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Sonic The Hedgehog #40 - August 1996
 | "Court Martial"
Writer: Mike Gallagher
Penciler: Dave Manak
Inker: Rich Koslowski
In the conclusion of the Mecha Madness storyline, the gang prepares the court martial of Sonic the Hedgehog, everybody else is supposed to be busy rebuilding Knothole after the village was trashed last issue! Left to his own devices, Antoine, the one in charge at the moment, can think of nothing better to do is than bring charges against Sonic! Which is why the blue blur is cooling his heels in jail with Amy Rose, carrying on a one-kid protest of Sonic's incarceration. Sally, after a brief interlude to let us know that despite the recent turn of events she still has a good head on her shoulders and a heart that belongs to Sonic, sends Amy packing... The "court martial" goes on with Antoine as prosecutor - jealous as he is trying desperately to get Sonic put away! But despite the fact that Sonic is convicted Sally elects to delay sentencing by 24 hours to enable Sonic to exonerate himself! With the clock running, Sonic heads for the Mobian Badlands where after tangling with Caterkiller, Moto-Bug, Bat Brain, Flaps and The Original Badniks (Sonic 0) in The Robo-Hobo Jungle, he heads for the Bottom of the Barrel Bar and Grill where he confronts Nack The Weasel who once more gets the drop on Sonic as Nack tries yet again to extract some cash from Robotnik! Time meanwhile is slowly ticking away...
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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Sonic The Comic #83 - August 1996
 | “Bubble Trouble”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
Whilst Sonic and Tails respond to a distress call in the Labyrinth Zone, badniks knock Sonic into the water. Of course, since he can`t swim, he tries to find air bubbles; but when he does, it becomes clear that the whole situation is a trap, leaving him caught in a giant - but shrinking! - bubble. He bursts the bubble with badnik debris and climbs back onto dry land just in time to help Tails, who`s been overwhelmed by the badnik forces. Robotnik vows to make his future traps worse...
“Troubled Waters - Part Two”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
Knuckles defeats Captain Claw and the Octo-Naught by causing some highly convenient sea stacks to crush it. But since Knuckles` boat has been destroyed, he`s reduced to loading his chest of documents onto the wreckage, and forcing the Captain to row it towards the nearest shore.
“The Mystery Villian”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Mike Hadley
Tails is suddenly attacked by a stranger who seems to know him well and hold a serious grudge. After besting her during their chase, he finds out that it is actually Metamorphis, who, robbed of her shape-changing powers as a punishment for her failure to catch Sonic, is out for revenge against any of the Freedom Fighters that she can find, in order to prove her worth. Tails comforts her, telling her that she is better off away from Robotnik, and she suddenly undergoes one final, unexpected metamorphosis. Transformed into a young girl, she will be unrecognisable to Robotnik, giving her an opportunity to start a new life.
Tails doing what he does best: being kind and reasonable. This is most likely an unexpected, and certainly a highly sentimental ending to the story of Metamorphia, but that`s probably its charm.
Cover: Carl Flint |
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Sonic The Comic #84 - August 1996
| “Heroes & Villains – Part One”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
Sonic travels to the Chaotix Crew’s headquarters in the Special Zone via Omni-Viewer to try and hunt down Super Sonic, but when he tells the Chaotix about the dangers at hand they refuse to believe him and head off to New Tek City on Planet Meridian to deal with some problems of their own. After deciding to go with them Sonic gets caught up in a battle between two groups called “The Justice Brigade” and “The Discriminators” but it’s pretty difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys. The fight ends with the police show up, Vector quickly informs Sonic that the Chaotix have a “little misunderstanding” with them and the gang run to escape through Omni. But Sonic hesitated at the last minute and ended up getting caught…
“Village of the Damned – Part One”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
After making it across the ocean Knuckles is currently continuing his journey to The Floating Island through a forest. He stumbles upon a village and chooses to spend the night at a local tavern - although it turns out he probably won’t be getting much rest when he discovers the villagers are planning to sacrifice a young girl.
