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Werehog!Sonic gets caught snooping around the Egg Army base and now we’re introduced to another Egg Boss! Nephthys is pretty cool but I’ll get into her later. She’s got a pretty cool anime cloak swish going on though.

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In the Bunnie vs. Cassia fights, it goes to great legnths to tell us how each of them feel about their Roboticized limbs and whether each of them wanted the metallic transition or not. I think the fact that both characters get to share their experiences, both in and out of battle, really helps flesh both sides out and I commend Aleah Baker for her character writing once again. xD

Bunnie’s the veteren who’s spent years fighting against Eggman with her awesome robot limbs and lasers, but it only came to that point after she suffered a severe physical injury and it was the only way for her to survive.

In this issue, she has to deal with Cassia, who’s very new to the whole thing and sees Cyberization as an improvement over her prior illness, since it allows her senses to work and keeps her older sister from worrying.

Seeing these two sides temporarily call a truce and be emotionally open to each other is extremely refreshing?? Especially since most of the cover stories are about the Freedom Fighters raiding Egg Boss bases and traditionally confronting them.

If you were to tell me what I miss most about Sonic comics, its types of unconventional and emotional character dynamics such as this!

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Like most post-reboot Shattered World stories, this issue starts out in the middle of an Egg Army ambush with approporiately-themed Badniks. The formula gets a little old but at least we still got Adam Bryce Thomas on pencils. Never has Big lifting a Skorp in the air looked so good!

Also new Freedom Fighters ahoy! The Desert Raiders[ are a bright bunch and I love their designs and how they are a sort of parallel to Sonic, Tails and Knuckles’ dynamic. Trevor Burrow the Mole is also canonically blind character, as well as a pretty cool Gurren Lagann homage!

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Sally Acorn and Clove have a non-fighting-related meeting too! But with them its more like a powerplay and thinking of the most peaceful way to get information out of the other’s intentions. Sally loses the argument but its neat seeing these two who refuse to fight and their viewpoint on the greater scope of the Freedom Fighters vs. Egg Army conflict.

Its relatively slow and it takes up a couple of pages that could have further developped Bunnie and Cassia’s short-term allience, but its also tense as heck! I’m glad these two got to meet and have a “meeting of the minds“ sort of conversation!

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Man, I wasn’t expecting Archie Sonic to adapt the whole “talk to NPCs around town“ thing from Sonic Unleashed, but if we get kids climbing on Big the Cat out of this then I’m not complaining! Its strangely cute to see human kids playing around with him while he’s totally oblivious.

Also: mystery girl spotted!

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After being delayed by the Worlds Unite crossover, its nice that the covers emphasise the fact that Sonic’s planet is currently shattered into pieces! Looks like things are gonna get serious soon in the Shattered World Crisis, so let’s continue the Sonic Unleashed-esque journey.

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Plot twist! Cassia is still a bad guy, so of course she sides with the Egg Army dudes the moment they come in to save the two.

Next time is when the real heartache emerges!