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Sonic the Hedgehog Archives #11
Sonic The Hedgehog Archives: Volume 11
The Sonic Archives series has emerged as one of Archie's best-selling trade paperbacks, as fans both new and old can relive the glory days of Sonic the Hedgehog in these high-quality, digitally-restored graphic novels, complete with all the classic Sonic stories from the 1990's! Now with Sonic Archives Volume 11, Sonic lovers can add to their collections issues #41-44, stories which are almost impossible to come across now. And best of all, the colors are completely re-mastered to give the issues a brand-new look! This time around, Sonic and the Freedom Fighters continue their fight to save their beloved King Acorn, finally freeing him from his imprisonment in the Zone of Silence. But while they have rescued his body, his mind remains broken! Our heroes must travel the world and enter the realm of dreams to cure their ruler, while villains old and new enter the arena to add to their woes.
112 pages, Paperback
First published August 19, 2009
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May 18, 2022
Wow, this series really ramped up the quality fast. While there have been some solid issues in the previous volumes, this is the first collection I can say is truly fantastic. We get some excellent backstory as to how Robotnik took over, the rescue of King Acorn, and more.
The only notch against this collection is the final story, in which Evil Sonic and Beatnik Knuckles appear from their dimension to steal a chaos emerald. The story is only ok and doesn't serve the greater narrative. I've always found Evil Sonic to be a boring character, and Beatnik Knuckles isn't exactly much better.
Still, a huge step up for this series. I'm very excited to read the next few issues.
The only notch against this collection is the final story, in which Evil Sonic and Beatnik Knuckles appear from their dimension to steal a chaos emerald. The story is only ok and doesn't serve the greater narrative. I've always found Evil Sonic to be a boring character, and Beatnik Knuckles isn't exactly much better.
Still, a huge step up for this series. I'm very excited to read the next few issues.
January 26, 2025
I don’t know why I’m reading these
August 19, 2024
King Acorn's turning to crystal and other exciting events!
April 26, 2017
Okay, adult Maggie is starting to see how even the issues I enjoyed way back when are... not great. The early issues of Sonic suffer greatly from one shot-itis. Writers get... 20 pages to have things make sense? This set up is not condusive to all the mysteries that Penders and Co are setting up.
Take issue 41 for example. Sonic, Sally, and the goddamn Skunk head back into the Zone of Silence to get the king. We get a lot of trippy time is weird and in flux things going on, but the underlying premise MAKES NO SENSE. The zone did things to the King, and it is collapsing, except for not, and where did his memory go? I'd be okay with these mysteries if I knew that they would eventually make sense in less than dozens of issues. But alas, I know they will not.
Issue 42 does pick up the King plot again. It comes after Sonic Quest so I don't really have any idea what's going on as I haven't gotten a copy of Sonic Quest yet. Sonic and Knuckles are fighting again because that's what they do. Something something chaos emeralds and power rings might save him. A spy character betrays them. Oh! Actually, this is interesting. the series hasn't dealt much with Mobians who side with Robotnik, and that's a really interesting plot. Pretty sure we don't get much of that until at least past issue issue 150 though... Where the hell did Knuckles come from?!?! Well, he's being nice or something. I thought this world was littered with rings and emeralds? How are they in such short supply now? Well, at least we got an explanation for why Knuckles is back. That was unnecessary other than PLOT. Well, using the emerald on the king was bad news, so Sonic says he needs to call on a ring for knowledge. Bwa? That's... that's not a thing, story. I am starting to see why people get annoyed at Penders. He introduces lore, but badly... So now Knuckles has sworn himself to a quest to help Princess Sally because reasons. He hops on a stick out seat on Tails' sub and they go to Downunda to find the Ancient Walkers. A STICK OUT SEAT. FOR A CROSS OCEAN JOURNEY. So Athair finds them and must drug them because all these scenes are super tripped. Blahblah, find these magical people. When did this shift from an post-apocalyptic scifi to epic fantasy??!?! Issue 42 doesn't make any sense, not a lot happens, and it's a giant drug trip. GIANT.
In issue 43, new character ahoy! It's Dr. Quack. Was Dr. House on air yet, because he seems quite similar... The king is still turning into crystal because reasons. Everyone is snarky because that's the new status quo in the comic. Ohh... a flashback by Spaz! This is actually interesting as we get to see how the characters got to where they are. Which basically means they need to retcon all the now, but whatever. This is a Sonic comic. That happens all the time. Back in current time, the Skunk shows up and Sally runs to him because her caring childhood friend who is actually being quite nice is... not comforting enough than the new guy who violates her boundaries. I hate that character. The Doctor pulls out a bunch of techno babble. I am confused, I thought Knothole was fairly low tech given the whole hideout in the forest thing? Sonic jumps into the King's dreams and the Zone of Silence continues to make no sense. Sonic gives the king a pep talk and now the crystalisation has stopped! So that was dumb. I really dislike some of the new characters who... just aren't pleasant to read about despite being good guys? The King is shaping up to be a plot I hate. Wee :l
Aww, crap. Anti-Sonic is back. The issue starts with Rotor revealing a MASSIVE gun. That's... new? Evil Sonic and... Irish Knuckles are trying to take the chaos emerald holding up the Floating Island. Sonic leads the real Knuckles onto the cosmic interstate IN A PLANE. Just... ugg. Knuckles and Sally have a heart-to-heart about their secret childhood friendship. Supposedly the king took Sally to the Island on vacations because no one knew about it. THE GIANT HUNK OF FLOATING STONE. Whatever, the FFs have arrived in the evil Sonic world where Robotnik crime is stealing the Sunken emerald's power. Okay, so... the whole easy to visit multiple universes makes this series... just not work. Could we stop? They fight. End issue. This could have been a find standalone had we gotten rid of needless technobabble. But stories of the anti world almost always suck..
