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*Looks at the Praetorian*
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Ok, at the least, I'm willing to cut a little bit of slack on Penders, since it was somewhat inevitable to bring Lara-Su's father into this, and obviously he couldn't go for Knuckles like he could in the past. A point for not calling him Knuckles and changing up the title name, but they're both a given really; he kind of had to.
At least he tried to deviate, ...though it's hard to call it that when all he basically did was take Future-Knuckles and drew a little bit of hair and goatee...Which, I'm not going to lie, looks silly. Fortunately, he actually because of his...choice of design, he doesn't look that much like Knuckles at all. Take out the cowboy hat and robotic eye, and he'd probably look like just another echidna. (Knuckles has purple eyes, this one has blue.)
I would kind of like the attire design, but the Loincloth just ruins it. If you're going to cover the waist, at least go all the way and give him a pair of pants. Modern-day/slightly-futuristic vest does not work with a brown caveman loincloth. ...Also, that loincloth and his gloves are apparently made of the same fabric...a very odd choice.
If you ask me, this is NOT 3-D Lien-Da bad. I'm not disgusted, so much as getting a chuckle over how silly he looks all-around.
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"Sorry for the commotion everybody, we'll just be getting this one back to the lab." She said to them as she goes to grab Skye by the hand and run off and away from the citizens, said citizens being confused by what just happened.
Afterwards she went into an area where there wasn't many people around, making sure the coast was clear before letting go of Skye to let him catch his breath.
"Sorry about that, little guy. I didn't mean to lie, but I thought that was the fastest way to get them off your tail...or tails." She said, noticing that the fox had two tails, just to add in the weirdness of a humanoid talking fox being around in the first place. Touching his arm when she did, she could tell he wasn't a robot either.
"I don't think I've ever seen a fox that could walk and talk like humans could. ...So, what's your name? Can you remember how you got here?" She asked him.
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I'm holding off on a PS4 as well, at least until I see some more games on it that I like. I have no intentions on getting an Xbox One whatsoever.
Wii U however? My brother gave one to me on Christmas. Along with Super Smash Bros., Super Mario 3D World, and Hyrule Warriors, and I LOVE every second of playing those games. ^_^
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Oh? I thought he was near that super cool Rave.
(Spoiler placed in case of Epilepsy)
I REGRET NOTHING!
~Let's get down to business, ...To defeat, ...The huns!~
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You mean those guys that failed miserably to get Sauron's One Ring? XD
Here's a classic one: Anybody want a Peanut?
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like no one ever was
Well then you gotta take the test.
"Our state fair is a great state fair!"
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It might also be pretty good for Charmy Bee.
Anybody here watches Jontron?
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Yes, it does certainly needs to get going with a good kick to the rear.
Has anybody watched the Princess Bride?
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Who keeps going on, and on, and on. XD
Teddie is the Beary Best!
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After all this time, Eggman has finally managed to get the Death Egg into Orbit. It took him a long time counting the time that had to be spent flying away from those pesky Team Fighters, plenty of materials both forced to give to him and outright stolen, and plenty of oil from what remains of its ocean. But finally his creation was up in the air.That being said... With both the Genesis Wave and Global roboticizer damaged beyond repair, (The latter debatably not even worth repairing after what those interloping alien fools did with the robians.) now that it's up in the air, there's really not much that he can do up there. At best, he has a base unreachable by the Mobians where he can oversee his empire below. But there's not much to do with an empire if you have no ways of fully threatening them up there.Luckily, he's at least finding a way to fix that part, as he sits on his throne in his control room, watching on a monitor as his two small henchmen, Orbot and Cubot, fixing things within the deeper reaches of the Death Egg."What's the status on that Teleporter?" Eggman asked."Status? We only got started on the blasted thing an hour ago!" Cubot said, apparently sporting a irish accent."I sent you two down there TWO hours ago! What were you doing in the first hour!?" Eggman asked in a rage."...Well, without the teleportation, we had to find the wiring on our own, which took us about 30 minutes, then we had to figure out which wirings were for the teleporter and which were for, well, everything else, which for some reason took us another 30 minutes. ...It's a mess down here sir, you'd be surprised how difficult it is to find the right stuff without dropping the whole base down like a meteor." Orbot explained, which made Eggman place his palm upon his face."I sent you two down there to fix the wiring of our teleporter, That means IT'S A SNAPPED CABLE, YOU DIMWITS! IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO FIND! ...Urrgh, Whatever, just get it fixed, or I'll have you both spend the next hour burning up in the atmosphere!" Eggman yelled. To which they both saluted and immediately got back to work."Times like this makes me wish Snivley. At least he got things done when he wasn't betraying me to play Romeo, ...or to take my empire... or to try and kill me in gener-you know what, I take that back." Eggman said to himself. Instantly afterwards, another monitor set off a beeping alarm as the radar detected some kind of unknown energy fluctuation."Hm, What's this? ...Looks like a small distortion in the time/space continuum of some sort." He said. He then noticed that almost immediately after it came, it vanished in a gap of seconds. While quantum physics isn't exactly his specialty, A small fluctuation that lasted for such a short interval of time meant only one thing usually."...Time-travel." He thought. Someone must have created a hole in the fabric of space and time and stepped through it, a hole small enough to close immediately after it was opened. To top things off, it was a hole that was located in New Mobotropolis, of all the blasted places for it to be. Still, as he contemplated this, a thought occurred to him. Whoever just traveled here, need it be from the past or the future, surely must have a way to go back to their original time, or to go through time as easily as they came out. Which means if he could get their hands on who or whatever just crossed into this time..."...Then I can go back in time, rebuild my army again, I'd have M, and I could reprogram A.D.A.M. ...I could be unstoppable!" He thought. He had to somehow get his men into New Mobotropolis and take this thing. ...The only problem being his current predicament. He could ask the Legion to go fetch it for him...No, no...far too risky without him personally taking command. If his hypothesis is correct, the grandmasters would undoubtedly use it to go back in time and take his throne for their own. He hated it, but he had to wait it out. But hopefully not for long.He was about to tell Orbot and Cubot to work faster when suddenly an explosion can be heard as the Death Egg shook, followed by more explosions."What...What's going on!?" He asked."The ship's hull has been breached sir...breached from the inside no less." a Legionnaire on one of the radios of communication on the ship said."From the inside? ...A traitor!?" Eggman asked."We don't know yet, sir. We're receiving damage reports from across the entire Death egg, somebody's hitting us all over the place! ...We're getting visuals right now!" The Legionnaire said.The Monitor showed a live stream via a surveillance camera as the perpetrator was being shown in the storage area. It was somebody Eggman knew all too well about, though has never actually seen before. An albino echidna with a cape, bandaged hands and feet and a plethora of rings on both of his arms. Nevermind who it was, it's a shock to see another echidna besides that knuckle-headed guardian at all. After the Albion incident that cut off quite a fraction of his men, he was led to believe said guardian was the only one left. Yet here was this one, planting bombs - the only conclusion that could be made for how he's doing this to his Death Egg - and heading through the Death Egg with such a casual demeanor. Could he have escaped somehow, or did he hide himself this whole time? As the white echidna walked into the storage room, he stopped to turn around and looked straight at the camera that was watching him, his black cornea and yellow eyes felt like they were piercing through the lens and staring right at the people watching him. With a smirk, he grabbed one of the many rings on his arms and through it at some random direction. Pulling his hand through it he almost immediately pulled it out but with something he grabbed from it. A familiar small overlander with a few hairs on his head and a rather pointy nose, unconscious as he hangs on the echidna's grip to his collar."What the! ...That's Snively!" Eggman yelled out. As the ring floated back into his arm, he used another and threw the unconscious Snivley inside; the echidna took one last look at the camera, did a mocking salute and walked into the ring as well, the portal disappearing as he did, along with the warp ring. Eggman just looked at the screen for about a minute, utterly speechless."...Wha-...What...WHAT IN BLAZES JUST HAPPENED!?" He yelled out at the top of his lungs, loud enough to where it echoed of the entire Death Egg. -
Within the heart of Casinopolis, lies the office of Mammoth Mogul, its immortal owner, watching over his zone in a nice white business suit as usual. As he sits down and holds and taps on his wooden cane, staring at the ever-populated casino of robots and gamblers, he hears a knock on the door behind him."You may come in..." He said without looking at the door. The door opened and in came the robotic monkey Coconuts."The Tournament grounds is ready, sir! All that we need is to wait for the competitors." The Monkey said."I see, Good work. I suppose I should get myself ready as well." Mammoth said as he got up from his chair."Umm...You're participating too, Boss?" Coconuts asked rather nervously."I fail to see why I should not. It is common that a tournament's host should be able to participate in it as well. Besides, it is far more entertaining for me to be a part of it than simply watching others. I never said it would be easy for them to take claim of the chaos emerald." He said as he walked towards his office door. -
Castle Acorn
Needless to say, the alarm got the intention of everyone in the city, including the Acorn family. Immediately after hearing it, the Princess got herself ready for whatever is happening.
"Nicole, What happened!?" Sally asked as she ran towards the castle gates, heading outside.
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Market
She wasn't the only one who was getting ready for a fight either. Antoine, and Bunnie were also heading out, expecting some kind of attack from Eggman's empire. Sure enough they found the robot right in the middle of the Market, looking around as if estimating where he was. It struck them both odd though, it was definitely a robot but...they've never seen Eggman produce something quite like this before. It looked almost like an extreme legionization of an Overlander. Without any time to talk with each other about what their looking at, Antoine unsheathed his sword as Bunnie pointed her metal fist at him.
"Who are you, Legionnaire? Why have you come here!?" Antoine asked, his french accent showing. (I don't know how to give words a french touch, sorry. XD)
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Roll was heading home from shopping for some food for the Doctor, her red dress clean as usual, her blonde hair combed to perfection. She then looked over with sky-blue eyes and noticed a crowd circling around something.
