So when we last left off, we began our story of Sonichu with how he got his powers, how he first met his love, and how he first fought what is supposedly his arch-nemesis... Oh, there’s something I should have told you when this Liveblog began. I’m going into this blindly. Eeeeeyup. Outside of the first and second comic, with snippets and chatter of several other comics, I have no idea of how this story will turn out. In fact, a reason why I liveblogged this is because, like American Kitsune, I wanna finish this by Liveblogging it. If what I fear is correct, however, this rivalry with Silver and Team Rocket maybe discarded for soapbox drama.
However, for now, let’s relish in the fact that we’re doing a retread of Sonic Adventure 2, with Sonichu getting an Evil Counterpart. It also has Sonic return to assist Sonichu, which sounds pretty entertaining. The only downside I have with the cover is that whole “Cherry Cola” thing... I’ll get into this later, but let’s say for now it’s very... VERY... SILLY!
So from my understanding, after the fight with Sonichu, Silver somehow got a hold of some DNA sampling off Sonichu (I assume his hair), though I wonder just how he managed to do that. There wasn’t any actual evidence in the battle that he grabbed at the hairs... Okay, to compare to a better done comic, in The Nuzlocke Comics, at the bottom of this comic
, Giovanni, as a kid, grabbed at Mew’s tail, and grabbed some hair off it, which led to him trying to create Mewtwo (and possibly Ditto, if you believe in that theory). This might be possible if it was Zapdos who took the sample, but they said that Silver got the sample.
Whatever, they’re going to clone Sonichu... However, someone spills Cherry Cola on the DNA sample. I’m sorry... If this comic is meant to be taken seriously, which I doubt it should, this probably would just shake things up a bit... The idea that Cherry Cola somehow changed the DNA sample so that the Sonichu clone is colored differently from the original is nothing but silly. Which, I wouldn’t mind if it was some sort of comedic comic. It is as immersion breaking as Margot, the Leaning Witch of Pisa though. The only justification is that the Cherry Cola’s pigments, red and black, overridden the yellow and brown pigments for the DNA, which... is justifiable I guess, considering how it could have dyed the hair to be blackish red... though if we’re going to take this seriously, then it’s probably not going to cut it...
After a scene that is taken from the first Pokémon movie (I’m flummoxed on whether to just say it’s homaging the scene where the Pokémon get cloned or ripping it off) and much like Mewtwo, the clone Sonichu believes that he shouldn’t be just some puppet. Though, spoilers, much like Mewtwo in Pooh’s Adventures, he’s not going to do jack and shit about it. After a nod (I feel generous) to Shadow, the clone Sonichu awakens, and takes the name of Blachu. I will be calling him Blake though, since it sounds better. He has some Fridge Logic about how if he’s cloned from Sonichu, that would technically make him a father... I’m not exactly sure how cloning works, but usually they’re not viewed as fathers. In fact, Mew in the first movie saw Mewtwo as an inferior copy rather than anything with any dignity to it. Robotnik finds out some online info of Sonichu from Kel, and also the fact that Sonichu is Rosechu’s boyfriend... how the hell does he find THAT out? I mean, I get why she reported Sonichu to Oak (for research purposes), but where did he get information about Rosechu’s status? Unless... Ah crap. Robotnik is lurking on Facebook, isn’t he? And besides, do you really need research to find out that Sonichu and Rosechu are in a relationship? I mean, I would have thought Silver would put two and two together... Then again, he does have his name spelt backwards...
So then we have this scene where we find out Blake’s stats, which, like in the first issue with the bios, probably would have been better off in some databook or somewhere out of the actual story. The fifth episode begins with a map showing the map of CWCville, which while should be databook material, does have some actual use other than informing us of something. Silver is using the map to show Blake where Sonichu and Rosechu are. Sonichu and Rosechu meanwhile are Strangled by the Red String in dialogue George Lucas can approve of. The only thing we need now is Sonichu saying that he hates sand.
And that was my mandatory Take That! to Star Wars, ladies and gentlemen. Anyways, there’s another purpose to the map, and that’s to show where people are for this one scene. Okay, I’ll admit, I like it when the author incorporates different methods of conveying a story, like the countdown in the first issue, or here with the map. It sort of gives it some new flavour. Speaking of countdown, there’s another countdown. You know what this is reminding me of? THREE! TWO! ONE!. Blake then steals Sonichu’s girlfriend, and Sonichu crashes into Sonic. It doesn’t take a while for them to figure out they were at Station Square during the Perfect Chaos incident.
