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How silly of me. Here's the fixed version.

Sonic kissing Fiona? Wha-Where? How? Once I get this issue in the mail, I'll see what my full reaction will be, but generally, it's a wah-?
~Neo

I have to admit I am actually excited about this issue(like the same level as issue 125)finally the good stories are starting again with butler leading off as artist as well

Oh look, two plots that are coincidentally similar to plots Karl wanted to use (Sonic/Fiona/Tails, Sally pushed into marrying Antoine).

Yeah, okay.... can anyone here say plotholes?

*Runs away crying and flailing arms* My good name has been VIOLATED!!!

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As for the issue itself, all I can truly say is: I THOUGHT WE CLOSED THE SOAP OPERA PORTAL!

Why isn't my subscription dying?! Did those greedy comic book merchants steal my soul and keep trying to buy my way into hell by sending my issues of a comic I don't want?! Why did they stop sending me Ultimate but still force Sonic on me.

*Cries more*

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Side story is called "The Price of Flame". It's very short, and concerns Dulcy. Sally (still with short hair) is throwing a suprise pep rally for Dulcy who runs away when she's asked to ignite the bonfire. Apparantly, the first time she used fire-breath was also the last time (the dragon elder Glint took that power away as punishment for Dulcy visiting the surface world). She's kept it a secret from her all friends all this time, but now she thinks it's high time she asked for the power back. She heads to the old undergrowund dragon world (located inside a volcano?), only to learn that Robotnik has followed her, and with his "army of Mecha-dragons" plans to use the volcano as an energy source for... something-or-other.

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WHO wrote this? They've just managed to negate 100+ issues of continuity. Dulcy has always had fire breath. She even used it in her debut issue!

Well it's official Sonic the Hedgehog is the biggest jerk of all time (In my book anyway) and he just got his very own zip code to boot I mean how many rival's does one dumb blue hedgehog need lets see 1. Antoine De'Coolette 2. Knuckles the Echidna 3. Geoffrey St. John 4. Shadow the Hedgehog 5. Ash the Mongoose and as of Sonic #155 6. Miles Tails Prower and who ever else that I can't think of right now I think Sonic likes making enemies and rival's out of almost everybody he meet's. Thats why he needs to really step down as the hero his head is just way too big for his own good witch is bad in the long run. Archie Comics needs to bring an end to Sonic the Hedgehog and as well as the new Sonic X comic they really sould make Tails into a long running series cuz I think his time is now to be that bigger hero that Archie Comics claims (A few years ago) to be and almost everone I think is starting to get really sick Sonic this and Sonic that who cares about Sonic he's starting to become old news R.I.P Sonic the Hedgehog 1991- and when ever They do really kill Sonic off for good witch I hope is with in the next 5 to ten years or less!

Hmmm... this might be the first issue I've picked up in, um, several. Years. But anyway. What happened to the "See Ya Later, Chao!" backstory? Did Ian write the Dulcy one or am I just really confused here?

"See Ya Later, Chao!" unfortunately got shuffled to a new slot. It'll be published, don't worry. It just won't be in S#155-156.

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almost everone I think is starting to get really sick Sonic this and Sonic that who cares about Sonic he's starting to become old news R.I.P Sonic the Hedgehog

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You think wrong.

This issue does seem to make Sonic look bad, and Ant too. Sometimes it seems that Archie doesn't want us to want Sonic/Sally and Bunnie/Ant to reconcile or even care about them as creatures(I am talking more about Sonic and Ant at this point). Still, I am really hoping this wedding can still be stopped.

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On the other side of Knothole, Sonic is strumming a guitar and commenting on his mom's lame taste in music. Bunnie comes in and tearfully announces the upcoming wedding. Sonic runs off to have words with Sally, but is stopped by "Antoine". They mix it up briefly, "Ant" clearly has the upper hand but like all villains is too cocky to finish the good guy off, and lets him go with a warning. Um, okay...
moving on Ant talks to Sally and convinces her that in the name of honor and duty, marrying him is the right thing to do. A Heroscape insert follows and then..
Max turns a turn for the worse. He's in a coma. How long? According to Quack it could be anyone's guess! Sally decides that arranged marriage is better than sitting in by Max's hospital bed, so off she goes. Cut to Sonic's house. He ponders his options while running... should he crash the party or wait and see if the one person who can help is willing to (once again, I'mnot entirely sure whay's going on). Anyway, Sally now heads down the aisle, marching alongside Quack. (This wedding is more important apparantly that looking after King Max and the am-I-still-alive-who-knows? General) Sally thinks about all the positive aspects about Twan that a girl could love and says "I do". Bunnie cries, "Ant" smirks, story ends.