"Huh...? What's going on?" She asked. Out of curiosity she walked over to them, heading towards the center while trying to get the crowds to move out of her way. She then looked at, and was shocked to see what she found. A talking two-tailed fox of some kind. She know of foxes, but she never heard of one with two tails, of one who could walk on their hind feet, and most certainly of one that could talk. Everyone else was convinced that he was some kind of mascot Robot Master. Well whatever it appeared to be very frightened by where he is, and honestly he would be too if she was far from this place at another city out of nowhere. She then walked over to the fox and looked at the others. Perhaps she can use their assumptions to her advantage.
"Ok, it's alright people. Nothing wrong to see here. This is one of Dr. Light's newest Robot Masters. He wasn't suppose to be out of the lab until the next expo, but apparently it must have accidentally stumbled into one of his teleporters by accident." Roll said with a smile, her face getting close to Skye's.
"Just follow my lead and you'll be fine." She said to him.
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A very excellent choice!
Fun fact: The Author of that Fan Comic is Evan Sterling, who you might know as an Artist for Archie's Sonic Comics.
My favorite Fan Comic, by far, is actually from the same site, literally called "WTF"
For those who want to read it though: I'd advise reading it on your free time, because this is a VERY long comic.
Oh, and a warning: Some bad language is often used in this. so... "Viewers discretion is advised."
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Oi, Shinomi-Chan! Here's your cake.
Happy B-day. ^_^
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I made an edited update in regards to acceptance of your introduction posts. But for the record: Everyone who has posted so far IS accepted.
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Pendersman still sued Archie and SEGA. He's not innocent
I'm afraid Dylan has a point. The only thing this would prove is that Penders only has part of the blame, rather then completely. It's not entirely his fault that this happened, but it doesn't change that his actions had caused the reaction it did. (Which, I'll admit, is not his fault.) Sega reacted the wrong way, in a Paranoid light from fear of yet another attempt at a lawsuit. Removing characters that, by legal right, didn't have to be removed shows an overreaction by emotions of paranoia, and a sense of cowardice for this man, both by Sega, and quite possibly by Archie.
I won't deny this as fact, But Penders did start this debacle in the first place. For justified reasons? Debatable, but I do believe so. But it doesn't change the fact that this would not have happened, had this case not begun by Penders, nor the case regarding Sonic Chronicles.
With that said, Since this is more about Penders then anything else, we've decided to merge it with the Ken Penders topic. ...I have never merged a topic before, so this might get a little weird.
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It's such a shame to see a talented voice actor die. While I'll admit I didn't grow up with the Japanese voice acting, (Except Dr. Weil.) there are plenty who have, and for those people, his was a signature voice that could never be replaced.
Though he has died, he has left a legacy as these characters. My condolences and prayers go out to his family, and may he rest in peace.
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Starting off with the elephant in the room: the fact that apparently the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is canon now... Just think about that for a second.
THIS is Canon now...
THIS IS CANON NOW!
And I don't think Flynn actually saw the episode either. Watch that first link, watch how the situation with Breezie ends. ...Guess she got over that, huh?
In regards to Breezie, I'll admit it: I was absolutely annoyed and flustered by Mammoth Mogul no longer being in charge of Casino Night Zone. Which made Breezie being so, rub me the wrong way. I was basically like "Who's this ***** who thinks she can take Mogul's place?" ...Then I saw her conversation with Eggman and in an instant, as she talked and the very instant she put the EGG EMPEROR on an unofficial hold to take care of business, ...I took back everything negative that I was going to say about her. In the blink of an eye, she went from being one of the possible entries on the characters I despise list, to quite possibly one of my favorite characters in this comic series. An intelligent business woman who does whatever it takes to get the money flowing, reminds me of my Brother in that regard, in a good way of course.
Then we have Honey the Cat. I admit, I kinda frowned at her having a more fashion-oriented typical girl personality. But on the other hand, This WAS how Honey was meant to be. Before she was a cat, she was an actual human character in the game that inspired Sonic the Fighter, Fighting Vipers. That Honey, like this one was focused on fashion and what have you. ...Kudos to Flynn for doing his homework on that one.
Now in Princess Sally's plan of the day: Unlike the other times where Sally's plans were basically face-palm inducing, this one...I would actually agree with under normal circumstances. However, the circumstances at hand is far from normal. With that said, I'm on Rotor's side for this one. Reputation is nice and all, but it doesn't mean anything if the world is destroyed as a result from it. When you have an emerald that can help save the world from doom, you can't leave that to chance of anyone else getting.
It's nice to see Team Hooligan back and ready for action, and I love that they're bringing Knuckles into this along with Chip and Espio. ...Hey wait a minute...
Sonic
Tails
Knuckles
Amy
Nack
Bark
Bean
Espio
Honey
and possibly Metal Sonic?
...Oh my... O_O
But yeah, I'm really liking this so far overall. I'm really looking forward to these 4.
