» Covers and Solicitations for Sonic the Hedgehog #277, Sonic Universe #80 and More Released

Covers and Solicitations for Sonic the Hedgehog #277, Sonic Universe #80 and More Released

June 11, 2015 at 6:51 pm by VEDJ-F

Tags: Archie, Archie Comics, Archie Sonic, art of sonic, Solicitations, sonic 277, sonic graphic novel 4, sonic universe 80

Listen out for the cry of the wolf…and robot minions?

Arcade Sushi has an exclusive advance look at September’s Sonic comic offerings, and it looks to be quite wild! In Sonic the Hedgehog #277, Sonic and the Freedom Fighters on the hunt for one of Eggman’s Super Badniks, and they’re assisted by none other than old SatAM supporting character Lupe! But what exactly lies under the sheep’s clothings, and how does destroying the Super Badnik help in the restoration of the world? Find out in “Thunder, Rain and Lightning”. Meanwhile, Sally and Bunnie are on the trail of the last Chaos Emerald they need, but it’s in the territory of Egg Boss Clover the Prongfoot! Discover they’ll attempt to get it out in “Hidden Costs”.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #277
Script: Ian Flynn & Aleah Baker
Art: Adam Bryce Thomas, Evan Stanley, Terry Austin, Gabriel Cassata and John Workman
Sonic the Hedgehog #277 CVR A Reg: Jamal Peppers, Rick Bryant and Ben Hunzeker
Sonic the Hedgehog #277 CVR B Variant: Tyson Hesse
SONIC TAKES THE LEAD in the race to fix the planet! “Thunder, Rain and Lightning”: Sonic and the team link up with Lupe to destroy one of Dr. Eggman’s super badniks! How does this tie into fixing the shattered world? And just what secrets does Lupe keep? Then, in “Hidden Costs” Part One, Sally and Bunnie hunt down the final Chaos Emerald—which is in the heart of Egg Boss Clove’s forbidden territory! Featuring cover art from jammin’ Jamal Peppers and a “BATTLE!” variant from Sonic comics all-star Tyson Hesse!
Ship Date: 9/30
On Sale Date: 10/14
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

Sonic Universe #80 continues the great conspiracy of the future! Silver’s still out to shut those Genesis Portals alongside Professor Von Schlemmer, but the plan they formulate is being refused to be heard by the council that can put it in action. Why would they turn deaf ears to an end to the danger? And it doesn’t help that Silver’s hearing a voice that no-one else can! Let’s hope Silver can uncover the mystery before he’s driven to madness or, worse still, death! This is “the Silver Age”: part 2.

SONIC UNIVERSE #80
Script: Evan Stanley
Art: Tracey Yardley, Jim Amash, Matt Herms and Jack Morelli
Sonic Universe #80 CVR A Reg: Tracy Yardley and Matt Herms
Sonic Universe #80 CVR B Variant: Rafa Knight
The FUTURE is in DANGER, and only Silver the Hedgehog can make things right! “The Silver Age” Part Two: Silver has teamed up with Prof. von Schlemmer and they have a plan for stopping the Genesis Portals! This seems like the solution everyone’s been waiting for—but why doesn’t the Council want to hear it? The mystery deepens as a voice calls out to Silver—a voice that only he can hear! Will our unlikely heroes uncover the conspiracy, or die trying? Featuring cover art from the Sonic comic master Tracy Yardley and a CHAOS CRISIS variant by Rafa Knight!
Ship Date: 9/9
On Sale Date: 9/23
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S

