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ARCHIESONIC 101, MODULE 2: AN ONGOING NARRATIVE? IN MY SONIC COMICS?

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #20: “THAT’S THE SPIRIT!”

TIMELINE: 3235 (1 YEAR AFTER SONIC #1)

Welcome back to ArchieSonic 101, my friends! I’m splitting up today’s issue again, so we’ll only be looking at the cover story in this lesson. And what happens in this cover story, you ask? Well…

Soooo… I guess this is the final issue of Sonic the Hedgehog, huh? Pffft, as if. xD However when my fellow reviewer @robotnikholmescomicblog (go check out his video essays on YouTube, they’re really good!) covered this issue himself, he pointed out that if anything, this cover felt like it was marking the passing of Sonic SatAM, whose final episode aired right around the time this comic came out. Coincidence or conspiracy, who can say for sure? Anyway, let’s have a look at what the story behind this distressing cover is…

Fair enough to Sonic for enjoying their time together on the rope. Every week it's usually just Sally by herself on the rope.

Sally’s got a point - they got in here awfully easily, sailing past all those previous guards without being noticed. And now there’s no guards at all? That does seem suspicious.

“Oh no, it’s the consequences of my own actions again!”

I’m not sure Sonic would have been able to escape even if he hadn’t tripped. Surely Robotnik would have made sure when he was preparing this trap that the steel doors were spindash-proof?

Oh no, Sonic is totes dead for real, you guys! …but why do Tails and Rotor have red eyes in that middle panel? They hadn’t even started crying yet.

…huh. That’s a neat trick.

Huh. Maybe they actually did kill him off? That would be a twist.

I wonder what was more traumatic for Sonic - coming to the conclusion that he was a ghost or seeing that godawful statue of himself.

I kinda wish Sonic’s foot had gone right through that rock and then he would have fallen on his butt. Wait, if that happened he probably would have fallen right through the ground… hey wait, how is he not falling through the ground already if he’s intangible? Oh no, I think I strained my brain...

Okay, so I’m not an expert or anything, but my understanding is that this is not how antimatter works at all. When antimatter comes into contact with anything made of matter (which is pretty much everything), it explodes. Violently.

Antimatter doesn’t turn people invisible or intangible or anything like that. Other fictional appearances of antimatter make a bit more sense - I believe it’s used to fuel warp drives in Star Trek, and in Dan Brown’s novel Angels & Demons, scientists were studying it with the hope of turning it into a new energy source.

To be fair, its incorrect use in this comic doesn’t really matter that much. I imagine that Angelo Decesare just needed some kind of phlebotinum for the story and decided that antimatter sounded as good as anything else.

I feel like if Sonic really had died, Robotnik probably would have shown up to the funeral playing Amazing Grace on a vuvuzela or a recorder or an accordion or something like that.

I can’t tell if the Freedom Fighters are dressed as commandos or if they're just planning to take Robotnik down in a devastating rap battle.

Clearly no one told Robotnik that he needs to use salt to repel ghosts. He should have watched Supernatural!

Wait, Sonic knows how to fly a jet? I wouldn’t think it’d be very similar to flying a biplane, but then again what would I know? I’m certainly not a pilot.

Haha, I like this ending. The Elvis toupee is the icing on the cake.

This story is pretty fun. Sonic isn’t really given a lot of time to dwell on being, ‘dead,’ but considering what we’ll see later with Knuckles, that’s probably for the best. It’s touching to see the rest of the Freedom Fighters grieving for Sonic - even Antoine is upset at his passing, and he and Sonic don’t exactly get on very well at this stage in the series. Tails’ (almost) unshakable faith that Sonic is okay is very sweet, and his request for Sonic to ignore his letter if he is indeed dead is pretty funny.

The second story in this issue is actually a prologue to the Princess Sally mini-series, so we’re going to skip over that for now and come back to it in a few issues. Instead, join me next time when we’re in for a real treat - the first full issue drawn by Patrick Spaziante! Until then, class is dismissed!

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ARCHIESONIC 101, MODULE 2: AN ONGOING NARRATIVE? IN MY SONIC COMICS?

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #19TIMELINE: 3235 (1 YEAR AFTER SONIC #1)

Welcome back to ArchieSonic 101, where the blue rats are plentiful - like, really plentiful. In fact, I don’t think any other issue of Sonic the Hedgehog better illustrates that point than this one…

Wow, there’s a lot to take in here. We’ve got pirate Sonic, devil Sonic, Terminator/cyborg Sonic, astronaut, viking, footballer, guitarist, mummy… and is that an Australian Sonic in the bottom right corner? I dunno, maybe he's just supposed to be Clint Eastwood. There is another Sonic in the issue later wearing a similar hat with a poncho. Well, I guess we’d better take a look at this issue and find out what this is all about.

I like to think that this cyborg Sonic speaks with a Schwarzenegger accent. Yes, even when he says, “Click! Wrrr…”

This page is mostly just a recap for people who hadn’t read Sonic #11 (like me at the time).

