#Ben Hunzeker

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Sonic Universe #23

Line Art: Tracy Yardley

Colors: Ben Hunzeker

#Sonic the Hedgehog #Archie Comics #Sonic Universe #Tracy Yardley #Ben Hunzeker #Cream the Rabbit #Shadow the Hedgehog #Cheese the Chao #cover

[onedegreeofsoniccomics]

Mega Man (2011) #4: Variant Cover

Cover Credits

Pencils: Jamal Peppers

Inks: Gary Martin

Colors: Ben Hunzeker

Editorial Team

Editor: Paul Kaminski

#Archie Comics #Mega Man #Archie Mega Man #Ice Man #Jamal Peppers #Gary Martin #Ben Hunzeker #Paul Kaminski #2011 #Archie Sonic Contributors #IDW Sonic Contributors

[sonicpanels]

Sonic X #1: "Savings and Groan"

Writer: Joe Edkin Pencils: Tim Smith III Inks: Rich Koslowski Colors: Ben Hunzeker Letters: Jeff Powell

Editor: Mike Pellerito Managing Editor: Victor Gorelick

#Sonic the Hedgehog #Archie Comics #Sonic X #Amy Rose #Miles Tails Prower #Cream the Rabbit #Joe Edkin #Tim Smith III #Rich Koslowski #Ben Hunzeker #Jeff Powell #Mike Pellerito #Victor Gorelick #2005

[robotnikholmescomicblog]

And now we’ve reached the last published arc of Sonic Universe, The Case of the Pirate Princess, a Chaotix-centric story about their investigation into the elusive Meripian princess we’ve kept seeing in the background! Interesting that both the first and last issues of the reboot’s Sonic Universe issues focus on swashbuckling pirates. xD At the time, I thought it was getting stale, but then again, I remember very little about this detective saga except for the basic premise...

I do remember we’ll see a lot of Princess Undina! I really appreciate her cute design.

#RHSB post #SU91 #That's probably the most serious we'll ever see Charmy and its just for a ''serious detective'' style cover xD #No wonder the cover gave me pre-reboot vibes..it was coloured by Ben Hunzeker! He did a lotta colouring back in the day! #Vector #Espio #Charmy #Echo #Tracy Yardley! #Archie comics

[jammerleeart]

*LOTR meme* After all, why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't I share this infamous piece of Sonic fandom history? Contrary to popular belief, this is not from an official comic. This is page number 15 of issue 2 of the fancomic Sonic Eggs, part of the greater Emerald Coast Comics, of which I was one of the various colorists involved. I forget who Sonic Eggs was written by and due to most of the site being gone I'm having difficulty finding it - I was to say it was nuckles87? Please correct me if I'm wrong. In any event, Sonic Eggs was meant to serve as a fan continuation of the Sonic X comic in much the same spirit as StC-O and ASO are for Sonic the Comic and Pre-Reboot Archie respectively. Also contrary to popular belief, that is not Shadow. It's one of his android clones who had a very different personality from the real Shadow. His name was Shades and he was a sensitive happy-go-lucky softie. Tracy Yardley was commissioned to pencil several of its pages with Ben Hunzeker commissioned as their colorist. Due to circumstances, Hunzeker was unable to complete all of Yardley's pages, and thus I was chosen for the privilege. This was actually one of two of Yardley's pages I was privileged to color. Little did I know the impact this page would end up having on the fandom. Please consider supporting me! ✦ Commissions ► https://jammerlee.carrd.co/#commissions ✦ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/jammerlee ✦ Ko-fi ► https://ko-fi.com/jammerlee

#Jammerlee's Personal #Jammerlee's Art #Sonic the Hedgehog #Sonic #StH #Sonic X #Fancomic #Sonic Eggs #Tracy Yardley #Collaboration #Shadow the Hedgehog #Rouge the Bat #Cream the Rabbit #Knuckles the Echidna

[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Sonic X #12

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Sonic X #12

“Can’t he just send flowers?” Sonic X #12 Archie Comics (November, 2006) “Attack From Area 99!” WRITER: Joe Edkin PENCILER: Tim Smith 3 INKER: Jim Amash COLORIST: Ben Hunzeker LETTERER: John Workman COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante EDITOR: Mike Pellerito (more…)

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#Archie Comics #Miles "Tails" Prower #Sonic the Hedgehog #Sonic X

[mobius-prime]

229. Sonic the Hedgehog #161

Eugh, I'm really not a fan of that weird… eye thing going on up there. For whatever reason Spaz did that on a couple subsequent cover pages as well, and it just looks… bizarre. Like, they have actual eyelids for a reason, man! Use 'em!