“Sneaker Seeker”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
A kindly stranger gives Tails a pair of new sneakers as a gift for all the times he’s beaten Robotnik, but when Tails leaves to show them to Sonic the sneaker designer reveals himself to be Grimer!
As Tails walks down the street with his new footwear everyone is really impressed, though Tails’s limelight is shattered when a missile heads his way. After flying around for a while he realises that the new sneakers must have a homing device in them so he looks for a place to dump them. First he tries to drop them in the sea but a couple of dolphins remind him that there’s life in the ocean as well as on the land. So instead he dumps them on Grimer, who activates the missile’s self-destruct device to save himself. Even though the city folk don’t find Tails cool anymore he’s happy with the new found knowledge that he shouldn’t accept gifts from strangers and comfort is better then fashion.
Cover: Carl Flint |
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Sonic The Hedgehog #41 - September 1996
 | "...And One Shall Save Him!"
Writer: Ken Penders
Penciler: Kyle Hunter
Inker: Harvey Mercadoocasio
Sonic has just done a raid on Robotropolis only to return home to Geoffrey St. John! But bigger interests are at hand than verbal abuse - Sally's ready to undertake the mission to rescue her father by herself with the help of Rotor's "Neutralizer". And taking Sonic and Geoffrey along for the ride, together they descend into - "The Zone Of Silence". Meanwhile the King, still without memory is seeing strange hallucinations of Sally, Sonic and Geoffrey in an apparition that then disappears, as Sally, Sonic and Geoffrey bear witness to the same fight that they had with King Acorn in Sonic 36! Time has gone wacky in The Zone of Silence as Robotnik's tampering with the zone has caused a temporal rift to form as our heroes witness past events as well as the future unfold before their eyes... sucked into some kind of vortex!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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Sonic Quest #1: The Death Egg Saga - September 1996
 | "Scrambled"
Writer: Mike Gallagher
Penciler: Manny Galan
Inker: Jay Oliveras
It's a three-issue mini-series that follows the events in Sonic #41. Sonic and Tails go it alone against Robotnik's most terrifying weapon to date. A doomsday machine that could roboticize the entire planet with just the push of a button. Straight out of the video-game screens of Sonic 2, 3, and Sonic & Knuckles - the most requested weapon by you the fans... the Death Egg!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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Sonic The Comic #85 - September 1996
 | “Heroes & Villains – Part Two"
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
In the New Tek prison, Sonic tries to reason with Lieutenant Furor about Super Sonic and the Chaotix without much luck. However his luck changes when Lord Sidewinder, a man apparently linked with a nuclear bomb incident, comes to bail him out.
Back at the Chaotix headquarters the gang are feeling guilty about Sonic’s capture and try to plan a rescue, unknowing that Sonic has already found his own way out. At Lord Sidewinder’s family residence Sonic is introduced to Lightmare, Mr. Fry, Bio-Hazard and finally… Super Sonic!
Sidewinder says he had a deal with Super Sonic but now Sonic has been brought to him Super Sonic goes back on his end of the deal and blows up Sidewinder’s home. Super Sonic kept everyone safe from the explosion so he could have the pleasure of wiping them out personally and easily defeats Mr. Fry and Bio-Hazard, but its Sonic he’s really interested in destroying.
“Village of the Damned – Part Two"
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
Knuckles rescues the girl that the villagers are planning to sacrifice, and she leads him to a place where they should be safe. She turns out to be the sister of the ringleader - and leads the villagers to Knuckles, who is made the new sacrifice!
Another story with very dark and even vaguely political overtones, showing actual snapshots of Robotnik's style of rulership on everyday Mobians
“Trooper Trouble – Part One”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Carl Flint
Robotnik’s troopers seem to be demanding tax from the citizens of Wood Village Zone a lot more then usual. Tails finds a stray trooper to get answers from but instead of standing to fight this Trooper tries to escape.
Fleeing again from a group of troopers, the stray causes Tails to break its armour, and reveals a donkey called Clive.
