Sonic HQ25 Years & Counting!

SONIC X #13
"Hare 'em, Scare 'em": Just in time for Halloween, this issue is full of tricks but not many treats for our heroes. After his best friend Tails is tricked and blamed for unleashing the devastating power of an alien space craft upon Station Square city, Sonic races to his aid, but both of them end up apprehended by a shadowy government agency. Trapped in jail alongside the villainous Dr. Eggman, our heroes remain helpless as the spookiest ghosts of all time, King Boom Boo and his creepy cohorts, threaten their friends' peaceful existence! Can they bust out. and bust the ghosts. before it's too late? Featuring action-packed manga art from fan favorite David Hutchison (Antarctic Press's "Wizard of Oz")! SCRIPT: Joe Edkin. ART: David Hutchison. CREEPY-COOL COVER BY SPAZ!

Ships October 4, 2006
On sale DCD October 18, 2006
On sale newsstand October 24, 2006
32-page, full color comic
$2.25 US
UPC #: 62816-46971-01311

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #168
"Order From Chaos: The Gathering Part 1 of 2": A new and deadly evil lurks in the darkness, prepared to strike Sonic and destroy the entire planet. This latest menace proves to be one of Sonic's deadliest villains ever, and this time we might just mean it when we say the combined forces of Sonic and the Freedom Fighters may be no match for this fiend! Especially since Sonic may have to put a friend or two's life in danger just to stop him! PLUS: With Antoine and Bunnie finally back together and love in full bloom again what can Sonic have to say that could put this relationship in jeopardy? Find out in this intriguing back-up tale. SCRIPT: Ian Flynn. INTERIOR ART & COVER: Tracy Yardley.

Ships October 18, 2006
On sale DCD November 1, 2006
On sale newsstand November 7, 2006
32-page, full color comic
$2.25 US
UPC #: 62816-46977-16811

Source: Archie Press Release

According to Diamond Comics, Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog #164 is on sale in comic shops today.

Sonic is officially a launch title for the PS3 (for those who can afford it).The 360 version comes out the same day too.

ps3.ign.com/articles/716/716632p1.html

Spaz and Ian make comments. Check it out here: www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3151835

It's pretty well done. Sonic satam and Underground mentioned, but suprisingly, not Sonic X. Sonic extreme is also discussed.

Wizard conducted an an interview with Ian Flynn at Heroes Con. Click the link to read it.

The next episode of the radio program 'Nuff Said! is this coming Tuesday overnight, July 4, 3:30 AM to 6:00 AM eastern time. Technically, it's Wednesday morning the 5th. My guest is James Fry, who has been pencilling for about 20 years. His pencils have appeared on Moon Knight, Shadowhawk (Image), Sonic the Hedgehog, X-Factor, Mutant X, Batman Adventures and Star Trek. His next project is Darkman Vs. the Army of Darkness.

From Silver Bullet Comics:

HEROES CON, CHARLOTTE
June 30 - July 2
Jim Amash
Steven Butler
Ian Flynn
Andrew Pepoy
Tracy Yardley

G-FEST. CHICAGO
July 7 - 8
Rich Koslowski
Andrew Pepoy

COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL, SAN DIEGO
July 20 - 23
Craig Boldman
Tania del Rio
George Gladir
Rich Koslowski
Andrew Pepoy

ORLANDO CON, ORLANDO
August 19 - 20
Ben Hunzeker

DRAGON CON, ATLANTA
September 1-4
Ben Hunzeker

Sonic Channel had a character contest/survey on their site that was previously reported. Thanks to Lizard and big smile at The GHZ, the results are now available.

Sonic X #12

"Attack from Area 99!" With evil Eggman behind bars, Sonic finds himself a man without a mission. Even his best friend Tails is otherwise occupied. and big time! Tails has been called in by the government to reverse-engineer the alien technology in the tripod from Sonic X #7. However, Agent Westwood, aka Cowboy has other plans for this super-powered, alien war machine. Hmmm. sounds like Sonic could be on another mission soon enough! SCRIPT: Joe Edkin. ART: Tim Smith 3rd. Atom-smashing cover by artiste 'de bomb Spaz!

Ships September 6, 2006
On sale DCD September 20, 2006
On sale newsstand September 26, 2006
32-page, full color comic
$2.25 US

UPC #: 62816-46971-01211

According to Diamond Comics, Archie's Sonic X #10 is on sale in comic shops as of yesterday. You can see a 3-page preview of the issue at Silver Bullet Comics.

The Game Boy Advance has played host to a Megadrive classic of Sonic's before, with the inclusion of Sonic Spinball in SEGA Smashpack. IGN has now announced a new release though, in the form of the very first Sonic The Hedgehog, remastered.

According to EB Games, Sonic Rivals for the PSP will be released on November 21st. There's still no word on Sonic Wild Fire however, but I'll post as soon as I know.

Source: EBGames.com

According to Diamond Comics, Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog #163 is on sale in comic shops since Wednesday.

The official release date for Sonic the Hedgehog for the XBox360 is November 14th, 2006.

Source: EBGames.com

Thanks to FARGAIA at Sonicanime.net. He has found a article concerning a new projected dealing with new SonicX eps at the TMS site here at http://www.tms-e.co.jp/index2.html since the site is in Japanese and most can't understand it here is a translation that FARGAIA did on the site.

"[on May 30 in 2006]

TOMS entertainment had held a session of new audit for consumer and business person on May 30. The most important matter is that TOMS cooperates with SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS and SEGA TOYS, and is planning to throw 4 new animations into market.


4 new animations mean

『オシャレ魔女ラブandベリー』 　Oshare-majyo Love & Berry
『ソニックX』　SonicX
『爆丸』　Bakumaru

And, the 4th animation is untitled.

'Oshare-majyo Love & Berry' is so popular Arcade game in Japan. Especially, this game has strong popularity between teen kids. This card version had already gotten over 104,000,000 pieces. This is just marvelous.

'SonicX' is Animation series of Sonic The Hedgehog which has world-wide scale popularity and makes a boost of 40 million total sales all over the world.

And 'Bakumaru' is cartoon series of new gene toy such as BayBlade. Now 'Bakumaru' begins to catch teen kids heart and lead the latest trend.

This animation plan is very effective for multimedia development of each work and we can expect synergy with the game series. Some companies including SEGA have strong expectation for this media strategy. Therefore TOMS has so big responsibility and must accomplish this important mission."

According to Diamond Comics, Archie's Sonic X #9 is on sale in comic shops starting today. Also, Sonic Super Specials #6-8 are being sold again if your comic shop ordered them.

I checked the Sky website and Sonic X is now back on at weekends at 2PM! This could probably mean the rest of season 3 will be showing!

It's a brand new era of STC-O and the perfect jump-on point for new readers, with the start of three new strips and the introduction of a brand new menace for Sonic & the gang!

Sonic may say he's the hero of Mobius, but what do we really know about him? Discover the sordid and shocking truth in The Inside Story! Meanwhile, Amy Rose stars in the world's only hybrid of Love Actually and 28 Days Later, and the Freedom Fighter's old enemy Max Gamble returns as Tails & Amy hit the mean streets of the Casino Night Zone - but is Max the real enemy, or is there someone else behind the gang attacks on them?

Source: STC-Online