First Look: Sonic #269, Sonic Universe #72, Sonic Boom #4
Ian Flynn’s forums, BumbleKing Comics, occasionally have something new to showcase on there. This is one of those occasions. There have been cover variants for Sonic the Hedgehog #269, Sonic Universe #72, and Sonic Boom #4 put up.
The following summaries were released for all three comics as well:
Sonic The Hedgehog #269
(W) Ian Flynn (A/CA) Terry Austin & Various
The contestants are brawlin’ and the saga continues in ‘Champions’ Part Two! The fighting tournament for the Chaos Emerald is in full swing! Tails vs. Honey! Espio vs. Bean! Knuckles vs. Bark! But it’s a sure bet that if a competition’s going down, something’s fixed with thugs like Breezie and Nack involved. Sonic will need some inside info – and he finds it from some surprisingly familiar faces! Featuring new cover art from Jammin’ Jamal Peppers and a SWE (Sonic Wrestling Entertainment) variant cover by the indomitable T.REX!
Sonic Universe #72
(W) Ian Flynn, Aleah Baker (A) Jim Amash & Various (CA) Jennifer Hernandez & Various
What monsters lurk on the mysterious isolated island?? Find out for yourself in ‘Spark of Life’ Part Two: Things are getting very creepy in the lab of Dr. Ellidy! His badnik defenses are going offline-which is bad news when there are Dark Gaia Monsters prowling the shores at night! Sally and Big investigate the mystery of the Red Star Rings as Tails and Nicole debug the system-where something, or someone-is waiting for Nicole! Featuring new cover art from Tracy Yardley and an interactive MATCHMAKER variant cover by rising Sonic star Jennifer Hernandez, where you can ‘ship it yourself’!
Sonic Boom #4
(W) Ian Flynn (A) Evan Stanley & Various (CA) Tracy Yardley & Various
The new ongoing Sonic comic book series from Archie Comics keeps on BOOMIN’ with Sonic Boom #4: Sticks and Stones! Dr. Eggman’s Big Boy mech has been refined into its final, deadly form. Sonic and his friends are on the ropes, but have no fear! Sticks has brought her secret weapon! It’s a… wait, seriously? Sticks thinks that’s going to help? Find out what her secret weapon is in the weird and wacky conclusion to the first story arc of the brand-new series Sonic Boom! Featuring cover art from Sonic art guru Tracy Yardley and an all-new ‘Sticks-with-stones-being-chased-by-bones’ variant cover from rising Sonic star Diana Skelly!
This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.
Sonic Universe 72 alt cover ha ha ha ha, poor Blaze
StH variant: I’ll go for that; it’s slightly more interesting than having just a big blue face I guess.
Boom variant: That pun gave me cancer; I’ll stick with the standard cover I think.
Universe variant: Archie poking the fanbase with a mahoosive stick with that one.
I think I’ll come back in a year, when the inevitable ‘shipping’ debates have subsided to background level. In the meantime, standard cover it is. The standard is better anyway.
But names will never hurt me.
Good to know they’re still on-going with this Omega and Blaze joke even after the reset….ugh
The only other time that link has been made was once in Treasure Team Tango, and that was four years ago. Besides, it’s only on the cover.
Though what possessed the execs to sign off that cover…
My only regret is that the varient cover can’t feature a larger number of the cast that I can ship. The chaos I could cause…. >X)
Aw who am I kidding, I’d just ship Silver and Blaze a million times. 😛
Same here. xD
That Robotnik in the STH cover is amazingly creepy haha! If I were to chose I would definitely pick all the variants! I love funny strangeness on my covers! 😀
I think my heart stopped for 3 minutes after reading that joke. Anyways Shipping….. Eh. The Tetris cover art piece looks nice but everyone is smiling weird.
I have to say I absolutely love all covers here except the variant boom joke wich I would only have found funny if I were around 10 years old.
