Numbered issue 070 of 223
Sonic the Comic #70
2 February 1996
Issue overview
Under the Brotherhood's altered history, survivors hide beneath Planet Metallix with Doctor Ovi Kintobor. Sonic must work out how the robot collective prevented Kintobor from becoming Robotnik and what that change means for the present.
Original stories
Sonic the Hedgehog · The Return of Chaotix, Part 4 #
Beneath Planet Metallix, Kintobor claims never to have heard of anyone called Robotnik and hands Sonic a prototype Anti-Metallix Device before Omni follows the chronotron trail into the past. Metallix sentries eject them mid-jump; Sonic slaps the device onto one machine, which turns its chest cannon on its kin. He pockets a rotten egg from a ruined fist on a hunch, then at trail's end spies young Kintobor beside a brown, spiky hedgehog - his own earlier self.
Script: Nigel Kitching · Art: Richard Elson · Letters: Ellie de Ville
Reprinted in issue 192.
Decap Attack · Nanny Knows Best #
Still drying Head out, the Professor retrieves his old Nanny despite two decades inside for ladling lethal soup into half a Welsh light-opera company. Igor smuggles Chuck back in after bedtime Mr Cuddle Bunny readings drive Head mad, and the three flee her complete set. Their ambush with Head as missile meets her raised umbrella; Head rebounds onto his partners while the Professor beams, "That's my Nanny!"
Script: Nigel Kitching, Richard Rayner · Art: Nigel Kitching · Letters: Tom Frame
Knuckles · The Graveyard, Part 2 #
Poisoned Knuckles doubts the charging Kohenyu skeletons until their blows prove solid, then collapses as the Dryalid toxin wins. He wakes caged in a ribcage inside the Emerald Mine, and the Spirit recounts how Floating Island echidnas hunted the herd for food yet never knew only twenty males existed - the largest, slowest targets, wiped out until the species followed. Knuckles grasps his people's extinction of a race, and the Spirit decrees the price is due.
Script: Nigel Kitching · Art: Nigel Dobbyn · Letters: Elitta Fell
Reprinted in issue 190.
Sonic's World · Brute Force, Part 2 #
Grimer wakes to Brutus's claim he merely fainted from stress, while Brutus ferries Troopers and captives to a secret Misery Zone base for a private Badnik army. Robotnik finds the unauthorised scanner order and seethes; Brutus, tipped that Johnny Lightfoot walks alone in the Cotton Factory Zone, sends his new legion after the rabbit. Johnny's longed-for solo outing meets a sky full of Badniks demanding surrender.
Script: Lew Stringer · Art: Carl Flint · Colour: Dondie Cox · Letters: Steve Potter
Reprinted in issue 191.
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Issue details
- Issue number
- 70
- Date
- 2 February 1996
- Barcode
- 977096930403770
- Cover art
- Carl Flint
- Cover price
- £1.20
- Editor
- Deborah Tate
- Designer
- Gary Knight
- Managing Editor
- Richard Burton