Sonic Saga Series 5: Evil Reborn Paperback – 31 July 2014

Sonic Saga #5 collects the 'Enerjak: Reborn' storyline from the series. The art is superb, as Tracy Yardley always is and the writing is also very good, as Ian Flynn's writing tends to be.This storyline involves the evil Echidna (I'll explain the whole Echidna thing further down) Dr Finitevus, a moral nihilist and probably one of the most interesting villains in the series, reviving the ancient Enerjak to 'cleanse the world in emerald fire'. The tale itself is a simple one, a superpowered being ends up fighting another superpowered being (guess which one ;) ), but that's just the surface of it, as it deals with consequences of science and father-son relationships.One thing that is vastly different about the Archieverse and the games' universe is that the Echidna race isn't extinct and, because a certain former writer had a liking for him, Knuckles was genetic engineered to be amazing (which will be detailed in the next two 'Sonic Archives'). Although I'm not particularly happy that this story basically decimates the Echidnas to make it closer to the games' canon, what it does do and does do very well is deal with said genetic engineering and its consequences, which was fun to read.My only real dig is that the book is very stop-start, with one half of a chapter being action and the other half being somewhat clunky exposition, though this is mostly like because the chapters in the chronological order of the issues released. Aside from that an awesome story and easily the best Sonic Saga book so far.

Now this is a good read and for any fan of the comic or if you have a passing interest its very......interesting.

Was ok