Skye Prower

Banned because: Noi: Pardon? Skye: Don;t worry about it Noi!

"Er,.... uh..." Zoe wanted the apparition to go but didn't want to be rude.   --------   "I do, it will be better for you," said Harmony.   --------   "Cool, let's go grab a drink," said Stacey.   ---------   "Yes you do!" smiled his mother.   --------   Anna turned the corner and saw Spark wandering ahead of her.  "Hey Spark, good morning!" she said.

Banned because: Noi: Okay! *magics up some pizza*

Banned because: Noi: So... uh... what now?

Banned because: Noi: *smiles* You're welcome Seviper.  Anything else you want me to do?

Banned because: Skye: Okay *puts Zangoose in cage* Noi: *casts spell to put a dress on Zangoose*

Banned because: Noi: Er... hard to make a dress for a Seviper, but okay?  Anything else?

Banned because: Skye: *claps* Well done Noi: What should we do with him?

Banned because: Skye: Uh, okay, good luck Seviper.  *drops force field*

Banned because: Noi: You sure about that Seviper?  You're...er... weaker right now

Banned because: Skye: Hmm, you'd need to ask... Noi: SKYE! Skye: *turns and tries to put a forcefield around Zangoose* 

Banned because: Skye: Well... you can evolve... maybe we could find a way to make you a poison type?   Noi: *walks over to Zangoose and picks up second spell book* Oh look on the bright side, I could have made you a girl Seviper or something!

Banned Because: Skye: Don't worry Seviper, we'll help you.  *turns and looks at Zangoose* Severs you right Noi: *giggles and finishes spell*

Banned because: Skye: Okay, I'll try Noi: *giggles and keep casting*

Comic Guide is updated to this current point in time, except for the FCBD 2015 issue as it is currently not uploaded on the site.

Banned because: Skye: Oh... Sorry Seviper... but.... *shining eyes* You're so cute!   Noi: *quietly starts casting a 'turn into Seviper' spell at Zangoose

Banned because: Skye: Sure Noodles, as long as I can hug him when I want!   (Who DOESN'T love eevees!)

Banned because: Skye: But... if he's an Eevee now... that means your feud is over, right?   Noi: *sees what's going on* *opens spellbook* Where was that Seviper spell again...?

Banned because: Skye: You call that payback?  You've just made him cuter!  *pets Seviper*

