Official Solicitation
Inker: Rich Koslowski
The Return Of The Ancient Walkers! In a continuation of "The Origin Of Chaos Emeralds" storyline, first started in the Tails miniseries, the story starts out in game mode setting, with Sonic being chased by Robotnik and losing his accumulated power rings along the way! While dodging Robotnik’s maceball he grabs at a ring that causes him to disappear!! Robotnik’s onboard computer has been keeping count of the number of rings Sonic has grabbed in the course of a lifetime and it turns out that was the 1,000,000,000th Power Ring – A bauble that will continue to be helpful in Sonic future. Sonic finds himself transported into another dimension, where dwell The Ancient Walkers… as he is the first to attain such a feat and that his reward will be… knowledge! As our hero finds himself falling toward a green sea, it turns out it’s green because it’s made up, not of water, but of Chaos Emeralds! Then comes the Second Walker, who challenges Sonic to solve the Riddle of the Rings as Sonic guesses the answer and is buried by coiled chains of power rings for his trouble….their accumulated weight drags him down under the sea of emeralds where he confronts the Third and final Walker…
"A Sense Of History – Part Two"
Writers: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders
Penciler: Ken Penders
Inker: Jon D’Agostino
As Knuckles continues to flash back, it is now about four generations after Echidnapolis went airborne thanks to the installation of a dozen chaos emeralds…Two echidna brothers, Edmund and Dmitri, survey the Chaos Chamber where the emeralds continue to radiate. Their proposal to the Science Council… to return The Floating Island to the ground by means of a "Chaos Syphon" that would gradually leach power from the stones! But when it is sharply denied by the scientific establishment who aren’t in a mood to tamper with the forces of nature, Dimitri, enraged by such narrowmindedness, uses the prototype of the syphon on the emeralds!! It succeeds in reducing eleven of the twelve stones to charred shards and transforms Dimitri into a being with "the energies of eleven shattered chaos emeralds howling within him"! Dimitri then calls forth his base Mount Fate as our story is to be continued…
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Brian Thomas