These toys are too much for you...

Dr Babble would think of you as a parent, seeking you to hold or play with him. Your touch would soothe him when he's throwing a tantrum, liking the attention you're giving him.

Dr Don't isn't sure how to feel about you. Sure, you've managed to win over the rest of the council with basically no effort, but do you really think you can impress someone as apathetic as him? It does seem like it, because even if he never tells you directly, you notice him stealing glances towards you.

Mr Dr Eggman is probably the one who feels a stronger connection towards you, with him resembling your husband the most after all.. he'd like to know what you do in your free time with this "other him", and he actually listens! He'd try not to make it obvious, but it's clear there's something going on with him every time he sees you.

Dr Deep likes having long conversations about topics he never gets to discuss with you. The other members don't really listen to him, or to each other in general.. so it's certainly nice to have someone who can engage in said discussions! He'd try to impress you with anything he got on his hands, his swords, his mech, his tattoos, literally anything.

We’ll cover the first one in this post:

This one is interesting in that it goes into some depth on both of the Sonic TV shows that were beginning at the time of the Magazine’s release, and I’ll post it all here because it’s a nice little read

The first set of pages give a brief synopsis of the characters featuring in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH), which was the one with all the surrealist slapstick, although if you’re reading this blog you likely don’t need me to explain what AoStH is to you. It’s strange how Scratch gets a section to himself but Grounder doesn’t.

Then the second page spread has some of that interesting concept art of the predecessor to SatAM, and I’m somewhat surprised that they were still using these images for promotion so far into 1993, because at the point this was published, a kid could have turned on the Television and seen SatAM for themself. Hell, there’s finalized artwork for Snively, Antoine, and Bunnie, the character that Johnny Lightfoot would evolve into on the very next set of pages. Perhaps there wasn’t enough high-quality artwork from the late stages of SatAM’s production to be used, but still, it’s blatant false advertising.

The third page actually gives us some interesting tidbits on SatAM which were either completely retconned later. Antoine is said to have saved Sally in the past, presumably from Roboticization. That actually would have been an interesting plot point to have explored in an alternate version of SatAM, where it turns out that Antoine, the guy who is afraid of his own shadow and is a liability on every other mission was actually responsible for there being a freedom fighter resistance in the first place. But I don’t know if this was something that the writers of SatAM came up with or that the advertisers made up themselves. Rotor is still called Boomer and is a Sea Lion. Crabmeat and Buzzomber are said to be some of Robotnik’s main lackeys, just like how they were in Archie. Buzzbomber would only appear in one episode (the pilot which was still weird), and Crabmeat never appears in SatAM whatsoever.