Okey dokey, we start off where the preview pages left us, the Freedom Fighters rushing out to deal with Stalin (Miles) who is outside the city. Stalin applauds the fighters for being so gung ho and tells them that he was here to bomb the city but has decided not to complete his mission. He tells them that the Squad isn't very fond of Scourge (Duh!) and that they hold a trump card in Sonic. He proposes an alliance but before we can learn more...

We head back to Sonic, Amy and the good Doctor, who tells Amy about himself and how he runs a hospital and runs some force field thing to protect the Moebians who fear Scourge. He tells them that sadly, Scourge and co. raided his tower and stole his star posts he was hoping to use to go visit other plants to search for new medical techniques to heal Buns Rabbot, who happens to be the Omega unit that attacked Sonic and Amy. She tells them that she developed N.I.D.S (Cute...not) in the base of her spine and Scourge kicked her to the curb. Nice guy that king is. The Omega unit keeps that little problem in check. The Doctor isn't happy about arming the unit but chose to use non lethal weapons at the least, lucky for Sonic and Amy.

Sonic asks is there anything they could do to throw Scourge off but the Doctor seems hesitant. It seems there is someone who could help, but she's a bit dangerous. Who? Rosy the Rascal, the anti-Amy. Hmmm...

Stalin meanwhile shares with the FF how the SS hates Scourge's leadership (Again, duh). Basically Scourge beat them all into submission and seemed hell bent on making them more than just evil twins, which meant taking on new names and appearances. Scourge conquered the anti world with ease but it seems he got a bit bored and decided to invade Mobius, with the help of the Doctor's star posts. Tails doesn't like Stalin at all but surprisingly, Sally says that with their combined strength, they could beat Scourge. Stalin drops the info that they rewired the FF's star posts to send Scourge back home which gets Tails hot under the collar. Nicole confirms Stalin's story (They're good...). Sally agrees to team up and Stalin begins to explain his plan. Why does this seem like a deal with the devil?

Sonic, Amy and Buns meanwhile make their way to Castle Acorn, where the Doctor says where Rosy is. They head out of course after the Doctor nags and worries that everything is all right. The Castle is quite unlike the one on Mobius, being run down and looking pretty danky. While Buns argues the positives of it, Amy grumbles that it sucks. Sonic meanwhile notices something in the shadows before the group is introduced to the creepy singing of the only occupant left in the castle. Buns notes that the singing is coming from the throne room. Where they find...

Rosy, lounging on the throne. By the way she sounds, Rosy sounds like someone with a few screws rattling in that brain of hers. She of course pulled the same stunt as Amy, using magic to turn herself older though Sonic notes since it's the anti zone, there may be a few more side effects. Oh and she really really hates Scourge. And it seems the side effect of her magic stunt is that she lost every strand of sanity she had left, turning into a pyscho, foaming at the mouth and ready to kill! Nut case to the nth degree!

The side story is just an intro the Sonic Unleashed...I'll recap it later after work, hehe.

Curses Tornadot you beat me to it again! You're a quick minx for sure ^_^

I'm loving this storyline more and more as it goes along. I for one thought it a kind of interesting touch that Buns is aflicted by the same illness Maria suffered with. A nice nod to Mobius Prime. Also kudos to the Anti Knux apperance, though here's to hoping he shows up in this storyline. How cool is it that they've taken that little touch from Super Special 10 and turned it into Scourge's 'prime' motivation ^_^. The fact he's this insanly obssesed with making himself unique to the point of forcing it on his entire planet shows how off the deep end he's gone. Yet all his actions seem to come back to one point: his obssesion with besting Sonic. Ever since #11, Sonic has become his sole motivation in life. Sonic is everything he wants to be - strong, cool, and loved by all. Scourge's problem is his only way of seeing how to be loved is to force it from people. In a way Scourge is as much a victim as anyone else. I love how Ian has given what once was a 1 dimensional cliche joke character, and filled him with tons of personality and motive. Oh and as for Rosey... WE CALLED IT GUYS!!! *thumbs up*

Well, I can't say that Buns being the Omega duplicate is surprising, given Kintobor's use of the name in the preview pages. Oh well, at least it's something of an Omega appearance, and hopefully the real one will show up soon to kick some butt. I wonder how Rosy the Rascal looks, since the cover makes her look like younger Amy but she's supposedly older. Anyway, if I can just find out what happened to ol' Anti-Knuckles (or whatever he goes by now) I'll be happy, though I would like to see some other new Anti-Mobians.

