Sonic the Hedgehog Archives by Michael Gallagher

*Sally and Antoine are both kinda unlikeable in this stage of the comics. *The artwork is nice, I'll give them that. *I love the beginning of these stories where a character has to yell Sonic's name in the giant logo before continuing with the rest of their sentence. *The only reason they even compete in the parody Olympics in a story is because Sonic is an egotistical brat that sees a competition and is like 'Well I'm SONIC and I CAN'T LOSE, I don't care if it's a trap'. It's a good thing this happened prior to the comics' tonal change into something way more serious or else the Freedom Fighters would be dead and it'd be all Rotor's fault. To do so, he hands Robotnik the main address of Sonic and the Freedom Fighters' secret hideout. You know, that game where most players didn't even get past Toxic Caves.

*Again, I must reiterate that the first time this comic series covers a video game, it's not any of the main titles. I really hope this is still canon to the Archie lore. *Uncle Chuck is introduced because he left behind a treasure map where he buried a chest that contained Sonic's bronzed baby shoes. *Snively's first introduction to the Archie Comics universe is him appearing as a ghost in a Christmas Carol parody, meaning that the Christmas Carol parody in this volume is a lore-important story. I think the only notable thing that happens here lore-wise is that they introduce Snively (via Christmas Carol parody) and Uncle Chuck (via mention only, but at least we know he exists at this stage). Just take my word for it when I say that this volume is largely fluff and nothing more, nothing less. I definitely think Volume 1 and Volume 3 are both better collections and this one can probably be skipped, but there is still some fun art in this collection and it's fun reading Sonic's comic in its early days when it's still aimed at younger children and before they started fully depicting the gruesome aftermath of war at the hands of Robotnik and we get named characters dying. This volume collects issues #5-8 of the Archie Sonic run, and so we have a video game tie-in comic (of Sonic Spinball, which wasn't that great of a Sonic game), a Christmas Carol parody, a story where Sonic competes in a parody of the Olympics, and Sonic fighting a robot Urkel.Īnd the puns. Volume 2 of the Sonic the Hedgehog Archives is a bit more 'meh' than the one before it and the one after it.

Sonic the Hedgehog Archives by Michael Gallagher