IDW Sonic The Hedgehog #64 | A Comic Review by Megabeatman 

Silver better get an apology

I'm glad silver could smile at the end.

The whole Silver and Diamond Cutters story was cut incredibly too soon. It just makes the characters look incompetent

Mimic, the true faker. Poor Silver, he has some serious bad luck when it comes to traitors. Sonic, the shipper. He's right though. Silver and Blaze are a perfect pair, romantically and platonically.

I have...feelings about this issue. This will be a good learning experience for Lanolin and will help Jewel put better vetting for volunteers. Honestly, in a world with NEO Metal, Mimic, and other shape-shifters, they should do better background checks.

If Lanolin's gonna be on a team with Whisper, she needs to trust Whisper's judgment, Whisper was likely going to reveal Mimic's suction cup palms, but I do agree she could have shown the footage of Duo tripping Silver, at the very least that would have made Lanolin more willing to listen, and put Mimic into a no win situation where he either has to let himself be revealed or run making himself seem even more suspicious

Mimic really will have to play his cards carefully when Surge and Kit come around in the Restoration HQ for ratting them out just like with Silver. As it definitely will not be a easy one considering how Surge is indeed a living Wildcard no thanks to Starline as she could easily without literally any hesitation turn him into fried calamari via her Lightning powers, and that’s not to mention Kitsunami who’s the brains of Surge’s brawny side whom could easily be quite a obstacle with his hydro backpack for allowing him to form his watery tails to harm Mimic.

Yeah definitely not Lanolin’s finest hour

That one line from Spaceballs perfectly sums up the first half of this issue: "Now you see why evil will always triumph: because good is dumb."

Mimic is pretty much the Sonic version of Queen Chrysalis from MLP. A manipulative conartist who takes the form of other people to fool everyone, which ultimately ends up succeeding. Watch the MLP Season 2 finale “A Canterlot Wedding” and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.

I hope Silver comes back to save Lanolin and help stop Mimic. Lanolin feeling remorse for her bad decision and how she treated Silver. She will apologize to Silver and wants to make it up to him. What will be interesting if the people demand Lanolin to be remove from the team for her bad choices and not trusting Silver. Despite Silver and the others forgiving her, Lanolin decides to leave the team until a few arcs later, she'll come back and change for the better.

I have some add ons to this, 1 I hope Whisper and Silver get another interaction where the ladder didn’t want the former getting booted from the Diamond Cutters to happen, 2 I can not wait for those two and us in the audience to shout “I TOLD YOU SO!” to Lanolin’s face, and 3 you aren’t alone as Mimic is currently at the top of my list of characters I’d like to bash with a sledgehammer!

It would be ironic enough if Surge and Kit were the ones to expose Mimic and save Neo Diamond Cutters from his plan to destroy them, given that due to their action, the restoration is unlikely to trust them so immediately.

To be honest, Lanoline is still getting used to being a main hero and hasn't dealt with betrayal yet, in a way it is similar to how Eggman tricked Knuckles in Sonic 3, it was because Knuckles was lonely and saw the good in others, I am really excited to see how Surge and Kit interact with the rest of the Restoration and the Winter Special. I also really like the Easter egg of Sicily and Vennie from Ghosts of the Future, I don't care if they are no longer Silver's sisters or that they are Easter eggs, I just want them to play a minor role in a story now.

Might be hindsight speaking, but wouldn't the mystery disappear completely if they just made Duo take off his gloves? I mean sure, there'd be no story then but it's still weird that it wasn't even brought up despite being one of Mimic's only physical tells.

Love the comic cover art

The first half of the comic sucked. I think it was really unfair. That Silver got all the blame when whisper was being even more aggressive than him (as she literally attacked Lanolin). But I also really like the second half of the book we’re really highlights the relationship between silver and blaze

The Silver and Mimic situation is also similar to the traitor plot from Archie.

Definitely my favorite chapter.

