Sonic X

Publisher
Archie Comics
Writer
Joe Edkin
Artist
Tim Smith III
Country of origin
US
Year
2005

Sonic X #26 to #27

By David Rasmussen
27th Jan 08

You’d think that eventually Team Sonic X would learn.
I mean the team behind the Harry Potter video games eventually learned, going back to what was important about the games (free roaming gameplay and lots of explorable environments to find side quests to play with, dueling, and bonus content worth unlocking), so why is it Team Sonic X continues to produce substandard reading material? Once again Sonic X has left the warmth of a 2 out of 5 and plummeted back into the harsh realm of a 1 out of 5... Did it have to happen this way? No. Did it happen this way? Yes, sad but true but once again Sonic X is in the “dog” house (so to speak).

In this horrible excuse for a two parter, Eggman has gone and disguised himself as a masked wrestler named Gran Gordo, and as the story opens we see Sonic motion sick (as motion sick as when he thinks of actually being affectionate to his girlfriend with the large mallet) as he watches Chris and the Professor cheering on wrasslin!

Sonic is not all that much of a fan, but somehow Sonic seems to realize who Gran Gordo is, and ends up challenging him in the ring. Things get stupid from there as (for some sort of “plot twist”) Sonic and Eggman agree to a truce after Sonic beats him (so that Sonic would not reveal his true identity and he can remain a masked wrestler for all his fans).

That plot gets flushed as Bokkun ends up ruining everything as Eggman ends up revealing his true identity after a long messed up second issue of events (which ends his brief yet totally pointless career as a wrassler).

And next time? Eggman is possessed by the still living Al Gore, who compels him to quest for the Inconvenient Truth of “green” bots. Yeah, I bet that’ll be a “winner”!

Sonic X! Whatever happened to your stories that at least earned from me a grudged 2 out of 5! Once again you have backpedaled back into horrible writing with a story that only proves you can’t keep a band of comic creators from digging themselves to China (or the Earth’s molten core) no matter how much you’d wish they’d thrive for something better out of themselves (or the title they write for). Sonic X #26 to #27 gets a 1 out of 5 for returning to the bad days of shovel-ware writing that should be buried quickly.
Shame on you, Sonic X writers, shame on you.

-- David Rasmussen 27th Jan 08