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Sonic the Hedgehog Archives #7
Sonic The Hedgehog Archives: Volume 7
Starting with issue #25, the first of many SONIC milestones, True Blue is forced to face his evil ropotic doppelganger, Metal Sonic. This chrome crony of Robotnik's will prove an ever-present thorn in our hero's side, but with the bad comes the good as we also debut Sonic's #1 fan, Amy Rose! And that's just the first issue! VOLUME 7 also recounts Sonic's betrayal of the Freedom Fighters, the introduction of the Arctic Freedom Fighters, and the beginning of Tails' solo story which led into his very own miniseries!
112 pages, Paperback
First published June 18, 2008
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April 26, 2017
I bumped the rating up to three stars! WOO! Not to say that Volume 7 of the Archives is fantastic, but it does include issue 25 which was the fancy silver anniversary comic that Spaz drew. It's really well illustrated and tightly plotted. Definitely the best Sonic comic released yet!
Issue 26 is... less interesting. Readers are introduced to the Arctic Freedom Fighters. They are fairly generic and we don't see them for a while after this. Oh, but there's a Bunnie story in the back that's drawn by Art Mawhinney. It feels very SatAM.
Finally, you have the 2 part 28-29 where Sonic develops amnesia and TURNS ON HIS FRIENDS! This is the first time we see Sonic the Traitor (I remember 2 other times in the next 20 issues from when I was a kid). I actually didn't mind this one because the Freedom Fighters had an intelligent response. Sonic was doing weird shit, so they had to treat him as if he was a hostile. When he regained his memory, no one freaked out. It's an overused plot, but it worked well here!
Congrats, Archive 7. You are better than just meh :D
Oh, some Tails stuff happens that I don't really care about because he's an emotional kid with little to no development yet...
Issue 26 is... less interesting. Readers are introduced to the Arctic Freedom Fighters. They are fairly generic and we don't see them for a while after this. Oh, but there's a Bunnie story in the back that's drawn by Art Mawhinney. It feels very SatAM.
Finally, you have the 2 part 28-29 where Sonic develops amnesia and TURNS ON HIS FRIENDS! This is the first time we see Sonic the Traitor (I remember 2 other times in the next 20 issues from when I was a kid). I actually didn't mind this one because the Freedom Fighters had an intelligent response. Sonic was doing weird shit, so they had to treat him as if he was a hostile. When he regained his memory, no one freaked out. It's an overused plot, but it worked well here!
Congrats, Archive 7. You are better than just meh :D
Oh, some Tails stuff happens that I don't really care about because he's an emotional kid with little to no development yet...
February 20, 2011
The cover attached to this link isn't the actual cover of the volume, by the way.
November 8, 2021
A LOT happened this issue. Between the first appearance of Metal Sonic, Amy, and Fiona, we also got a crazy story arc in which Sonic loses his memory and joins Robotnik! The first issue of the volume in particular had some fantastic art. I must say, I'm really starting to enjoy these unironically and not just because it's Sonic.
October 31, 2012
This is the first of the books that I actually enjoyed reading. I read many of these stories as a kid, and always loved them, and am glad that I had another chance to read them again. (I still own issues 26-28, but don't want to risk ruining them because of their age). I was especially glad to be able to read issue 25 for the first time--it was an issue I had always wanted(I loved both Sonic CD AND Spaz's art), but could never seem to find anywhere.
That said, this is the first book I could recommend from these archives. 25 was enjoyable as far as adaptations go. While I like the Freedom Fighters, I feel they were somehow out of place for this issue. And I don't know why. ^^;. The art, however, did not let me down. I still wish I owned this issue, but I imagine the price is probably really high ^^;.
26 was only OK. I don't remember being particularly attached to this issue in the past, and I can see why. 27 and 28 were probably the best issues contained in this archive. They are the first issues that I read that actually resemble their source material (the SatAM Sonic), and I was glad to see another early example of a shift in the comic's tone.
Overall, I enjoyed the book, and do recommend it.
That said, this is the first book I could recommend from these archives. 25 was enjoyable as far as adaptations go. While I like the Freedom Fighters, I feel they were somehow out of place for this issue. And I don't know why. ^^;. The art, however, did not let me down. I still wish I owned this issue, but I imagine the price is probably really high ^^;.
26 was only OK. I don't remember being particularly attached to this issue in the past, and I can see why. 27 and 28 were probably the best issues contained in this archive. They are the first issues that I read that actually resemble their source material (the SatAM Sonic), and I was glad to see another early example of a shift in the comic's tone.
Overall, I enjoyed the book, and do recommend it.
August 11, 2012
yay amy is finaly in the books even if i like sonic the most and hate sonic and sally being together, i like how amy is giving sally a hard time geting close to him
May 12, 2022
This starts off with a bang! The first story is a Sonic CD adaptation, and it's easily some of the best Sonic yet. The rest of the stories are mostly fine. The world building in the series is finally starting to feel a bit more consistent, but they can't quite decide if they want to go with the tone of the Sonic The Hedgehog cartoon or stick to the goofier Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog style storytelling. The inconsistency is still quite jarring.
There are also a couple Tails stories near the end. These harken back to the worst of the beginning of the comic. They're terribly written, and don't even get any good puns in. Thankfully they're short.
There are also a couple Tails stories near the end. These harken back to the worst of the beginning of the comic. They're terribly written, and don't even get any good puns in. Thankfully they're short.
June 28, 2021
Ammar
August 30, 2016
Great book. You get to see sonic race his arch enemy Metal Sonic
June 26, 2025
6.5/10
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