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00:00Sonic the Continuation Issue 22. After recap, for some reason, Ruge's sister says now we have reinforcements, even though Sally doesn't have any special powers, and the former gun commander says he's skeptical, but he's not written to make the good argument that I did to sound intelligent.
00:19Ruge's sister reminds him that Brutus tricked him, which is a bit satisfying. It'd be nice if she got more personality to her, so that I'd feel like calling her by something other than Ruge's sister, because that's all the importance and appeal she has.
00:35It's rude but cool that Shortfuse calls her a rookie for being amazed that she's in space, since he went to a place up in space too. Though he doesn't explain that, and instead things move on because everyone's too polite to call him out on this apparently unprovoked rudeness.
00:53After boring pointlessness, like stating the obvious, it's explained that Topaz is on the Ark because the ex-commander had the passcode.
01:03It answers a question I wasn't asking about why a gun agent is on the Ark. It's nice that the writer cared enough to do that, but I took it for granted that she was competent enough to get up there.
01:15I can't wait for something to happen! After his boring dialogue, Sally gets to call him out on locking up her and Amy. He's at least polite enough to ask Miss Acorn, was it?
01:28And while it's annoying to see him deflect, he might be correct that they don't have time to argue with each other, and even if he isn't, which I believe, as this comic didn't even establish that they have a super short time limit, they still shouldn't be wasting time on this.
01:43It looks like the writer's aware that he's right, which is a pleasant surprise in mature writing, acknowledging that Sally can still make mistakes, and that even a jerk can be right and wise.
01:54Sally gets to remind him that she hasn't forgotten why she's here and call him scumbag. It's something that no version of Sally would say, but it's meant to be cool, which is part of the series' appeal.
02:06And this is post-character development, and not Archie and Sadie, I'm Sally, so it was justified.
02:14Tikal wastes time repeating what he basically said, and Rouge's sister agrees with her.
02:19Topaz shows them a map of the prison, and as I start hearing the strategy music from SC2 in my head, she tells Rouge to sabotage the alarm system and her sister to wreck the cameras and refuse to kill robots.
02:33It's cool that he says he likes this plan. It's so refreshing to see a group of heroes on the Ark make a plan that aren't consisting of the same people from the games.
02:42And it's a different plan entirely. This justifies reusing the elements from the game. It's more believable than the characters having a fake chaos emerald.
02:52I'd also prefer the Ark not be called the Ark at all. I'd rather get as new an experience as possible for a new story.
03:01Topaz says that the humans will sabotage their robot production line with Sharpies clearing the way.
03:07I hate that she calls a former commander Victor, because after all this time I forgot that I wasn't called Abraham like an Archie.
03:15And there's nothing that makes his different name better or memorable.
03:19Sally gets relatable again in a different way by looking nervous, but reassuring herself that she can do this.
03:25Tikal compassionately asks if she's okay, and eventually complains that she felt terrible having to leave all those people behind when she escaped,
03:33which reminds her of her leaving her people behind in the past, because again, she's compassionate.
03:39With so many sympathetic moments and nothing abysmal, it's no wonder I'm emotionally attached to and invested in these main characters of a recent Sonic comic.
03:48Eventually, after at first not seeing people in the cells, they right away see Cosmo and Moraine, who really isn't drawn to look enough like she is in SCC,
03:57so I wouldn't have known it was her without being told.
04:00She does some vague complaining about them taking too long to get here, and chants up saying the prisoners were taken for experiments and is vague about what happened to them afterwards to say they were too late.
04:11That's depressing. But so are animals being put in badniks. This pays respect to how competent and scary he is.
04:19Eggman gets warned that several of his boring-looking robots were killed, and Eggman's smart enough to have anticipated this,
04:26and then looks dumb by saying to place the colony's security on hold and leave them to him.
04:32While if he enjoys it and doesn't backfire in the long term, it won't be dumb, but he's taking an unnecessary risk.
04:40I'm glad he's asked if that's wise or not. And he is supposed to be egotistical, so it is in character.
04:47And Rouge ends up seeing what fortunately mostly looked like normal people working for Eggman, but with green corneas and eyes,
04:55which is off-putting, but not nearly as off-putting and more creative than the black and red eyes of the Robians.
05:02The eyes are a different color, so it can be shocking all over again, getting the same feeling as they did in Sadie M,
05:09which I appreciate as someone who wasn't around when it premiered.
05:13And it's more shocking because it's not a cliché, scary color scheme that's just what you'd expect Eggman to go for with his robots,
05:21and was used by Metal Sonic later.
05:25It's self-evident that Eggman brainwashing people into working for him is bad partly because of what that work entails,
05:31like making robots that hurt and kill people.
