Sonic Universe: Irwin The Hedgehog - Issue 1

Thoughts; This story is basically a how to for people making a bad sonic oc: forming a tragic backstory around characters no-one knows, sudden gore or scars to appear mature without understanding that expectations and depth need to be set up for any real maturity to be had, and a shallow reproduction of the child characters in dragonball Z of having imense power that’s triggered by rage and trauma despite being too young to understand or harness that power until its too late.

That being said its really good art and an enjoyable read, if for mostly ironic reasons. It also falls into the trap of taking the morally complex Eggman and Metal Sonic and turning both into irredeemable killers to be fought. You don’t need to do that, actual irredeemable villains already exist in sonic and some even directly ape off of Eggman and Metal Sonics looks.

Really it was kind of obvious what kind of story this was gonna be from the title alone, but I was not expecting it to be THIS typical of every sonic fans second brand of oc after the recolor. I say as long as you can recognize it as a guide on how NOT to write a fan comic, this is a justifiable guilty pleasure. If I were to give the biggest bit of advice, telling the story from the perspective of the Traveler character would have likely made the story much more unique, since he’s built up as this mysterious character but whatever backstory he has is probably the more well thought out if you plan to follow up on why he saved two random kids.