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This story would have been much better if there had been some build up to Ant-Sally in the previous issues.
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Side story is called "The Price of Flame". It's very short, and concerns Dulcy. Sally (still with short hair) is throwing a suprise pep rally for Dulcy who runs away when she's asked to ignite the bonfire. Apparantly, the first time she used fire-breath was also the last time (the dragon elder Glint took that power away as punishment for Dulcy visiting the surface world). She's kept it a secret from her all friends all this time, but now she thinks it's high time she asked for the power back. She heads to the old undergrowund dragon world (located inside a volcano?), only to learn that Robotnik has followed her, and with his "army of Mecha-dragons" plans to use the volcano as an energy source for... something-or-other.
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Is this story before the "dead" of Robotnik (issue 50) or after? Because if it does take place during Eggman reign this one f*** up contuinity moment. I mean Dulcy been using her fire since the beggining. Drazen is going to have a field day with this one.

Wha... what the bloody... forget it, I'm going to bed.

Dirk's pic made me chuckle, though.

Actually Dirk, I think it's more like this...

MattManic- Mike Gallagher wrote "Price of Flame". I think it's supposed to take place now. (I blame Sally's short hair on Mawhinney's drawings of her. Ant is also minus his scar, but Rote and Bunnie sport their post Home outfits). Mike has a couple editor's notes to explain Dulcy's fire-breath (Brave New World apparantly took place earlier than we thought...) but overall it reeks of continuity error.
DC- Yeah, Sonic doesn't come across looking too well. The Fiona thing threw me for a loop, I think she's sposed to be coming on to him but once again the art looks more like Sonic is enjoying the smooch instead of trying to get rid of some love-sick female. And remember Ant isn't evil and power-hungry, it's his lookalike from Anti-Mobius!
Dirk- Best picture ever!

They have GOT to stop all this "love quadriangle" BS that's ruining this book. It's supposed to be action and adventure, but it's be bogged down with all this relationship crap. The best way for this book to go forward is to cut off the whole Sonic/Sally stuff. Break them up completely, and have it just be Amy chasing after Sonic with no other girls invloved. I don't mid them showing a strain on Sonic/Tails freindship, but I don't think Fiona making out with Sonic is the way.

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This story would have been much better if there had been some build up to Ant-Sally in the previous issues.

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Actually, there technically waswas. See "Ultimatum" in issue 60 and also see the VERY early issues. Sonic/Sally/Ant was the original love triangle. Although I suppose you probably meant RECENT issues, in which case you'd be mostly right, aside from a brief line in "Songoose" part 1.

I don't mind the relationships it makes for some interesting issues.I know we aren't supposed to talk about romances but as far as amy goes I have always thought she was a major annoyance which is why I dont care for sonic x.sonic isn't interested in her(in the comic anyway) so I think that her character would be much deeper if she could get rid of this school-girl like crush.she has potential to be a good character if they got rid of the crush and moved on to other things and other characters more willing to accept her affection.

Managed to get my copy in the mail. My two cents:

~From one romance story to another. Fantastic...
~Sonic and Fiona kissing? Then in later panels, Sonic is concerned about Sally getting married--nay--upset about her marriage. Current theory, the Sonic kissing Fiona is Anti-Sonic. I mean, no where Sonic prime would kiss Fiona and still feel for Sally to the point where he'd be willing to stop the wedding, unless he's really that confused in love.
~Poor Tails. That pissed look on the second page is priceless.
~Looks like Penders didn't abandon #60's "Ultimatum."
~That page when Sally storms off to plan her marriage after hearing witnessing her coma looks like she has Kim Possible hair. Looks nice on her.
_James Fry is nice to see, but I felt some of the artwork looked a bit off, particularly Antoine. Seemed like he rushed a bit in a few places, but most times, I was happy with the art.
~Bernie called Jules "father?" I know couples tend to call each other that (such as them dog couple in the Knuckles' book), but haven't Bernie previously called Jules just by his name?
~GAH! Sally be wearing fugly 1980's wedding dress, with the big cuffs on the shoulder (something Queen Alicia also has in the beginning of the issue). *dies*

~Second story, I'm glad it's nice to know about Dulcy and her origins and whatnot. Kinda interested to see what happened.
~The ring on her nose is a magic ring...hmmm, don't know what to make out of it yet.
~Neo

I'm kinda ticked right now. I went all the way down to the mall(which is pretty far away)to get 155 and they dont have it.they claim to have it next week but there have been times where they wouldn't get issues for 2 months.the other places are too far away.as for your topic neo,i dont think its anti-sonic so its probably the latter in your post.james fry? I thought butler was supposed to be doing the art for 155 and 156.

