A review by brnineworms
Sonic the Hedgehog: The IDW Collection, Vol. 3 by Ian Flynn

adventurous fast-paced

3.0

Cheap and contrived. It felt as though the writers regretted having a disease storyline which coincided with a real world pandemic and rushed to wrap things up as quickly as possible – I don’t know if that’s true, that’s just the impression I got.

One anticlimax after another, man. One plot point in particular that I want to mention is

Sonic’s amnesia after eradicating the Metal Virus. The writers could have explored the parallels between Mr Tinker and Mr Needlemouse. Or maybe the memory loss could have represented a sort of post-pandemic trauma, with Sonic not understanding that the Virus had been defeated and being mentally stuck in this state of desperation. Or, in any case, the Restoration could have been forced to seek out Dr Starline, not to neutralise the threat he poses but to beg for his assistance. This memory loss could have set up an entire arc but instead it’s resolved in the very next issue. I guess the writers just wanted to give Blaze something to do.

The whole thing was kind of pointless and a missed opportunity.

Also the artwork in the first issue was really substandard (though the rest of the collection looked good).

CONTENT WARNINGS: infectious disease, zombie mindlessness, violence, mass panic, evacuation