Sonic the Hedgehog: Issue 89, Besieged

Hello and welcome all! To the Comic Book Nerd's Blogger! Thanks as always for checking in with me and the Blog spot. This next review comes in as a request from Esli of Eugene Oregon! He writes:

Hey Nerd Chris! I have always been a huge fan of Sonic, though I'm not that into comic books much at all, but I was wonder if you could possibly do a review on any of YOUR favorite Sonic comics from your collection's?

Thanks!

--Esli

As always, I have something for you, Esli!! Even though I have a huge collection of comics, I don't have many Sonic books! I know this is a subject I am lacking in, but video game comics tend to not be as good as most 'pin-offs' do. But, there is one Sonic book I do own that you all viewing might enjoy?

As always, a beautiful article from Wikipedia telling some history:
Sonic the Hedgehog (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ, Sonikku za Hejjihoggu), trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, is a video game character and the main protagonist of the Sonic video game series released by Sega, as well as in numerous spin-off comic books, video game series, and a feature movie. The first Sonic game was released on June 23, 1991, in order to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo's flagship character Mario (see 1991 in video gaming). Since then, Sonic has become one of the world's best-known video game characters, with his series having sold more than 70 million copies. In 2005, Sonic was one of the first game character inductees into the Walk of Game, alongside Mario and Link (Character from the Legend of Zelda).

Artist Naoto Ōshima, designer Hirokazu Yasuhara, and programmer Yuji Naka are generally credited with the creation of the character, a blue 15-year-old anthropomorphic hedgehog, who has the ability to run at supersonic speeds and the ability to curl into a ball, primarily to attack enemies. This is a major part of the gameplay of the series.

This one is called, "Sonic the Hedgehog: Besieged" its the 89th issue from the Sonic the Hedgehog Archie Adventure Series, and I actually was surprised with the story. It was aimed more towards the younger crowd's, but I liked how the little things in the pun's got the older readers attention.

In this issue, Sonic is faced up against the evil Dr. Robotnik (as always) Sonic's most feared villain in the world little 15-year-old Hedgehogs life.

So...I obviously didn't ever really keep up with this series, but it looks pretty cool. Early on Dr. Robotnik attempted to kill off Sonic, as well as Tales and their friends, Princess Sally, and Prince Elias. The Prince and Princess's father and mother tragically fell in a battle (in the last issue I don't have) against Dr. Robotnik in his attempt to capture a sword called the the Sword of Acorns that has some supernatural power to restore health and energy to beings in the Planet of Mobius.

As I read further into the comic, I thought it was very interesting how much Sonic loves Chili-Dogs....uh....never mind that...
I also thought it interesting how Sonic's mother and father are robots, seeing as his 'mission' in life is to always prevent Dr. Robotnik (or shall I say, Egg-man?) and his evil army of robot villains, I found it a bit ironic...Heh...
So, I got passed the silly irony of the story, and noticed halfway through the comic, the story just kinda cuts off and starts a new adventure that seems to be a knuckles short story. Now, don't get me wrong, but I love Knuckles in the games, but why did they have to cut this original story in half to fit in the little mini-series to jst be lazy and half ass it all? I laughed pretty hard.

But, if any of you do decide to buy this issue, be prepared to be cut off, and not continue with the whole Sword of Acorns deal...I was a bit disappointed in that area of note. Though, if you are highly interested in Sonic the Hedgehog (Esli!) I would suggest going to your local Comic Shop and buying the next issue to see if the Acorn story continues in that one...If not, then I hope these writers are dead by now!

I would give this comic an 8/10 because it was kinda BS how the story just cut off like it did...But I did like the Anime type of edginess it had with the artwork (and I'm not one for the Anime stuff...) and if you are a fan of Knuckles like I am, then you would REALLY appreciate the little adventure he goes through to save the planet of the Floating Island...Its a really neat and creative gesture coming from Archie Comics, and a great read.

Thanks as always, and see you next time Comic Nerd's!

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