Clive tells Tails that he repaired a Trooper Sonic had destroyed to teach the villagers a lesson for bullying him. Tails warns him that although he knows what it’s like to be picked on himself there was no call for what Clive did - and whilst they’re talking the real troopers are able to attack, over power and capture them both!
“Scream Theme Park”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
Max Gamble opens up a new Theme Park at Casino Night Zone to try and make money by attracting customers with The Pit Plunge Roller Coaster. Many Mobians go to the park to take their minds off Robotnik’s reign, but it turns out that at the bottom of The Pit Plunge a badnik-creating machine is waiting for them with a horde of troopers!
As the troopers round up the prisoners, one rider reveals himself to be Shortfuse The Cybernik - who destroys the machine and then destroys the ride, so Gamble can’t try the same trick again.
Cover: Carl Flint |
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Sonic The Comic #86 - September 1996
 | “Heroes & Villains – Part Three”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
Just as Super Sonic closes in to destroy Sonic, the Chaotix Crew appear through the Omni-viewer! Sidewinder sets his minions on them.
While Lightmare reveals her powers to Charmy (a magic box which forces her enemies to think they’re living their worst nightmare), Sonic tells has an idea to beat Super Sonic. He takes on his evil counterpart whilst Chaotix battle Sidewinder’s gang and manages to force Super Sonic into the Omni-viewer, instructing it to send Super Sonic to another dimension - but Omni refuses to do this as he knows Super Sonic would destroy no matter what dimension he was in.
Instead, the Omni-viewer freezes time inside himself to trap Super Sonic in stasis, whilst Sidewinder escapes in the commotion.
“Village of the Damned – Part Three”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
Knuckles demands an explanation from the traitorous girl - who tells him that the legends foretold he must die at their hand or else she will be sacrificed instead! He destroys the source of Mesmer's control over the villagers, and as Knuckles begins questioning, the landlord of the Tavern shows himself to be Robotnik!
“Trooper Trouble – Part Two”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Carl Flint
Restrained on an aircraft, Tails tries to break their cuffs by force. Clive uses his technical knowledge to cut the power - but accidentally cuts off the power to the whole craft! Tails flies Clive out of the craft and beats the troopers on the way down. Clive promises to give the villagers their money back, and in return Tails tells everyone how Clive helped him defeat the troopers, so that they’ll stop picking on him.
Stringer's Tails stories increasingly held a strong sense of didacticism - made all the more obvious by the use of a character who had only recently been shown to have any sort of maturity at all suddenly knowing better than just about everyone he came across one minute, and not being able to grasp a similar concept the next.
“Future Shock – Part One”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
It's a typical day in the badnik-bashing office for the gang until they meet an elderly blue hedgehog beats them to it then claims to be Sonic from fifty years in the future! When Sonic still doesn’t believe him, they find a doctor capable of sampling their DNA - and it turns out that the cell samples from the two hedgehogs are identical…
Cover: Nigel Kitching |
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Sonic The Hedgehog #42 - October 1996
 | "In Every Kingdom There Must Exist A Little Chaos"
Writer: Kent Taylor
Penciler: Art Mawhinney
Inker: Phil Sheehy
The beginning of The Sword Of Acorns Storyline! In the aftermath of the Death Egg Saga we find Sonic and Knuckles steadily trying to beat the snot out of each other over the Knuckles' spare emerald (Super Sonic VS Hyper Knuckles)! The power rings having failed to revive the king, and when Knuckles turns them down flat Sally decides to search for the one thing that may be the key to his revival - The Crown Of Acorns... An ancient scroll is trotted out, which indicates that the true crown may be located in the Hall of Limbo. Next step: get enough power rings to fire up Sonic's brain cells so he can get to the Hall! But early next morning Sonic, Sally and Tails rendezvous with Sleuth Doggy Dogg (Sonic 27), only to realize he's a spy for Robotnik! As he brings in a welcoming committee of Swatbots, with a roboticized Fly Fly Freddy providing air cover as it leads to a free for all with everyone including Knuckles!! But after all this has passed there are stranger things to come, as it's up to Sonic to use the power ring to boost his brain and travel to the Hall of Limbo. And upon his return he declares that the Sword Of Acorns has something to with his coming back...
