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This is the first night out with friends they've had in ages and Caoine might have gotten a little too excited during it.

Surge: "What do you wanna do to Kit? Disassemble and assemble him back as you please?! Look here! Do you think Egg-robots could have scars?!" Wave: "Y-you're cyborgs…"

ITA: Sto prendendo una piccola pausa dalla mia AU per concentrarmi su un piccolo what if personale. Continuo a rodere su IDW, specialmente perchè nell'arco di Riders (o Phantom Rider) 'ste due non si sono nemmeno guardate. Comunque questo what if ignora tutti i numeri usciti dopo il #56. Surge e Kit si trovano esiliati in qualche posto sperduto sulle montagne (Sky Canyon di SADV2, forse?) e Wave ha rilevato il Metal Virus nel corpo con i sensori del dirigibile.

ENG: I took a small break from my AU to focus on this what if. IDW Sonic didn't please me with the Riders/Phatom Rider arc, si I decided to write my own take. This what if ignores every event past issue #56, so no Clutch deal, no Riders arc, no nothing. Surge was exiled on Sky Canyon (I think? It was a SADV 2 level) after the mess she has made in Central City and Wave's airship detectors detected the Metal Virus inside the two cyborgs.

Wave remembers the first time she met the Imposter duo:

"My sensors detected few zombots getting closer to the airship. How could the metal virus still be around? After all Sonic and the future boy got rid of it long ago."

Surge: "Stop! W-what do you wanna do on Kit? Disassemble and assemble him as you please!? Look here! Do you think some egg-robots could have scars!?

Wave: ... "Y-you're cyborgs."

Yo, Gemlik's here. Did Sonic Rumble resolve my 20 years old dilemma?

Let's be honest: Wave's design was never consistent throughout her existence, especially her beak. Sometimes official artists draw it smooth, sometimes they draw it zig-zagged. 3D models in the Riders trilogy, Olympic Games, Speed Battle, Dash and Crossworlds show Wave's beak to be just smooth. What's the truth?

Well, it looks like Sonic Rumble resolved this dilemma for me! I observed her model a lot (it's my main skin after all) and I noticed Wave has zig-zagged beak too, but unlike Jet and Storm the zig-zagged beak is only shown with particular emotions, such as anger, being scared or focused. If Wave is smirking, smiling or has neutral expressions then it's smooth.

Woman of culture.

Long story short: Yes, this story doesn't feel PKNA-ish and even the art doesn't quite hit that feeling, but I think that's the point of this book. It looks like a normal story you would find on Topolino Magazine because it's the morning right before #0 Evroniani and the latter is when shit gets serious. I would also say that Lavoradori's work on #0 makes a great bridge between PKEDA -1 and PKNA 0/2 "Quando soffia il vento del tempo?". #0 still looks like a Topolino Magazine comic, but then you get dramatic coloring when the Evronians assault the Patemi party on the Ducklair Tower. After that iconic issue you will see a drastic change in art, coloring and screenplay in the panels. I think that's great.

Was PKEDA -1 worth 6 euro? Yes, imho. The fact that they chose to use the old layout graphic to make it feel nostalgic but also if it was part of PKNA itself, fill the comic book with characters files, technobabble about Evronians's new technology and other stuff really brings back that magic feeling the original series had. It still tries to connect with the reader.

Knuckles knocked Storm out from his board with incredible speed, but Wave was so precise and fast to catch her team mate on time before he could hit the ground.

Wave's keen eyes and her skill to quick recover from an unexpected obstacle in her strategy is something that always fascinated me. She has showed her timing is almost perfect a few times between Riders and ZG.

Another part I really like about Wave is the fact that... she's too smart for people's good and I also think her intelligence is not explored enough. What do you mean she can tell you how to stop a black hole, generating from a malfuctioning airship that just activated, by looking at it from afar? It took her 3 seconds to answer Jet when he asked her how to stop that mess. This still connects to the first part: She can always find a solution to problems she has never calculated the possibility. It's crazy.