05:35But since most of the time we never see them do that since kids' series,
05:39it was necessary to make this as scary as possible for the cynical, jaded adults
05:43who normally take what Eggman's side does with a grain of salt for that reason.
05:47This elevates Eggman to the same level of threat as Sadie and Robotnik.
05:51It makes it less of a Fleetway comic and more of an American one,
05:55but most of the fans are from North America,
05:58and it's just one element so far that feels like a logical result of Eggman's competence in-universe.
06:04What matters is that it's a major, threatening, competent thing,
06:08and that's supposed to be the case with a main villain.
06:11I'm gonna assume when Rouge asks what has he done to them, she's just using a rhetorical question.
06:18Because it's already obvious.
06:20Somehow Rouge is dumb enough to waste her time asking Robyn if she can hear her
06:25when it was obvious what was going on.
06:28Then Eggman wastes a bunch of time stating the obvious to break.
06:32He's facing Rouge with a mecha.
06:34I'm not sure that's ever happened before, actually.
06:37It's good that Rouge stands up to Robotnik, but he should've just said the last sentence in that first panel,
06:43since it's all long-winded recapping.
06:46After a lot of dull dialogue, Victor wants bombs put here
06:50because he somehow assumes that people like him being kidnapped could never be turned back to normal.
06:56After all the crazy technology that was made in this world.
06:59It feels right that this was written because people want to have forgiven him for how dumb he's been in the past,
07:04so why not make him a villain again?
07:07He hasn't been doing anything good since anyways.
07:10He's called out, and the other heroes refuse to humor a guy who shouldn't have expected his order to be followed since he's got no authority.
07:17After two panels, it's shocking and revealed that even Tails was sort of legionized, which is gutsy,
07:24but it already gives away that there's going to be a way to reverse this that'll come about much faster than you'd expect,
07:30since he's such a popular character that it'd be madness to keep him that way for very long,
07:35purely because he's got popularity for reminding people of a different version of him.
07:40Eventually, Eggman tells Shadow to be useful to him,
07:43and the fact that he's reluctant makes it hard to believe that he would agree to it.
07:47He wants to destroy everyone. Why would he ever care what's happening to them?
07:52Short Fears then reminds me of my least favorite story in Fleetway by insisting that while Sonic could never bring himself to kill Eggman,
08:00not me.
08:02And somehow Eggman doesn't remind him that in that story Short Fears said he wasn't going to kill him,
08:08which is what ruined that story.
08:10Shadow attacks him, and the spike ball tail connected segments mecha hits him,
08:16and that surprisingly breaks his armor open.
08:19Why was his replacement armor not invincible?
08:22That seems like the warp effect.
08:25The original armor got buried underground, but Techno had a way to dig underground in one story with a machine.
08:31Why couldn't she have used it to get the armor back?
08:34I'm just like, if the scene's not going to be written as if the actual Short Fears was in it,
08:39don't have him be in it at all.
08:41He could have been distracted somewhere else.
08:43And Shadow makes some red fire, which I guess is just a reference to the movie.
08:48It hasn't been established concretely that Shadow's got ungodly super strength that could break Megaton.
08:55I know he can lift a car in the game, but it's not like he could lift a mountain, as far as we know.
09:02A laser misses Shadow's head that's been shot by Victor, and Shadow recognizes him.
09:08Eventually, Shadow reveals shockingly that Maria died because of Victor, who blames Shadow entirely for it like a jerk,
09:16saying that only happened because she had to be kept with her own kind.
09:20No one likes the gun commander anyway, so there's nothing wrong with this creative change.
09:26If anything, it feels even more fitting and emotionally impactful than in the Shadow game,
09:30because he was one of the major villains of it.
09:33In the game, it feels wrong that you were expected to sympathize with and forgive this unlikable villain
09:38because of an unpredictable part of his past that didn't seem to have always been the case.
09:43Why would Dr. Eggman say excuse me?
09:48Eventually, Topaz throws a bag full of the 06 bombs that Rouge somehow had enough popularity and gun as a thief to have designed to look like her,
09:57when they just hired her, and they still wouldn't like her, and I can't think of a family-friendly excuse for why that is.
10:04Anyway, Topaz tells Shortfuse to shoot it.
10:08The bomb just makes it possible for the heroes to get away, and after Shadow's boring ranting, Eggman's sadistic before he finally lampshades,
10:16but if you would please stop just standing there and track them down, I'd appreciate it.
10:21Yeah, exactly. Shadow's a man of action.
10:25He won't just stand there and whine for a while when his enemies are getting away.
