Editor-in-Chief: Richard Goldwater; Managing editor: Victor Gorelick; Editor: Justin F. Gabrie; Assistant Editor: Mike Pellerito.
Hmm… you’d think with so many editors there wouldn’t be so many mistakes! I guess it’s true what they say, too many cooks spoil the broth… (Incidentally, one of my favorite series, TMNT Adventures, went several years with one guy—Dean Clarrain—handling both writing and editing… and I’ve yet to notice any mistakes in that run…)
Penciled by Patrick Spaziante, inked by Nelson Ribeiro, colored by Jason Jensen.
Hmm… not too much to say about this cover—it’s your basic montage cover… I could mention, however, that I don’t like the look of Bunnie in this picture—entirely too grim for my tastes…
By J. Axer.
"IT ENDS HERE!" …Yes, it does. Well, it would have, anyway, except I already sent in my subscription renewal…
Written by Karl Bollers, penciled by Steven Butler, inked by Jim Amash, colored by Jason Jensen, lettered by Jeff Powell.
"There’s more to Mecha than meets the eye." That’s right—she’s an android: a robot in disguise. (Lame, guys, lame.)
Mecha blasts at Sonic, as his loved ones watch over Eggman’s spy-eye.
Meanwhile, Shadow confronts Eggman. He’s got a nice attitude going, too. "I’m going to snap you like a twig, then use you for kindling." I like it.
Robotnik is taken aback by this—good guys don’t kill, right? But Shadow reveals that Archie has grown up enough to be willing to portray "Anti-heroes"…
Shadow fans must be screaming to see how he’s colored though—his chest fur’s golden again!
Overhead, Tails and ADAM continue to play their guessing game…
And in the Badlands, the heroes go all out against the remains of Eggman’s army. First though, Knux and J-Su have a chat, wherein Knux mentions the fact that he still can’t glide. That’s rather odd, considering that he can in the games… Then Rouge gives him a lift, to J-Su’s disapproval. Could this have anything to do with the potential romantic interest between Knux and Rouge that some fans see? I have no idea.
Back in Old Megaopolis, Mecha blasts Sonic, causing Sally to run out of the room in Knothole. Man, is she in a fragile state! Reminds me of the countdown to Endgame, actually…
Luckily, Bunnie comes to the rescue! (My heroine!) She smashes Mecha into a building, then Geof adds a grenade, for good measure.
…Funny, I didn’t notice in the past couple of issues that Bunnie’s grown her hair long, too. Cool. Oh, and Ant’s sporting two swords and a bad attitude.
Sonic tells Bun and Ant to go beat Eggman… and is dumbfounded by their hostility toward each other. Showing off that he’s still as slow on the uptake as he is fast on the acceleration, he mentions in his confusion how Bun and Ant are "going steady". He-lo, Sonic? A lot can happen in a year—as Fiona points out. It’s been six months since they broke up…
Man, that’s a bummer. I thought they made a cute couple. But I guess probably Ant’s change in attitude turned her off. Their relationship only worked so long as she was the strong one, and he the weak one…
Well, we have bigger concerns—suddenly, out of the rubble rises… the Terminatrix! Oh, wait, wrong series. It’s actually Mecha, in the metallic nude.
Back in the air, ADAM has so much fun in his riddle game with Tails, that in the Badlands, he forgets to tell the Bots to fight back!
And back in Old Megaopolis harbor (man, we do a lot of jumping around in this issue!) Bun and Ant arrive just as Eggman decides to run away from Shadow.
Wanting to play Heroine again, Bun tells Shadow to grab Ant and scat. Ant ain’t too happy about this, but Shadow just grabs him and runs (on the water, no less! Yeah, Sonic can do that too, but it’s been a long time since we’ve seen him do it.).
Now, Bunnie decides to put her angst to good use, and does a kamikaze attack on Eggman’s ship. Or maybe she knows she can do it… At any rate, she makes Sonic look wimpy when she tears into and out of the ship again and again, taking it out all by her lonesome.
And back in Old Megaopolis, the special forces are having no luck against Mecha, until Sonic does a variation on one of his oldest attacks—he runs around M again and again, cutting into the ground, until… the street collapses, sending M into the sewers.
Hasta la vista, mecha-baby!
The bad guys have been beaten again… but our heroes are all worn out, Sally’s breaking down, Shadow’s silently cursing Eggman’s escape, and as for the Eggman…
He blames it all on ADAM’s playing around with Tails. "Well, I hope it was satisfying!"
"No. It was… fun."
Children! (* rolls eyes *)
Whew! What a ride! Art was good again, so that was nice, but the story… Well, for me Sonic’s always been an escapist fantasy. I guess it’s just getting a bit too real for my tastes…Written and inked by Ken Penders, penciled by Steven Butler, lettered by Vickie Williams, colored by Jason Jensen.
Lord Rotor and Techno-Knux meet, and exchange some pleasantries, before getting down to business. Long story short: the world’s going to end. There’s only a slim chance… are you in, Knuckles? Of course he is.
Meanwhile, the conversation is overheard by two lovebirds in the bush: Salma the Chameleon, and Rutan the Echidna. Espio’s girl, I wonder? If so, she’s certainly fallen in with the wrong crowd!
And back over at the Su residence (I call it that because, A: Knux has his Chaos Cave, and B: Echidna family names are passed down through the mother’s side.), Lara and Julie are having a mother-daughter chat. The verdict: Julie-Su’s a strict, but loving parent.
…And that’s a wrap for now.
Off Panel by "MG & DM". Sonic’s back from outer space/ So why’s Gorelick still using Sonic’s parking space?
This Just in by JG:
"The Future is not set. There is no fate but what we make." First Star Wars, now Terminator! I love these movies, JG, but really…!
Freddy says what I knew all along: M25L could be the real future, or it could just be an alternate universe. We won’t know until we get there!
This will hopefully be that last word on this topic, which, from what I heard on Mobius Forum, has been a major disagreement between Karl Bollers and Ken Penders.
Next month: Time to do some catching up… "Home: Epilogue—Say You Will". Say you will what? And why’s Sal look so downcast on the cover? I don’t like where this seems to be heading… On the bright side, next ish will be the triumphant debut of Jon "WB" Gray—another member of the fan community to get into the comic.
Alright, this proves it—if you really want to work on the comic, it can happen. So, fellow fan-fic writers and armchair critics, now is the time to speak up or shut up. If you don’t at least try to get in, you will very soon have no right to criticize the comic. …Gee, I’m one to talk… * blushes *
*cough, cough * Right, to the letters. Let’s see. Letters from Thurman Puckett, Aaron Main, Nina_21, Cara H., T.J. Libby, and tons more. (No way I’m gonna copy down the "Find Your Name in Print" section!) Mike Pellerito answers letters again—producing the most type and the least answers I’ve seen from a letter columnist yet.
And, finally, Fan Art: Sonic with an "s" on his forehead, by Karim Mahmoud, a golden Knuckles by Ellery Guest, Lara-Su by Connie Stanton, and Sonic with huge shoes and tiny eyes by A.J. Langley.
I never thought I’d say this, but I almost wish I hadn’t renewed. Not that this issue was all that bad—actually it was quite good. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the quality level continues to vary wildly from issue to issue, or that I’m not too happy with the direction things are going in. But then, I haven’t been ever since Mobotropolis was lost again, in ish 75. Perhaps I’ve just outgrown this comic…I hear that sort of thing happens to some people!
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