Princess Sally Mini-Series Issue #1
March 1995
Continuing on from Issue 20 is "Deadliest Of The Species (Part 1)" featuring GEOFFREY ST. JOHN!!
Sweet two-page panel of Sally and GEOFFREY ST. JOHN dodging fire from swatbots to start things off. They escape and meet up with some Freedom Fighter trainees under Sally's guidance. All these characters blow right from the start, but Hamlin (the pig) has potential since he's extremely suspicious of GEOFFREY ST. JOHN. Anyway Sally fills us in on the premise of the story: they're out to destroy three substations (the 1st one taken care of in the prologue) in order to shut down Robotropolis' defense against ground attacks. They set out to the second substation and are immediately bombarded with fireballs. Sally tosses a grenade into the substation to take care of that problem, and they enter.
Sally puts a virus in the computer running things here which is set to blow up the building, but shortly after they're attacked by Orb-Bots. Out of grenades, Sally pulls out some cords to use as a lasso and wraps up the feet of the bots, causing them to tumble over. One of them is about to tumble on Hamlin, but GEOFFREY ST. JOHN pulls him out of the way just in time. See how great of a guy he is?
They rush out of the building, but one Orb-Bot gets out as well before the explosion. After some chasing, the gang lures the bot off a cliff, and we get a brilliant line from GEOFFREY ST. JOHN, "Looks like fall came a bit early this year!" The guy is a quote machine I tell ya! Hamlin still doesn't trust him which pisses off Sally. However, later that night, GEOFFREY ST. JOHN sneaks out of the camp, activates a portal, and enters some building. He approaches a glass pod and says "Soon M'luv...soon!" It's then revealed that...wait, is that Princess Sally in the pod!? What the hell is going on here?? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until next issue to find out!
Another quality issue here, other than the FF-Trainees being completely useless outside of Hamlin. As for GEOFFREY ST. JOHN, I don't know what the Sonic fanbase thinks of him, but as you can probably tell I think he's an awesome character, and I am praying that they don't ruin him later on (he was still great when I stopped before #100). Definitely makes Sally storylines a lot more interesting...I can guarantee that this issue sucks without him in it. Anyway, great cliffhanger to entice people to get the next issue.
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