8/10
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On this topic, you can share your favorite crossovers involving the Sonic franchises. And now, my favorite crossovers with Sonic franchises are Super Smash Bros. franchises including Mega Man, Pac-Man, and Metal Gear franchises, Spyro the Dragon franchises, and Transformers franchises. So, what are your favorite crossovers with the Sonic franchises? ^_^
Uhh...When did Sonic ever crossover with those two? I'm with James in that I'm confused what you mean. If you mean literal crossovers, ...well, besides SSB, Mario and Sonic, and that Sega All-Star Racing game, I don't think there are any. As a Spyro fan, I can pretty much guarantee Sonic was NEVER in a game with them. ...No, I am not counting Skylanders, because I see Spyro as a guest star of Skylanders, nothing more. I can almost guarantee Sonic was never in a Transformers thing in any medium. ...Or do you mean that those two were in SSB...Because Spyro and Transformers was never in any Super Smash Bros.
If you mean theoretical "fantasy" crossovers that you wish would happen with Sonic, then you probably should change the title to "What franchise do you want the Sonic Franchise to have a crossover with?"
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Sonic Triple Trouble Special
The cover of this one is ok, showing just about the closest possible thing to the cover of the game, but apparently couldn't fit in Robotnik for some reason. Granted, Robotnik isn't as much involved in this comic as he is in the other comics. But it feels like false-advertising when you call it Triple Trouble, and only show two of the supposed three enemies of the game. You couldn't have just removed Tails or at least made him smaller for a transluscent image of Robotnik's head? ...You know, ....Like they did on the cover of the actual game?
-----------------------------Story 1: Triple TroubleSo the Comic begins with Robotnik talking briefly about the Chaos Emerald, and, of course, gloats at how he managed to obtain one for his own. I can't help but wonder where he got it since they're all locked up in the Special Stage save for Knuckle's emerald. But then again, that also always bugged me in the games as well, since they always say in the manual of two and three to make sure he doesn't claim them, when they're in a different dimension altogether, possibly to prevent someone like him from getting them in the first pla-
Anyways, he intends to use this emerald to...well..."It will drive my largest and most inefficient mega-engine, polluting the globe in days!" Dr. Robotnik
...First off and foremost, I don't think Inefficient means what you think it means. Secondly, ...Really doc? You have the power of a God literally in the palm of your hand, and you use it to pollute the planet as fast as possible? Wouldn't you want to use the Emerald for...oh, I don't know, killing Sonic and Co by putting it in a super weapon or something? Seriously, Robotnik, you REALLY need to get your priorities straight if polluting the earth > destroying the Freedom Fighters once and for all. You'll have plenty of free time to wreck Mobius' eco system when they're dead.So Robotnik places it on a 3-pronged device for energy siphoning into his...*sigh*...Pollution machine, when Crabmeat panics and tells him that he set the machine for 6-prongs instead of 3, resulting in some kind of energy imbalance that blows up his machine and, somehow, split the Chaos Emerald in half....
I'll admit, I'm no energy expert here, nor an electrician, so anyone who is good at that field of science may feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here. That said, I do have some degree of basic programming knowledge, and I'm fairly certain the situation would not reach this level of exaggerated and explosive results. Assuming that the siphon is designed to occur via these prongs absorbing the energy through some sort of small tubes, (Because why else would the number of prongs matter this much?) programming the device for 6 prongs rather than 3 prongs would just make the prongs absorb less energy. This is because it was programmed with three extra prongs and the program assumes that there's more prongs then there actually are and result in the three prongs just absorbing less energy then they should. The amount of energy drained with 6 prongs rather than 3 would be an equal 100% draining power, just that it's done by a different number of these prongs. It shouldn't be causing some energy fluctuation that results in a big explosion, it should be barely able to work at 50%, like it's powered by an eternally low-powered battery. Crabmeat shouldn't be in fear of it blowing up, he should in fear of Robotnik crushing his very soul in a compressor for weakening his pollution device.Now if it was the exact opposite, 6 prongs when programmed for 3 prongs, THEN that might have worked, as the six would be draining a LOT of energy because the program assumes there's only 3 when in reality there's 6 gulping up the energy at a time, resulting in a 200% energy charge. ...Or it would just mean that it'd use only the three prongs instead. But you never know, right? If Pen-...Errm, Gallagher, really wanted this to be the scenario, the reverse seems to work as the better catalyst. ...Or, you know, throw a rock at it or something to make it malfunction. Again, this is the 90s, you can get away with this.Anyways, So the sucker blows up and the emerald not only splits in half but rockets, ...ROCKETS up into orbit going in completely different directions, and in response, Robotnik calls a Bounty Hunters R Us (How much you wanna bet it's run by a Giraffe named Jeff?) to hire a bounty hunter to get it back."They must be retrieved! Half a Chaos Emerald can be dangerously erratic and powerful!" ~ Dr. RobotnikHAHAHA, I'll say! In fact I dare say that half a chaos emerald is apparently STRONGER than a whole one! Don't believe me? Well let's start a counter of the things that a half a Chaos Emerald can do, that we never see a Chaos Emerald actually do before or even since. Let's start with Rocketing into ORBIT without any propulsion powerful enough to pull it off, followed by shooting themselves from that orbit to parts unknown like post-dragon summoned dragon balls!Chaos Halfsy!: 1So we cut to Sonic eating a chili dog...or based on the perspective and the way he's eating it, a Sloppy Joe (Who eats chili dogs side-ways like that? That kind of position would make the hands, or in this case the glove, incredibly messy.) when Tail comes in needing Sonic to come to the control room since Rotor picked up something on the ...grid-screen? Unless you treat Robotnik's badniks like chess pieces, that seems like a pretty odd method for survailence. But, I guess if it works..."I thought Rotor was working on that customized Submarine for you?"~ SonicWell he was, until he realized that he was making an armed submarine with a freaking drill on the front and equipped with active torpedoes for a child.Anyways, Rotor detects the Half Chaos Emerald as it lands towards the Great Forest. detecting that its power is off the charts. But it's just half a Chaos Emerald right? Surely it wouldn't have as much an impact as a whole chaos emerald would.*Looks at the next page* HOLY-..."Through the magic of the Chaos Emerald, we're witnessing the creation of a new Zone!"
