A Journey Through Archie Sonic: My Favorite, and Most Frustrating, Story

This cover has always made me laugh, but not for the reason that it wants, what with that lame "no smoking" gag up in the corner there. No, it's the insistence from these 2 goofballs that their comic is the absolute best on the rack that I find extremely funny. I just love to imagine some guy walking down the comic aisle when this issue was out, seeing it right next to stuff like The Killing Joke, or Watchmen, or any other of the big crazy comic events that were relatively new at the time, and he's like, "no, THIS is definitely the best comic here, no question". But then again, I'm the dork who's writing an entire blog about this series, so I guess I'm in no position to judge. I wish I had even HALF the confidence in myself that the people marketing Sonic in the 90s had in their mascot to make jabs like this. The sheer audacity is truly something to behold. To be fair, I suppose you could argue this issue is pretty important, given that we're...

Yeah so, I've read this issue front to back, and there is not a mention of "Robotnik's Rats" anywhere in sight. This is blatantly false advertisement, and I demand my $1.25 back, Archie. Aside from that, this cover is... fine, I guess. Sonic running from the corner box into the wanted poster is a cute detail, and it's decently well-drawn overall, even if it has nothing to do with the stories inside. Before I jump into this first story, some background information is in order. As I said back in my first review, the early days of Archie Sonic are an incredibly bizarre mix of elements from all the different branches of the franchise that were being produced at the same time. So far, the main result of this has been some major dissonance between the setting and tone of this universe, where we have the much more serious SatAM setup, but the much goofier writing style you would find in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. However, this issue marks a major turning point: no...