Nice to see another Joe Edkin story on Sonic X, and this looks like a fun one!!

Finally!!! I've been wanting to see a Sonic vs. Tails story since....forever!! From what I can tell from the story synopsis;

1.) "Unspeakeable threats from beyond" = Black Arms must have been in #177.

2.) Tails father is breaking up the Kingdom, and back-stabbing the king as I had suspected. Now, Mobotropolis looks to be in a civil war with Sonic on King Elias side, and Tails (of course) on his fathers side. At least, that's how it looks to be going down from my perspective.

Oh man!! This is gettin' good!!

on STH#178: a civil war between Mobians would be the last thing Sonic and everyone really need after what goes on in the past few issues before this one. Robotnik should be over the moon with it all.

Sonic X's cover reminds me so much of the original series' very first covers.

Looks like we're in for a lot of good stories these coming months. I'm not sure which sounds more interesting, issues 175 through 178 all sound equally good.

Still diggin' the Sonic X covers.

So, obviously Knothole is going to be destroyed...New Mobotropolis certainly sounds interesting. I look forward to see where it goes.

The way I see it I think the story might go down like this;

After Robotnik's big attack, Knothole is gone, and now there is New Mobotropolis. This is when Tails father, Amadeus makes his move. He feels that with the new land, and failure of the kingdom to protect it's citizens, that the Acorn kingdom is no longer needed and that it's time for elected leaders. Amadues, of course puts himself as a prime canidate for president of New Mobotropolis.

This splits the Kingdom apart with the "Satam" characters on one side, and the "SegaSonic" characters on the other. Bunnie and Antione would, of course, side with Sally and the Acorn family, while Tails would side with his father. Knuckles and the Chatoix would also side with Amadues as they are used to living in a democratic society ('cept Charmy, but he'll stick with his friends).

This leaves Sonic straight in the middle. Torn between his friends, and the Acorn kingdom. Sonic will have the toughest time of them all.

I guess I'll have to wait till August to see how close I am.

hmm, i love the sonic x issue. Is that an echo the dolphin cameo on the water cooler or am i just seeing things?... anyways the original series story sounds interesting, tails vs sonic eh? this should prove to be an awesome story.

This isn't the first time that Archie Comics did an issue with Sonic vs Tails in it. They did have Sonic and Tails fight somewhat with each other way back in #59 of STH! In fact I think it was Al and Cal that forced Sonic and Tails into fighting, if I remeber right? Plus I really think this time around they aren't going to hold any thing back which will make this issue real good I hope.

hmm, sounds like what marvel did with their civil war thing. (i'm not into those comics too much) whats eggman gonna do while sonic and his buds are caught up in a civil war?

and i'm just now getting back into the sth comic after a several year absence. so, who are the black arms?

Welcome to the Mobius Forum! The Black Arms are an alien race, and are the evil characters from the game Shadow the Hedgehog for the Xbox, PS2 & GameCube.

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After Robotnik's big attack, Knothole is gone, and now there is New Mobotropolis. This is when Tails father, Amadeus makes his move. He feels that with the new land, and failure of the kingdom to protect it's citizens, that the Acorn kingdom is no longer needed and that it's time for elected leaders. Amadues, of course puts himself as a prime canidate for president of New Mobotropolis.

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I was under the impression Amadeus preferred the monarchy, and was more against how weak it had become. Are we turning the General into a tyrant?

Lolz, the Civil War.

With Sonic getting shot by a sniper.

But, again, I can't help but feel disappoint for the recent string of covers.

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then we'll have the "fallen son" series after sonics untimely and lame death.

CIVIL WAR:FALLEN SON-TOMMY TURTLE- #'s 1-48

CIVIL WAR: FALLEN SON- MONKEY KHAN #'s 1-30

CIVIL WAR: FALLEN SON-shadow the hedgehog (but you don't have to read that.)

they were under Al and Cal's influence that caused them to fight. But they realized what they were doing and the spell was broken.

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Amadeus is gonna make a clone Tommy. The fans will call him Clommy and hate him with passion. Big show up and kills Clommy. The end .

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I'd buy it.

wow, didnt know they were in shadows game. since, i didnt even look into playing shth. (shadow the hedgehog) sorry, dont mean to be off-topic but thought that game would tank.

this looks cool though w/ the whole sonic being forced to choose sides. either way he's gonna get somebody mad at em.

*just puttin this for no reason. ^^)

big show? i dont know why but i just thought of a cross between big the cat and the big show from wrestling. lol

I'm just simply in love with what Ian is doing with the STH main series! It's hard to believe that just a little over a year ago we were debateing on how bad the next issue would suck! I now actually forget that there ever was a such a thing as the Tommy Turtle Trilogy! What am I Saying we shall forget Ol' Romy Chacon and Ken Penders' efforts to completely ruin everything we loved about the Sonic comic!

Ummm... you guys do realize that it's not neccesarily a Civil War here. I was just guessing. I'm betting I'm more close than wrong, but none of what I said is fact.

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we're just joking, it's funny that you bring up a civil war since you know, marvel is still reeling from it. hence the "fallen son" comments.

I believe Amadeus will try to disband the monarchy as well. Tails might be the one in the middle... I believe Amadeus might try to get a senate or diet sort of thing going on. Then leave the monarchy around looking pretty.

