“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sonic Universe #11

“Let’s shake hands and be enemies.”

Sonic Universe #11

Archie Comics (February 2010)

“Echoes Of The Past” part 3

WRITER: Ian Flynn

PENCILER: Tracy Yardley

INKER: Jim Amash

COLORIST: Jason Jensen

LETTERER: Teresa Davidson

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Paul Kaminski

EDITOR: Mike Pellerito

Knuckles and Dr. Finitevus forge an uneasy alliance when the group is attacked by the same winged dingo robots that attacked the island at the beginning of the arc as well as the Floating Island (aka Angel Island) being held fast. The Chaotix are aided by the arriving Ray and Vector, as well as the Downunda Freedom Fighters. One of their members, Bill, decided to join Robotnik and took his platypus friends to form a new group of “Dark Legionaries”. Walt also informs Knuckles that he’s seen Finitevus hanging around that same group, and the two leaders cook up a plan to foil whatever the duo are planning, while Knuckles sends Ray and Julie-Su back to guard the Chaos Emerald. However, the bad guys get the drop on our heroes, and take them prisoner.

What they got right: The artists do a fair job at drawing the action scenes, and the DFF seem the same as when I last saw them (except for Platypus Bill, who seems to have turned evil). There are a number of questions, like how things are now for the new Legion with Robotnik no longer in charge, why Bill switched sides, what Vector’s history is with Barby Koala and his reason for leaving Downunda, and a few things I probably missed when I took so much time away from the Sonic series. However, I’m dying to find out.

What they got wrong: With only one issue left to this arc, a lot of these subplots are going to be hard to resolve in time, and if they’ve already been brought up in other issues, a few captions letting us know would have been nice. Re-reading this story the whole idea of Finitevus pretending to work with Knuckles is tossed out real fast. It’s like they only did it for a cliffhanger in the previous issue.

What I think overall: In the original version of the review (most of which is above anyway) I still wanted Knuckles and the Chaotix get their own title again. I never got that. However, this is still an interesting story. I don’t remember how it ends because I only read it once, so I’m curious to see how it all goes.