Next up, a new graphic novel has been announced, and we’re revisiting the debut of the Werehog! Sonic the Hedgehog GN #4: Control brings back to Sonic and the team’s efforts to secure a Chaos Emerald and fight off a slew of Super Badniks. Along they way, they encounter Mighty, Ray and their mentor Moss, cross the angry path of Egg Boss Thunderbolt the Chinchilla, and they end up a man down temporarily as Sonic learns to control his unleashed side. Relive the ensuing carnage with the collection of “Control” and “Ambushed”.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4: CONTROL (TR)
Script: Ian Flynn, Benjamin Bailey, Joey Esposito, Eric Esquivel
Art: Tyson Hesse, James Fry, Jamal Peppers, Evan Stanley, Terry Austin, John Workman and Gabriel Cassata
Cover: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
Things are about to get a little HAIRY! Moving at the speed of sound, keeping the world free from robotic tyranny—it’s SONIC THE HEDGEHOG! One of the most beloved video game icons speeds into brand new comic book stories with new friends, new foes and new adventures! It’s Sonic—UNLEASHED! The corrupting energies of Dark Gaia have infected our heroic hedgehog, transforming him into the fearsome WEREHOG! It’s up to his old buddies Mighty and Ray to tame the savage beast! And the race for the Chaos Emeralds grows direr as the Freedom Fighters fight for their lives against the fearsome E-100 killer robots! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4: CONTROL collects SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #264-267.
978-1-62738-955-6
$12.99/$14.99CAN
6 5/8 x 10 3/16″ TR
104 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 9/30

Finally, we go to a more calm side of things with a new one-off book! The Art of Sonic the Hedgehog Comics looks more at the artsy side of the creative process. Not only does it have galleries with regular and variant covers, but artwork from across various Sonic titles over the years, and a glimpse behind the scenes looking into the step-by-step process of making the pictures you see month by month. Certainly one to get if you’re keen on the creative aspects of the comic!

ART OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG COMICS (TR)
Script: Various
Art: Various
Cover: Patrick Spaziante, Ben Hunzeker and various
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG is the single longest-running video game-inspired comic book series ever! With over 400 issues and over 20 years of adventures, the artists on Sonic comic books have created thousands of pages of show-stopping artwork. Join us in a parade of visual splendor as we revisit the finest pieces of art to come from SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, SONIC UNIVERSE, SONIC BOOM and all the other Sonic titles you’ve come to know and love over the years, featuring an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the artists and their work, including sketches, pencils and stage-by-stage break-downs of your favorite true blue artwork, plus an extensive variant cover gallery! No Sonic fan will want to be without the dazzling works of PATRICK “SPAZ” SPAZIANTE, TRACY YARDLEY, BEN BATES, JAMAL PEPPERS, JENNIFER HERNANDEZ and many, many more!
978-1-62738-936-5
$39.99/$45.00CAN
8 1/4 x 11 1/4″ TR
304 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 10/7

We will have more information on all of these comics closer to their release date. No doubt you’ll be howling when that happens!

Source: Arcade Sushi

21 Comments to “Covers and Solicitations for Sonic the Hedgehog #277, Sonic Universe #80 and More Released”

Melvin

Lupe looks really cool. I really like her design, hope she sticks around.

Hero

Same here. Even though all of the designs have to look Sega-y now, it’s still interesting to see the design choices that go into that kind of restructuring. Also, it’s nice to keep getting exposed to who stuck around after the initial Super Genesis wave. I really hope that one day we’ll get to finally see Scourge, Fiona, the Destructix, Doctor Finitevus, and Thrash again some day, as well as Zonic and the rest of the Zone Cop Corps, I REALLY wanted to see where they were going to go with that storyline, as well as what’s going to become of Doctor Eggman Nega now that we know he’s still part of this universe too. I guess each new storyline is dedicated to reintroducing more and more characters until the universe has essentially rebuilt itself from the ground up, so hopefully we’ll get to see more of the fan favorites coming back. Hopefully none of them fall under Penders’ jurisdiction and if they do, hopefully Sega and Archie won’t try to maintain their pride by not asking him for permission, cause that’s what bugs me the most. Hope to see more Archie awesomeness as the years go by!

Raw

Agreed! I always thought Lupe and the Wolfpack were Pender’s.