Yep, it definitely made my blood boil to see the investigation go south. Man poor Silver, he (and a bit at Whisper) are getting the Twilight Sparkle treatment from MLP Season 2 finale“A Canterlot Wedding” (it’s the same tropes played there too.) I’m going mutton chop and fried calamari hunting, who’s with me? 😂 Sorry Lanolin, but it ain’t your finest hour. I am going to headcanon that Silver comes back, re-alliances with Whisper with more wisened up tactics, and they go again. Bonus points if Surge and Kit possibly join in if they’re on the path to reforming 👀 (as thanks to recent covers showing them in Restoration HQ) As for the second story, it was ultra cute to see Blaze and Silver talking together

I personally don't blame Lanolin since I can easily see things form her perspective. Like everyone, she acted based on the information she had available. From her perspective, Whisper and Silver were harassing a team member who had done nothing that would warrant such behaviour and then accused him of being evil before trying to harm him without showing any actual evidence. Truth be told, if I would have been in her place knowing only what she knows, not what we, the readers, know, I probably would have acted fairly similar. I am also fine with Silver for his actions as they are very much in-character for the young hedgehog. Though as a Silver-fan, it was still sad to see him getting gaslighted like that. I'm, however, a bit confused why Whisper, after getting spotted by Lanolin, immediately voiced her and Silver's suspicions when: A. They didn't inform Lanolin beforehand in private implying they didn't trust her to know their suscpicions and B. Mimik was RIGHT THERE. Like, did she seriously not consider the very likely possibility that Lanolin would not allow her to act without prove against Duo? Even if Mimic wouldn't have pulled his little act, exposing her suspicions in front of him was a bad idea in any scenario that wouldn't end with her exposing him. Speaking of Mimic's little act, I feel like Whisper got convinced a bit too quick that Duo isn't Mimic. Not only since his trick wasn't exactly a 1000 IQ play (personally, I realized he would pull something like that the moment Silver and him ended up alone) but also because she literally saw him sabotaging Silver last issue. I do hope this is just an act on her part and she still keeps an eye on him. Or at the very least doesn't suddenly start trusting him.

it's not just Lanolin that needs to apologize to Silver and Whisper, but also everyone who witness the scene where the "innocent" guy got hurt. And poor Whisper. she's going to be doubting herself and being indecisive afterwards (unless she's actually playing the long con). at least Tangle will be there for her, and may even believe Whisper and look into it after a few issues and may even call out Lanolin for not trusting Silver and Whisper, wrongly (wrongly) berating them, and blindly believing a strange rover her friends.

man, there's a lot of Sonic 06 references here.

Lanolin just joined the hero game and talked down to silver like she’s been a hero her whole life, keep in mind that she had a breakdown when her first mission went awry. her design may be 10/10 but her character is at least a 6/10 in this arc

Am I seeing things or is that silver’s two sisters from ghost of the past 2:24

"Silvaze is finally canon" The comic

Ya I forgot whisper got a mask can record stuff

I’m fairly new to this part of Sonic/IDW but what Lanolin did was a serious no-no. Sure, Silver and Whisper jumped the gun in trying to get Mimic to show himself, that part I get. But what I DON’T get is how she thinks kicking him out of the Diamond Cutters will be beneficial for anyone. I sure hope that when the truth comes to light she gives him a big fat apology for doing that. Congratulations, Lanolin. You’re probably the most hated sheep known to man. 👏🏻

Hope you do your Sinic 900th. Adventure review in a few to several days, Megabeatman.

I understand it, but I can't blame Lanolin too hard for this. From their perspective, it's someone's distrust and paranoia sparking issue with a well known shapeshifter and manipulator behind the scenes. It would make as much sense as if Mimic somehow took over Jewel's image while she was out on a break. What I also wish was that Whisper would ask to see Duo's hands and reveal the suction cups and suddenly Tangle would be on her side a little more. A well, at least Silver isn't the kind to rub an "I told you so" in anyone's face. Can't wait for development.

1:45 didn't notice the ghosts of the future reference there.

I thought about this from Lanolin's perspective, and it makes a lot of sense. The readers only know it's Mimic because we are shown it. But if we had no clues Duo was mimic, just claims by Silver and Whisper, it would be questionable if even we would believe them. The whole time Duo just ran away. We would think him more a coward then anything. And that's it. Even Duo falling off the chair could be played that he lost his balance, if it weren't for the one panel of him smiling. I think if this has been a "Is Duo Mimic, or an innocent person" mystery, even for readers, it would have been a very, very interesting arc.

OMG I thought that was a fan art! did the IDW series seriously put Silver as the pepe silvia meme?! I love them so much

I’m halfway convinced Lanolin is an Eggman Empire plant at this point… Honestly though, Tangle should have stood up for both Silver and Whisper. She knows Silver can be trusted and should have spoken out when Whisper was gaslit into believing she didn’t know what she was talking about. At the very least, she should have said, “Why don’t we investigate. Calmly. If you have nothing to hide then we’re good.”

