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Archie Sonic Issue #1 (Original Miniseries)

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  This cover was always my favorite out of the 4 in this original miniseries. It feels exactly like the kind of thing you'd see as an advertisement for SatAM... aside from the fact that Sally's design still isn't quite right, but hey, we'll get there eventually... in Issue 16 of the main book after this miniseries... *sigh* While we're on that note, you may have noticed that Robotnik on this cover now properly has his signature black and red eyes, but unfortunately, they still haven't quite figured that one out in the actual comic yet, so for the rest of this miniseries, he's stuck with a slightly less sinister black and white. It's definitely an improvement, but between both of these design errors, we clearly still have some work to do before we have a solid foundation for this book. Thankfully, that's exactly the name of the game for this issue. After Issue 0 served as a basic introduction to Mobius and the conflict between Sonic and Robotnik, Issu...
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Archie Sonic Issue #0 (Original Miniseries)

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  Pretty solid for a first issue cover, I'd say. Normally I'm not too crazy about putting a lot of text on a comic cover, but I think the little yellow blurb at the bottom does a good job explaining what exactly this book is all about without taking up too much space. Using the iconic Green Hill aesthetic was also a smart move to help get the point across, even if its current overuse in the modern era has me beyond tired of seeing it. (Sega, if you put Green Hill OR Chemical Plant in the next game AGAIN, so help me-) Anyway, before I dive into this very first issue of Archie Sonic, I think it's important to establish some context. When Archie first got their license for publishing Sonic comics from Sega in 1992, the Sonic franchise as a whole was practically in its infancy. The original game had come out and taken the world by storm, with Sonic 2 releasing just a month before this issue, but as far as story material goes, they didn't really offer a whole lot to build a ...
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Archie Sonic: An Introduction

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 I don't remember a lot of my early childhood, but there is one memory that will forever stick out in my mind. I don't know how old I was (maybe 7 or 8), but I do know where it happened: in a Books A Million in Paducah, Kentucky. I was visiting my grandparents for a few days, as we often did at least a couple times a year, and my grandpa took me and my siblings to BAM one afternoon because frankly, I was destined to be a nerd from birth. I walked to the very back of the store, and I immediately focused on one thing, a single comic book that stood out from every other on the shelf:  I didn't know who that weird-looking Metal Sonic was, why Knuckles was pink, or who that weird red guy in the corner was, but I knew one thing. This book had Super Sonic, and more importantly, it had Vector, my absolute favorite Sonic character at that age, and so it was destined for me to have it. Little did I know that this would be a canon event, turning a simple childhood hobby into a lifelon...
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