As Jimmy pointed out in the comments this piece is called “NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY SEGA WITH HARRISON FORD.” and it’s from artist Brandon Bird. Here’s his description of the picture:

I made this for the 2006 I am 8-Bit show. We didn’t have Nintendo, so I had to go with what I knew.

Thanks to my wife (and Joe!) for the tip!

It’s a strange (and arguably sexist) comparison, but bear with me. Let’s say there’s a woman out there that’s an absolute 10 — the kind you give your left nut to be with. Amazingly enough there appears to be some potential that you can get with her. So you get uber-exicted, all worked up about how amazing this is going to be — and when it finally happens? Turns out she shags like a stroke victim.

Tell me that doesn’t describe every Sonic game to come out in the last 5 years — Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog — every time they were announced we thought these were going to be the titles to save the franchise and every time they did nothing but stink up the joint. In it’s defense I’ll say that Secret Rings was at least playable, but let’s face facts, for the most part Sonic & Co. have been those babbling stroke victims in the sack that we had been convinced would do the bump’n'grind like a real pro.

New video of Sonic Unleashed to get too excited about above.

Sonic has been on a bit of a downward spiral as of late. I’ll try not to touch on that too much, but it’s the elephant in the room that can’t be avoided. Every time a new Sonic game is announced, everyone hopes and prays it’s going to fix things, and then it falls flat just like all the rest. Chances are the upcoming Sonic Unleashed won’t be any exception, although the 2D style that is occasionally displayed in the trailer gives me some hope.

A number of sites lately have written pieces on what’s wrong with the series/how to make it better (Destructoid had a great one that they’ve since had to take down), but there’s one area of contention in recounting the glory days of Sonic that no one seems to have any answers about — the shift from Robotnik to Eggman. Name changes don’t just happen in midstream, and a lot of gamers don’t feel like they’ve been given any answers on the subject. Considering that Sonic Adventure was both the first game to feature a shift in name and the first game to slowly kill the franchise with poorly executed 3D design, it’s a hang up that some of us just can’t let go of. Luckily wikipedia has some answers;

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