It's hilarious how I'm so hyped to see Soleanna

'06 is actually canon according to the new Sonic Fast Friends Forever bios that mentions Blaze and Sonic helping Silver save his future despite him not remembering how.

In the City, Lanolin freaked out about being a team leader, and here, she seems to be focused more on Team Cohesion. Her word choice made me think she values team cohesion and, by extension, Duo, more than her team's worries. To quote that one Encanto villain AU: "every word that you heard but your silence was deafening, each decimal dismissible to save yourself from meddling, or maybe you're too scared to make a sound at all? (She's a danger to us all) Don't stand there and rock the boat or you risk going overboard, let the others drown before you reach to pull them back ashore! Well now the boat is sinking and everyone's going down!"

Yeah unwired that Mimic aka Duo in disguised using as a snake charming them the Diamond Cutters Resistance before getting ready to strike them when they guards down.

It'd be a good idea to get the Chaotix on this, Espio could follow Duo around unseen.

In Lanolin's defence, if someone grabbed me from out of nowhere, I'd likely swing at them too. It's genetically-wired survival instincts, when we feel threatened, we clap back. Some people can isolate those temptations and control them better. Others can't. Plus, we're willing to give Whisper the benefit of the doubt despite the fact that she continued to throw punches after being slapped onto the ground. (I know she has a lot of fans, but come on, even as a whisper fan, that was a terrible choice to escalate the situatuon. It allowed him to escape and frame Silver.) Like, I understand that Whisper's a trauma victim who has issues keeping her emotions in-check at times and I can sympathise with her. But it shouldn't used to excuse her actions when she's being violent out of nowhere. Just doesn't sit well with me, that's all. But props to the lemur for comforting her. Tangle should've stepped in for Silver too though. Bad move on the lemur's part, tbh, and shame on Jewel too for siding with Lanolin and for viewing Silver as a bully. If anything, the beetle should have all of their recruits background-checked first. Also, am I the only one who finds it ironic that a wolf and a sheep are fighting each other? This is how Sheep and Wolves should've played out!

Honestly the easiest thing would've been for mimic to learn howbto change his hands fully, and have silver check as a last ditch effort to prove they were right, but when he takes them off there normal "but....but tangle said he couldn't change his hands to normal" And thus seeding more doubt on whether or not whisper and silver just saw things wrong, that would've been a better explaination. Because people are blamming our little sheep when the only explaination she got was basically "hes the traitor, now imma get rid of him"

Huh, well, all of that could’ve gone better, i guess Duo will still be around potentially even post-Misadventures Arc, maybe? Hm, now i wonder if it will be Surge and Kit who will be the ones to ruin everything for Mimic? Regardless, it will be interesting to see how all this turns out.

Hot take but I do not care about Lanolin. She’s not much more than an irritable grump and she has no chemistry whatsoever with Tangle and Whisper. She feels like a third wheel. Her design is all she has going for her.

Silver should have told blaze and sonic about mimic/duo

What kind of consequences do you think Mimic's infiltration will have

Another Commenter's Analogy of this Issue being "an 'Idiot Ball' Pit" is completely True, as far as I can See... *Silver* continues to Act without Thinking, attempting to either Harm Mimic or Expose them when he Acts to avoid it. While *_We_* know they're Right, no-one else does... *Whisper* has _evidence that Silver wasn't Lying earlier,_ but suggesting they put Duo(Mimic) in Danger wouldn't sit well with anyone else - when she could simply have *approached Lanolin to explain what she saw in secret,* then suggested a way to get Mimic _to reveal themselves,_ instead of going after the Infiltrator personally. This is *what she had grown past in the Comics,* to fall into this exact same Trap is _just Bad Writing..._ *_And Lanolin!_* Lanolin's being handled the Worst of them all! *First* taking the side of a Stranger after _they just Contradicted their stated Actions,_ now *_Stalking a known Ally with belief they'll Assault said Stranger?_* Even if she came out Right, _her Distrust in a Known Hero over an Unknown Recruit_ shows that she shouldn't be a Leader to begin with, *_which is the Exact Opposite of how IDW should be wanting to have things occur!_* They'd _just had her get over this in her Last Story Arc,_ and now a New Writer is undoing it all by having Lanolin *do the very things she had been Dreading, and potentially Killing herself and others as a Result!* _The Actions of Everyone involved_ have all gone against *everything IDW Publishing has built with these characters over the past few Years,* all for the sake of _One Person's Story Idea._ This is reminiscent of *the LucasArts Debacle with Star Wars,* and needs to be handled quickly, unlike how that transpired... This is unlikely to happen however, and *_will corrupt the IDW Comics from within, just like the Restoration..._*

Lanolin is being a real issue 134 Sally Acorn right now.

