Got 151 today. And I thought my subscription had expired. Apparently not, since I'm still good til 155. Whee and shit. So... here's my lame review.

Anyhoo.
The cover was a nice pic of Sonic floating in some bubbly sea-green water.

The first story was "Chaos Emeralds are Forever"
It starts off with Sonic, who must've just landed in the Anti universe, and he finds himself surrounded by the EBIL Anti-crew, which includes the regular Antoine...and surprise, surprise... Anti-Bunnie! And we thought she didn't exist! xD She's sporting an attire of black; hat, leotard, knee-high boots and spiked arm and wrist cuffs. She's also unroboticized.
So...Sonic gets kicked around by the Anti-crew for a bit, and the scene switches to Mobius Prime, where EBIL Sonic is approaching the 'babelicious' Rouge. She tells him she was on Angel Island and Sonic agrees that he's been there too. She's excited and asks if he'll show her around, and he says 'Sure, I'll even show you the Chaos Emerald!' She grabs him and flies towards the island.

Back in Anti-verse...
Sonic is trussed up by rope and hanging upside down from a tree... which is atop a cliff above an ocean. Dun dun dun. The Anti-crew uses their laser watches to skewer the ropes and Sonic plummets to his death. HAHHHAA.
The END.
This whole scene actually reminded me of a fic by Steven Zacharus, where Geoffrey St John kidnaps Sonic and throws him off a cliff to his (supposed) death in the water below. Ah, sweet betrayal.

Back on Angel Island:
Rouge and EBIL Sonic touch down near a cave that Sonic claims houses the Chaos Emerald. Locke is just emerging, so, after a very brief word to E. Sonic, Rouge walks out of the bush and proceeds to...

Back on Anti-verse again.. Whew.
The Anti-gang is peering down the cliff and gloating most EBILLY. They are surprised when Sonic's voice comes from behind them. Surprise, surprise, the hedgehog isn't dead! The Anti-crew angrily faces him, but Antoine isn't so sure. Something in Sonic's voice stops him for a moment. Then he regains his resolve and decides to make the supposed EBIL Sonic pay for stranding him in the Anti-verse. He swipes at Sonic with his sword. Sonic avoids it and tackles Ant, throwing him out of the picture for... good? I dunno. He then throws Bunnie and Sally off the cliff, kicks Tail's ass, and beats Rotor up before demanding to be sent back home.

...back to Rouge. She's engaged in conversation with Locke. EBIL Sonic slips into the cave while Rouge starts hitting on the old-ass echidna. (No kidding)
Locke: "I'm not sure I understand what you want."
Rouge: "Somebody to love me! Is that too much to ask?" *GLOMP*

EBIL Sonic gets into the Emerald Chamber and is confronted by... DUN DUN DUN... Sonic Prime. They start fighting and stealing each other's shoes. Outside, Locke fights his way out of Rouge's smoochies and dives down a secret entrance into the chamber. He sees the two Sonics and decides the one wielding a rock must be bad Sonic, since 'Sonic would never resort to a weapon." Unlike the incident with Rotor and the guns, I can't actually think of a scene that contradicts that O>O But I'm sure there is one.

EBIL Sonic gets thrown out of the cave where Rouge gets pissy because he's sooo useless. She turns to leave but he shows her a small emerald he managed to pick up somehow and she flies him away to do naughty hanky-panky things.

Sonic Prime gets flown back to Knothole by Locke and is almost immediately glomped by Amy. He walks her home and is puzzling over Amy's blatant affections (he never noticed before? xD) when he hears Bunnie calling to him and asking when they can continue their 'date' from before. Sonic is bemused. So am I. Because I just don't see Bunnie ever hitting on Sonic. But hey, that's just me.

ONTO THE NEXT STORY!
"Stargazing"

This story was written and illustrated by some chick named Tania Del Rio, whom I was like 'who the hell is that?' Apparently she's a Sabrina writer/artist and also works on 'Josie' (whatever that is) but is a long-time Sonic fan, so they gave her a try on a Sonic story.

Call me crazy, but I rather liked this short little piece, which focused around Sally.
It starts with a narrative from Sally, saying how the FF's become so consumed with surviving that sometimes they forget the simple things in life. The things that make you feel alive.
Sally awakes one night to see a shadow by NICOLE. She thinks it's her imagination until her door creaks open. She dons her vest and boots and goes out to explore. She ends up in the woods by a small pond, where a strange lynx (?) girl is breathing in the night air.
She approaches the girl, who is startled, but then relaxes when she sees it's Sally. Sally wonders how the girl knows her name (Hey, you ARE a princess, Sally! Doesn’t everyone?) She then wonders why the heck this girl sounds like NICOLE.
Why, because the girl IS NICOLE, of course. A hologram, maybe? But when Sally grabs at her, she is able to touch the girl's arm.
NICOLE admits this is a complex simulation that she's been working on ever since she and Sally switched bodies in that goofy story a few issues back. NICOLE just wants to experience stuff like Sally does. Sally tells NICOLE to stay in a Mobian form, but NICOLE says she cannot. The program takes too much energy to run and her files aren't secure in this form.
Tiredly, NICOLE lays on the grass and looks up at the stars. She comments how she can analyze and chart stars with ease, but never realized their beauty until she was in a Mobian form. She feels herself fading back to her computer form and Sally is sad to see her go. NICOLE assures her that she'll always be there for Sally.
She disappears and Sally looks up at the stars with a tear in her eye, because she realizes she too is really seeing the stars for the first time.
AWWWWWWW.
Hmmm...considering this girl is a fan, possibly of SatAM... it makes me think that the often-mentioned idea on here that fans would do better work than the official comic-writers is pretty much true.


I thought this wasn't a bad issue at all. Amazing, I know! IMO, It almost had the feel of the older issues (which I like).
I did have a problem with:
A: Sonic escaping from his watery grave so easy. I mean, c'mon! Where's the suspense?
B: Poor Antoine apparently got left in the Anti-verse! WTF! That poor guy!
C: The Sonicgram that says 'Shadow's coming back' UGH!