Ok, I never really thought much of Fiona in the first place and I'm still confused how exactly she got introduced as a Freedom Fighter since Sonic returned from space. Now that she has officially rejected Tails, can we please go back to my idea of him hooking up with Barby Koala some years down the road? Keep in mind that BARBY HAS FREELY ADMITTED SHE LIKES TAILS. I'm also rather dissapointed that Patch has taken the typical villain's thought process of world domination instead of starting over and making a new life for himself around people who care about "him." Frankly I'm a bit skeptical about the direction that Archie is taking with Sonic too. From what you guys are saying, Sonic is being made out as a pimp. I don't understand this because even though Sonic is trying to get over breaking up with Sally, it was Evil Sonic that was making all the moves on the girls. If this really is the Sonic we all know and love, then he shouldn't be taking advantage of his double's lechery.

Sonic #155 has not been released yet. The only people who may have it are subscribers, though I'm a subscriber that doesn't have it yet. ;p

If you check Sonic HQ's comic archive, you'll notice that #155 has a November 2005 release. It comes out next Wednesday.

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Sally decides that arranged marriage is better than sitting in by Max's hospital bed, so off she goes. Cut to Sonic's house. He ponders his options while running... should he crash the party or wait and see if the one person who can help is willing to (once again, I'mnot entirely sure whay's going on). Anyway, Sally now heads down the aisle, marching alongside Quack. (This wedding is more important apparantly that looking after King Max and the am-I-still-alive-who-knows? General) Sally thinks about all the positive aspects about Twan that a girl could love and says "I do". Bunnie cries, "Ant" smirks, story ends.

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That's it!

If Archie keeps this up, I'm just gonna start a fan-comic altogether that retells the storyline of sonic the way it should be...

the only thing about fanfics for me is that while they are entertaining,is that they arent official which for me,is a downer.but hey, if it makes others feel better,go for it.Btw for those of you that have the issue already- could you tell me exactly how anti-ant gets the better of sonic in the fight? I mean when I first read the review about the fight I was thinking "whaaa?" I could understand that anti-ant would be better than his good counterpart but I never considered him to be on sonic and knuckles level of fighting.

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The best way for this book to go forward is to cut off the whole Sonic/Sally stuff. Break them up completely,

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They already did, back in "Say You Will"! She dumped him majorly, and based on Karl's notes they were meant to stay that way.

But instead, the relationship appears to be crawling out of its grave, crying out for brains.

I'm pretty sure we're looking at a wedding-in-quotes here, your basic cliffhanger to tide us over into S156. But it DOES sound pretty fubar, especially with (Anti?)Sonic lip-locking w/Fiona. We can only hope that the Antis all get killed off in the next installment, maybe like they did on Dynasty where they had terrorists shoot up the wedding on the season finale. That's about what it'll take to sort things out now.

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We can only hope that the Antis all get killed off in the next installment, maybe like they did on Dynasty where they had terrorists shoot up the wedding on the season finale.

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And this is why there should be a sequel to Archie Meets The Punisher with Sonic in Archie's position, and featuring the aging war-minded sociopath version of the Punisher that Garth Ennis writes. All the dull villains nobody likes gone in one issue!

That, or just ignore all the aforementioned dull villains and pretend they never happened.

It wasn't Evil Sonic, that was Sonic with Fiona. It would be a stretch for Evil Sonic to have left "the best" (a.k.a. Rouge) to go back to Knothole where he'd risk blowing his cover since Sonic is there. I know Archie can have issues with following their own plot, but they usually aren't that horrendous. ;p Besides, Sonic's reaction to Tails' outburst made it obvious that it's the real Sonic that was with Fiona. Yes, Sonic is "confused." He made that much clear when he was talking about Sally in his thoughts and basically he's still angry with her even if he tells himself that he isn't. In any event, Sonic is supposedly deciding between using his brain or "kidnapping the princess" to attempt to stop the wedding. ;p

As for the Sonic/Anti-Antoine fight, Anti-Ant managed to stick his sword into Sonic's glove (pinning Sonic to the wooden bridge over a moat/creek where this fight took place), which made Sonic a sitting--or kneeling--duck for a nice kick. We all learned back in Sonic #46 that the regular Antoine is decently strong with his clocking of Geoffrey. Still, there is absolutely no reason for Sonic not to just y'know, run by him and go into the castle if he wanted to see Sally so badly other than it being too simple an exercise. ;p

The "wedding" is the cliffhanger and also Archie's way of squeezing in Knuckles & the Chaotix into the story. We need a group shot to get them into any story nowadays. ;p

As for the Dulcy story, I didn't feel like attempting to point out the problems with it though it's basically trying to incorporate the special dragon's area (I forget the name--the episode with the dragon egg) from SatAM into the comic as far as I can tell.

Funny how Dulcy is pretty much the only character Archie hasn't completely raped yet, "Crouching Hedgehog, Hidden Dragon" notwithstanding.