I don't think there's any blame to be placed on Lanolin at all. She's the leader of the Diamond Cutters, she has to look out for new recruits. From her and everyone else's point of view, Whisper is jumping at shadows because of her past trauma, and it's not even like that's a far-fetched conclusion. Whisper previously dealt with the trauma by keeping to herself and pushing others away, she's the type to try to shoulder everything and go it alone so no one else gets hurt, but now that she's part of a group she can't do that, and she can't just go around accusing anyone she finds suspicious of being Mimic in disguise. Ultimately the ends don't justify the means and her actions just make her look like a dangerous vigilante. At first I thought they were revealing Mimic's true identity too early, but this issue actually shows it's the opposite. Whisper would've been the biggest threat to him being found out, but with this stunt, she's got her not only thinking she was wrong, but realising what COULD happen if she jumped to conclusions and hurt someone innocent that she thought was Mimic. Going forward, I can imagine Whisper will be less-likely to spot or act on red flags, afraid that she'll make the same "mistake" as before. Add on to that the upcoming inclusions of Surge and Kit and Mimic's bought himself some good cover.

Why doesn't sliver go back in time and take a picture duo. When he truned into mimic in the eyes. Or stop him on vulnerable moment. Or add a camera on himself?

Hot take: everything after 50 got stale. I’m still tryin to keep up with it even tho I lost my drive

This issue is the only issue of the series that I genuinely dislike. And it isn't bsd because of most of its execution. It had an idea and they executed it just the way they wanted it, but that idea had bad parts. And man, feel bad that Lanolin's gonna be the fandom's punching bag when they should've shown off morr of her feats. Would've given her more credit as a character and leader type.

I think the worst part is Whisper thinking Mimic would never feign being injured to cover his ass. Like, fr? Everything else about the event im actually okay with, but that one line is what really sets me off and informs me the writers lowered her iq by 100 for just this one moment to work.

Yeah and IDW doesn't want any evolve with Sonic 06 a pour gameplay and story only music is catchy that it.

I enjoyed the stories. But I wasn't a fan of the art style of the second story. Especially the way Blaze was drawn.

