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Sonic the Comic #88

15 October 1996

Issue overview

Chaotix discover that Super Sonic is moving inside the Omni-Viewer's slowed-time field. The Ultimate Nightmare makes their temporary containment plan look increasingly fragile.

Original stories

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog · The Ultimate Nightmare #

    Sonic clocks Super Sonic's shifted hands inside Omni - time slowed, not stopped - just as Mighty opens a stray chest of green nightmare smoke. Sidewinder's gang crawls out miniature, hunting the trapped demon as a slave; Sonic floors Lightmare, then Bio-Hazard's vomit soaks the lord instead. The villains shrink home with the antidote, leaving only a name: Nack the Weasel.

    Script: Nigel Kitching · Art: Nigel Kitching · Colour: Andy Pritchett · Letters: Tom Frame

    Reprinted in issue 209.

  2. Knuckles · The Good, the Bad and the Echidna, Part 2 #

    Backwater's Deputy Krouch cages Knuckles on Chito's word while Boss Krouch, the mayor and meat-monopolist, greets the prisoner with false concern. That night Chito and the Boss admit the stampede was their work; a leering mob hauls Knuckles toward a tree. A snapped rope and a furious Sheriff cut the lynching short before Knuckles can free himself.

    Script: Nigel Kitching · Art: Nigel Dobbyn · Letters: Elitta Fell

    Reprinted in issue 208.

  3. Tails · Small Change #

    Grimer's cousin Slimy tests a Reducing Ray on woodland Tails, shrinking him ant-small amid dew and insects. The fox slips inside Slimy's Hulko-Droid, rips its wiring, and grows back as the ray fires again. The beam bounces off shiny armour onto Slimy, who vanishes smaller than an atom - too tiny for Robotnik to notice.

    Script: Lew Stringer · Art: Roberto Corona · Colour: Steve White · Letters: Tom Frame

    Reprinted in issue 184.

  4. Sonic's World · Future Shock, Part 3 #

    Robotnik howls that the elderly Sonic is no time-traveller but a lab-grown clone aged too fast and stuffed with false memories. The duplicate turns, smashes Troopers, fetches the real Sonic and cocoons Robotnik's battle-craft in raw speed before collapsing into wrinkles. He flares into rising energy; Sonic forgives the fake who still bought them hope.

    Script: Lew Stringer · Art: Roberto Corona · Colour: Andy Pritchett · Letters: Tom Frame

    Reprinted in issue 209.

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Issue details

Issue number
88
Date
15 October 1996
Barcode
977096930403788
Cover price
£1.20
Editor
Deborah Tate
Features Editor
Audrey Wong
Designer
Gary Knight

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