So that volume was terrible :l The story lines are way too complicated and the characters are getting bizarro development. The art is super uneven. These were not good days for the comic... Baby Maggie must have been doing a lot of fanfiction thinking way back when to have so many fond memories...
Take issue 41 for example. Sonic, Sally, and the goddamn Skunk head back into the Zone of Silence to get the king. We get a lot of trippy time is weird and in flux things going on, but the underlying premise MAKES NO SENSE. The zone did things to the King, and it is collapsing, except for not, and where did his memory go? I'd be okay with these mysteries if I knew that they would eventually make sense in less than dozens of issues. But alas, I know they will not.
Issue 42 does pick up the King plot again. It comes after Sonic Quest so I don't really have any idea what's going on as I haven't gotten a copy of Sonic Quest yet. Sonic and Knuckles are fighting again because that's what they do. Something something chaos emeralds and power rings might save him. A spy character betrays them. Oh! Actually, this is interesting. the series hasn't dealt much with Mobians who side with Robotnik, and that's a really interesting plot. Pretty sure we don't get much of that until at least past issue issue 150 though... Where the hell did Knuckles come from?!?! Well, he's being nice or something. I thought this world was littered with rings and emeralds? How are they in such short supply now? Well, at least we got an explanation for why Knuckles is back. That was unnecessary other than PLOT. Well, using the emerald on the king was bad news, so Sonic says he needs to call on a ring for knowledge. Bwa? That's... that's not a thing, story. I am starting to see why people get annoyed at Penders. He introduces lore, but badly... So now Knuckles has sworn himself to a quest to help Princess Sally because reasons. He hops on a stick out seat on Tails' sub and they go to Downunda to find the Ancient Walkers. A STICK OUT SEAT. FOR A CROSS OCEAN JOURNEY. So Athair finds them and must drug them because all these scenes are super tripped. Blahblah, find these magical people. When did this shift from an post-apocalyptic scifi to epic fantasy??!?! Issue 42 doesn't make any sense, not a lot happens, and it's a giant drug trip. GIANT.
In issue 43, new character ahoy! It's Dr. Quack. Was Dr. House on air yet, because he seems quite similar... The king is still turning into crystal because reasons. Everyone is snarky because that's the new status quo in the comic. Ohh... a flashback by Spaz! This is actually interesting as we get to see how the characters got to where they are. Which basically means they need to retcon all the now, but whatever. This is a Sonic comic. That happens all the time. Back in current time, the Skunk shows up and Sally runs to him because her caring childhood friend who is actually being quite nice is... not comforting enough than the new guy who violates her boundaries. I hate that character. The Doctor pulls out a bunch of techno babble. I am confused, I thought Knothole was fairly low tech given the whole hideout in the forest thing? Sonic jumps into the King's dreams and the Zone of Silence continues to make no sense. Sonic gives the king a pep talk and now the crystalisation has stopped! So that was dumb. I really dislike some of the new characters who... just aren't pleasant to read about despite being good guys? The King is shaping up to be a plot I hate. Wee :l
Aww, crap. Anti-Sonic is back. The issue starts with Rotor revealing a MASSIVE gun. That's... new? Evil Sonic and... Irish Knuckles are trying to take the chaos emerald holding up the Floating Island. Sonic leads the real Knuckles onto the cosmic interstate IN A PLANE. Just... ugg. Knuckles and Sally have a heart-to-heart about their secret childhood friendship. Supposedly the king took Sally to the Island on vacations because no one knew about it. THE GIANT HUNK OF FLOATING STONE. Whatever, the FFs have arrived in the evil Sonic world where Robotnik crime is stealing the Sunken emerald's power. Okay, so... the whole easy to visit multiple universes makes this series... just not work. Could we stop? They fight. End issue. This could have been a find standalone had we gotten rid of needless technobabble. But stories of the anti world almost always suck..
So that volume was terrible :l The story lines are way too complicated and the characters are getting bizarro development. The art is super uneven. These were not good days for the comic... Baby Maggie must have been doing a lot of fanfiction thinking way back when to have so many fond memories...
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