Can you believe IDW’s Sonic the Hedgehog comic has now been running for two years?? …Maybe it’s not as impressive compared with Archie’s 23-year record. But it’s still proof the ‘hog has staying power in the comics marketplace, even after sabotage from a former head writer caused Archie to lose the license and forced the entire comic to start over.
A 48-page annual comes out this week celebrating the anniversary; the cover depicts Sonic and Tails sitting down to a nice strawberry cake. The comic’s innards are more stressing: Eggman has come up with a plot to roboticize the world that’s far more cunning than his usual ideas. He’s whipped up a virus that turns organic life robotic and under his control! Inspired by real events? Dunno. But Sonic now has a threat he can’t simply outrun. He’ll have to mask up like the rest of us!
The second Sonic The Hedgehog Annual was created by writers Ian Flynn, Caleb Goellner, Gigi Dutreix, Evan Stanley, Sarah Graley and Samantha King, and drawn by...
