Name: Sonic the Hedgehog Archives
ISBN: 9781936975778

Steven Butler

Andrew Pepoy

Sonic Scribes

Ken Penders

Karl Bollers

Patrick "Spaz" Spaziante

Collects a variety of the hedgehog's adventures, including the mystery of the chaotic water monster; the Freedom Fighters battle flood waters to save Station Square; and a battle between Super Sonic and Perfect Chaos.

Sonic the Hedgehog Archives

Pat Spaziante

Sonic battles his nemesis, Robotnik, as the villain traps him with plants, attacks him with a mechanical bomb-throwing monkey, and kidnaps Sally.

Maggie Gordon

I bumped the rating up to three stars! WOO! Not to say that Volume 7 of the Archives is fantastic, but it does include issue 25 which was the fancy silver anniversary comic that Spaz drew. It's really well illustrated and tightly plotted. Definitely the best Sonic comic released yet!

Issue 26 is... less interesting. Readers are introduced to the Arctic Freedom Fighters. They are fairly generic and we don't see them for a while after this. Oh, but there's a Bunnie story in the back that's drawn by Art Mawhinney. It feels very SatAM.

Finally, you have the 2 part 28-29 where Sonic develops amnesia and TURNS ON HIS FRIENDS! This is the first time we see Sonic the Traitor (I remember 2 other times in the next 20 issues from when I was a kid). I actually didn't mind this one because the Freedom Fighters had an intelligent response. Sonic was doing weird shit, so they had to treat him as if he was a hostile. When he regained his memory, no one freaked out. It's an overused plot, but it worked well here!

Congrats, Archive 7. You are better than just meh :D

Oh, some Tails stuff happens that I don't really care about because he's an emotional kid with little to no development yet...