You know, if a girl acted the way Sonic's flouting himself with the girls at the moment, she'd be called a slut.

Jesus Christ, love is complicated enough without what Archie's doing to it. They must have been watching some old Eastenders episodes.

The only person Sonic hasn't gotten heavy with is Rouge, and that's only because Evil Sonic is getting heavy with her at the moment.

See, this is one of the reasons I prefer Shadow.

Oh yes, and a minor update on Dirk's suggestion...

Now THAT is a mess. And I wasn't joking. Not much, anyway.

When are they going to relise that the comic was at it's best when the love tirangle aspect was a very tiny one. Ugh... It's going to be a rough couple of months.

Sonic kissing Fiona?? WHAT? This issue sounds aweful! ANd Ash is still alive!

There's one thing I've noticed that needs to be fixed on the charts sense when was Bunnie and Sally a couple cuz there's a line between their names. Yes I know their friends and all that but I don't see them in that way but hey this is Archie Comics we're talking about here what are they going add next Sonic kissing Hershey man Geoffrey is going to be pissed oh don't forget about Knuckles girlfriend (I can't think of her name right now) then we can just sit back and watch the fireworks as Sonic get the living crap beatin out of him by 6 other guys one of them being Shadow he doesn't really need a reason other then Sonic being the faker that he is!

Punctuation was invented for a reason, rattrap.

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hold on back up. Sonic and Sally have been together for a decade. Now archie has stepped on the history of SatAM. now Sonics actions are making anti-sonic forgotten.

l have a VERY STRONG feeling that Sonic and Sally will get back together next iss

Murder List: writers of iss

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150-155
145 (the guys retarded).

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Sonic and Sally have been together for a decade.

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And split up for the last two years or so.

i would personally support archie comics if they decided to go on a 2 month hiatus or something to come up with ways to get back on track.as far as fiona and sonic,it doesn't bother me as much as it seems for some of you.granted,i would perfer if he got back with sally but if I had to choose someone else for him it would either be fiona or bunnie. I don't care for all that amy-son and mina-son stuff that some people like. but the love-triangle has gone past the octagon size. maybe archie isn't thinking about where they are going with certain issues and given up on the idea and started with something new(such as 152).

By request here is a scan of the fight between Sonic and Evil Antoine (Patch). And yes, it's Fry's artwork. Enjoy!

Wait a minute I thought Fiona Fox hated Sonic cuz of something that happend years earlier between her Sonic. Mighty and Ray or could this be Evil Fiona who knows.

fiona talked to sonic about that a few issues ago basically saying that after sonic risked his life for the planet she realizes that he wasn't the guy that she took him for or something like that.(sonic and mighty not ray, left her behind to do some sort of mission against robotnik.so it makes sense that she is on good terms with him.oh and thanks for the scan miss puar

That Sally saying "I do" at the end of part one in #155 is nothing but a cliffhanger.

If you want recent examples:

Look at the end of last week's Sonic X epsiode when Rouge saw the capulse and thought to herself "No it couldn't be", and then todays/yesterdays epsiode when she saw Shadow in the capusle and ask "what's he doing here?", was if you will a cliffhanger, if just a tiny one.,

And then if you saw the season 2 finale of Ninja Turtles and thus saw April's place blown up while they were trying to get and then to hear on the guardians report that Turtles were destoryed by the Shedder with the infamous "To Be Countiued" with ? at the end of it, and then to see in season 3 permerie that they indeed get out safe before the April's place blew is a if you will called a seasonal cliffhanger, meaning it keeps fans guessing until the next season debuts.

But if want more examples check ou it this link:
maybe that will help.

Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffhanger

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They were a couple for a couple of months, then seperated for a year. Afterward, they broke up. There's a huge difference. Archie is not SatAM and the 50 million things Archie has done throughout the series should have convinced people of that fact. I never would've read the comic if it was SatAM because it would've bored me. I personally don't mind this particular story. I just don't care for not seeing Knuckles and the Chaotix. ;p

BTW, Julie-Su is the name of Knuckles' girlfriend.

Umm... where's the scan of Sonic and Patch's fight?

click the word "fight" in miss puars post

Sonic and Fiona are making out? This comic rally is going to the dogs.

You know, there still is a problem with the plot development here. Antione is still in the Anti/Evil Mobius, and Evil Sonic was last seen flying off with Rouge (probably to Downunda) making plans to leave little to the readers' imagination. Even if Sally decides not to marry Patch at the last minute, how is anyone who should know ever going to learn that it's Patch is Antione's place? Antione not one of my favorite characters, but he's been earning my respect ever since #46 and afterwards, especially with the added depth of a relationship with Bunnie and what happened to his father. I'm really starting to like him more and more; enough to say Antione deserves to get back to his life as fast as possible.