So, let me see if I got this straight: ...When a normal chaos emerald drops to the ground nothing happens. ...But when a Half of a chaos emerald drops to the ground, it manipulates the fabric of reality itself to create an entirely new AREA OF LAND IN AN INSTANT!?Chaos Halfsy!: 2Ok, this is jumping ahead in the series a little, but one of the main antagonist of Knuckles' story had the power of 14 chaos emeralds, and we only saw him make a mountain and a city at most. So, just to be clear, a HALF chaos emerald, is apparently just as powerful as 14 Chaos Emeralds, if not more so.So Sonic heads off to the new zone that just appeared from HALF of a chaos emerald, when, just behind his dust comes his newest opponent, though still a silhouette from the smoke.Meanwhile, on the Floating Island, Knuckles is apparently enjoying a long-overdue vacation from his guardianship. ...Despite, you know, a hero's work never truly being done when it comes to the inhabitants of the island. Suddenly he notices that the Sun is now glowing green and giving everything under it a glowing green tint."It better not threaten the floating island, unless it wants to mess with me, Knuckles the Echidna!"~ KnucklesKnuckles the Echidna: Willing to Punch out the Sun itself if it threatens the Island. Also, remember this image of Knuckles in the third panel. I won't say why, but let's just say that I think Penders either asked Gallagher to make it, or was inspired by it.So everything goes back to normal as its revealed that a green meteor covered up the sun while on its way towards this island. ...I'm fairly certain that if that was the illuminated object, unless it somehow got bigger than its suppose to be, that it wouldn't cover the entire island in a green tint, nor last as long as it did under said tint.But yeah, the Emerald lands near the summit of the tallest mountain of the Dragon Spine Mountain Range...A mountain range that, despite being infamous for being impossible to climb, will never be seen or mentioned after this special. Luckily Knuckles can glide through the air, and...apparently Gallagher wanted to scientifically explain how this works."By working up a head of steam, my dreadlocks fan out and I can glide over the razor sharp foothills to investigate this mystery."~ Knuckles the EchidnaWhat exactly are those dreadlocks made of if they can carry your entire body and make you glide as a result?Anyways he lands on the main mountain and begins climbing with by slamming his spiked knuckles into the rock for support. ...One could ask if that's a painful process, since, well, he is still slamming his knuckle bones, however sharp they may be, into solid stone. But like the Gliding, it's better to ignore that and place it in your suspension of disbelief box. So he climbs up the mountain and finds the hole that holds the Chaos Emerald half inside."And it's still burrowing into the Rock!"~ Knuckles the EchidnaSo assuming an emerald is sharp and capable of drilling through solid matter, which, ok, I'll give a whole emerald that credit, it's capable of continuing after being launched into the mountain with only a little lost momentum?Chaos Halfsy!: 3So the drilling caused by the emerald half apparently destabilizes the mountain Knuckles is, I guess it hit a vital mountain pillar or something, and lead Knuckles to do the smart thing and glide on out of there. ...Only to be bonked in the head while gliding and currently falling towards his imminent stage fatality, and they end Chapter one on that dark aspect...So after that, We look at the next page where Sonic heads for the new zone and finds...finds...Wh-What the-Oh, OH, OH GOOD LORD!
