I had the weird, dirty urge to write a review! OH NOES.

Ok, 177, here we go. The cover is Sonic grinning like a jerk as he faces off against Eggman in his battle armor. Eggman is throwing his balls...er...ball around. Cool.

'Home, new Home.' by Ian Flynn, penciled by Tracy Yardley.
Page 1 starts off with a little explanation by Nicole of how she turned the nanite city into a new home for the Mobians. She is standing there, looking contemplative, while the lower half of her body seems to be turning into green digital...ness.
They have some problems. Eggman's fleet has almost reached them, and there's 5 convicts who were rescued from the Egg Grapes to deal with: Mogul, Nack, Nagus, Bean and Bark.

'Hear me, oh base and unbearable curs!' Mammoth Mogul begins to bellow, throwing his mighty arms up for empathis. Bean seems more interested in the shiny silver disc that has appeared below them. Nicole informs Mogul she kept him in mind while building the city, and the silver disc teleports the five away into holding cells. Bean thinks it was awesome! Nack throws down his hat angrily and calls the Freedom Fighters '@#$%', not sure how to pronounce that.

Sonic is pleased; Nicole teleported Mogul before he could really get into his speech. Sally and Nicole high-five and then notices Nicole is disappearing. At the same moment, shots from Eggman's fleet hit the shield surrounding 'New Knothole'.
Nicole tells Sally she's fine, she just needs to divert the energy creating her holographic form to the shields. Sally thinks this is not fair and sheds an angry tear as Nicole vanishes.

'What now?' Sonic asks, 'I've filled my plan-making quota for the year.' What a lazy bastard. Sally isn't too concerned with the Egg Fleet blasting away. Everyone needs to relax after the destruction of Knothole. Elias tells everyone to go find their new homes and spend time with their families.
Sonic makes to leave, but Elias and Sally both demand he get medical attention.
Sonic grumbles that he doesn't need special treatment which earns a laugh from a nearby Rotor. The walrus is laying on a stretcher and Sonic hurries over to see if he's alright. Apparently Rotor has injured his back. Sonic feels guilty for not rescuing him quick enough, but Rotor brushes it off and says he's more worried about Charmy.

Charmy, along with Saffron and Espio are watching as Dr Quack holds up two fingers. Charmy thinks he's holding up 'one, two, buckle my shoe.'
Saffron asks Charmy if he knows who he is. The bee dances around like a fool and confirms that he is, indeed, Charmy.
Well, does he know who she is?
Charmy glomps Saffron and states her name. Quack thinks this is a good sign, but who knows how much memory loss Charmy has suffered.

The little bee glares suspiciously over at Espio and says 'didn't you used to be purple?'
'I'm a chameleon,” Espio says, meaning he can change colors.
However, this part doesn't make much sense, since Espio is currently colored purple. So...saying he used to be purple is uh...confusing. Maybe Charmy's color-bind as well as being forgetful, or maybe the colorist is a big fat doodie-head!
(Hahaa, I KEED, I KEED.)

Quack presses his stethoscope thingy to Sonic's chest. He's not too worried about the ole 'hog cuz Sonic is very hardy and heals quickly due to always being amped up with magic ring energy. With his eyepatch, scruffy eyebrows and grumpy expression, Quack reminds me of a grizzled old pirate or something. A pirate in a green labcoat, but whatever.
Quack toddles off to spend time with his family, while two of those beaver Mps pick up Rotor's stretcher and take him away, ha ha.
Outside, Eggman's fleet continues their barrage on New Knothole's shield.

MEANWHILE in seXier places...or just Angel Island.

Doc Finitevus, or just Fini for short, is floating above the Master Emerald, babbling some mystical crap. He gets a black bubble with white font cuz he's so damn badass.
Scourge yells that they have a problem.
“Explain,” said Fini, not bothering to turn around. The floating head Dimitri has gone and floated away to freedom. Scourge thinks he's going to tattle on them to Knuckles.
Fini says he doesn't mind...in fact, he was hoping Dimitri would take off.

Scourge shrugs. 'You're the spooky-creepy mastermind.'
Turning his attention back to the emerald, Fini grasps it with one hand, looking all EBIL and stuff. He cares not if all of Mobius knows what he's up to! They can't stop the return of ENERJAK DUN DUN DUNNNNNN OOOOOOH.

Back in New Knothole, or excuse me... New Mobotropolis, the barrage continues from Eggman's fleet. Perched up in a tree, Sally and Bunnie look at the city below them. Antoine is inching along the branch towards Bunnie, looking worried. Bunnie thinks it's a beautiful sight; she has never seen Mobotropolis before (in the comic, she never lived there.)
Antoine thinks it would be nicer if Egghead would quit the racket already and leave.