So I haven't commented under the last few videos as despite having thoughts on the issue that were covered couldn't I really put it into words properly. But with this issue its ridiculously clear what to say. Everyone of relevance in the main story this time around was a giant idiot. So lets go over them Silver: Rather easy to explain what's wrong here. He could at any given moment end the story by using his powers to pull off Duo's gloves, revealing the suction cups which Mimic can't morph away and show that he is lying about who he really is. Than is the way Mimic try to save face by falling on purpose something that really shouldn't even have been possible of happening as Silver is fast and strong enough in his abilities to just catch him (like right at the start of the story did Silver try to make Duo fall only for him to catch him showing that Silver could totally do it in this very issue) And finally that Silver after the fall of Duo just loses all of his suspicions about Duo despite him doing the whole "Black and white eyes" thing again right before AND despite the clear contradiction and leaving him to death in the previous issue. Whisper: She acted way to rash. She knows both Silver and Mimics powers so should should have ordered Silver to use his powers to remove the gloves of Duo right away. Yes I get that she due to her trauma has a reason to act to quickly and this isn't the point its how she did go about it as again with Silver on her side could she solve this in 5 minutes tops. Additionally is it just plan stupid of hers to just loss all suspicion towards Duo because he fell as if Mimic master of disguise couldn't stage such a thing to keep up appearances. Beside this is it also questionable why she never thought about presenting her evidence ones Lanolin stepped in. Lanolin: Now we get to a big offender. Lanolin was just beyond stupid. Not only did she never fallow up on the clear contradiction of Duo's statement form the previous issue which even in the best faith interpretation of events would point it him unreliably as he would lie and leave members to die if his own life otherwise would be endangered which should immanently have disqualified him from the Diamond Cutters but she is now even doubling down in despite already having a really good reason to have second thoughts on Duo just standing up for him against Whisper and she and Silver accuse him of being Mimic. And worse yet instead of at least trying to de-escalate the situation or at the very least try to move it to a more private room did she respond to Whispers advances in violence herself trying to getting the situation under control by forcing her will rather than using words and proper arguments first. But wait there is more she for some reason than goes on to state that "Whisper should know better because she like herself is a solider while Silver isn't" which is just totally wrong knowing there backstories. Lanolin was still a civilian during issue 2 Silver meanwhile was a founding Member of the Resistance he was a solider for at least 6 months longer in a global war than Lanolin. He also did a ton of the heavy lifting during Battle for Angle Island and Metal Virus (being literally the one to save the world) and even as recent as the very previous storyline was Silver super reliabler imminently read and was instrumental in getting the situation solved. Whisper meanwhile was a mercenary. But it actually gets even worse knowing what Lanolin by all means as a member of the Restauration and aid of Amy's with paper work during the gap between Battle for Angle Island and Metal Virus should know about Silver is her behavioral towards and evaluation of Silver in general total crap shot. She should know how important Silver was during Forces and at least 3 of the world ending threads of IDW so far. Despite the fact that Silver is known for being really good with his powers and being super reliable and serious when the situation demands it does she time and against just assumes the worst of him while never questioning Duo's questionable statements. This sheep got nothing but wool in her brain I tell you. Now for a special one SILVER GETTING FIRED: So like all about this is just wrong. First of all did Whisper directly admit that Silver rash actions were her fault for getting Silver railed up additionally did Whisper also clearly have no issue with laying her hands on Lanolin if she got in her way. So at bare minimum if Silver gets fired over this so should Whisper (some people try to argue its okay that Whisper did it because of her trauma but its quite the opposite Whisper reaction uncontrollable because of her trauma would make her a general liability and would also be more reason to remove her as well) Additional as I pointed out before has Silver a near spotless track record in the Restauration and Resistance which him and his powers being meanwhile was Whisper for most of Forces a loner that upon learning of MImic's prison break left the Restauration out of fear it would put a target on it by Mimic. So by all means is Silver still the far more reliable person here. But it doesn't even end there on a pure perspective of usefulness for the time of operations the Diamond Cutters team is designed for is Silver infinitely more useful. He is when it comes to raw power far stronger than all other 3 core members combined (literally if he can easily grab and hold Zombot Shadow than aren't Tangle, Whisper and Lanolin breaking free from him) his abilities also have the most possible applications from giving flight to everyone, soundless movement, physics puzzles and if we factor in Rivals even distraction he got it all. And those were just the issue Lanolins arguments for it have. Tangle is just full on out of character. When Belle was faced similar resistance did she imminently pick her side, she is always trying to be optimistic and she lacks context to even properly understand why Silver should get booted. Its entirely out of character for her. And Whispers reasoning has to bases ether as hers "I don't want to mislead you again" could equally be applies to anyone beside maybe Lanolin due to her want to position herself as the boss. So she to protect Tangle and Duo from her own trauma should have voted for herself to get kicked as well (which also would make more sense for her character given her original leaving in Trail by Fire for a similar reason) All of this was such an utterly contrived, character idiot-fying poor attempt to give Mimic an early win by removing Silver as he planed to make him look competent and to strengthen his false identity which it logically really shouldn't have done, to put him into a more powerful position next to Jewel as well as to get Silver back out of the picture as he is just way to OP. Additionally to this also why Mimic was an idiot obviously for showing his real eyes to Silver before his fake fall but also because the fake fall should have been a terrible idea as he now presented the Duo persona as to fragile that he can't handle falling half a meter which should competently disqualify him for a team as dangerous as the Diamond Cutters. So yes the main story was an utter disaster and not at all confidence inspiring into the rest of this story line. The second story is at least better. Sonic being a bit of a jerk, Sonic being nice to his friends in a teasing way, Blaze actually gets to have fun in her life for ones and its all really sweet. I hope when we meet up again with them in Soleana will we this time actually get humans tho. (I sure hope the writers next time doesn't screw over Cream again)

These last few arcs have felt a bit lackluster, to be honest.

Dude, i'll say this right now, Envy from FMA can pull this off better. Mostly cause he can change his color. Also this story was really cut short and not really well paced, I felt bad for Silver, and I would've just tore those stupid gloves off

Here we go again with these Iblis trigger bull shi*

The whole Silver and Diamond Cutters story was cut incredibly too soon. It just makes the characters look incompetent