QUOTE ("Valerie Valens")
QUOTE ("DCC")
True, Valerie Valens, there is much more to my reasons for wanting Sonic and Sally together though, which I have stated plenty of times here. I don't really want to turn this into a Sonic and Sally debate thread.
I want to see those reasons.
And I really, really am begging here that we do not see them.
Please.
For the love of God and all that is holy, this is about the 200th issue, not another round of "To SonSal, or not to SonSal." I'm on my virtual internet knees here, pleading.
Anyways; I actually checked the issue out at a Barnes and Noble recently. I'll always give Flynn this; I do think he does dialogue pretty well. Some of the banter between the characters, things like that, feels decently natural.
As for the story itself, though, I think if it was done by another writer I'd feel more hopeful about it, but considering the source, I don't see many reasons to get all happy.
The whole idea of Sonic mentally breaking Robotnik isn't a bad one, given the way their relationship as antagonists has been portrayed in recent times, more reflective of the Sega games, less reflective of the more SatAM inspired era of "the good guys don't always win big."
Hell, even the way the fight was done reflected that; Robotnik again in a boring robot boss machine, Sonic just annihilating it.
I can recall when the "Eggman" Robotnik became the main villain, and how, really, for the first while afterwards, he was written pretty damn well. He was still threatening, still tyrannical and really vile at times. He was distinct from Julian in some ways, but retained some of the more sinister qualities.
It's sad what the character has been reduced to in some ways, and "breaking" him may be the only way to eventually salvage something there. I recall thinking that issue 175 actually did a decent job of resurrecting hope of Robotnik truly becoming a threatening presence again, but, alas. "Eggman" hasn't been much more than a bumbling oaf in a long, long time, and his armies are constantly laid to waste by just a small band of FF's or Chaotix. Something has to change.
But the Iron Queen? Hard to see that being a long term fix, no?
The heart of the problem still lies at what many of us have said for ages; the comic has all but given up on advancing characters, or allowing them to change or grow to reflect their circumstances. It was referenced before, but Knuckles losing his father so soon after getting him back could've really rocked him more than it did. Not that he had to lose his mind or anything, but how about SOME sort of development after that, anything at all, even a minor positive change Knuckles manage to make for himself after accepting what's happened? At the end of the day, almost every character is exactly the way they were at the start, just even more two dimensional.
And that's why I'm not exactly amped about the changes now, simply because I don't have much faith that much good will be done with them. There's never any consequences, it seems, in this new Sonic comic world, whether they be personal or external.