Just as the seeds are being planted for Sonic and Sally to finally get back together, Sonic has to lose TAILS now! This sucks!

It's not like Elias has proven to be a bad king so far, there's no need to remove him from power.

While Sonic vs. Tails is cool, this circumstances behind it couldn't be more sadist.

They fought before when they were brainwashed, but the power of friendship has now been shattered... dear heavens.

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I'm waiting patiently for World War Knuckles.

They're all @#%$ when Chaos Knuckles comes back.

Alex, I think there is still hope that Sonic and Tails friendship can be repaired too. I, for one, I am not 100% convinced that is really Tails' father. No matter what though, I think it is possible for Sonic to reach out to Tails.

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lol

This all leads to the biggest blockbuster of all!!!

Coming in fall 2008

SONIC: THE COUNTDOWN TO WORLD WAR OF 52 INFINITE CRISIS'!!

It ends with everyone on Mobius dead!! The effects are so great that it ends with everyone in the Archie universe dead too!! Even Sabrina!! The end of Archie is coming!!

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you know this is totally off topic but i must say that i absolutely hated WW3

what? is this seriousely gonna happen???

ummm yeah...ignore this statemen pleas. >.<

Sonic X looks like a jolly good read. I just wonder who this "...last person that anyone would expect" that Sonic must team up with is gonna be? One's first thought would obviously be Decoe and Bocoe, because Eggman trashed them and they'd probably want to get rid of the new robots just as much as Sonic, but the description said the last "person" singular. It couldn't be Shadow because at this point in the continuum, he is "dead" and doesn't reappear until the Meterex saga. Perhaps they mean Captain Westwood, you know, since he's such a jerk and Sonic doesn't like him. But I don't know what good he could do against powerful robots.
Personally, I hope it's Big the Cat. He's awesome, and has'nt been around since issue #9.

I think Westwood is your best bet.

okay, i'm bumping this topic for nothing else but to prove the fact that the sally getting shot by a sniper joke wasn't used just yet. it was SONIC who got shot. yeah lame i know.

But point still stands. Sniper joke was used!

Late

XD@ Psx

SUPER CELKNUX! RUNNN!

my guess is by the end of it tails dad (or possibly both parents) wioll be banished & end up working for robotnik or some other nefarious character Leaving tails all alone once more (or hopefully archie will leave hismom with him.)

Hopefully they both end up dead.

For any particular reason?

Being without parents was the only thing Tails had going for him, now that they're in the story, we have nothing to sympethize with him about. =

It depends on how you look at it. I always found the quiet, more intelligent kid getting overshadowed by louder, brasher, cooler-than-thou friends to be something that I could relate to pretty easily.

To me, Tails has always had something more individual than a lot of the FFs in that whilst they're going through standard Dawson's Creek growing pains, he was always having to work hard to keep up with the older kids, and we always had the possibility of seeing him go from a child to a teenager, like we're doing now.

I'd rather've never seen Bernie and Jules, since I consider Sonic to be such an immature, rude and unsympathetic personality that he needs all of the sympathy votes that he can get.

Although I could say the same about Sally as Sonic, I could tolerate her getting her parents back, if only to actually stop that from monopolising the plot.

Again, it's a matter of perception.

With Tails, he has had quite a number of foster parents; Julaya, Rosie, Sally, even Sonic though their relationship is more like a brother relationship there are times Sonic slips into a parent role(like when was training him). Lately, Jules and Berrie have been foster parents to him.

For me, bad things don't have to happen to a character for me to have sympathy for him or her, what kind of person or creature the character is affects if I have sympathy. Now I don't expect characters to be perfect, but if a character's bad qualities overshadow the good, it can turn me off to the character. I could sympathize with Sonic more if he were more thoughtful of his friends and his attitude was at least toned down. Tails is a fun, neat, talented, and basically good kid, so I can sympathize with him.

I have always admired and sympathized with Sally because of her intelligence and courage, but I can sympathize with Sally more than ever now that Sally has her parents back because of the things they have put her though and her unselfishness though it. Now I do think Max and Alica are well meaning, but have been blinded by their family tradisions because that is all they know, which has led them to make decisions that have caused Sally pain. I am glad things seem to be getting better on this.

Since we're talking about sympthathy for Tails, one other aspect of his character is the hero-worship. The element isn't quite as strong today as in the previous years but Tails always used to idolize Sonic. I could relate to this because I was an only child that spent alot of time growing up at a babysitter's and there were some older kids that I just thought were the coolest ever. Even to a lesser degree in highschool when I was a freshman there were some upperclassmen that I looked up to.

What's going on in Sonic and Tails' relationship reminds me of some of the growth that Tails went through in Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2. At the end of Sonic Adventure 1 Tails starts to feel a little aleinated by Sonic and gets the feeling that he should start becoming more independant. Then in Sonic Adventure 2 he is much more independant -- instead of following Sonic around the levels he goes off in his mech-walker and does his stuff.

Sonic Heroes and Shadow and all those other games kind of erased that growth in character but it was kind of interesting when it happened. I imagine that they'll work through it eventually and still be close, if not closer friends.

I don't think Tails being an orphan is the only thing he has going for him. He's an extremely intelligent kid, who's growing independant from his best friend.

I wasw against it when got got his parents back too. But when I found out his dad was scheming to possibly usurp the throne, I was a lot more satisfied.

Remember when NONE of the main characters had thier parents? Good times.