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Sonic the Hedgehog, Vol. 1: Fallout!
by Ian Flynn
I agree with some of the reviewers here that this volume is pretty run of the mill, but I will defend it.
Real-life-background-info-dump: There was a Sonic comic published by Archie comics with this same creative team. However, due to Archie wanting to focus on their own brand, they cancelled the comic...without telling the people working on the book, leaving them all without a paycheck for roughly 6 months (yiiiiiikes). When the rights to the book changed hands to IDW, fans of the old comic championed for the previous creative team to come on onboard and help IDW build a new continuity from the ground up. For this volume you've got the same writer for all issues (the bumble-king himself, Mr. Ian Flynn) with interior pencils by the same art crew from the previous book (Tracy Yardley, Adam Bryce Thomas, Jennifer Hernandez, and Evan Stanley).
Nothing too special about the plot. The book is more focused on establishing the setting and tone than on telling a complete story so it feels more like part of an Act 1 than a complete story. The dialogue and character dynamics are spot on though. Standout character for me is Amy Rose, who is smitten with Sonic, but Flynn doesn't let that attraction be her defining character trait. Amy goes quip for quip and blow for blow with Sonic in the second issue and it's charming to read. While we don't spend enough time with Tangle in issue 4 to really get to know her character, she has a slick design and the artist has a lot of fun utilizing her tail for various action sequences and acrobatics.
Speaking of the art. As noted by others, it's inconsistent. There's a different artist and colorer each issue so it feels like you're reading a compilation of one-shots rather than a complete volume. That said the cover art is all fantastic (shoutout to newcomer, Nathalie Fourdraine, and her stellar variant covers) and the interior art is still solid with Thomas and Stanley's being the highlight of the volume for me. Their art has more volume to it and the action sequences are much more frantic and fun.
So far the book hasn't reached the highs of the previous Sonic comic, but it hasn't hit the lows either. It's fine. Inconsistent, but fine. If you are a Sonic fan, I would recommend you wait and pick up the first 3 volumes all at once. Once the groundwork has been laid, this book takes advantage of its setting and gets CRAZY fun.
Real-life-background-info-dump: There was a Sonic comic published by Archie comics with this same creative team. However, due to Archie wanting to focus on their own brand, they cancelled the comic...without telling the people working on the book, leaving them all without a paycheck for roughly 6 months (yiiiiiikes). When the rights to the book changed hands to IDW, fans of the old comic championed for the previous creative team to come on onboard and help IDW build a new continuity from the ground up. For this volume you've got the same writer for all issues (the bumble-king himself, Mr. Ian Flynn) with interior pencils by the same art crew from the previous book (Tracy Yardley, Adam Bryce Thomas, Jennifer Hernandez, and Evan Stanley).
Nothing too special about the plot. The book is more focused on establishing the setting and tone than on telling a complete story so it feels more like part of an Act 1 than a complete story. The dialogue and character dynamics are spot on though. Standout character for me is Amy Rose, who is smitten with Sonic, but Flynn doesn't let that attraction be her defining character trait. Amy goes quip for quip and blow for blow with Sonic in the second issue and it's charming to read. While we don't spend enough time with Tangle in issue 4 to really get to know her character, she has a slick design and the artist has a lot of fun utilizing her tail for various action sequences and acrobatics.
Speaking of the art. As noted by others, it's inconsistent. There's a different artist and colorer each issue so it feels like you're reading a compilation of one-shots rather than a complete volume. That said the cover art is all fantastic (shoutout to newcomer, Nathalie Fourdraine, and her stellar variant covers) and the interior art is still solid with Thomas and Stanley's being the highlight of the volume for me. Their art has more volume to it and the action sequences are much more frantic and fun.
So far the book hasn't reached the highs of the previous Sonic comic, but it hasn't hit the lows either. It's fine. Inconsistent, but fine. If you are a Sonic fan, I would recommend you wait and pick up the first 3 volumes all at once. Once the groundwork has been laid, this book takes advantage of its setting and gets CRAZY fun.