INFO BURST

Format: Comic strip
Initial Release Date: 24 November 1992
Feature character: Sonic the Hedgehog
Other Characters: Sally Acorn
Locations: The Great Forest (presumably)
Items: None
Continuity: Archie Comics
Synopsis: A tearful Sally stands next to what she claims was her “family tree,” in actuality a tree owned by the royal family, which Robotnik has chopped down. Sonic swears revenge on Robotnik and assures Sally everything will be “oak-kay.”

CREDITS

Writer: Michael Gallagher
Artists: Scott Shaw, Jorge Pacheco

Review

Something the earliest issues of Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog comic would include are strips with smaller page counts, sometimes as few as one page or even, as is the case here, a single panel. These shorter strips are decent enough for quick little gags but there’s really nothing to write home about in most of them. So it is with this first single-panel gag entry. The “family tree” pun is actually probably stronger than Sonic’s punchline but since the entire thing consists of a sole panel and two word balloons, it’s impossible to be mad about it. Nothing special, but nothing terrible either!