The Eggman War - Sonic the Hedgehog #198, #199, & #200
So like with all event arcs, this is an important development for the comic that effects everyone and as usual Bunnie and Antoine are present in some capacity. However rather then making three mini-reviews I’m going to cover the whole arc and what little they appear in it.
“Egg Phoenix Down” - StH #198
The Freedom Fighters and the Chaotix make the final assault against Eggman and the waning Dark Egg Legion. Meanwhile Snively and the rest of the Egg Bosses plan to betray they’re now insane leader.
Yeah in the background for several issues now it’s been hinted that Eggman is slowly loosing his mind. His latest scheme involves a huge jet that shoots fire.
Mainly though this is an action issue dedicated to showing off everyone’s talents and how they work as a team. Sally’s giving orders, Rotor’s come out of retirement to do tech stuff, and Bunnie and Ant are fighting through the ranks.
However there are moments here and there where our two heroes get to stand out.
First Antoine personally takes on Lin-da.
We haven’t talked about Lin-da much as she’s mainly a Knuckles villain. She’s Julie-Su’s sister and kind of like a female Snively. She craves power but winds up falling subservient to others while failing to obtain it. All the while being a manipulative little backstabber. What makes her stand out from Snively though is that she’s extremely petty, and her long held grudges against slights both real and imagined are what drives her.
Anyways, I’m living for Antoine being the one who continuously calls out villains on their bullshit. I guess it’s because he’s had to pretend to be one for so long and now he no longer has to keep quite when he sees injustice. So he takes everybody on, especially when they’re trying to be self-righteous little shits like the Dark Legion tends to do.
In short I would have loved to see more Ant vs Lin-da fights. Or Antoine vs random villains in general.
As for his wife Bunnie, we get official confirmation that her cybernetics are tied to her health and that using them too much does indeed hurt her.
This is a plot point for the next upcoming story arc so store it away for later viewers.
Anyways Sally comes up with a plan to defeat the fire jet…
And then everyone beds down for the night before the final battle.
We get a little reflection from Tails about the enormity of what is finally going down and how serious this all is, which is nice, but all it does is makes me wish we had a fourth issue between this one and the next where everyone got a chance to reflect on the bigger picture.
“Knocking on Eggman’s Door” - StH #199
We get a tiny bit of this reflection in the following issue, but it’s all banter and mostly reminiscing during fight scenes.
On the one hand it makes the fights a little more interesting then just watching people punching stuff, but on the other, it kind of diminishes the emotion and what’s a stake here.
Though that might be by design as even the character’s commit on how easy this all is while the other villains are orchestrating Eggman’s demise at good guys’ hands.
But that’s pretty much the end of Bunnie and Ant’s contributions to the story.
We do get a scene of Bunnie and Mighty working together which makes my little shipper heart happy.
And there are some other minor character bits that are entertaining, like Julie-Su’s and Vector’s little mini argument and reconciliation, Mighty being saved by Ray, Sally telling Sonic to be careful as he knowingly walks into a trap, or Lin-da making fun of Snively’s cologne.
It’s little scenes like those that elevate the comic and showcases that Sonic’s greatest strength has always been it’s diverse cast.
“Turnabout is Fair Play” - StH #200
Sonic defeats Eggman for good and he has a mental breakdown.
That’s it. Bunnie and Antoine have nothing to do with this issue, but it’s such an important plot point that I couldn’t skip it entirely hence why I combined these reviews.
And as far as plot twists go it’s a pretty good one. First it serves as a bookend to the previous event comic. Secondly it gives a plausible end to the on going conflict without the heroes having to kill. And last of all it doesn’t remove Eggman from the picture completely leaving the door open for future stories.
So ends the 8th era, tune in next week for the recap and from there we’ll get into the Iron Dominion arc.
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