Special – Sonic In Your Face   We’ve reached the first Sonic money grab… er. I mean, Special Issue.  Let’s see what it has in store.   Story 1 – The Quest   We begin with Sonic and Sally training, though for some odd reason there seems to be a ‘fake out’ attempt to pretend that Sally is infact a bad guy for some uncertain reason.  But the training isn’t going well as Sally is badly distracted.  Hardly surprising as she’s still shocked that despite this being a kiddy’s comic book someone turned off God Mode last issue.  As Cubot commented in the last issue of Sonic Boom: “I thought we were a “comic” book.”  Same shock applies here.   And the shock of the lack of humour continues as Sally is called away to see everything that Julayla had left her.  Sally comments how amazing it is that someone could have so much… well she doesn’t say junk but it seems to be implied.  But that does raises a point, if everyone was evacuated to Knothole, how did Julayla get all this stuff here?  Hmm, maybe she lived in Knothole.  Okay story, I’ll let that one side if you create no more unanswered questions, alright?   While going through the belongings Sally finds a chest that Julayla was saving for Sally’s wedding day.  So Sally opens it there and then.  Take about a lack of patience!  Here is where Sally finds her vest.  A nice moment…. If not for the fact she was wearing one last issue.  Oh well!  There’s also a map, setting up the next part of the plot.   We skip ahead to night-time where Sally is sleeping and the orb is doing….. something… that somehow wakes Sally and draws her to it.  But the orb fades away revealing Nicole underneath, to a little understandable confusion to Sally, especially as Nicole seems to know her.  Cue everyone else arriving.  Now, it could be they all work up cause they… sensed.. whatever Nicole did to get Sally’s attention, but Rotor says it was because they heard voices, and they’re all dressed… so… were they having a late-night party without inviting Sally.   We do get a hint that Nicole does have more personality than your average smartphone when Sonic grabs and shakes her, only to get zapped in response.   Another timeskip follows to the next evening with Sally planning to go alone to follow the map she was given.  Only everyone else is waiting for her.  Somehow…  Did she tell everyone she was going away?  While it doesn’t say, it’s implied she didn’t mention it… so… yet ANOTHER unexplained event.  Things just happen in this story cause they need to, not because they make sense.  To say nothing about the fact what Sally is after is apparently ‘Oneness of the Soul’.  And a more psychobabble reward I can hardly imagine.   So the whole team of Freedom Fighters is going with Sally, except for Rotor who just flies them nearby.  The location is in somewhere called the Forbidden Zone, and for…. some reason, the group drops via parachute outside the Zone with SwatBot patrols in the way, rather than directly into the Zone.  Once again, for an unexplained reason.  My guess is this is just to pad out the story as we have a short scuffle with the Swat Bot before the Freedom Fighters escape into the Forbidden Zone and the Swat Bot don’t follow, convinced the Freedom Fighters will be destroyed.  Though the Forbidden Zone doesn’t seem that dangerous.   And in they go to a cave, and the ‘horrors’ within.  First up, a robot cyclops that tracks targets by motion, so the group stands still, it goes into standby, and they can sneak past.  Okay, leaving out the fact that having just one ‘eye’ on something that relies on tracking movement is inefficient, this make no sense.  If it goes into standby with no movement nearby, it must have been in standby BEFORE the Freedom Fighters showed up.  And if that was the case, the moment they started moving again, it should have woken up.  Now, there are explanations for this.  Maybe it was switched on by some other system in the cave when the Freedom Fighters entered, or maybe when it goes into standby the sensors don’t switch it back on until a few minutes have passed.  But, as with so many other points in the story, this is not explained at all.  So no points for you story, just another failure in trying to be clever.   Next up is a griffon.  A fire breathing one, because griffons are well known for their fiery breath.  Despite looking real turns out this one’s a machine, as when Tails pulls a sword from a nearby stone the Griffon crashes and Nicole says Tails ‘broke the circuit that granted the griffon its mobility’.  Er…. Isn’t… a mobility circuit one that would only work mounted ON the Griffon?  Maybe it flies via telemetry from a ground based computer like a remote control, and that was switched off.  But you’re not getting any favours from me now story.   Then we reach the final challenge.  Two doors…. And a two headed creature with one head that tells the truth and one that always li…. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdF_ibT4_jo (Sorry for the poor quality clip, this was the only I could find)   This riddle was clichéd when Doctor Who used it back in the 70’s!  The only reason it’s not the FOREWORD in the big book of riddles is because the Riddle of the Sphinx of more well known.     But even still, this encounter is flawed.  First, one head says ‘one question and only one’.  So, unless there IS no riddle here (cause two questions and you have your answer) that HAS to be the head telling the truth.  MAYBE that’s meant to be a hint, but with the quality of writing so far on display, I seriously doubt it.  And then, when Sally gives the answer (ask one head what the other would say, then do the opposite) the heads look surprised and confused at each other, DESPITE THIS BEING THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE.  