Birthday Bash! (Part Two): Birthday Boys

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Tracy Yardley! Colors: Jason Jensen

So right off the bat, we're hit with some classic Ian Flynn humor (which we'll be seeing a lot more of) as well as his acknowledgement that, yes, Croctobot is pretty ridiculous.

Tails ends up having to drag a hysterical Sonic out of harm's way as Croctobot swipes at them, while Fiona watches the battle, impressed at Sonic's fighting skills once he's gotten his act together. Bark and Bean casually leave the scene while everyone is occupied, and Bean happily invites Fiona along to "have some fun like the old days." She hesitates and insists she can't, as she's a Freedom Fighter now, but Bean seems unconvinced and just tells her to say hi to Nic if she runs into her again. Meanwhile in the Chaos Chamber, Rouge seems pleased with Evil Sonic's new transformation into Scourge, but Locke strangely doesn't seem as into it, charging forward to attack once again. The newly-powered-up Scourge proceeds to savagely beat him into unconsciousness, which alarms Rouge greatly.

So, yeah. Just to establish what kind of person we're dealing with here - someone who will kill an unconscious guy just doing his job for fun. Immediately makes Scourge seem like a much bigger threat than he's been in the past, don't it? Scourge uses the Master Emerald to teleport himself and Rouge to Knothole immediately, as he wants to test out his newfound strength against Sonic himself, and shows up right at the tail end of the Freedom Fighters' fight against Croctobot. He smugly introduces his new self, explaining that he's done being merely an evil twin, and Sonic isn't too happy to hear he stole the Master Emerald's power and beat up Locke for it. However, Croctobot becomes infuriated at being ignored, and grabs both of them as well as Shadow, claiming it still has some fight left in it.

Well, that's what you get for being arrogant, Croctobot. Scourge immediately lands a cheap shot on Sonic as he's celebrating their victory, and they begin to race at top speed around the outskirts of Knothole, knocking into each other along the way like pinballs while everyone watches. Scourge ultimately wins the scuffle, knocking Sonic into the dirt, but Shadow interrupts, wanting to ask Scourge something (presumably, why he's such a jackass).

Grave mistake indeed, Scourge. You really don't want to antagonize Shadow of all people. He and Shadow start to fight as well in a similar manner (remember, Shadow is almost as fast as Sonic), and this time it actually wears Scourge out a bit, leaving him open to being knocked down by a combined blow from both Sonic and Shadow.  The rest of the Freedom fighters, deciding they've stood by and watched long enough, all run in to help, targeting the nearby Rouge as well. Rouge doesn't like being caught up in a fight, nor did she particularly want to come here in the first place, so she immediately orders Scourge to retreat with her. She tells him to teleport them back to Angel Island as they race away with Shadow in hot pursuit, but he reminds her he needs an emerald to do that. However, a magical golden ring portal appears out of nowhere in front of them, and Rouge tells him not to question it, leading them inside the ring, which disappears just before a furious Shadow can get to it. Back outside the old base, everyone apologizes to Sonic for his birthday being ruined, but Sonic is completely unconcerned, telling Rotor that his plans for the base to act as a separate target to draw away from the innocents of Knothole worked like a charm, and that he's hardly upset about getting to fight some baddies on his birthday. As everyone cheers up due to his pep talk, Scourge and Rouge come out of the ring portal into a mysterious location…

Well well, Dr. Finitevus! How interesting to see you again, considering you were supposed to have died during the last battle on Angel Island! I suspect there's more to you than meets the eye…