Ok, I know this is still early to be doing this but...This is a record breaker. I am completely and utterly baffled by the very first panel of a comic page. Where do I begin with this? Well, let's start off with the one thing we can't get around: It's a Tardis, it's a freaking Tardis!Secondly, Oh, the many appearance questions, like why it looks like a circus tent, or why is this zone apparently called "Triple Trouble". Why is there a police light on top the box? Why are there three entrances? Do the three entrance go into three different areas? Why are there three words of "In You Go" on the top of the Entrances? To top it off, without Knuckles there or even Robotnik, I must stress this again: WHY IS IT CALLED TRIPLE TROUBLE!? GAAAH!Thirdly and finally: The Half Chaos Emerald not only manipulated reality to create a whole new zone, a whole new area of land on the planet, but manipulated dimensional space to compress that new area of land into a circus tent-like Tardis the size of an escape pod?Chaos Halfsy!: 4Now that we're finally off that panel, We see the silhouette figure from before talking to Robotnik while spying on Sonic, ...and unwisely, yet sensibly shuts him up with a mute button."The Computer in my Sky-cycle is programmed to mimic Sonic's every move." ~ ???I'm going to assume you mean "TRACK" Sonic's every move. Since I don't care how advanced it is, I think it'd be very difficult to mimic a person's every move without a freaking set of arms and legs. Ignoring that, who the heck designed his sky-cycle's computer if it can track a hedgehog that could break the sound barrier with his feet if he wanted to!?So we FINALLY turn the next page when...Oh, this just keeps getting better. The next two pages have Sonic, still in this place, going through SIX different zones instead of one like we thought, and they're ALL compressed in that single place!...Did the Half Chaos Emerald just Out-Tardis the Tardis!?Chaos Halfsy!: 5Ok, I get what Gallagher was trying to do here. This is a Game Adaptation, a tie-in for Sonic Triple Trouble, and as such he needed to put those worlds onto the map, and yes, they'll probably never use them again after this, and they don't, and I understand this is for kids technically, but even still. There had to be a more sensible way of doing this then dropping a half of an emerald down and boom magical Tardis. There's just...Wait a minute...The next page, Atomic destroyer...Is that Robotnik? ...How the...But how is he...I...I...Oh, just show it.
And for the record, I'm adding creaing a temporal duplicate of somebody as an additional power from these half emeralds.Chaos Halfsy!: 6So after that little mess, Sonic races out of the realm's exit into what I can only assume is the core area of the Tardis in the form of a small chamber for the Chaos Emerald Half. Shutting down the...umm...What is he shutting down? Did they explain that anywhere? ...Anyways, he turns off...whatever he turned off, and gets the emerald, only to be blind sided by a backshot by what I can only guess is a giant stun gun, where held by the silhouette now in color. Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time in Archie comics, meet Nack the Weasel, the infamous gunslinging bounty hunting weasel, ...And he won't appear in much of anything I will be reviewing, but he will be appearing in plenty of issues and stories that Skye will be reviewing so keep an eye out.So Chapter 2 ends on that note as we enter chapter three with Nack contacting Eggman and reports his achievement to him, a dazed up Sonic tied up by a rock. He, of course, does the mercenary trick of wanting double for any extra demands, to which Robotnik accepts (and is most likely lying) as Nack grabs Sonic and heads for the other emerald half.Meanwhile, Knuckles is just waking up, apparently surviving his self-kabob, saved by three masked...dinosaurs?Actually not just any dinosaurs, these are the Ancient Walkers, a triad of immortal god-like dinosaurs that work as sort of a cross between guardians and watchers of Mobius, and they are the beings I refer to when I say the phrase "The Walkers wills it.". Personally I like them; their masks have a signature design you can immediately recognize, and they rarely ever talk, giving hints in some other ways for the people who seeks their advice. They're important in both Sonic and Knuckles' story lines, so expect to see them often in both my and Skye's reviews.Anyways, even so, it's probably not wise to have a pointy stick that could very easily be assumed to be a weapon to loom overhead psycho-style. But I guess the pointiness is needed to work like a pen. Gotta say, they're impressive artists. They managed to make colorful murals from just a single bowl of red paint.So according to the murals they gave Knuckles: The emerald that shot out and is currently digging through his island is heading for the chaos that's keeping the Island he lives on afloat via a magnetic attraction to it. But since it's an unstable half emerald waiting to go nuclear, if it hits touches the whole emerald, the energy imbalance will cause an explosion of nuclear proportions and blow the Island to kingdom come....Ok, So it's capable of a magnetic attraction with another Chaos Emeralds to a point where it can dig through solid stone...Chaos Halfsy!: 7...and once touching a whole emerald, can cause a giant explosion capable of annihilating an entire continent?Chaos Halfsy!: 8Now, ok, to be fair...It's possible the magnetic attraction part doesn't count. You could say that, since Tails stated in Sonic Adventures 2 that the Chaos Emeralds all share a magnetic attraction to each other, and that they can use that to find other emeralds, so the Emeralds DO already have that ability. ...I say, however, that I can guarantee that a Chaos emerald wouldn't be DRILLING THROUGH SOLID STONE to get to the other emeralds. I bet if Tails had a half emerald instead of a whole one in his hands at the time, it'll fly out of his hands, head to space, penetrate the space colony ARK and cause a power imbalance that blows the ARK to kingdom come and possibly take the planet with it!So Knuckles Panics that he needs to get back to the Island so that he can stop this from happening, and the Ancient Walkers reply by putting the paint to his nose to make him smell it. ...So that's why Boom Knuckles lost all