Surely they MUST have known that, given the whole purpose of their existence is to guard those Darn doors!  And then head says Sally is ‘wise beyond her years’.  If it wasn’t for the fact it’s the same head that said ‘only one question’ I’d have sworn it was the lying head, cause I knew the answer to that riddle when I was eight, and I’m not that smart when it comes to riddles.  And even if you follow the theory that the early comics are the first few years of the Freedom Fighters, Sally should be at her youngest just coming up to being a teen.   Anyway, behind the right door is a massive chamber, a small chest and inside the chest another scroll.  Sally starts to read, then we have another timeskip, this time TWENTY YEARS to Sally reading the same scroll.  Trouble is, except for Rotor, no one looks older.  Well, Antione does, but he could be wearing a fake moustache and beard then he’d look the same.  And Bunnie is wearing no clothes whatsoever, aside from a text box.  Now from the way Mobins act, that seems the equivalent of wearing shorts and t-shirt, but still, at that age…   But the whole point of this scene is to show Nicole was made in the future by Rotor and sent back in time.  Which, given this future doesn’t match the others we’ve seen, makes Nicole’s existence rather tenuous.  But that sorta makes sense as a legacy of this story.  Nicole exists just cause, despite how the future changes, and it shall never be explained.  Oh, and we’re told she’s destined to die to.  Well that’s nice! *mutter mutter grumble way to spoil the tension mutter grumble*   And that scroll, the words that were so important: ‘To thine own self be true’.  Which sure, sounds fine, but not the sort of words to bring hope top a Freedom Fighter… and a motto that can be used by a selfish person to justify their depravity.  And it seems to have been a LOT of effort to set up this elaborate partway for a nursemaid to do for a simple scroll.   On the surface, The Quest is not a bad story, except for the two door riddle part, though that might be more YMMV.  However, as I’ve probably made clear, when you think about the story for a moment it all falls apart.  As a follow-up to the two early parts, it’s a disappointment, and has lost a lot of the ‘maturity’ that the pervious stories had.  Having said that, the tone of the story does mark the tone that most of the main series stories will have from now on.  The jokes and puns are dialled down, and more focus is on the events in the story.  More ‘kids adventure’ than ‘kids funny story’.   Story 2 – The Mirror Zone   A quick two page story of Sonic and Tails chasing a Swat Bot with a hidden message.  The only thing to make it stand out is the text is written backwards as it takes place in the titular Mirror Zone.  But at the end the two heroes recover the message and lament that they can’t read it cause its in code, despite the code just being it written backwards like the in story text was..  And… the message is quite frankly weird.   Story 3 – Tails’ Tallest Tale   As the title suggests this is a story about Tails, so I should love it right?  Er…. Nope.  After all, we start with Tails complimenting his logo, which is the blandest text ever after the Arial Font.    Into the story proper, Tails his on his way to speak to a Sonic Fan Club, and as he goes complains that he can’t fly through the forest because it is too thick.  So… why not fly ABOVE the darn trees?  As such Tails ends up slipping into a pool after being startled by a toad, serving him right for being so stupid.  But eventually he arrives at the convention, where he’s introduced to Posey, and seems to take a shine to her.  And then forced to make a speech, which he talks himself up by saying his falling into the pond cause of a toad was actually a battle against an overpowered Robotnik robot.   Needless to say, Robotnik shows up (in a more ridiculous than usual contraption) and after Tails speech everyone is convinced he can take on Robotnik single handed.  Tails ties, but distracted by the idea Posey is watching he gets his butt kicked.  But seeing Posey about to be squished by Robotnik, Tails leaps back into the fray, sinning round to make Robotnik dizzy and causing him to crash his vehicle.   As Robotnik flees the crowd cheers Tails and Posey gives him a kiss.  Tails says he need to tell her the truth about his speech earlier, and given we never see her again, I wonder if she took the truth badly.  Those, this is just the start in a lot of girls being possibly interested in Tails.  Kid’s gonna have an interesting teenage life.   It’s a story that has been told several times before.  Person makes false claim, then needs to prove said claim.  Sometimes is can be great (see Galaxy Quest) but here it’s just…well… ‘meh’.  And isn’t that an insightful description.   Overall   If it wasn’t for the fact The Quest introduces Nicole and is the culmination of two earlier stories I’d be tempted to say skip this Special.  The other stories don’t have much going for them

Banned because: Noi: What should I try? Skye: You need to take better care of your stuff Seviper

"Just not too much... except on their teenage birthdays," said his mother.   ----------   "Maybe that's enough for now," said Stacey.   ---------   "Would you two like some privacy?" asked the apparition.   -------   "Yeah, a small bite to eat," said Harmony.

Banned because: Noi: I could Skye: *Sigh and stares at Zangoose* Do I need to impale you again?

"Wow!  That was great!" said Stacey very impressed.   ----------   "Oh sure, it's no fun being a parent if you can't!" grinned Dominic's father.   ----------   "Thank you Dominic!" said Zoe, hugging the chameleon from behind.   ----------   "Are you sure.  We could easily get you a snack," said Harmony

Banned because: Noi: Hmmm, maybe.  But I do like me as I am.