IDW Sonic The Hedgehog #57 | A Comic Review by Megabeatman 

I'm definitely interested in seeing what role Lanolin would play going forward. Also, am I the only one here who thinks her scanning device looks like the very first Gameboy?

If Dark Gaia is apart of the planet than he can be draining it while it sleeps And it's effecting the planet

Tangle is my favorite sonic girl made originally from Sonic Idw staff, she cracks me up.

FYI: Lanolin is simply the name for Sheep's wool.

I'm interested in what Lanolin will bring to the table. She seems to be quite grounded and prefers the "Plan first, action later" approach. Also, giving her a Rhythm Wisp is a bit surprising since the fanbase refers to it as useless, forgettable or the worst Wisp. Thankfully her Wispon Bell makes it useful. Eggperial City is starting to intrigue me now. Not only is there a MASSIVE diversity and quantity of robots, but the city heals itself and spreads??? Yeah, that city needs to go NOW.

If Sage pops up or some Ai is controlling the city as well as the city is created/repaired by nanites, It would be a evil/dark version of pre-rebot New Mobotropolus.

This issue is a great start for an adventure. Given how huge Eggperial City can become throughout the time, this could become the setting for another game-style story arc. The rise of Lanolin to the front lines was well performed. Given the idea of this setting taking place between Forces and Frontiers, I can see her as a support unit for the Avatar stages. She might be afraid to be in a room filled with lots of different heroes, but this sheep can still pack a punch. I love her combat style - she's not powerful, but she's capable of giving debuffs to enemies and doing recon missions, thanks to her personal Wisp and weapon. As for Eggman's new plan, his idea of sucking the life out of the planet reminds me a lot of 2 other Sonic scenarios: - the anime Sonic X, during the Metarex Arc, where the Metarex were capable of stealing the planet's Planet Egg, essencially robbing the planet of its energy for producing life (also one thing, doesn't the Eggperial City's main tower kinda resembles the anime's first Eggman base?) - the game Sonic Lost World, where Eggman creates a machine to extract the planet's energy, leaving it lifeless, but this time, Eggman perfected the machine to become stable. The only thing that intrigues me is the city's crystals... Also Tangle, honey, you just pressed Whisper's "Goku" Button - you shouldn't have done that.

Lanolin: Eggman's city is stripping the world of it's minerals! hank schrader: *loads shotgun* YOU FUCKED UP NOW! 😡

Team Impulse sounds like a good name!

alright, if Eggperial City can heal like living being, you know where to strike it. either it's "Brain", "Heart" or both at once, somehow.

Good review as always. A little something that wasn't mention: 3:13 Lanolin's device looks like a SEGA VMU (Visual Memory Unit), both a memory card and a handheld console used for the Dreamcast. Also, in 13:42 that's a Gekogeko from Sonic Advance 3, not a Ribot from Sonic 3.

2:14 That's what the kids call "bad timing"

I know Lanolin has her Wisp-bell but I wonder if that'll be enough, perhaps at some point during this arc she'll find a weapon/gadget among Eggman's stuff like Surge did. I guess I'll just need to see more of her in action.

I always thought that for you to be a Diamond Cutter you got to have a wisps companion 🤔

I knew I wasn't the only one who thought about the US Acres Lanolin during all the buildup to this issue lmao

Actually, in her first appearances her bell was just... a bell simple as that but now it looks more complex and detailed so I think it's a personalized Wispon she got after joining the resistance

So if this becomes a permanent thing what Rolls do you think each member of team DC as I’m calling it for short would play. So basically who would be the speed type character or the power type character

Are there any wisps who work for the bad guys and want to help them, not by mind control, it's their own will, why did they never use that idea.

While indeed interesting, I found his issue a bit boring and uneventful, either way, cool. I like Lanolin, really like what they're doing with her, fun to see her grow in the background. I also love seeing how much Sonic cares for Whisper, it's very endearing, especially how she appreciates it. And of course, Adam B. Thomas is an amazing artist,

Don't worry tangle I'm sure you'll get a wisp power-up someday.