his intelligence. It makes so much sense now! Also, apparently the Pterodactyl can change its size, since in one panel he's normal, and the next he's on other's mask beak.Anyways, the next thing Knuckles knows, he's back on his island in a forest, and just in time as Nack comes driving through with the other emerald half and Sonic in tow. Doing what Knuckles does best: Making assumptions, he does what he also does best as Nack heads his way: hides in the bushes for a surprise uppercut to the Weasel's face. Because if it can work on Super Sonic, it can work on anything.The Sky cycle lands in the ocean with Sonic in the trunk, waking up in his worse nightmare.Heading up to the surface and spotting Knuckles and an unconscious weasel, the two do what THEY do best: Make assumptions about each other and start yet another brawl. CUE THE FIGHT MUSIC!Uhh...Knux, Isn't there something more important you have to do? A certain half-cut god emerald to stop...it's still digging you know...no? You just want to fight with Sonic yet again? ...Alright, I'm sure the emerald can wait for you to settle your score with him for the upteenth ti-
So they continued to fight until Robotnik's impatient leads him to contact Nack and ask about the location of the other half, to which Knuckles and Sonic stopped fighting to try and puppet Nack into responding. After this, Knuckles apparently remembered that his island only has seconds before doomsday and the two head towards the Chaos chamber with the emerald in hand. They come with second to spare and throws the half emerald at the other half, automatically merging them into a whole emerald and gives a hammer to the laws of physics yet again.Chaos Halfsy!: 9(The couple of times whole emeralds did merge together, it was with special conditions being met, so it counts.)So as the emerald merges the two are teleported back to the surface with the emerald that caused this mess vanished from their hand. They of course start blaming each other but realize wuickly it wasn't cause of either of them. Sonic decides to head on home, by using the remote control switch on Nack's apparently waterproof sky-cycle, ties him up, and with the two still not trusting of each other, Sonic runs on home with the day saved.But wait, what happened to the emerald? Well, apparently the Ancient Walkers knew Chaos Control before anyone else, so they sent Sonic and Knuckles back to the surface, drew a circle in some sort of wasteland and summons the emerald to that circle. How did that worked? Why do they have the emerald now? What do they do with that emerald? Never explained. At least not to my memory. I'd guess it has something to do with the story arc of a certain main character, but I don't necessarily remember.And that was Triple Trouble...What can I even say about this? It's one of the most insane sonic comics I've seen thus far, and I've seen Sonic In Your Face....AND the Fleetway stuff!Now, to Gallagher's credit. Like I said, this is the 90s. Logic back then was still recovering from a labotomy it was given in the 80s and was replaced by its brother which became known as comic logic, but no one remembered to mention that he's a middle school drop out. So you can get away with this kind of insanity back then without much problem. Plus, I saw the story of the actual game, where Robotnik was trying to, guess what, BUILD AN EMERALD POWERED SUPER WEAPON and Knuckles was HELPING him do that, while Nack was just around in the neighborhood. So obviously things had to be changed and Nack and Knuckles had to be rearranged in terms of position. Plus, like I also said, you had to bring in 6 zones from a Game Gear game that probably will never be explored again.That said, something called Triple Trouble, should have three forces fighting against Sonic and Robotnik was the only one not doing crap. All he did was make this situation happen, call up Nack and ordered him around. He couldn't have at least sent a Badnik to assist or something? At least Knuckles and Sonic had their fight. Yeah it was for a dumb reason, but they had it.Overall, Not quite a terrible story, but one that could have been done a whole lot better.5/10------------------------Normally, I'd skip story two since it's a Tails one. ...BUT, since it's in the middle and it's short, I'll give a small review of it.Story 2: Submersible RehearsalIt's very much an average, but not bad solo comic with Tails. I still can't help but question Rotor making a submarine with a drill and active torpedoes. No, I don't care if it's without oil, (Which, by the way, sounds very hypocritical for these supposedly freedom fighting environmentalists. Let's stop Robotnik from polluting the air with his factories and machines by using oil-fueled machines of our own. Classy.) If you're going to treat him like a child, DON'T WEAPONIZE HIS PERSONAL SUBMARINE!Also, how the heck did he suck all the oil from the Seagull anyways? Must have been a pain. Anyways, he heads down, destroys a rebuilt underwater roboticizer, once again saving the day without anyone knowing it.Nothing special, but nothing that harmful either.6/10-----------------------Story 3: First ContactSo much for that vacation, eh Knux?The comic begins with him apparently saving the hide of Vector the Crocodile who...wow, he was really skinny back then huh...and stereotypical with his words, though a stereotype of what I leave up to you. But possible stereotype aside, one must wonder why a crocodile would be travelling anywhere near a freaking volcano in the first place.Anyways, after Knuckles saved his croc friend from getting a red-hot bubble bath, he apparently has...'dreadlock-smelling-sense' I guess, and hears a low sound coming from behind some bushes. The only thing being there is a rock with the word "Archimedes"."Archimedes? Sounds like a History Lesson" ~ KnucklesActually it's more like a Math lesson, since the name comes from a historical mathmatician of the same name.Anyways, confused by how quickly the one who etched the name on solid rock like that and disappearing without him knowing it, he decides to investigate. He first heads to a bird named Catweazle and asks if he saw anything, to which says no and Knuckles walks off. Bye Catweazle, looking forward to never seeing you again.As Knuckles thinks about it, he gets blasted by a bit of fire, to which he dodges. I