Also I love the new way the images are displayed on the site! Right now I’m on my phone and don’t know if this works for the desktop version as well but is so easy now to navigate through each pic, thanks a lot!
And about the shipping… I know I might get a lot of merciless backlash for talking about shippings in a Sonic series but I think it would be great to see Sonic and Blaze dating, it doesn’t have to last forever, not even more than a year, but I think they would make an odd and interesting couple, one is all about adventure and being care free, the other is all about dicipline and responsabilities, both are hot heads, it would be interesting to see what they would learn from one another in their time together.
The way Blaze’s character works, she’s a bit of a heavy contrast to most of the positive and laid back cast, so potentially she could be paired up with anyone and it would be interesting…in a well-written fan fic anyway. I’m pretty much an avid Silvaze fan myself, but I do find the whole Blaze/Omega thing to be quite funny, even if it was only based off of one joke (from a “different” continuity…sort of?). 😛
With anyone? Who exactly do you think would make more contrast with her than Sonic? (Sincere question).
Tails.
Marine. :3
Damn, there’s no spoiler tags on this site. XD
Not that I would ship it, but Blaze and Amy. How crazy would that get, personality wise? XD
The Pyrokinetic and The Hammer-Hefting Hothead?
Believe it or not, you’re not the first to come up with that pairing: I found a fanfic that has just that combo. It’s in Spanish though, so I have no idea if it’s any good or not. But then it is a fanfic…
@Skai Cyan
Hahaha well I agree with Marine! Though I didn’t think about other girls back then.
Also I see Blaze paired with girls more often than other Sonic female characters in several art and fan sites, especially DA, wonder if is because she wears purple or if its there another reason.
Wait a minute… the main cover for Sonic #269 says the Champions storyline has 4 parts but the variant says it only has 2 parts, so wich one is correct? (Hope is the former one).
Haha! Yeah that’s weird hopefully they’ll fix that before it comes out otherwise that would be pretty embarrassing! XD
Blaze and Sonic?
Really why someone ships that? :’D
Its okay but the whole shipping thing is weird.
If Sonic has to date someone (dont kill me its my opinion)
It would be *couch couch*
…….
AmyBut i cant imagine Sonic getting married or having kds *couch Sonic Universe *couch
If Sonic made out with a couch, I’m pretty sure their children would be pincushions.
Of course it’d be Amy, it was pretty clear in my opinion she was made to be his love interest eventually.
I don’t understand why people can’t accept that Sonic is just friends with Blaze. xD
It’s because Sonic was such a passionate soul to every female character in that era and the fact that the screen goes black and Super Sonic gives “something” to Burning Blaze “for luck” when they part ways. Everybody just speculates by that point, it’s like they didn’t even try to hint at what happened in that scene, they knew fans would just jump to conclusions anyway. XD
*coughcoughcough*Sally*coughcoughcough*
I mean I have no opinion
*walks away nonchalantly*
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/298/c/3/ifixedsu_72_png_by_robothobo64-d841y8q.jpg
Whoops, my hand slipped.
(Didn’t edit Nicole because laziness)
El Gran Gordo shall rise again!! >XD
I support Sonic having an Unwanted Harem, so Sonic X Amy, Blaze and those two Beta Archie chicks, so long as it’s all one-sided, of course. Sonic X Fast is my OTP, though. I also support Knux X Stone Fists, Big X Froggy, and Omega X Shooting things.
Sonic X Fast is the only true OTP. XD
That and chilidogs.
Not looking too shabby.
The Sonic Boom cover is an over the top bad pun, but I’d by it for spite.
In before 100Rings shows up butthurt.
If Big is over important in this please tell me so I can read it. I love seeing Big doing important stuff.
I do not believe that Omega or Blaze appear, it is not the first time on the cover that it cheats, also is out of the previous story arc. Omega is always with Rouge or Shadow. Blaze is always with Marine, Silver and Cream, in any case would have to leave them also.