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61. Sonic Quest Miniseries #1

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The Death Egg Saga - Book One: Scrambled

Writer: Mike Gallagher Pencils: Manny Galan Colors: Kyle Hunter

Intro pages are back! This one is fairly generic, just reminding us of the basic story behind Robotnik and the Freedom Fighters, as well as the recent rescue of King Acorn. One thing you may also notice in this issue is that art and panel layout has gotten a lot more dynamic! As the story of the comics started to get a little more intense, the artists began going for panels and art that was less strictly confined to neat boxes, and as a result it's a lot more visually interesting, something I appreciate.

Anyway, Sally has elected to call Geoffrey back in to Knothole following her father's rescue, and despite Sonic's dislike of him, he is brought into the room where they are keeping King Acorn to see the situation for himself, as he used to be captain of the king's royal guard.

The Freedom Fighters are keeping the king's rescue a strict secret from the rest of Knothole due to his condition. He's delirious and rambling to himself, and strangely, his skin has begun crystallizing and looking much like a Chaos Emerald, which they theorize is due to him becoming acclimated to the Zone of Silence during his banishment there, and thus becoming severely ill here in the ordinary world. Sonic, upon seeing his emerald-like skin, opts to try exposing him to his billionth ring, hoping it will have an effect.

Of course, things are never that easy. But their brief success prompts Sally to send two teams away to search for as many rings as they can find - one team of Bunnie and Antoine, who will go searching in the Great Forest for the true Lake of Rings that Sonic fell into in StH #38, and another team of Sonic and Tails, who will go inspect the smaller lake near Robotropolis that Sonic and Knuckles battled at in the Super Sonic vs. Hyper Knuckles special. Man, they're really trying to tie all this together, aren't they?

The heroes can never catch a break, however, as Robotnik is up to his usual schemes, plotting their demise and inventing new doomsday devices and whatnot. This time, he apparently has something hovering in the air that he's going to finish up on, and thus leaves Robotropolis in the hands of Snively, an extremely wise decision given that Snively has never tried to seize power from him before or anything.

Well, at least he's not trying to take over the world himself this time. Hopefully he can keep the residents of Robo- uh, I mean Snivopolis out of trouble for the time being.

Sonic and Tails arrive at the site of the lake only to find a strange metal dome has been constructed over it. Since their old camera trained on the site was destroyed in an explosion some time ago, Sonic decides to let Tails keep an eye on the site while he runs off to fine Carl Condor, a Mobian who apparently lives nearby and may have seen something. Not ten seconds after Sonic leaves, a big tube comes down from the heavens, sucks up a bunch of rings from beneath the dome, and then for good measure sucks Tails up as well.

Sonic, c'mon man! Your hastiness led to this. If you'd waited even a little bit longer, or tried to report in to Sally right away or something, you would have been there to save him from this.

Unfortunately, now that Sonic's out on his own he's got his own problems to deal with. First, a strange solar eclipse begins, which baffles Sonic because there shouldn't be any eclipses occurring on this part of the planet right now. Second, Carl Condor has been roboticized and now "Condorbot" is coming at him to fight. Third, Sonic loses this fight. Badly.

Hey, what's that eclipsing the sun…? It looks familiar…

Hey, it's the Death Egg! Despite this thing first appearing in a Sonic game all the way back in Sonic 2, four years before this issue was released, it's only just now made its first appearance. Apparently, this thing is what sucked up the rings and Tails, and it's powerful enough to roboticize the entire planet in one fell swoop… somehow. And now that both Sonic and Tails have been captured, albeit in totally different ways, they're being taken aboard this thing, and therefore straight to Robotnik! Oh no! How will they ever escape? *checks how many hundreds of issues we have left till the end of the preboot* …eeaahhh, I'm sure they'll figure something out!

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Swapsides doodles :]

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Did i ever post these?

Crystalline Commotion! Sea Saddled Panic! Robotic Rumpus! Red-ribboned Revelations! + a little comic scene or three, eris and her gf, and two swapsides doodles :)

all covers drawn and named by me :)

character owners

zavion - kazumi/sunky

sniper and Metal Mighty (and maria?) - xeno

shadow and sonic (and Maria ?) - SEGA

eris, doom t. Jackal -me