And then... I think this is where the comic slowly begins to fall apart. There’s a very cluttered dialogue box that’s so cluttered, it needed numbers to show us which goes first and which goes last. It’s very, very disorientating. Nevertheless, I have to read the dialogue and pick out the bad ones. So here. We. Go!
Sonic: Yeah! I remember zooming into a poor animal; I didn’t think it was a Pokemon. I apologize.
Oh, yeah. Running into an animal, that’s nothing, but when it’s a Pokemon, suddenly you’re doing a heinous crime and PETA Team Plasma will have your ass for it. Wut. This is so horribly rushed and I wouldn’t mind a few pages of them talking as opposed to them all cluttered into one space. Then they partner up, and suddenly we have these pointless stuff, like “visit our site here!” or “This ribbon supports autism!” Usually these stuff are found at the front or back, or even in between ads, but not in the middle of a damn comic. It’s like Product Placement. But Gone Horribly Wrong.
The next episode begins. Oh joy, it’s the “Let’s recap to the audience our evil plan” cliché. {chug} Anyways, the plan is simple. Blake and Sonichu would duel, and in the middle of the duel, he’d have Sonichu drink from a poisoned goblet, but if the poisoned goblet doesn’t do the trick, then the poisoned rapiers... Damn it, thinking of older, better stuff. Anyways, during the fight, he’d have Sonichu go on an huge X on the spot where a giant dome will come down on him.
Let me repeat that. The evil genius Robotnik’s evil plan relies on Sonic standing on a giant X. Didn’t realize AOSTH!Robotnik was in Sonichu and was dressed as Dr. Eggman from the games. Then... Robotnik sings and Chris-Chan pokes fun at him, all while saying he idolizes Sonic? What?
And it’s never mentioned again.
Anyways, the speedy duo reach the fortress as Sonic finds a picture of Robotnik to give to Sonichu. Why the hell was there a picture of Robotnik out by the door? Anyways, he knows that a trap is set, but decides to hang outside, presumably so that he’ll have the element of surprise. But really, I think he just wants to leave his “offspring” to die. Oh, and he notices that Rosechu is like Amy Rose. So did a lot of other people, ol’ Sonic-boy. Anyways, Silver introduces Blake to Sonic, and it seems Blake had eaten a mushroom, since he is larger than Sonichu...
Did I just poke fun at the art? That’s... odd. And yeah, I’m not really making a lot of art jokes since we might be here all day. Anyways, fight ensues, Sonichu lands on the X, I’m feeling some semblance of suspense here, and wham. Sonichu is trapped. But no worries, Sonic has come to save the day. And... Okay, this one took me by surprise. Metal Sonichu. The unoriginality is lampshaded by Sonic, and I pray Metal Sonichu doesn’t find the other Metal Sonichus and merge with them. The fight... Okay, I’m a little confused, so I’ll try to sum up as best as I can: Sonic gets Metachu (Metal Sonichu) to break out Sonichu, who fires a Zap Cannon at Metachu, which sends him to the moon.
Hey, Metachu, do you like bananas? So Sonichu busts Rosechu out, and we cut to the moon where we see that Metachu isn’t dead. Ah crap. He’s going to find Nightmare Moon, or Rita Repulsa, or the Rabbit Hutch (and get his hands on the Fourze Driver) or... Oh god... He’s going to merge with the Ten Tailed Beast! My god, this could set up a million different possibilities for a story! I mean, it’s not like he’s going to be ditched in favour of Soapbox Drama... Right? Oh, and for Brick Joke’s sake, Rosechu and Amy Rose meet up. And more cluttered dialogue, but this time it’s Played for Laughs, as they just yammer on and the author decides “it’s a wrap!”
And we’re done issue two. It was kind of a little stronger than the first issue, though that’s because it’s following a single plot this time. Blake could be interesting, as will Metachu, and I hope we get introduced to the other characters soon. This is starting to sound like a promising series, and I’m not yet sure why this is bad, other than what I’m told by Wikipedia-style sites everywhere and from what I can see from the walls of text and bad art, though I can tolerate those... for now. Then again, we’re done the second issue, and if Gen Urobuchi had taught us anything, it’s that the third episode is when heads roll... Or bitten off in his case.
So tune in next time when we see those three mysterious Hedgehogs from the first issue, in which one of them is mysteriously named after the author.
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