Sonic Rush (Part Two of Two)

Writer/Pencils: Tania Del Rio Colors: Ben Hunzeker

So remember how Blaze has been having these weird dreams about Sonic helping her protect the Sol Emeralds? Yeah, apparently all that's gone out the window now, because she immediately starts attacking Sonic while he's on the ground. He dodges, and they begin to fight, with Sonic wondering briefly if she's one of Eggman's minions before deciding she's too skilled a fighter for that (burn, Eggman!). He tries to carry the fight into a more open area where he can use his speed, and Blaze follows him, flaring up her flames even more. Seriously, Blaze, why are you even attacking him?! He didn't do anything to you!

Well, serves you right for being so reactionary. Sonic stops as soon as Blaze starts to pass out from being unable to breathe, and offers her a hand, as well as a truce to at least learn each others' names. She introduces herself, and then reveals how she's been looking for him, which obviously surprises him seeing as how she was trying to burn him alive not ten seconds ago. She slyly promises to "haunt your dreams the way you have haunted mine," before immediately teleporting away (…somehow) in a flash of flame. Blaze, are you… are you coming onto him?

And… that's where that situation ends! That's all we get. This is what I was saying about not finishing adaptions - the biggest problem with Sonic Adventure 2 was that they only showed the beginning of the story and didn't bother to tell us how it all played out, something which ended up leaving a bizarre gap in the story due to how different the situations were between the games and the comics universes. This is much of the same, with the added problem that this hardly even counts as an adaption. Blaze actually doesn't even properly meet Sonic until quite a ways into the Sonic Rush game, and certainly wasn't having dreams about him helping her save the Sol Emeralds, so we have no real inkling as to how the rest of this story even goes. Because of that, you might be tempted to assume it's noncanon, but not so! Future stories in the comics assume that both Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure (where Sonic and Tails end up in Blaze's dimension) happened at some point within the larger plot, as events relating to both of them are mentioned and built upon later on. This is one of my biggest criticisms of Ian, as this isn't even the last time he pulls this - yes, I'm aware that this story wasn't written by Ian, but considering he's the head writer it's a bit negligent of him to let this slip by more than once, when he could have made a point of writing actual conclusions to these stories. Honestly, I think his reason for doing it was to bring more characters and plot threads from the games into the comics, since it means more toys to play with after all, but I find the implementation to be lazy, since it doesn't actually bother to give us an ending to any of said plot threads. At the very least, I can appreciate the want to bring the world of the comics a little more in line with that of the games, given how far they had started to stray from what was going on in the games world at the time. Luckily, Ian did eventually get a clue and stop doing this, although I suppose to a degree he had to, given how the plotlines of subsequent games just started getting bigger and more dramatic - it's hard to have a story about the world splitting into seven pieces and Sonic turning into a werehog happen offscreen.

This issue ends with a couple of character files - hey, haven't had those in a while! - on Scourge and Finitevus. The one about Scourge doesn't really tell us anything we didn't know - it simply recaps his change in appearance, turning green from the Master Emerald's energies and gaining two large scars on his chest courtesy of Locke. Interestingly, it does imply that Scourge really is a "twin" of Sonic's instead of being the direct inverse, sharing his arrogance but lacking the "moral restraint" that keeps Sonic honest. It also covers some of his abilities, such as the spin dash and super transformation, but given that he's, well, an alternate version of Sonic most of these abilities are things we already know. As for Finitevus, it gives us a bit of a clue into just how weird this guy is - suffice to say, he's not a normal echidna. For one, the patterning on his chest is noted to be the "birthmark of a Guardian in black," rather than a normal set of fur markings, yet there's no place in the genetic line for a rogue Guardian (that we know of). Furthermore, no one really knows the extent of his abilities, with them being noted only as being "some magical or science based powers." It's clear there's a lot more to him than we yet know, not to mention that he seems to have some serious plans going forward and is recruiting shady characters to the cause…

#nala reads archie sonic preboot #archie sonic #archie sonic preboot #sonic the hedgehog #sth 161 #writer: ian flynn #writer: tania del rio #pencils: tracy yardley #pencils: tania del rio #colors: jason jensen #colors: ben hunzeker

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SONIC UNIVERSE #94

Script: Aleah Baker & Ian Flynn Art: Adam Bryce Thomas, Jim Amash, Matt Herms, Jack Morelli Cover: Tracy Yardley, Jim Amash, Ben Hunzeker Variant Cover: Tracy Yardley, Steve Downer On Sale Date: 1/11 32-page, full color comic $3.99 U.S.

