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Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 9
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Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 9 was the ninth issue of the main Sonic the Hedgehog comic series.
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Summary
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Story OneEdit
- "Pseudo Sonic" - Part One
The story opens with Dr. Ivo Robotnik analyzing a chart with all the known data he has on Sonic the Hedgehog, and has used it to create a new robot called Pseudo Sonic, who can run as fast as Sonic and can stop on a dime, although there are still a few bugs to iron out.
Meanwhile in the Great Forest, Sonic comes up from the secret entrance to Knothole and accidentally hits Antoine D'Coolette, who is guarding the entrance, on the head with the trap door. He then rushes off to secretly pick flowers for Princess Sally without telling Antoine. Once out in the meadow, he begins to pick the flowers, and soon runs into Betty Butterfly, who tells him he's picking Poison Sumac Blossoms, which Sonic is really allergic to, and begins to itch like crazy before swelling up like a balloon, becoming "Swollen Sonic."
Back at Knothole's secret entrance, Antoine complains to Pseudo Sonic, who he thinks is the real Sonic, that he is almost late for curfew. Antoine then leads Pseudo Sonic into Knothole, and the other members of the Knothole Freedom Fighters spot it as a fake straight away. Pseudo Sonic then contacts Dr. Robotnik and prepares to transmit Knothole's coordinates.
- "Pseudo Sonic" - Part Two
Pseudo Sonic proceeds to make contact with Robotnik, but before he can give him the coordinates, Tails run in a circle around him while dragging his tails along the floor to create a field of static electricity that causes Pseudo Sonic to short out and blow up. Rotor then takes the pieces his workshop to find out who made it.
Meanwhile, Sonic has finally managed to crawl out of the patch of Poison Sumacs and just as he reaches the edge of the Great Forst, Dr. Robotnik shows up after triangulating approximate area of Pseudo Sonic's last transmission.
Meanwhile, Rotor determines that Pseudo Sonic was created by Dr. Robotnik and Betty Butterfly flies in to tell them about how he suffered an allergic reaction to the Poison Sumacs.
Delighted at finding Sonic helpess, Robotnik then fires his flamethrower at Sonic, which just misses, and prepares to use his mace on Sonic. But Bunnie Rabbot shows up just in the nick of time to blast Robotnik's hovercraft and then jumps up in the air with Robotnik in hand and then throws him all the way back to Robotropolis. She then returns to Sonic's side and uses an ointment made by her aunt Lulumae on his rash. The duo then head back to Knothole just as Rotor puts the remains of a still active Pseudo Sonic in the rubbish bin, leaving Sonic in the dark about the day's events.
Story TwoEdit
- "What's the Point?" - Part One
After picking a bunch of flowers for Sally's birthday, Sonic rushes home, only to discover that his speed has ruined the flowers. Disappointed by his failure to find a present for her, he is surprised as a Mobian Needle Bird-whom he names Thorny-falls out of a tree and lands on him. After caring for it, Sonic decides to take it home to Knothole and give it to Sally as a present. However, she refused to let it remain in Knothole, fearing it to be the latest in a series of animals exploited or counterfeited by Robotnik in an effort to attack the Freedom Fighters. Thorny further aggravates the situation by eating Sally's cake, which was made out of berries it was fond of. With Sonic gone to return Thorny to its nest, Sally leaves to pick more berries for her cake, only to fall into the cluthces of a robot disguised as a tree. Rushing to save her, Sonic is saved by Thorny, who then helps him save Sally. Robotnik himself arrives with a freeze blaster to zap the Freedom Fighters, only for Thorny to drive him off and reveal itself to be female despite Sonic thinking she was a male previously. In gratitude, Sally names Thorny an honorary Freedom Fighter.
QuotesEdit
- Bunnie: So much for him! How do you feel, Sonic?
- Sonic: I don't mean to be rash, but find me someone to sue, mac!
- Bunnie: That rash will clear up of my Aunt Lulumae's ointment...cornmeal paste with cloves, kudzu root, bramble berry pits, eye of newt...
- Sonic: Yuk... Sometimes the cure's worse than the disease!
- Sonic: "Excuse me, reader, but we will now pause to use all the bad tree puns and get them over with! I don't want to go out on a limb but I wood l like to get to the root of Sally's problem! I'd be a sap if I decided to leaf! As forest that's concerned, I'll try to cedar things through fir sure! If knot, I'll be pine-ing and weeping! I'd much rather take a bough! Oak-K? Cool! Now you can continue our adventure without having to read any more of those!
Key EventsEdit
- Pseudo Sonic is created and attacks but is defeated
Background InformationEdit
- This issue is the first appearance of a Sonic robot duplicate; Pseudo Sonic.
- Pseudo Sonic would not be seen again until Sonic the Hedgehog #170.
- Rotor is wearing a "Hello, my name is Rotor" name tag, and had renamed "Boomer's Shop" "Rotor's Shop," to stop the confusion over his name.
- A 1-page story, "Tooth or Consequences!" has Robotnik revealing that he at least fears dentists.
- Sonic wasting the bad tree puns to make the story serious was hampered by a couple of corny corn puns thrown in for no good reason.
- Features a two-page pinup of Sonic with humongeous muscles.
- The first story is based loosely on an Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode of the same title.
- The cover of this issue is a reference to the classic DC Comics story: "The Flash of Two Worlds!".
