Sonic the Comic 001
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| Sonic the Comic #001 "First Issue" |
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| Writer: Anthony Williams, Mark Eyles |
| Pencils: Anthony Williams, Jon Haward, Mike White, Lyrad Namlede |
| Cover artist: Unknown |
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Sonic the Comic 1 is the first issue of the Sonic the Comic series by Fleetway.
This issue established elements that stayed with the comic for the majority of its print run: Non-comic sections were divided into 'zones', including the Control Zone (Introductions and Staff Details), Review Zone (Games across all current SEGA platforms reviewed on a % scale), News Zone (Information on upcoming SEGA events and products) and Q Zone (Cheats, Game Genie codes and strategies for popular or requested games), Megadroid (the comic's mascot character) addressed the readers between comics and answered letters in a section called Speedlines, and the first comic of the issue always focused on Sonic.
Also established, but not as long-lived, were various comics based on other popular SEGA titles, which would act as side-stories or re-imaginings of the events depicted in their games. This issue had Shinobi and Golden Axe stories, and at the back of the issue were preview images for upcoming Wonder Boy (Issue 2), Streets of Rage (Issue 7) and Kid Chameleon (Issue 7) stories.
Sonic's stories were based roughly on the established continuity from the Mega Drive games, a promotional comic and the 1991 & 1992 Sonic the Hedgehog Yearbooks. The stories were aimed at the 5 - 10 year-old market, and thus were kept simple and within a 'floating timeline' (ie. No multipart or plot-altering stories). It would take until issue 8 for the Sonic stories to really begin improving beyond and breaking this formula.
Enter: Sonic
As Sonic dashes around the Green Hill Zone, freeing his friends from their Badnik prisons, Dr. Robotnik (shoehorning an average of one egg-related pun into every page he's on) finalises the production of his 'Neutrino Accelerator' machine, which runs indefinitely on Golden Rings and is designed to delibarately pollute Mobius' atmosphere while crushing Sonic for good. The animals freed from the Badniks warn Sonic about the machine, but he rushes on regardless. After dodging various Badniks and environmental hazards, Sonic finds and rescues Porker Lewis (at this stage he resembled Picky from the games). Catching up to Robotnik's machine of destruction, Sonic powers through it like a cannonball with his Super Spin Attack, leaving Robotnik to retreat and prepare a "bigger surprise". The animals cheer for Sonic and ask him to join their celebrations, but he declines as he is worried about Tails, whom he hasn't heard from in days. He rushes off to continue his search.
Shinobi: The Fear Pavilion (Part 1)
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Golden Axe: Citadel of Dead Souls (Part 1)
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