INFO BURST

Format: Comic strip
Initial Release Date: 24 November 1992
Feature character: Doctor Robotnik
Other Characters: Badniks (Caterkiller, Ball Hog, Jaws, Burrobot, Moto Bug, Orbinaut, Splats, Batbrain, Crabmeat, SWATbot)
Locations: Robotropolis (Robotnik’s factory)
Items: Robo-Machine
Continuity: Archie Comics
Synopsis: Robotnik declares that Sonic and the Freedom Fighters don’t stand a chance against his Badniks as they trundle down the conveyer belt of the assembly line out of the machine which constructed them.

CREDITS

Writer: Michael Gallagher
Artists: Scott Shaw, Jorge Pacheco

Review

Another single-panel effort, though this one isn’t designed to be funny. Instead, it’s an introduction to the many and various Badniks Robotnik employs to fight Sonic and the Freedom Fighters. The Badniks pictured are pretty well cut-and-pasted from stock art of the characters from the video games and, unfortunately, the majority of them have at least one colouring error. Sadly, there are also a few omissions, including most notably Buzz Bomber despite its appearance in the lead strip (to say nothing of its redesign for the comic) but we get the first appearance of Splats, some 25 years before it would actually appear in a game, which is a nice bit of fun. This isn’t really a story but it’s a nice little thing all the same.