INFO BURST

Format: Comic strip
Initial Release Date: 24 November 1992
Feature character: Sonic the Hedgehog
Locations: None mentioned
Continuity: Archie Comics
Synopsis: Sonic shows off his shoes and the cool features hiding beneath their deceptively simple design.

CREDITS

Writer: Michael Gallagher
Artists: Scott Shaw, Jorge Pacheco

Review

As with the Robotnik’s Badniks! page, this isn’t so much a strip as a featurette. It’s all drawn nicely enough but there’s honestly very little to talk about here. Most of the page is actually taken up by Sonic whizzing about at high speed. While it’s a fun concept to have a closer look at Sonic’s Power Sneakers while reeling off their supposed features, the simple design of Sonic’s shoes actually means the end result is visually a little boring- when all’s said and done, his shoes aren’t rendered as much more than rounded triangles with lines representing treads on the bottom. Elegant in their simplicity but surprisingly tricky to make exciting when you attach an itemised list to them! An inoffensive page-filler.