I am really annoyed by these intros to video games. Personally, I just hope that they'll start making more use of the characters they've introduced in preview stories, because I want to see more of these guys. The Babylon Rogues, Blaze, the Black Arms, Shade and the Dark Brotherhood...why is it that they bring such potentially awesome characters in only once? I mean sure, Blaze and the Black Arms are supposed to come back, but when? And why not bring the other guys back too?

Rosy looks the same as Amy before she magically become older via magic! I can get a scan if need be...

Shigamado was kind enough to scan it earlier!

::sweatdrop::

Yeah. (Sweatdrop) That was probably the first thing I noticed, too.

Looks like a placeholder/filler comic, though. From the description, it looks like all this could have been condensed into 5 pages, not 20 (or so).

It's not that bad. They could have started doing this animu kawaii desu crap again.

Wait a tic, is... is that a picture of Tails stabbing Robotnik?

The back-up is actually made up of the cutscene (part of it) seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkZpXZ0G8A

Super Sonic goes up to Eggman and tells him the jig is up. Eggman is upset that Sonic destroyed most of his space armada and bows down and says he knows when he's beat (Sonic decides to skip on the obvious pun). Eggman then pushes a button that activates the machine that saps Super Sonic of all of his strength and all the powers of the chaos emeralds. Eggman's pretty happy that Sonic fell for his trap. Eggman notes that something is fully charged and has fired (the cannon that shatters their world). He notes that "it" will be unleashed, as he goes to gloat to Sonic, we see a claw in the next panel. Then some sharp teeth followed by some very furry spikes. The next page show the Werehog roaring at Eggman. Eggman didn't expect that and is pretty scared. He hits a switch that sends the Werehog plummeting towards the earth with the now useless Chaos Emeralds, at this point we see a pic of the earth shattered. The Werehog wakes up in its own crater and wonders how he survived the fall, how Eggman used all the power to shatter the planet, and how he turned into a Werehog. The sun comes up and he changes back to Sonic. Sonic now has a bunch of questions and is going to go find Eggman for the answers.

It's not that bad. They could have started doing this animu kawaii desu crap again.

hey if they put axer back into the comic, i don't care what he does. *IMO the above pic isn't that bad, could be alot worse*

I thought the art was fine, lol. Could be much much worse (Many Hands, Lim anyone?)

Didn't care for Axer's style. Too realistic for a comic about cartoon animals.

that's..... kind of an interesting thing to say. i think his facial expressions and attention to detail are great. it's not like he has the ron lim problem of making characters too tall or the tracy yardley problem of goofy faces. i think axer had a great balance and consistency with his work.

care to elaborate on the too "realistic" comment?

Amy having "Man Hands" doesn't do it for ya?

it's not that noticeable to me.

She can crack coconuts with those things!

Since I have a soft spot for Amy's old design and homicidal, insane characters, Rosy the Rascal's appearance in this comic was a real treat. Can't wait to see what crazy crap she'll dish out.

hehehehehehe...Insanity...IS NEAT!!!!!!

I thought it was a good issiue overall.

The whole alliance deal seems okay, but if you look at Miles facial expression in the last panel, something tells there's more to his plan then meets the common eye.

As for Rosy, she may be the undoing ace up Sonic's sleeve, and looks like she may foil Miles Plan to get rid of Scourge. Just have to wait and see.

But overall, good lead in/contuition of this saga. 8.5/10

Axer is okee.....but I really like the current artists a lot more. I feel like I'm reading a saturday morning cartoon and not some stiffly drawn anime.

Heh and Scourge has his hands full now. His own team, the freedom fighters, AND this insane Rosy the Rascal?

Only if Rosy decides to help.
Hey, you never know.

She might be too crazy to be on anybody's side.

Also I wonder who's gonna hog tie her. Sonic or Amy. Since counterparts just luv to fall in with each other in battle. I mean Amy has to fight her she just has to. If she doesn't then whats the point of her being on this mission? >>

I just Read #193 this Saturday. Gotta say Great issue. I love How Rosey is so insane. But the one Guestion I was thinking about the whole book is about what Buns (anti-bunny's) condition. WHAT THE HEX IS N.I.D.S??!

NIDS is the same illness Maria had, and what Shadow was created to cure (in part).

Which begs the question: what of Moebius' Shadow? What's his deal?

he must be chipper, and have lots of friends.

Probably still in development.
If he isn't dead yet.

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Didn't care for Axer's style. Too realistic for a comic about cartoon animals.

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Too realistic? I'd say the more realistic the better! I loved J Axer's detail!! I think it's nice to see the characters especially sonic without spaghetti arms.

But... I like Spaghetti arms! ;_____________;