#stc issue 110

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A collection of my favorite design/outfit on Fleetway!Tails so far

He is just so🥺💖💖💖💖

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In the story that’s the highlight of this issue for me, we return to Amy & Tekno, as they oversee the protection of mega fantastic guest, Fabian Vane

They put a different pattern on Amy’s top each issue and I think “NICE GIRL” is my favourite one so far

Tekno’s on hand to trace the call! I wish she was around in real life to help my grandma against all those cold calls that keep trying to scam her…

“Oh god, he’s gonna sing! Let’s go!”

They find out that it’s the guy from last time and I choose to believe that he chose the name Bruiser Magoon for himself when he transitioned

The girls easily out-smart him, but they’ve had their own suspicions about Fabian, so now they can actually talk it through

Shock reveal! And that won’t be the only one

Yep, here’s a whole host of people who’ve been ripped off by Fabian and this time he doesn’t have Amy & Tekno to protect him from them

This looks like something that’d be on the cover of the Daily Star or else one of those gossip magazines, but the truth is out. Fabian is a massive con artist who got an actual builder to build his shoes and then didn’t pay them

The people get their dues, but showbiz moves too quickly for Fabian to keep up with and he’s now been replaced by Peter Android, who’s a parody of Peter Andre. More importantly, is he actually an android? We never see him outside of this one panel, so that question may never be answered

We cut to Fabian having been reduced to being a lame school disco DJ (not like the one from Speedlines), but this isn’t the last we’ll see of him. He’ll be back

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Speedlines is in the middle of the issue today. I’m not sure if that’s where it was printed or just the scans and I’m too lazy to dig out my own copy of the issue to look it up, but what matters is this hilarious fanart of Sonic appearing on Blind Date. This isn’t surprising to hear from me, but I think Sonic should pick option 1

Then there’s this fanart where he’s a disc jockey, geddit??

We also get a couple of letters from international fans. I'm curious which Sonic cartoon was being mentioned in the letter from South Africa. But notably, we get our first indirect mention of Archie Sonic via a letter about a Sonic comic “in Canada”. I looked it up to see where Archie Sonic would’ve been at this point an it looks like it was about issue 52, just after the big Endgame arc, though I’m still unsure what the difference is between the “release date” (which said August 1997) and the “publication date” (which said November 1997). Maybe someone more familiar with how the comic industry works could help me there, so I better know which date to pay attention to

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It’s a football theme in today’s fanart section and I’m not interested in football at all, but had to give a shoutout to this fanart of Robotnik wearing a Newcastle shirt (I think specifically a Shearer shirt?), since they’re my local team and last week they won some… big tournament thing for the first time in about 70 years - people I’ve known to be depressed my whole life were finally happy after their win, so good for them!

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We then cut to another Tails story set while he’s still on Mobius and, once again, he’s back in Casino Night Zone. I know it’s so they can use Max Gamble as a villain, but I do think it’s funny that so many of the Tails stories specifically seem to end up being set here

Come on now, narrator Tails, I think “The nastiest dude this side of Robotnik” is a bit of a stretch! The guy is a C-tier villain at best

Power to the people story! Remember, if you don’t fight back against corruption, nothing will change

This is nice, isn’t it? Tails looks like he’s having fun

Tails just casually waving to the people as he goes to fight the last boss of this level. He’s so polite

This would be more of a plot-twist if it was in a story about any of the other Freedom Fighters, but Tails already knows that Robotnik’s back, so it’s less of a reveal. I mean, I’m sure it wasn’t meant to be a big reveal anyway, so that probably doesn’t matter

Even the mob goons don’t want Robotnik back

So, once again, Gamble has a scheme turned on its head by Tails. This isn’t the last we’ll see of him, however, since according to my notes, Max Gamble appears all the way up to about issue 156, outlasting most of the regular StC characters and even the Chaotix in terms of final appearance

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I forgot to say it last time, but those Sentinels really are much smaller than the giant one that Sonic met before. Guess they have different types

Tails is still here, still trying to figure out how he can help

Oh? I guess we’ll see in time what Robotnik’s half of the bargain is

Anyway, what we actually came here for was to see Sonic fight Metal Knuckles, so let’s bring him out

If only Sonic’s good friend Johnny Lightfoot was here, since this is pretty similar to his weapon of choice

We then get this cool fight scene that I’m still going to skip through a little bit. But I like that this much quieter Metallix’s first word on-screen was “No.”

“No!”

Elson once again weighing in with a glorious full page spread

Typical of the accused to be no longer here (eye roll emoji)

Tails has managed to find a cloak to blend in with the locals, but doesn’t seem any closer to figuring out a way to help

We’ll check back next time to see what he manages to pull off

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Yeah, this is what I’m talking about! Sonic vs Metal Knuckles! I was so hyped to see this cover as a kid and still am today