Also I’m dying to see where all this build-up to Eggman Nega is heading, it’d been teased dozens of times since Blaze first appearance in the comics and more prominently in Treasure Team Tango, also I hope they give Blaze her rightfuk place in the story since Eggman Nega is her archenemy.

VEDJ-F

Lupe is from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, no way she would be Penders. It’s the rest of the pack that he created, if not based on the ones she had in the cartoon.

Johnny2071

Lupe’s height was for a reason. She’s an adult, as well as a bigger species (and so is Vector, and Bark, and Storm). Here, she just looks like a kid. But I guess Vanilla should be the same height as her own daughter….

Makes me wonder what Flynn will do to Dulcy.

Hero

Also, MOAR SILVER STORIES, YYYYUUUUUSSSSSH!!!!! GIVE ME MOAR SILVER! GIVE ME MOAR BLAZE!! GIVE ME SILVER AND BLAZE!…eventually! \O3O/

Johnny2071

Lupe, what have they done to you?

Raw

She looks much better in my opinion.

hypTS

mine too

kamifox1

Same here.

Johnny2071

You’re just saying that for the sake of the reboot. How!?

Not everything in this comic is praiseworthy. Ian Flynn may be a far better writer and has given is some decent material (compared to a certain “unrelated comic” that hasn’t gotten off the ground), but he is not Jesus Christ.

kamifox1

No, we aren’t. We genuinely like the redesign. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean no one else should. I personally love the new style overall since it’s a bit closer to the game style (which I loved since I was a little kid) but it retains the larger amounts of detail (clothing, markings etc.) the comics are known for which I also love.

Going with what you just said, the opposite is also true. Just because it’s from the reboot doesn’t automatically make it bad.

kamifox1

Honestly my only complaint is that her face looks a bit like a copy/paste of Sallys and Sonic, in the second image, looks like Classic Sonic for some reason.

Johnny2071

Makes me wonder what Flynn will do to Dulcy.

I meant to post this here.

kamifox1

She only looks short because of the poses here, she’s hunched over in both images and in one, she’s also far in the background which makes her appear small. Vector and Bark are still gigantic and I believe we haven’t seen Storm yet since the reboot.
Besides, this is a new continuity, maybe Lupe is supposed to be younger in this world? We don’t know yet, this is her first appearance since the reboot.

kamifox1

Also, the reasons you gave are the reasons YOU dislike the redesign, not the reasons the design is objectively bad or why no one else should like her. of course you’re entitled to your opinion, just don’t behave like no one else can POSSIBLY or should have a different one from you.

Johnny2071

Well maybe I’d be more considerate if the opinions were more detailed and reasonable, instead of “it’s new and not Penders, so it’s awesome”.

There was nothing wrong with Lupe’s height, not even in the original SatAM cartoon. But I guess characters like Drago, Sleuth Doggy Dawg, and the rest of the pack killed it for everyone.

Piggybank

Woah, the art book sounds like a really cool idea!Even though the art quality of the comic has jumped up and down over the years, it’s awesome to see them take a step back and have some of the artists talk about their process.Looking forward to seeing a full list of the artists who will be featured in it.

That $40 price tag seems pretty average for an art book, and with the increase in paper and print quality for this one, it makes sense to me.I wonder how many pages it’ll have though?

ProjectZuel

I like the idea of a good quality artbook as there’s been a lot of great art the comic has produced.

kamifox1

Hm… So are they going to cover a slightly more touchy subject in the form of schizophrenia? Or will it just come down to some being calling on Silver or something. I’d kinda like to see them cover some deeper and more touchy (yet interesting) subjects like mental problems though, as long as they don’t balls it up and cause offence.

Also I’d love to get hold of that artbook, maybe I will when someone sells it on Amazon later like with the Archie Archives or if Waterstones will be so kind as to import it for me. I’m trying to improve my own art skills, especially the more cartoony side, so it would be a great help for me to see their process like that.

Zero the Assassin

“It’s Sonic—UNLEASHED!”
God freakin’ damnit, Archie.

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