Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper #2

[deh_tommy]

Mimic makes his escape while Whisper rushes off to rescue Tangle, and after a bit of searching she finds the safe. cracks open the safe and gets her out. True to Mimic’s word, the bombs go off right at that moment, and with no other way out in time Tangle kicks Whisper into the safe with her to ride out the explosion.









“...Okay. I’ll tell you everything.”

Comments

[blues32]

I thought her mask was designed to detect Mimic. That's why she had Tangle put it on to look at "Sonic", wasn't it?

[deh_tommy]

No, she had recorded footage on her mask of Mimic transforming. He fled the scene when Tangle attacked Whisper, which is why she regrouped at Jewel’s house instead of continuing the hunt for him. I’m sorry for my sloppy cutting causing confusion again, I can go back and edit the original to make it more obvious if you’d like.

EDIT: Here, I hope this clears things up.

[blues32]

Ohhh...wait, does that mean she's constantly recording what she sees while wearing that?

[deh_tommy]

I think so. How the mask works is elaborated on a bit more in the next issue.

[remial]

is her hurt that she watched Sonic Underground?
where Sonic had a sister and a brother and they were in a band so they could go around to different resistance cells, and they each had a magic pendant that turned into a musical instrument that shot, I don't know, lasers or something.

[chalicother]

I can't hate Sonic Underground as it was one of the only ways I could see Knuckles in a cartoon as kid.
I don't think it was that horrible.
It still developed from let's make a series about a cartoon character, but the creators of the cartoon have no interest in the universe of the characters.

[deh_tommy]

In their defence, it was produced and released when the story of the games was a lot more malleable/less defined than it would be these days.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I don't know it's fair to say there was "no interest in the universe of the characters" by the writers. I remember at least one of the staff of SatAM they'd brought on wanted to make it a continuation of that show, might have even been lured to it under that pretense, but they didn't go with it.

[tinygaylaura]

There was less in-game lore back then which is why SATAM, Fleetway, the Archie comics and Underground created so many original characters/concepts to flesh it out

[blues32]

Still irked me that it took so long for the chaos emeralds to be involved in most of them. Fleetway was right on it, but SatAM and Underground never even acknowledged them. Even though I think Underground had the Master Emerald. Instead they acted like the rings were amazing artifacts. They litter the landscape and float in the air in the games.

[tinygaylaura]

I did like the Archie reveal that rings were invented by a friendly mad scientist who was friends with a Yeti

Named Eddie

Eddie the Yeti

I think the wildest change to the games lore the Archie stuff did had to be everything to do with the Echidnas.

"Knuckles lost people are engaged in a bloody and vicious holy war between a theocratic authoritarian regime that thinks all technology is evil and a technocratic cult of cyborg quasi-fascists led by his batshit insane ancestor and also he's being spied on by his Racist Grandpas who all faked their suicides in front of their children to go live in a creepy survival bunker where they spy on everyone"

And yet Ken Penders couldn't understand why they wouldn't let him write for the games

[blues32]

I can easily hate Sonic Underground. I mean, Jaleel White voices ALL the siblings. He's not that good a voice actor to be voicing multiple characters that are in constant interaction with each other. Pretty sure they had to pitch shift him for Sonia.

Then they failed to bring back Jim Cummings. It's the SatAM design for Robotnik, but the voice is just...it's Garry Chalk. It's GROUNDER! Yes, it doesn't sound like Grounder, but it's still the same guy and NOT Jim Cummings. Jim Cummings made Robotnik terrifying in SatAM and I don't think anyone else could have pulled it off at the time. ...well, maybe Tony Jay.

But the biggest affront to me was the dreaded "power of music" thing they had going on. I always hated plots like that. That and sudden singing. It's why I can't stand musicals. You can't be doing something serious and then burst out into song. I'm reminded of a Saturday Night Live sketch where Norman McDonald played a guy stuck in a musical, trying to figure out why people around him are singing. I was willing to tolerate it though, because I THOUGHT it was the SatAM Robotnik since there's no talking in the intro.