The PIRATE PLUNDERING reaches its peak in “Case of the Pirate Princess” Finale: The Chaotix Detective Agency’s deep cover in the pirates’ ranks may be too deep to escape!  In the heart of a long-lost temple, Cpt. Shellbreaker stands poised to find an ancient power.  Can the Chaotix finally rescue Princess Undina?  Can they rescue themselves?  Or will the Chaotix turning pirates be their saving grace?  It all comes to a head in this frantic finale! Featuring cover art and an “Excitement Under the Sea” variant by Mr. Sonic comics, Tracy Yardley!

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Sonic Universe #94 preview. The pirate plundering reaches its peak #comics #sonic SONIC UNIVERSE #94 Script: Aleah Baker & Ian Flynn Art: Adam Bryce Thomas, Jim Amash, Matt Herms, Jack Morelli…

#adam bryce thomas #aleah baker #ben hunzeker #comic books #Comics #ian flynn #jack morelli #jim amash #matt herms #sonic universe #steve downer #tracy yardley

[thankskenpenders]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how nice this shot looks? I’m so happy to finally be covering Tracy Yardley comics for this blog, y’all. And the colors from Ben Hunzeker are really appealing, too! The subtle blue tint gives this a nice vibe and helps draw the eye towards the colorful main characters

#SX 5 #tkp post

[catevox]

林英哲 ／ 海の豊饒（和太鼓アンサンブル）　　Eitetsu Hayashi // Fertility of the Sea (Taiko)for cassandra signet and ben hunzeker

[mercy-angel-09]

This was, obviously, written before The Force Awakens came out.

Lance Charles McClain wishes he were Han Solo. Allura’s not buying it.

(Not that she knows what Star Wars is...but I digress.)

From Devil’s Due Publishing’s Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Issue 4. Printed in April 2004. Story by Dan Jolley with Marie Croall, pencils by E.J. Su and Clint Hilinski, coloring by Ben Hunzeker, and inks by Clayton Brown.

#Voltron: Defender of the Universe #Devil's Due Publishing #Lance McClain #Princess Allura #oh Lance #some things never change #alas this moment is ruined by Lotor #and then Keith has no chill #because Keith Akira Kogane has exactly two settings #1) all the chill in the world and 2) absolutely zero fucking chill #Lotor brings out the latter #also my 22k post! yay!

[soniccovers]

Sonic Universe #24

Pencils: Tracy Yardley

Inks: Jim Amash

Colors: Ben Hunzeker

#Sonic the Hedgehog #Archie Comics #Sonic Universe #Tracy Yardley #Jim Amash #Ben Hunzeker #Blaze the Cat #Shadow the Hedgehog #Cream the Rabbit #E 123 Omega #Cheese the Chao #Jet the Hawk #Bean the Dynamite #Bark the Polar Bear #Storm the Albatross #Amy Rose #Fang the Sniper #Nack the Weasel #Wave the Swallow #Rouge the Bat #cover

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

It’s a Sonic battle in a championship of fighters! Shady media mogul Breezie has gotten her hands on a Chaos Emerald Sonic needs to save the world. The only way he can get it is to fight in her televised battle royale against friends and foes alike! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG VOL. 5: CHAMPIONS collects SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #268-271. Script: Ian Flynn.

