"You Bet My Life!" is the second story. It starts with the FF saying that Sonic is their last hope for something. Since there's some suspense to it, I figure it's gonna end up lame, and it is: they need Sonic to fold their map of Mobius up right. Apparently Robotnik is delivering a speech in the Casino Night Zone and they need to know where it is. We still get the 4th wall breaking here, and Sonic implores us to pop in Sonic 2 and get him to Casino Night...or just turn the page. That I shall do. Sonic arrives to find Robotnik's casino, which is called "Renobotnik." I guess none of the robots here have been programmed to stop Sonic here because he's just waltzing around freely. We see Robotnik preparing for his speech (with a sign on the wall saying "No spitting on stage, except for Robotnik"), when he spots Sonic walking through the entrance of the stage hall. Robotnik debuts his new robot, Orbinaut, who promptly tosses a maceball at Sonic's head.
A subdued Sonic is trapped inside a glass ball and stuffed inside a giant pinball machine. He gets the crap kicked out of him in there, but before Robotnik can toss him in a second time, a swatbot tells him that someone won 50 cents in the casino. Sucks for that guy, because one of the rules of Renobotnik is "If you try to beat the house, the house beats you...WITH A HAMMER." While he was gone, Sonic was able to use his spines to cut through the ball, so when he was placed back in the machine, the launcher shattered the glass and freed him. Orbinaut tries to attack Sonic, but he deflects a maceball into a swatbot and Robotnik's head. Speaking of which, that should have pierced through his brain (and probably Sonic as well when he was clocked earlier), but maybe they both just got really lucky. Sonic makes the casino explode (not shown how exactly) and saves the day.
Ministories: 1)Acorn Awards ceremony, which Sonic wins every one of them of course; 2) one where a reader mail asks him at what speed do his legs disappear and look like spinning wheels. This one's pretty funny actually, as he goes through his Six Speeds (from Mini-Series #0). His legs get blurry at Trans-Sonic speed, but he ends up running straight into a tree branch and knocks himself silly; 3) we get the recipe for making a Sonic chili dog, and it looks legit. Sonic quips about this supposing to be a funny comic book, so Sally smashes a pie in his face.
The first story was terrible. I normally don't like plant-related stories because they usually end in a stupid way, and this was no different. Horrible way to start the main series. The second one was better but didn't quite make up for it, so overall this was a letdown. However, Issue #2 is the first one I was told to emphasize on, so I'm expecting good things from it. I'll have that for you tomorrow.
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