Sally gets nostalgic, thinking how far they've come since being orphans in Knothole. Bunnie was just an ole farmgirl and Antoine was the 'crowding craven'. Bunnie hugs him and says she knew deep down he was brave. AWWWWW. Besides, would Sally have let him come on missions if he was such a coward (SURE WHY NOT?)

Sally says she considered it all when she led them into the city. 'When I led us...' She says again, looking contemplative and angry. She turns her head away and begins to quietly rant about the good ole days when she led them without the pressure of being a princess and all its formalities. Bunnie asks Sally if she's ok.

The Princess stands up, smiling now and asks Bunnie if she remembers her initial reason for joining the FF's. Of course, Bunnie does. She wanted to be Sally's hair stylist. Sally grins somewhat evilly and says she hopes Bunnie hasn't entirely forgotten that dream.

Meanwhile...
In the seXy command ship of the Egg Fleet...
Snively is sitting in the command chair, his feet a foot off the ground, and looking rather grumpy as Eggman rants at him over the COMM link. He wants to know why the shields of Mobotropolis are still up despite giving Sniv the entire Egg Fleet. Sniv waves a hand dismissively and says he's working on it.
He jumps in his chair as shots rain down on his ship. They're under attack! But fortunately for the Sniv, there was no damage. The Eggbot piloting the ship informs him of an enemy craft approaching. Snively thinks it looks familiar. The bot targets it, but Snively tells it to hold fire. He recognizes it.

'Hope?!' he exclaims.

Hope is enclosed in her little airplane, wearing goggles (which seem pointless since she has the roof on, but cute anyhoo). She picks up the radio and snarls 'That's right, half-brother, you JERK!'

Hope then chews Snively out, telling him that even though she only knew him for a few weeks, he was her family. She had gone to the Overlander city and then came back to Knothole, only to find the smoking ruins. Hope is now crying as she shoots more ineffective blasts at the command ship, telling Sniv that it's his fault Knothole is gone and that she's ashamed to go back to the Mobians after trusting him. OUCH.

So, her plan is to back to the human and overlander cities (that's a bit redundant.), become a kickass engineer and then come back and kick Snively a good one in the balls. Ok, she says she's going to kick his butt, but I like kicking his balls better. *evil laugh*

AHEM. 'Then maybe our family name will be worth something!'
Hope turns and flies away. Sniv stands there watching as the bot informs him they have a weapons lock on her. 'Command to fire, sir?' the bot asks. Sniv doesn't respond, he merely looks distressed as she disappears, tears in his eyes. OMG Hope made Snivvy cry. That freakin' rules.
(this is so my favorite part, cuz I'm a huge fan of Snivvy and Hope making babies together and running off into the sunset.

.....

I'M SO KIDDING ABOUT THE BABY PART, do you think I'm THAT perverted??! LOL

Ah hell, don't answer that.)

*cough* Back to the comic now...

The Prowers are standing around. Amadeus thinks the destruction of Knothole may be a 'blessing in disguise'. 'Our people needed a shakeup of this magnitude to get them ready for the shift in thinking,' he says, all shifty and shifty-eyed. Tails is like 'uh...ok...'

Merlin says Amadeus ought to be careful, but Rosemary says her husband knows what he's doing. R-r-r-rock me, Amadeus! (does anyone remember that song?? By Falco? Hilariously bad, it is.)

Tails believes in daddy and he's on his side no matter what. I have a feeling this is what's gonna lead Tails to be Public Enemy #1. Merlin is concerned about Tail's devotion too. Very mysterious, this crap. Anyway..

Eggman is now outside, pounding at the shield, demanding that the Mobians FACE HIM! And nowwwww it's time for...

TANTRUMS IN THE LIFE OF EGGMAN
Swinging his checkered ball at the shield, Eggman announces his grievance:
They stole the city from him! It was made by his nanites, therefore it's HIS!

Look at his accomplishments! He destroyed their first city, he terrorized them for all of their lives (*cough* Yeah, take Julian's credit on that, why don't ya?) Eggman fires laser beams at the shield.

He won't allow them to take his victory!
“Now get out of here so I can conquer you again!”
Egghead shoots missiles at the shield! FEEL HIS WRATH as they explode harmlessly.