told you it wasn't a good idea to have a volcano underneath the ground. No, actually it's one of the giant flamethrowing marbles from way back in Sonic #13. ...I can't help but wonder why one would be here since they don't exactly have arms to carry off the Chaos Emerald, and I'd assume Robotnik would have used his resources for other approaches. Maybe he just forgot about it, but if that's the case, why would it have activated now?"Well, I'm through being everyone's pigeon." ~ KnucklesSo Knuckles hides behind a rock and ponders about the situation. Since one of Robotnik's robots are here, it's easy to assume Robotnik himself is as well. As such he quickly disposes of the robot by...Throwing flaming mud at it?You know what? I think that just answered my question. Robotnik just didn't care and left it there. Clearly it must have been a malfunctioning defect if it can blow up because it got mud on it.So after that pathetic display on the marble's part, he walks to find Robotnik, only to find one of the lumberjacks from Sonic and Knuckles. Which leads me to once again ask: Why is it there? Did Robotnik have a shortage of wood to burn to power something now that his pollution device's chaos emerald is gone? As you might expect Knuckles makes quick work of that bot as well, rather easily I might add if a simple kick to the face made it blow up. It's no wonder now how Sonic always takes them down, their armor is apparently made of alluminum foil.One bad cut pun later, Knuckles is about ready to restart his search when suddenly he drops down below right into the Chaos Chamber. ...Uhh, isn't Knuckles supposed to know every last thing about the island's secret passages? Or did the one he's chasing actually make a giant hole that leads into the Chaos Chamber on his own? Either way, probably not a good idea to have a hole in the sealing of the most important room on the island.He then gets what I could only assume is a telepathic conversation with the person he's been chasing, assuming he's Robotnik and vowing to throw him off the island."First you think I'm some hedgehog, then a Mad Tyrant!" ~ ???Well, yeah, I'm sure you noticed by now, he might be smart but he's not too bright. Anyways, the person claims himself to be Archimedes, the name he imprinted on the rock for Knuckles to find. He claims that Knuckles is apparently having a lesson, part of which being this little game of hide and seek."Only when you can find me, will we know that you are capable of seeing the answer within the question." ~ Archimedes...So you want him to play Jeopardy then?"You are too quick to act, not one to reflect." ~ ArchimedesREALLY NOW? Is that right? Oh, this is rich, coming from the guy who would one day sever Archie from ever being able to 'reflect' on the past again, due to a rather spontaneous lawsuit on YOUR part.Now to his credit, this was said long ago, in the 90s. I'm sure that back then he never thought that this would ever happen like it did, and there was no way he could have known that this was going to happen. I understand that. Even so, I can't help but be amused by the sheer irony of those words; and don't even get me STARTED on the irony it creates for Sega themselves. Remind me again what Sonic Team was doing 8 years ago?
That's what I thought. ^_^ (For the record, I'm actually a fan of both Sonic Unleashed and Sonic and the Black Knight. This is purely satirical.)So Archimedes takes his leave, leaving Knuckles to echo in the Chaos Chamber as to how to find him, and our comic ends with Knuckles sitting by a cliffside talking with Vector, stating how he needs to solve the puzzle of Archimedes.This was, much like the last story of the last issue, not much to write home about. It continued what will be the start of Knuckle's solo story, but not much actually happened. It was a small chase to catch Archimedes which led to fighting two classic angel island bots, and the revelation that Archimedes was in fact the same person that Knuckles chased in Fire Drill. Catweazle I don't think ever appears again, and in fact Vector and Archimedes is the only other ones besides Knuckles that will. Still, it wasn't bad, just...average, nothing to really write home about.6/10------------------------------------------Which just about sums up this entire special. None of it is bad per se, ok, except for a few things in Triple Trouble, but besides that, it wasn't bad, just...average, just ok. As a Game Adaptation, I suppose it does the best it could, albeit by rushing through the stages, and it's not a bad first outing for Nack the Weasel's debut into Archie. But it could have been so much more though. Triple Trouble promises the idea that Sonic and Tails would have to fight against Knuckles, Nack, and Robotnik, and while Tails got his own solo story, Robotnik doesn't even do much of anything in this story whatsoever. All he does is cause the start of the story, hires Nack, and orders him around. That's it. Sonic and Robotnik don't even have an encounter with each other what so ever. I understand they couldn't use the actual story of the game, since that would make Knuckles look like an idiot, and kudos for choosing not to do that. But there's still could've been SO MUCH you could do with a concept like this, and with that in mind it just seems ultimately lazy.6/10Next Issue: Knuckles' Chaotix! -
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Definitely the first game, need it be the original Playstation Version or the Gamecube Remake, the Twin Snakes.
The Original game is the beginning of the plot (Yes, I know technically Snake Eater is the beginning, but It's still number 3 despite being a prequel.) and is a good introduction to the stealth mechanics of the series. Plus it has logs that details the stories of the two NES games before it.
Of the two, I personally recommend the Gamecube Remake. It has a very easy difficulty for beginners like yourself, and has the first-person mechanics introduced in Metal Gear Solid 2. So you can then play MGS2, knowing what to expect with the Mechanics. Plus the graphics are updated, the cutscenes are updated, and yet the story is literally the exact same, not a single line of dialogue changed between the Original and Remake. (Heck, I dare say they outright copied and pasted the voice and script data.)
After that, the rest I'd play in numerical order.