Sonic HQ25 Years & Counting!

According to Diamond Comics, the following Archie Sonic specials might be available in your comic store starting today: Sonic In Your Face, Sonic & Knuckles, Knuckles Chaotix, Mecha Madness, Super Special #1: Battle Royal, and Sonic Archives #1.

SONIC X #22
Written by Joe Edkin, Pencils by David Hutchison, Inks by Terry Austin, ‘Bot-bashing Cover by nuts ‘n bolts Spaz!

"Decoe and Bocoe's Not-So-Excellent Misadventure": After years of service the evil Eggman fires his loyal henchbots Decoe and Bocoe and replaces them with the deadliest ‘bots ever, Dukow and Bukow! These new bots won't take "lose" for an answer, and hand Sonic the fight of his life! If he hopes for even a small shot at victory, Sonic must team up with the last person anyone would expect!
Ships July 11th, 2007
On Sale DDC July 18th, 2007
On Sale Newsstand July 31st, 2007
32-page, $2.25 US


SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #178
Written by Ian Flynn, Pencils by Tracy Yardley, Inks by Jim Amash, Earth-Shaking Cover by pulverizing Spaz!

"House of Cards Part 1 of 2": Sonic's hometown of New Mobotropolis has been devastated by unspeakable threats from beyond… but what about those within? There's talk of revolution, and Sonic will have to choose sides! Will the leaders of the rebellion drive a wedge between Sonic and Tails forever? It's the fight everyone's feared but never thought they'd see… mentor vs. protégé, friend vs. friend, , Sonic vs. Tails!
Ships July 25th, 2007
On Sale DDC August 1st, 2007
On Sale Newsstand August 14th, 2007
32-page, $2.25 US

Source: Silver Bullet Comics

According to Diamond Comics, Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog #174 is on sale in comic shops starting today.

Sega has announced new Sonic Rush game. Also Has site up with info on game.
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Due to public vote, fancomic Sonic the Comic Online is currently one of the five successful nominations for Favourite Web-Based Comic in this year's Eagle Awards. The winners for the awards will be chosen by a second public vote which ends on May 11th, and will be announced at the Bristol Comic Expo.

This is the first industry-wide award in Britain to have its nominations chosen by public vote since the Diamond National Comics Award 2004, where STC-O came second, losing out to the officially licensed The Matrix Comics.

The late Tom Frame, who lettered the original Sonic the Comic along with a celebrated run on 2000AD, has been nominated for Favourite Letterer and the Roll of Honour.

Source: Eagle Awards Voting page

According to Diamond Comics, Archie's Sonic X #18 is on sale in comic shops starting today.

Hey gang! I recently visited Ryan Drummond's page, and looked under "Current Events" and saw in a recent article, that it's just may be_possible_that Sega will be dropping the 4Kids voice cast and returning the original!

Although he has posted this back in October of '06, and no updates as of yet. It's just a floating rumor, but Ryan himself IS checking it out for himself. So stay tuned...

Source: Ryan Drummond's Current Events

Gamedaily's interview with SEGA and Nintendo has slightly more info. The game is being developed by SEGA sports with supervision by Shigeru Miyamoto. They're considering ways to balance Sonic's speed in a race. And to those wondering about whether SEGA has gotten the message in the overall response to STH360, this quote is interesting:

BIZ: The Sonic franchise, especially with the recent games on PS3 and 360, has sort of seen a drop off in quality over the years. The games have not been received all that well and the franchise could use a jumpstart. Do you see this team up with Mario as a way of reinvigorating Sonic or refreshing the brand?

SJ: I think that's a very fair question. The Sonic games of late... the better games have been on the Nintendo platforms. Sonic Rush on the DS last year was a really good game. Sonic and the Secret Rings on the Wii is a great game as well. It's selling really strongly and is definitely one of the Wii platform favorites at the moment. So it feels like Sonic and the Sonic games have an affinity for the Nintendo platforms anyway, and we're happy to extend that. But you're right in that Sega has been looking to reinvigorate the Sonic franchise and inject some more quality into the games going forward. And we feel this is a great opportunity to work with Nintendo to do that.

Newsweek's interview says that Shigeru Miyamoto will have more involvement in this game than on the average Nintendo title.

Separately, is there a plan to revitalize Sonic on other platforms? Or is this a sign that it just makes more sense in the future to focus Sonic on Nintendo platforms where the product quality has been good and where there may be more audience affinity?

We are actually undergoing a fairly considerable refresh of Sonic as an intellectual property, as a character. Sonic on the Wii is probably the first product that's come to market that reflects that. We're not going to be bringing another game out on the other platforms for quite some time, because we feel that it is time to reinvent Sonic, to make Sonic contemporary again. At the same time, even the recent 360 and Playstation 3 games have sold extremely well. Sonic is still an extremely endearing character; there's still a lot of love for Sonic out there in consumerland.

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Swedish magazine Game Reactor has new art of NiGHTS from the upcoming NiGHTS game on the cover.

Source: Kotaku