I will be forever annoyed that we were robbed of getting a spinoff series about an entire team of cyborg Freedom Fighters, all with identical Schwarzenegger accents. Yes, even Sally and Bunnie. …actually, let’s give Bunnie Schwarzeneggar’s really bad American accent from the deleted scenes in Terminator 3.

Stop booing me, you know I’m right!

I bet Dave Manak (and later Art Mawhinney) had A LOT of fun drawing this issue.

Not gonna lie, I do like the shadow swatbot designs. The black looks a lot more intimidating.

It’s a bit weird that Robotnik has live surveillance footage of the Meeting of the Hedgehogs. You’d think the Freedom Fighters would have gathered everyone where Robotnik couldn’t keep tabs on them, but maybe they were so focused on Robo-Robotnik that they didn’t even consider the local Robotnik being a problem. And for once, he actually isn’t.

“Destroy your comic book and act out the action yourselves, because we don’t have enough page space to show this fight scene!”

Robotnik and Robo-Robotnik’s forces are equally matched, so of course Robotnik wins outright and apparently with no casualties! How did that happen? I dunno, you’re the one with the paper cut-outs. You figure it out!

Also, this may just be the earliest instance across all Sonic media of Sonic and Robotnik forming a temporary alliance. It goes about how you’d expect, honestly.

USE YOUR HARPOONS AND TOW CABLES

Robotnik: I despise these filthy Neutrals, Snively. With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? Snively: (weary sigh)

So yeah, two pages into their little alliance and Robotnik is already planning a betrayal. Can I get a show of hands - is anyone surprised? Anyone at all? Put your hand down, you know you’re lying.

Considering that Evil Sonic dresses like the Terminator, it seems fitting that he’s summoned in an effect that looks like Skynet’s time travel ball technology. Even though it should have incinerated all his clothing.

This is the second time in this issue that the editor’s asked us to vandalise this comic book. Maybe the colourist, Barry Grossman, just got too tired to finish this chapter? Unlike the pencillers, he did the entire issue.

Also, holy alternate art style, BatSonic! The second half of this story was drawn by Art Mawhinney rather than Dave Manak. Probably because this story took up the entire issue, rather than what the series usually does with two stories per issue. I've had to skip a few pages myself to squeeze this entire story into a single Tumblr post.

Okay, yeah. So this thing is basically just the Infinity Gauntlet.

Evil Sonic is just as big a chump as last time. He’s all attitude and no actual talent. Just in case you forgot, he was ambushed by the harmless animal buddies last time he showed up.

Weird - the giant's hand changed from being small enough to hold to something large enough for Robo-Robotnik to stand in. Neat trick. This giant’s hand may not be able to erase half the universe from existence, but transforming into a giant battle mech is still pretty cool.

The story is interrupted for yet another colouring page. This is a tribute to a famous comic cover featuring Batman and Robin, but I feel like this reference would have gone over the heads of most of the people who were picking up their coloured pencils for this page.

I’m thinking Sally is not great at maths. It was a cute joke, but there should be ten times as many fingers to point as people to point them at. Also, I want to hear what Sonic Claus' idea for saving the day is.

Yada yada yada, the super power of teamwork, it's a staple of the Sonic mythos at this stage. Also, there’s an art error on this page - BatSonic’s eyes are visible under his mask, which hasn’t been the case in previous pages of this comic.

This is the perfect moment to attack, for sure. I feel like there’s a number of video game bosses like this, where you get an attack of opportunity when they’re in mid-stomp. But for the life of me I can’t think of any specific examples right now.

Man, they really wanted this issue to be interactive for the kids, huh? First we had the swatbot cut-outs, then multiple colouring pages, and now a Where’s Wally-esque page. It’s not the first time Sonic would try something like this though. I remember owning a book called Where's Sonic Now? back in the 90's.

And so Robo-Robotnik was defeated by the power of 10,000 spindashes! This won’t be the last time we see this character though. Or possibly an alternate version of him? It’s not 100% clear, but we’ll get back to that.

This plot point with the giant borg will come back later too. With a couple of unexpected guest appearances too!

This was one of those rare issues where the story took up the entire issue, rather than the issue having a cover story and a backup. And it feels like they needed that, because there’s a LOT in this one. Overall I mostly like this story, but even with it having the entire issue to tell the story it still feels a little rushed at times. We go from one Sonic variant showing up to a gazillion of them suddenly being there. The battle between the two Swatbot armies wasn’t even shown. The battle against Evil Sonic for the giant’s hand is over incredibly quickly, although that may be intentional just to point out once again what a chump Evil Sonic is. But the battle against Giant Borg ends almost as quickly, after Robotnik hyped up what a big threat it would be if it fell into Robo-Robotnik’s hands. The story may have been a bit better if it had been spread out across two issues instead of one, as that could have given a bit more page space to some of those things. They could have had issue 19 end on the cliffhanger of Robo-Robotnik getting the Giant Borg, and then spent more time showcasing the final battle in issue 20. What we got is fine, I guess. It’s no Into the Spider-verse though. :P

Next time: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, 29 years early! But comic book death almost never sticks, so he’ll probably be fine. Probably. Until then, class is dismissed!