Art: Diana Skelly, Ryan Jampole, Terry Austin, Gabriel Cassata & John

Workman

Cover: Evan Stanley, Terry Austin & Ben Hunzeker

978-1-68255-892-4

$12.99/$14.99CAN

TR

120 pp, Full Color

Direct Market On-Sale Date: 4/5

#archie sonic #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #amy rose #espio the chameleon #nack the weasel #bean the dynamite #bark the polar bear #honey the cat #sonic news

[jammerleeart]

*LOTR meme* After all, why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't I share this infamous piece of Sonic fandom history? Contrary to popular belief, this is not from an official comic. This is page number 14 of issue 2 of the fancomic Sonic Eggs, part of the greater Emerald Coast Comics, of which I was one of the various colorists involved. I forget who Sonic Eggs was written by and due to most of the site being gone I'm having difficulty finding it - I was to say it was nuckles87? Please correct me if I'm wrong. In any event, Sonic Eggs was meant to serve as a fan continuation of the Sonic X comic in much the same spirit as StC-O and ASO are for Sonic the Comic and Pre-Reboot Archie respectively. Tracy Yardley was commissioned to pencil several of its pages with Ben Hunzeker commissioned as their colorist. Due to circumstances, Hunzeker was unable to complete all of Yardley's pages, and thus I was chosen for the privilege. This was actually one of two of Yardley's pages I was privileged to color. Little did I know the impact these pages would end up having on the fandom. Please consider supporting me! ✦ Commissions ► https://jammerlee.carrd.co/#commissions ✦ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/jammerlee ✦ Ko-fi ► https://ko-fi.com/jammerlee

#Jammerlee's Personal #Jammerlee's Art #Sonic the Hedgehog #Sonic #StH #Sonic X #Tails the Fox #Miles Tails Prower #Chris Thorndyke #Chuck Thorndyke #Fancomic #Collaboration #Digital Art #Photoshop #Sonic Eggs

[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Sonic X #6

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Sonic X #6

“And I thought the ball pit was bad. I’m actually missing the pool!” Sonic X #6 Archie Comics Publications (May, 2006) “I Never Promised You A Chao Garden” part 2 WRITER/LETTERER: Joe Edkin PENCILER: Tracy Yardley INKER: Andrew Pepoy COLORIST: Ben Hunzeker COVER ART: Pat “Spaz” Spaziante EDITOR: Mike Pellerito MANAGING EDITOR: Victor Gorlick (more…)

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#Archie Comics #Cheese the Chao #Cream the Rabbit #Doctor Eggman #Knuckles the Echidna #Sonic the Hedgehog #Sonic X #Tikal

[mobius-prime]

228. Sonic the Hedgehog #160

Birthday Bash! (Part One): Giving and Receiving

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Tracy Yardley! Colors: Jason Jensen

Welcome to the beginning of Ian Flynn's reign, everyone! As many of you will know, Ian is a fan favorite amongst readers of the comics, and for good reason. Objectively, I'd say he has a much better sense than any previous writer of how to construct dynamic and interesting stories, as well as a great head for writing dialogue. Every character has their own unique voice when speaking, and as someone who takes a particular interest in dialogue in her own writing, it's something I admire a lot, especially given how stilted and unnaturally formal a lot of dialogue by Karl and especially Kenders often sounded, regardless of who was speaking. That said, I think that it took a good year or so for him to fully come into his own as head writer for the series, so some earlier issues are a bit strange and not up to par with a lot of his later work. Some of this, to be fair, is due to him essentially playing clean-up for this first year, untangling a lot of the bizarre leftover plot threads that Karl and Kenders left behind, and generally trying to make the world of the comics conform a little better to that of the games. All that aside, anyone reading the comics will likely notice an immediate and apparent improvement in the overall quality of the work starting with this issue. This is helped along, in addition, by none other than the very talented artist Tracy Yardley! who always (well, almost always) introduces himself in the story credits with an exclamation mark. It's kind of his calling card. Tracy took a while to really improve his art as well, so while his earliest issues sometimes have some strange proportions and poses, later on his style became easily one of the most visually attractive and recognizable ones in the series, simplifying a lot of the inconsistencies that many character designs had as well as doing away with the strange pseudo-human proportions that some artists tended to favor, particularly with the female characters. All this said, I will say that Ian isn't going to be immune to my criticism, as while I do recognize his skill as a writer and the good things he brought to the table, there are definitely some problems I have with the way he handled certain things. We'll cross those bridges when we come to them, however, so for now, let's dive into the new world he's creating and see how he does!

