All righty, just finally got off my butt and got this issue.
The main story itself, broken down into two parts, the wedding side, and the espionage side, in itself, was pretty short. Damn page restrictions. =( Although, it was pretty good. There were things there which made me giggle.
Also, for the thing that happens to Espio, now that I read it, I do believe it's some sort of teleporting device. Just a feeling I get - one) from how it looks, two) Espio being a SEGA character and being protected and all that.
As for the backup story, I so felt like I was reading Sonic X.
Can't wait for StH #175. <3
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SALLY: We're not teasing!
SONIC: Well, I am. It's borderline treason, otherwise.
I liked that part a lot as well. However, I thought sending Amy out to be with Sonic (due to their extremely contrasting expressions) was very funny.
As much as the dialogue was well-written, this was an issue which - as with 173 - actually tipped me towards hoping that Sally meets a very messy death. And very soon.
As I said after 173, I feel like the comic is backsliding back into the rut that it'd been working ever since 134 to get out of. I'd have actually liked a story about Ant and Bunnie's wedding to be about celebrating Ant and Bunnie making a commitment, not the smartmouthed trainwreck that is/was/does anyone even know any more (?) Sonic and Sally making googoo eyes at each other and everyone talking about how it should be them.
And I can't help feeling that, as long as Sally's there, there's always going to be that "Will they or won't they?" vibe hanging around and crowbarring its way into the atmosphere of every story.
Either get them back together and have the guts to keep it that way in spite of the sections of the fandom who'd throw hissy fits (I'm not sure if Sega'd allow that; and since they'd never let Sonic marry - let alone a character who means nothing outside the US and Canada - it possibly wouldn't satisfy hardened 'shippers that the relationship could never evolve), or have the guts to get a character who it seems to be pretty darned obvious was saved for no current reason during Endgame out of the picture once and for all, nail the divisions she causes one way or the other and have both Sonic and the comic's storyline FINALLY move forward. This limbo situation just feels as though it's choking things since Ian started with the SatAM fanservice.
But find a level and find it soon. Unless this dithering, angsting and third parties throwing up "SHE'S HIS EX!!!!!" at every turn is leading up to some major tragedy and pathos in 175, I'm going to have real trouble stomaching it.
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this was an issue which - as with 173 - actually tipped me towards hoping that Sally meets a very messy death. And very soon.
Well, there is a massive invasion by robot hordes and Egg Fleets beginning in the next issue...
Oh. And I hated the fact that Rotor didn't speak one damn word in the whole issue.
He's like, non-existent now, it's so pathetic.
Rotor was pretty pathetic to begin with though.
Now it's at an all-time low, I'd say.
Fine with me, less dialouge space wasted.
After taking a look at the issue,I have done something I haven't done in awhile, I actually brought the comic(I ordered it by impalse creations)in good faith that things will get better. I enjoyed Bunnie and Antione's wedding. I am only mentioning this(it sounds like the mods don't mind) since it is part of the issue, I enjoyed the parts about Sonic and Sally(I don't think it took away from Bunnie and Ant that much) though I agree with Sam somewhat. Having a little of "will they or won't they" is fine but after awhile it can get annoying. Of course I perfer Sam's first option, getting Sonic and Sally back together, sticking with it, and developing it into a relationship more fans can respect. Sega really needs to change, because I see them as the big problem in this.
Relationship talk? In my Knothole Village Forum?
It's more likely than you think! 😮
Toby, I wouldn't exactly call this "relationship talk". We're not discussing the relationships themselves as such, such as who Sonic should be with or their actual mechanics - we're just touching on how they relate to the actual story, since the actual plots of the last couple of issues seem to've been drowning in Sonic/Sally-ness that's been tied in with the themes.
If we weren't discussing any aspect (and I think that "aspect" is the key word) of "relationships" at all, we couldn't even talk about the fact that the crux of this month's plot is a wedding, let alone the fact that Sonic and Sally not being in a relationship might be seen as eclipsing it.
I'm an Admin. I'm hardly going to break a rule that I'd object to someone else breaking.
Maybe it's borderline - but it's not over the line, and if it gets out of hand, I'll deal with it.
