies.

tommy turtle is dead, for good this time.

finally, we get to the tails and shadow panel. tails mourns the loss of a friend, a fellow freedom fighter that had been given so many chances to try again but ultimately gave his life so the rest of the world have that same chance. and shadow is also there.

the funniest thing here is that shadow honestly had no goddamn idea who the hell tommy turtle was or why he was there, so i think he's mostly just inconvenienced by this whole event lmao

thank you for your question and thanks for reading! here are some additional shadow cringefail moments i found during my re-read of the tommy turtle saga that i really enjoyed

[fruzmig]

First is 12/25/2015 the day I got my tablet, and my first drawing with it.

Second is today (12/25/2017) two years later. It took me 3 hours to make and I’m proud, few years ago it would have taken more than a day. :B

[juney-blues]

yeah problem sleuth redraws have been on hold for a bit lmao

they'll return proper when i feel i can do a whole bunch of paintings in the span of a week, hopefully soon!! :3