Elias and Sonic are walking on the outskirts of Knothole as Elias explains why his father approved the Metal Sonic troopers from last issue. We don't even really get to hear the explanation, but to be fair, we hardly need one, as the idea was so insane to begin with that the only true explanation is that Kenders needed a plot device. Sonic tries to make Elias promise that "you royals" won't hit him with any more weird surprises, and Elias says they only have one more, leading him to a building next to where the Great Oak Slide into the village ends.

I mean, canonically he's supposed to be turning seventeen here, even though realistically he should be turning eighteen, because remember, for him to have turned sixteen in StH#68, had the Robians be deroboticized in early June in StH#123, and still have managed to spend close to a year in space before turning seventeen, literally everything in between the two aforementioned issues would have had to take place in the span of a few weeks - yes, that's counting the month-and-a-half time span that Sonic was confined to Knothole, as well as major events like Eggman's return and the entire Green Knuckles saga. You can see why this huge discrepancy still bothers me, right? Hmph. Anyway, no sooner has the party begun than an explosion destroys the door, and two new players enter the scene - Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear from Sonic the Fighters! Nack's been part of the comic for long enough now, so it's cool to see these two make their first appearance. Bark is totally silent - as far as I remember, he never says a single word during the entirety of the comic - but Bean, in the absence of an obvious personality to draw from in the game, has subsequently been given the personality trait of "criminally insane" in the comics.. He's erratic, he talks to himself, he cracks jokes where jokes really shouldn't be cracked, and most importantly of all, he loves his goddamn bombs. Bean starts chucking said bombs left and right at the various Freedom Fighters in the base, while Sonic tangles with Bark. He seems to think these guys are only after him due to something Evil Sonic did in his place, something which he has by now apparently finally explained to all the women of Knothole, and manages to break away from Bark to stop Bean's bombing spree by pinning him to a wall and asking about Evil Sonic. However, Bean happily insists there's been no mistake and he wasn't even aware of Sonic having an evil twin, nor does he particularly care. Oh, speaking of Evil Sonic…

Huh, it seems that Evil Sonic has actually explained his true identity to Rouge in between their previous failed attempt and now. I'm surprised she hasn't outright abandoned him by now due to Rouge not exactly being evil-aligned to begin with, but I guess the pull of the shiny is just too strong for her to resist. And as it turns out, Bean suffers from a similar insatiable need! Fiona pulls out a ring of keys and shakes them around, completely distracting Bean from his current activity of bashing Sonic's head in, and throws them out the hole he made in the wall, prompting him to immediately abandon everything to chase after them. Fiona then advances on Bark, who by now has gotten himself cornered by every Freedom Fighter in the room, and convinces him to stand down as he's outnumbered. Outside, Bean plays with the keys and talks to them, seemingly convinced that they're a beautiful woman with an "adorable accent" who wants his number, when a suspiciously-Shadow-shaped shadow converges on him, prompting him to try to invite him into smashing Sonic as well. Good luck there, buddy, I don't think Shadow usually runs with crazy…

Geez, Sally, cut Fiona some slack. Not everyone had a squeaky-clean record - hell, just look at Shadow! Back in the Chaos Chamber, Rouge and Evil Sonic begin to battle Locke, who tosses Evil Sonic to the side as he perceives Rouge to be the bigger threat. However, that turns out to be a bit of a bad idea, as with Rouge tied up in the fight, Evil Sonic takes his chance to go after the Master Emerald without her, obviously recognizing it as more than just a shiny trinket.