I hope we'll see Team Dark in action again this arc, It's been awhile since Shadow, Rouge, and Omega have worked together at the same time.

one thing i realized is that the direction the two sides of how do we destroy eggpirial city is the oppisite of what they wanted to do Sonic wanted to attack now but has to call for backup while Lanolin wanted to retreat and call reinforcements but now stuck in the portal and has to fight eggpirial city without any extra backup i think this will be a slight development for Lanolin who will learn that sometimes you just have to use what you have now.

Poor Whisper. Also, this city is very creepy.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this issue. Interesting Whisper reappeared so soon after she said she was going after Mimic. There hasn't been any mention of that.

I'm really liking team Diamond cutters: Lanolin makes a good concept for a power type dealing with sound in their own unique way, with her giant bell and her magenta wisp creating Sonic vibrations and also developing some sonar tricks because that kind of make you think it's weird that sheep has sonar but at the same time it works. You know if my theory turns out to be right that the next mobile game that Sega is releasing is gonna be polo polo with Sonic characters RPG style being functioned by you basically playing Candy Crush dictating your actions and the Candy Crush logos are the wisps I'm going to be horribly correct you know between this and my predictions of what's going to happen with Hasbro I am starting to really say why am I not getting my lottery numbers!

I'd go with LEMURWOLF, makes sense as we both have a lemur and wolf being the new ones and then have a sheep and a hedgehog temporarily join in.

The Eggperial City feels like a spiritual successor to the Metal Virus and the Death Egg. The Metal Virus acted like a living virus and could infect organic material, and the Death Egg(headcanon validated by Scrapnik Island #1) was supposedly built to manipulate the earth itself, from volcanic activity to the weather. *Radio plays New World from Kirby& the Forgotten Land, but it's a multi language mashup. Sorry, my brain demanded I put a Night Vale reference when I realized I ended the sentence with 'weather.'* The City seems to be a mix of both, healing and spreading like the Metal Virus while impacting the very ground itself like the Death Egg did back in S3&K.

What? No pre-outro commentary? Like pointing out the device Lanolin was carrying?

Hm, how very interesting, this was a good start, i wonder how things will go from here, can’t wait to find out. Also, Lanolin, huh? I hope we get to know more about her from now on. Also, also, yeah, how did that entire Mimic Plotline go?

I don't think we need to worry about a Penders Situation. The artists here have more class an respect for the source material unlike that obese try hard who slipped pop culture references in to the point of shallow pandering. As for the issue itself, it's fine....nothing too major to report. Now, as for the living city....those crystals dotted around the city may be what it is after. Considering Crystals play significant roles in fiction, those would be a good place to start. The city actually reminds me of an SCP I read a few years ago: The Living Village. As the name implies, it is a small village that is located somewhere in India courtesy of a charity Organization called the Mana Charitable Foundation, which often uses anomalies in ways that are beneficial to the world at large. This Village in particular, unlike Eggperial City, doesn't feed like a parasite, but rather wants waste products like garbage, plastics, discarded foodstuffs. In turn, the village not only expands, but improves the structures within, evolving them over time for people to live in. It won't tolerate vandals or predators, especially to it's buildings, spawning pitfalls, spikes, circular saw, punji sticks.....generally to defend itself from aggressors or invaders. If left unfed, the building will wither, crumble and ultimately collapse. All in all, you don't give it a reason to hurt you, it won't attack. Feed it regularly, and your village will be fine. Considering the organic mass buried deep beneath the ground that every building is linked to...but I digress. I would like to believe the girls had ended up in a prison cell somewhere.