"Knuckles' Quest - Part One"
Writers: Ken Penders & Kent Taylor
Penciler: Art Mawhinney
Inker: Brian Thomas
In a continuation of the above story, Sally has asked Knuckeles to find The Sword Of Acorns! Knuckles is perched uneasily on an open seat attached to the side of the Sea Fox, with Tails at the helm they head to thier first destination... Athair's crater in Downunda (Tails The Fox Miniseries)! And when they meet him that's when things get weird... The Ancient Walkers (Sonic #35) have reappeared and they've got some strange musings for Knuckles... A black cat sorceress, A raven wizard, a goat alchemist, a fox charlatan (a mysterious Tails lookalike BTW), a rabbit enchantress and a Paladin horse in Shining Armor all hold the key to the whereabouts of The Sword Of Acorns... "With patience and fortitude a blade of steel thou may embrace." And soon begins Knuckles' Quest for the Sword Of Acorns and many more plot twists along the way...
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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Sonic The Comic #87 - October 1996
| “Mister Shifter”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
Sonic sits contemplating about being stuck in New Tek City and how the others might be when he hears someone screaming. It turns out to be from a girl whose about to get shot by a gangster called Mister Shifter. Sonic manages to catch the bullet in mid-air and fights with the current villain, but it turns out this creature is made from a material that’s too soft for Sonic to even hit! However Sonic works out a way by using his speed to stretch out Mister Shifter so far he can’t fight back. The girl he saved vanishes before saying thank you and turns out to be a spy waiting to inform Robotnik that the Special Zone isn’t ready for an invasion yet, as well as who she bumped into during her time there.
“The Good, the Bad and the Echidna – Part One”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
On the way back home Knuckles passes through a desert and unfortunately gets caught up in a stampede. Luckily two guys riding pterodactyls were around looking for a friend of theirs who was also in the accident and manage to find him, unluckily all three of them think it was Knuckles that started the stampede to sabotage them and knock him unconscious before taking him to a nearby city…
“Easy Target”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Carl Flint
Tails helps out a Unicorn called Forelock who’s being attacked by a group of badniks and in return gets granted one wish. Of course he wishes for Mobius to be free of Robotnik so Forelock transports him to a room above a parade that Robotnik is celebrating, gives him a gun and tells him if he shoots then all of Mobius will be free. Ultimately Tails decides that doing that would be wrong and Forelock sends him back telling him he made the right choice and what he just saw was an illusion. Before disappearing he tells Tails that one day his wish would come true.
“Future Shock – Part Two”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
Even though the tests show the older hedgehog is Sonic from the future the present day blue blur won’t accept it, but decides to hear his story after Amy and Tails convince him to. The older Sonic reveals that while he was fighting Robotnik a decision he made caused Amy, Johnny, Shortfuse and Tails to be killed in battle leaving him unresisting when the troopers came to arrest him. He spent years in a prison cell grieving over the loss of his friends while Robotnik ruled Mobius. One day he managed to escape and returned here to fix his mistakes. When Amy asks how he got back the older Sonic simply replied that he wasn’t sure but thought an increase in speed caused him to break the time barrier. Sonic still doesn’t believe him but the others decide to go along with him to destroy the weapon that kills them before its been completed. During the mission Amy starts to have her doubts and turns out to be right when older Sonic leads them right to Robotnik!
Cover Art: Carl Flint
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Sonic Quest #2: The Death Egg Saga - October 1996
 | "Poached"
Writer: Mike Gallagher
Penciler: Manny Galan
Inkers: Jim Amash & Jay Oliveras
The Death Egg duels with The Floating Island. This issue continues the Death Egg Saga as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles and the Chaotix fight against the massive ship!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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