Some of you may have seen these covers during the NYCC coverage, but we thought we’d like to share more info in closer detail. (Plus, it’s about dang time we started doing these.) Straight from Archie comics own website come previews of upcoming Sonic books for January 2011.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #221
“Changing Tempo”: Sonic’s eager to hear the new sound of Mina and her band – but will he like what he hears? Tensions are running high, and that’s before an evil presence starts lurking in the shadows! Then, in “Second Impressions,” Nicole and Espio deal with the fallout from the Iron Dominion invasion- along with a surprise third party!
SCRIPT: Ian Flynn
ART: Ben Bates, James Fry, Terry Austin, John Workman & Matt Herms
COVER: Ben Bates
Shipping Date: 1/19/11
On Sale at Comic Shops: 1/26/11
Newstands: Week of 2/8/11
Comic, 32 pgs, 40 lb. glossy stock, Full-Color
$2.99 US
SONIC UNIVERSE #24
“Treasure Team Tango” Part Four: The wild grand finale to our craziest story yet! Four teams vie for the precious Sol Emerald! Will Team Rose help Blaze save her world? Will Team Dark beat them into submission? Will Nack’s “Team Hooligan” cash it in, or will the Babylon Rogues beat them to it? You can’t miss this blockbuster conclusion!
SCRIPT: Ian Flynn
ART: Tracy Yardley!, Jim Amash, Phil Felix and Jason Jensen
COVER: Tracy Yardley!, Jim Amash & Ben Hunzeker
Shipping Date: 1/5/11
On Sale at Comic Shops: 1/12/11
Newstands: Week of 1/25/11
Comic, 32 pgs, 40 lb. glossy stock, Full-Color
$2.99 US
SONIC SELECT #3
The highly acclaimed Sonic Select series of graphic novels returns with a vengeance! Inside you’ll find three epic tales: “Battle Royal,” where the Freedom Fighters throw down against the Chaotix, “Brave New World,” the series changing fan-favorite, and “Return of the King,” the story that set off the “World Tour Saga”! All that and more!
SCRIPT: Michael Gallagher, Ian Flynn
ART: Patrick “SPAZ” Spaziante, Sam Maxwell, Dave Manak, Nelson Ortega, Jim Amash, Rich Koslowski and Barry Grossman.
COVER: Patrick “SPAZ” Spaziante
Shipping Date: 1/5/11
On Sale at Comic Shops: 2/9/11
Soft Cover, 6″x9″, pgs, glossy stock, Full-Color
$11.95 US
First is the worst
also yay!
LOL at Cream and Omega!
Hmm… Nack is in the upcoming Universe? cool.
Sonic universe 24, looks cool, but i hope not to see, the “not game” characters, that blew all.
#24 sounds cool.
Hope not to see all that “no-game-related” characters.
Yes Bean!! Blow that hawk up!
Seriously, the Sonic Universe cover is full of win.
I like how threatened Omega looks by Cream.
The facial expressions in the Sonic Universe cover are priceless! And, as some already said, lol worthy @ Cream and Omega. It’s been such a long time since I read any of the Archie comics. Maybe I should get back into them again.
Speaking of comics, it’s great to see this section back again.
Wow, shadow is getting beat up by the looks of it
What’s Shadows deal? Issue 1 of SU he became allies with Blaze and Marine, now all of a sudden he’s with Rogue and being a dick again..
He forgot to put Tails and Knuckles in the Cover, yet he remembered Bark the Polar Bear. Somebody needs to get their priorities straight.
Poor Nack, that’s one of the most lethal looking swings I’ve seen…R.I.P. ;_;
(@Miles Per-hour) Tails and Knuckles probably aren’t going to be in this story. Why would they be on the cover?
@Miles Per-hour Tails and Knuckles aren’t in this arc…
Aww man these look nice! =D
Sonic Select sounds like an interesting style. o.o
sonic Universe is probably the best cover! I mean look at those funny combinations! I would’ve put Amy vs Wave and Rouge vs Fang though but whatever! Bean vs Jet = DUH! Win! Storm vs Bark = win. CREAM VS OMEGA!!!? Just look at Omega! XDD Definately a win! And Shadow vs Blaze seems typical cuz they’re both main-types, but it’s a funny combination especially with her expression. XD
I wanna read that one! =)
YES! Finally Select #3 is coming! I’ve been dying to read more of the specials! Especially Battle Royal and Return of the King. :O
@cobanermani456
Don’t you mean Blaze?
That’s gotta be the wackiest comic book cover in Sonic comic history (referring to SU #24).
Ian Flynn is so cool. i mean how many fanfictions have put Nack, Bark and Bean together in a Sonic Heroes fashioned team? Too many to count, but now it is actually legit, and I love it! I love that he takes the video game characters that haven’t had a whole lot of attention in the comics and is throwing them all together in this one story. So cool! Some wine about the Chaotix not being there, but come on, they have been regulars in the comic for like 14 years. And Big just had a story with Sonic. Anyway, yeah, i love these comics.
Look out! The rabbit has a finger! Because all robots should be scared of flying rabbits. I’ll get the final installment of treasure team tango just for the insanity of it all. The cover for 221 looks nice, the story…. not so impressive as i thought. I’ll wait for it to come to stores, then ill decide whether or not to get it.
I hope Sonic would be happy if Team Rose wins. But Amy might finally got Sonic’s heart and they are starting dating each other. But Sonic and Sally will never be couple again because they are broke up.
SonAmy forever! ^^
@ Ryan
Yeah, in the present Sonic and Sally is broke up, but in Sonic Universe 30 Years Later they married and Sonic is King Sonic.
Anyway, about the comics I going add them to my comics that I already have.