No cap, I really man like Tangle sometimes. Especially the Diamond Cutter thing, yeah 🫠

i think lanolin's bell was swapped out and became a sorta special kind of whispon, like how whisper has a special whispon

Yeah tangle I like you but you have to admit that was a bit of a hasty move calling your team that

I loved this issue. I hope that Whisper doesn't stay angry at Tangle. I know that Tangle didn't mean to get her angry and it's one of those moments that Tangle did not think about her choice of wording. Because Whisper is traumatized after everything. I hope that Whisper would forgive Tangle and I hope Tangle would say sorry. Because used to a best friends and if not something more. I ship Tangle x Whisper. And I wish they can make up. I do like Sonic and Lanolin friendship and dynamic. As Sonic is more carefree and a bit reckless and Lanolin is more careful and responsible. But make good friends. I'm not sure what happen to Tangle, Whisper, and Lanolin but I hope they escape. But yeah... Whisper needs therapy and also shipping Tangle x Whisper.

Why is it when I heard "self-expanding and regenerating city" my mind instantly went to the manga "BLAME!"? Eggman, if you basically turn Mobius into THAT post-apocalyptic hellscape, I swear to Arceus...

I hope we get to see Sonic team up with Tangle or whisper or any other characters in the future, it's getting a bit tiresome seeing him with only Tails and Amy all the time

Tangle why would you name it that after what you know happened to Whisper’s Team?!😅

Remember when fans were speculating about Lanolin possibly being a double agent for Eggman? I guess this issue puts that theory to rest.

My personal prediction/fear is the new star lanolin might mimic the octopus in disgust he did say at the end of badguys he would was coming whisper. And the odd pairing would a twist however I just the new team dynamic set up.

13:42 That isn’t Ribot, that is Gekogeko from Sonic Advance 3.

Do u think IDW sonic will have a crossover before it ends?

Tell me why I start thinking about dark gaia when they descended the shaft the first time

Honestly, this comic feels like the inside of a SatAM Episode!

I'm betting on him reworking the zombie virus for eggperial city

Maybe instead of been called the Diamant Cutters, Wisper would have probably, probably took the name Team Wool or Team Lanalin.

The sheep character is kinda like Pandaman in One Piece

Am I the only one who is sick of every new character sharing the same body type, eye shape, and height? I miss when characters had more unique designs like Big, Vector, prototype Fang, Rough and Tumble etc. I don't want every new chatacter to just be an altered Sonic design...it's tiring.

Sonic CD had automatic takeover machines that needed to be destroyed on Little Planet.

Like i said a few issues back. Eggman literally made Midgar

Pretzel

Pretty good start. I know that Whisper's plot point from Trial by Fire being dropped is really odd. But as that already was really badly written and contradicting her development from the Tangle and Whisper mini series am I kind of glad that its start to being dropped. Lanolin is a funny thing really. I mean she ended up as a major character on accident with Adam giving her a name on his social media outlet leading to Sega thinking she is a full character and wanting all rights to her leading to the writers now being able to use her in more direct ways. This is properly also the reason why she got away with both her unique name and her Rouge rivaling breast size. Her personality so far is rather nice. She seems to have inherited a lot of Sally's old characteristics that were thankfully purged from Amy after Metal Virus. Lets just hope she stays her own unique character and doesn't devolve into Sally 2. The only really bad part is Whisper not doing anything about the portal. Like not trying to break its generators with her gun, not using Hover to save herself, Tangle and Lanolin. Ether Whispers competence was seriously hampered by Tangle's stupid decisions earlier or Whisper still isn't quite alright against after Surge brutalized her the other day. I guess its odd that nether Sonic nor Lanolin noticed that Whisper was really not happy with the team name (especially Sonic as he so far was rather good at reading the room with her) Ian really wants us to stop thinking that the Rhythm Wisp is bad given how he made it Lanolins partner here. Well then there isn't a lot else to say for now we have to wait and see how things develop now.

Honestly I'm not interested in this arc. I'm done with the comics for a while untill they start focusing on Belle again. I'll watch beatman's reviews but that's it. Nothing else. Besides, if Belle doesn't appear or help out the heroes than I can't get ideas for my Make Genderbent version for my RP channel and have to come up with my own ideas.

This is fan fic as heck. how did Sega approve a fan character like Lanolin into the comic when they had such a bad time with all the ones made on Archie? feels ultra risky