Back in Knothole, Shadow explains that he's only here to thank Sonic for saving Hope, as he knows he wouldn't have been able to do it on his own, and reminds him that as soon as he leaves this building they're back to being enemies, as Shadow's still aligned with Eggman for now. Sonic, to his credit, seems to recognize that Shadow is only allied with Eggman because he doesn't yet know better, and cheerfully invites him to come back here whenever he cuts out on that deal in the future. It's at this point that everyone realizes Bean has quietly snuck into the brain trust's comms room to casually let Eggman know that he and Bark failed to take Sonic down, and when Fiona ushers him back out of the room, Eggman is only too happy to let Sonic know personally that he wishes him a happy birthday and he's sending him a new, more metallic present. Within seconds a thud outside alerts them to the arrival of this present, and everyone rushes out to see a strange figure emerging from an egg pod - a figure which resolves itself into the combined forms of Crocbot and Octobot, now merged into the singular entity of… Croctobot! (Don't worry, Ian knows just how silly this is and even acknowledges it next issue.) But what of Evil Sonic and Rouge? How is their fight faring against Locke after the former got knocked aside? Well, Evil Sonic takes his chance to dramatically emerge from behind the emerald as the other two get ready to continue their fight…

Plot twist! How many people actually didn't know by now that Evil Sonic and Scourge were the same person? I'm guessing there had to be at least a few of you. You can actually already see Ian's new plans being put into action - it's very telling of his intentions when the very first issue he ever pens immediately makes a point of distinguishing a rather tired and boring character into a new and improved version of himself, with a unique name and new, visually distinct look. Apparently Kenders, who if you recall is the original creator of Evil Sonic, never liked this and continued to insist on referring to him as Evil Sonic, but screw that, Scourge is a much more interesting character and this was a change that sorely needed to be made.

Sonic Rush (Part One of Two)

Writer/Pencils: Tania Del Rio Colors: Ben Hunzeker

So unfortunately, Sonic Adventure 2 isn't the only case in the preboot of a partial adaption of a game being included without any actual ending. Sonic Rush, the game, introduces Blaze, a cat from an alternate dimension that is controlled by the Sol Emeralds rather than the Chaos Emeralds, and most of the plot revolves around the Sol Emeralds ending up in Sonic's dimension and her trying to recollect them to bring back to her own world. However, things are a bit different in the comics universe. In this story, Blaze comes to Sonic's dimension because, apparently, she's been having nonstop dreams about him, dreams which show her visions of Eggman threatening the Sol Emeralds and Sonic helping her protect them. She's frustrated that she would have to rely on anyone else to help her protect the emeralds at all, believing them to be her sole responsibility, but nonetheless she's tracked Sonic to Knothole. However, while deliberating her next move, a squad of swatbots - yes, ordinary ones, it's been a while since we've seen them rather than shadow-bots - happen upon her and decide that they should take her in for interrogation.

Yeah, I guess Blaze doesn't understand the dangers present in this universe yet, does she? An hour or so later, Rotor sends for Sonic, informing him that they caught the aftermath of Blaze's capture on their video surveillance. Neither of them know who she is, but they decide she can't be from their village, since she left several disabled swatbots behind, while most people in Knothole are noncombatants and those that aren't are accounted for elsewhere. Sonic rushes out to find their trail and tracks them to a nearby facility set up amidst the trees, and while he begins fighting his way in, the scientific robots in the building go about studying their new specimen.

Sorry, but why the hell would Eggman be looking to add some random Mobian to his team? He only likes robots anyway, and tends to either betray or enslave every living being that comes to him. Blaze suddenly awakens and becomes furious - not that she's been captured, mind you, but that they took off her coat while studying her. She must be really goddamn attached to her coat, because she starts absolutely trashing the place, exploding into flames and screaming so loudly that Sonic becomes genuinely worried about her wellbeing, rushing to where he last heard her. The door of the lab she's in is completely blasted off its hinges by the force of Blaze's explosions, but thankfully after this she seems to have found her coat, because the blasts subside and she appears in the doorway wearing it once again, staring down at an utterly shocked Sonic with a look of fiery fury (the literal flames coating her entire body probably help with the "fiery" bit). Uh… good luck dealing with that, buddy boy!

#nala reads archie sonic preboot #archie sonic #archie sonic preboot #writer: ian flynn #writer: tania del rio #pencils: tracy yardley #pencils: tania del rio #colors: jason jensen #colors: ben hunzeker