'Hey Eggman,' Sonic sez, strolling out of a door in the shield. He's all casual n' shit, asking if Eggy's done with his whining. He stands nonchalantly with his arms clasped behind his back as Egghead lands the ginormous (and this is now a word in the dictionary so I can say it without shame!) machine in front of him. Egghead says Sonic was a fool to take him on alone; his suit was made to counter all of Sonic's moves.

Sonic doesn't seem to care. The rest of the Freedom Fighters and Chaotix come out, posing in oh-so-nifty fighting stances. Sally gives the order to attack.

Knux and Vector break off Eggman's ball. OUCH! While Mighty decks the Eggsuit, Bunnie looks forward to using her plasma cannon. She blows the entire top off the Eggsuit.

Eggman is now exposed and he covers his face with his hand as Julie-Su, Espio and Antoine go to work at breaking the Egg legs. Sonic strolls around gloating, telling Egg that he's not the only hero on Mobius, even though he does pretty much kick ass. Ray and Tails pull on Egg's goggles and mustache. Egg looks like a real idiot here. Amy then knocks the legs out from under the Eggsuit. The Eggsuit hovers in the air with a very frazzled looking Egg seated upon it.

'You don't have a leg to stand on,' Sonic puns.
WAHHH SHUT UP! Egg replies!

Sonic chortles that he thought this was just a game, and he busts the remaining piece of the Eggsuit, depositing Eggman on the ground at his feet.
Sally comes up and juts out her chest while demanding Eggman get his trespassing ass off Royal grounds. I'm not sure why they wouldn't like...uh...capture Eggman at this point.

The Egg, however, is not pleased with looking like a fool. He yells for his Egg Fleet to FIRE! A very dumb move considering his ass would probably be killed along with the FF's.

As the missiles launch towards the group, a section of the shield comes out like a wave, surrounding the group and taking the brunt of the missiles.
Nicole comes out of a porthole in the shield like a genie in a bottle, and tells Eggman to move his ungrateful lardass out of her sight.

A little Egg robot swoops in and Eggman jumps upon it, rocketing away with a line out of the Villain's handbook of cliched retreat phrases: Blah blah you'll regret this, I'll kill you all blah blah I like to suck on toes... ok, maybe not that last part.

The Egg Fleet retreats as a silhouetted Sonic states that Egghead sure knows how to make an exit. Sally says he doesn't know WHEN to make it.

Sonic finally notices Sally's hair, which is cut and styled in her ole' SatAM look. (I actually only noticed it at this point too, XD)
She's says it's a symbolic gesture to show she's 'got her mind and heart back on the right track.'
Sonic says he's never known her to be so girly, and Sally tells him not to spoil the moment. The various FF's and Chaotix cheer and hug, the end.

A little blurb at the bottom states: As one chapter closes, a new one begins! Our heroes are safe from Eggman, but is everyone safe within their own city? Come back next month for HOUSE OF CARDS! The unbelievable happens next issue: SONIC VS. TAILS?!
(I like how they call him Eggman and not Robotnik XD)
UMMM and considering there was already a topic about Sonic VS Tails, I'm not all that unbelieving. XD

My thoughts: Overall this issue was fair. Sally's hair was a nice touch, if only to symbolize (like she said) perhaps a return to her more SatAM-ish roots.
Once again, like previous issues, I find no suspense. The heroes win way too easily. There doesn't seem to be any real element of danger anymore, what with no roboticizer, Eggman being a doofus, and even the other villains (the Fearsome Fivesome for example) being very very lame.

Eggman looks like a big dork as he pounds away at the shield and then is beaten quite quickly. I would've liked to see the FF's capture him and then him have to make an escape (or maybe have Sniv rescue him, or even better, to have Sniv take over for a while!)

There's still the matter of Amadeus's 'vision of change' and Enerjak coming back. So maybe we'll have some chance for suspense there... (MAYBE???)
So overall, ok issue, though as usual, a little lacking in suspense and even...consequence. The heroes win, everyone's happy... Eggman is nothing but a nuisance at this point. He's like... a bad hair day that's remedied by pulling your hair back or something. HAH. OH THE DRAMA! WILL HER HAIR LOOK GOOD OR NOT?
UMMM.
What made this issue for me was the short part with Sniv and Hope...I found it very nif-tay, and it DOES actually make me wonder what will happen between them. Sniv seems regretful of his decision. The only thing that mars this entire thing is, of course, the fact that before that one issue (forgot the number) where Sniv tells Hope to leave Knothole, there was nothing between them. So the weight of their relationship is really only made up by my own personal visions of what their relationship should be, and not really from any 'weight' that occurred in the comic. I don't see WHY, strictly from the events in the comic speaking, he would really care about this little girl.
K...I'm DONE.