10:30He was talking to Sonic while running next to him one time.
10:33Those are different shadows, but the game one is less confusing.
10:37I doubt Eggman would say please and appreciate it spelled wrong.
10:41Then there's a bunch of boring dialogue until Sally has the common sense to wonder if the magic in the Nameless Zone could cure Tails.
10:48If so, that would really put a dent in how scary Eggman is, but not entirely because there's only a few heroes to bring people to be cured,
10:55and he could legionize people at a massive rate.
10:59I say legionize because it's not like they're entirely roboticized.
11:03Only brought under his control because of things put inside them.
11:07Obviously, their limbs weren't replaced with cybernetic ones, so it's more of a loose use of the term.
11:13Moraine somehow assumes that Cosmo would have been useful in a fight, when she made a big deal out of being a female swordsman.
11:21Then there's some more boring dialogue.
11:24Sally says the slaves need to be prioritized over finding Victor, and Rouge agrees.
11:30It's really convenient that Tails hasn't been trying to attack them to prevent them from trying to cure him,
11:36which Sadie and Robotnik had the sense to program into his Robians like Sonic's uncle.
11:41It sure is a good thing that this Eggman was stupidly confident that heroes would ignore how scary the Robians look and try to save them anyway.
11:49I guess the idea is they're only programmed to do what Eggman wanted at that exact point.
11:56So he would have to reprogram them manually to get them to do something else.
12:02Tails gets brought to his home universe, and eventually it's explained that a goblin outcast returned who is sent back to the Empire about it.
12:11And the story ends with the King of the Goblin Empire showing up in front of some goblin soldiers.
12:16And his appearance reminds me of the last goblin leader of the physical run of Sonic the comic.
12:21I'm wondering why he looks mad.
12:23And I'm wondering why there's a king now when I thought Grimer's daughter was the leader of the goblins.
12:28She had no power to ban magic. That's not just princess power.
12:33Princesses have no power.
12:36And it says THE Goblin Empire. There's not multiple ones.
12:40Did she get driven into hiding by him?
12:42The story ends with Grimer smirking in a separate panel.
12:45So I'm wondering if the goblin outcast that returned was him, and he's responsible for this.
12:51I guess he told the king to come here in exchange for no longer being an outcast.
12:56So it's inspired by lightning links in what he did.
12:59Or maybe it isn't. There's been so many Sonic stories in the franchise that it's pretty hard to come up with something that doesn't come off like it's inspired by something earlier.
13:08I'm pretty confused, but I'm looking forward to seeing how the issue after this explains all of this.
13:14And I'm still looking forward to seeing Sonic talk with his uncle.
13:17This issue was by Akkadon Deviantart.
13:20And despite all my nitpicking, I did find it to be an interesting read where the heroes get to the Ark, who creatively are not the same people who got to it in SA2.
13:29And they don't have the same plan.
13:31And a bunch of gutsy revelations happened that I never expected.
13:35From it turning out that Eggman basically legionized his captives, including Tails, to the revelation that the former gun commander killed Maria for associating with the Mobian.
13:45It feels better than the revelation in Shadow, because we already don't like the gun commander.
13:50And it's a really emotionally powerful moment that he was the one to kill Maria and Shadow actually got to see him.
13:58I'm sure Tails will get to do competent stuff later in the Ark, so he'd be overreacting to be really mad about Tails being robbed of his agency and not getting to be useful, like a game purist would say.
14:10It's just a few issues where that happened to him.
14:13A lot of the time I wasn't engaged in the dialogue.
14:17That's a very standard problem.
14:19It's common for most of the dialogue of a story that's not impressive to be boring, but the story still progressed the plot adequately.
14:27So when that's the only major complaint, that's a big deal because that's the least harsh type of criticism I can point out compared to all the worst problems a story can have.
14:37Sometimes cynicism I show is because I got it from all the bad canon Sonic stories as consistent disappointments.
14:45I've analyzed literally all of the canon Sonic stories that were translated into English, so I've got high standards for creativity.
14:54And I'm tired of how many times I've seen various writing mistakes.
15:00But this is a good story, which is easier to appreciate compared to recent canon stuff.
15:05I was invested in the plot.
15:08It kept surprising me to get my attention.
15:11And I care about and respect the characters.
15:14Because they're not being constantly idiots or unbearable.
15:17It sounds like faint praise since you'd expect this from every series, but this isn't how the whole Sonic series has been written since 2006.
15:26This is better than the third live action movie.
15:29But this whole arc is.
15:31It's a story.
15:32Nevertheless, it wasn't perfect.
15:34the pacing wasn't as fast as I would like.
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