Official Solicitation
Inker: Harvey Mercadoocasio
Featuring the LONG AWAITED Return Of King Acorn!…Sort of… Rotor has concocted a "live" remote from the dread "Zone of Silence." But in a more important complication, there are serious power reading coming from Robotropolis! Sonic goes to investigate, and arrives to find Snively at the controls of some kind of beam generator which he promptly takes out of commission. BAD MOVE as Robotnik congratulates him on endangering all of Mobius! It seems that when Robotnik took over eleven years ago, he wanted to use the Zone of Silence, developed by his "mentor", Warlord Kodos , as a sort of interdimensional concentration camp… Unfortunately, once he sent King Acorn there he realized that it was unstable and would soon absorb Mobius as well! Subjecting the zone to a steady stream from a photon cannon managed to keep it in check, but with the cannon destroyed by Sonic there may be no hope!! Robotnik gives Sonic an "energy inhibitor" as he convinces Sonic to detonate it within the Zone, but despite serious reservations, Sonic, Sally, Tails, and Antoine all enter when they confront a dark rider flanked by some weird Toad-like characters… Sonic dispatches the toads easily, but before the Knight can draw a bead on him, Sally intervenes… and in the struggle, she knocks off his helmet and reveals him to be King Acorn!… who promptly gives Sally a quick jolt with his lance for her troubles as The Return Of King Acorn storyline is promised to be continued in a future issue…
"A Sense Of History – Part Three"
Writers: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders
Penciler: Ken Penders
Inker: Jon D’Agostino
Dimitri has just used the "chaos siphon" to trash eleven of the 12 Chaos Emeralds that hold up the Floating Island! Taking his brother and some of the leaders of echidna society prisoner, Dimitri has already directed the resident "Mecha-Nauts" to enslave the populace with plans to conquer the planet once the island is equipped with sails! In the midst of this raving, however, he fails to notice that his fortress, Mt. Fate, has been subverted from within: the foundation has been eroded by fire ants and the place starts collapsing! The imprisoned echidnas escape and Dmitri is buried beneath the rubble… In the aftermath the echidnas destroyed their city and appointed a guardian over the last remaining emerald… Knuckles suddenly starts putting it together: he remembers the words "Grand Conserve" (Sonic 31) and realizes that it refers to The Grand Conservatory, an underground warehouse where artifacts of echidna society were stored as he comes to the conclusion that this is area where Archimedes is hiding out and where the missing Chaotix are being held! And it is here that Knuckles begins his descent into his miniseries and ultimately his own comic…
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio