Intermission time. The Top Ten Reasons Why Sonic The Hedgehog Is The Coolest Comic Book Around:
10. The Sonic Comic requires no batteries!
9. It addresses the environment!
8. Sonic is blue, so he matches most of your wardrobe ("My spine looks divine!" Sonic says) [Also, he does not match most of my wardrobe]
7. It has no villains who are mutants (with Robotnik saying "Don't be so sure..." as he reveals Wolverine claws!)
6. Nor does this title rely on guest stars to help boost sales (as Sonic tells Michaelangelo to scram)
5. It has a foxy female lead character who wears an unusual two-piece outfit (already pandering to the furry crowd)
4. It isn't pre-bagged with a die-cut, gold foil cover and hologram trading card (this is a bad thing? Also I don't know what comic this is addressed towards)
3. It contains absolutely no cholesterol!
2. Sonic's adventures are soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael J. Fox (how come this never happened?)
1. Sonic The Hedgehog won't be "dying" anytime soon (and it hasn't!)
Hope you enjoyed that.
Back to the story: Sonic runs into Tails fishing as he's about to find the "sea" emerald. His feet get caught up in the string of Tails fishing pole, so off Tails goes as well. They return to the cave that Sonic was trapped in last issue, and lo and behold there's another emerald. Jaws tries to get his revenge from losing in the last issue crashing into Sonic & Tails head-on. But wait...it was just a drawing on the cave wall! Jaws is knocked silly...good thing Tails always carries a waterproof marker!
Tails takes off to return the emerald as Sonic spots a swatbot carrying another emerald. Sonic quickly snatches it, but of course that was a trap as Sonic falls deep underground. A Burrobot, carrying the fourth emerald, steals the one Sonic is carrying. The bot tries to impale Sonic with its drill, but Sonic jumps out of the way just in time and tries to escape. He quips, "I'm living on burrowed time here." Eventually he uses his speed to throw the Burrobot off balance, and gets the emeralds back and takes off. However, he cannot find his way of the catacombs, trapped there for hours. Finally, he figures out that he needs to go up to get out, and pulls off his most powerful Sonic Spin yet, which conveniently leads him right through the floor of Rotor's shop. Minor note: Sally's habit of impatiently tapping her foot debuts here, and IIRC she also did this on the show, so that was a nice touch. Anyway, Sally is crowned and declares that the power of the Crown will stop Robotnik and restore Mobius to its former glory. Then we get an epilogue of Robotnik complaining that he didn't appear in the comic with the biggest story yet.
Last ministory explains what Sonic's spines are capable of, with the joke being that Sally uses them as a bulletin board. In addition, this is the first issue to feature reader mail. I'll post any interesting ones, but none are in this one, just people saying they love Sonic and such.
Well this was the first big story of the comic, and it was okay. I think Sonic got a hold of those emeralds way too easily, but they're still establishing Sonic being way past cool and awesome and stuff, so he needs to appear invincible. I wonder when his first moment of weakness appears in the series...
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