Sonic the Hedgehog is 30! Well, almost 30. At the moment, more like 29 1/2, but by the time IDW’s newly announced Sonic The Hedgehog: 30th Anniversary Special is released, it will have been approximately three decades since the ‘hog first appeared on the label of a Genesis / Mega Drive cart.
Sonic has been in comic books nearly as long, but given
the turmoil behind the scenes that negated much of it from canon, don’t expect much acknowledgement of Sonic’s comic history in this volume. Instead the 30th Anniversary Special will consist of three brand-new stories created by a row of talent including longtime writer Ian Flynn (who was present back during the Archie debacle), Gale Galligan, Mauro Fonseca, Reggie Graham, Aaron Hammerstrom and Thomas Rothlisberger.
“Sonic has been central to my creative career for fifteen years,” says Flynn. “I’ve had the pleasure of writing the...
