Numbered issue 188 of 223
Sonic the Comic #188
23 August 2000
Issue overview
The fourth chapters of Project Brutus, The Homecoming and Cybernik Strikes Back share the issue with the start of Flip Side. The selection moves between Sonic, Knuckles and Shortfuse while opening a different adventure for Amy.
Reprinted stories
Sonic the Hedgehog · Project Brutus, Part 4 #
Super Sonic smashes into Brutus hard enough to crack his supposedly indestructible armour; when Brutus grabs Amy as a shield, Super ignores the hostage and tears the Commander's arm off at the elbow. Troopers and the Troop ship's Doom-Foam cannon fail to stop the chase, and Brutus flees to Metropolis while Sonic reverts with no memory of the fight. At the Citadel, Robotnik berates him for disobedience, but Brutus, sharing his creator's ambition, quietly schemes to rule Mobius himself one day.
First appeared in issue 66.
Knuckles · The Homecoming, Part 4 #
Without the Master Emerald the Floating Island slams onto a mountain, wrecking homes in the Mushroom Hill Zone, while Zachary attacks Knuckles for stranding them both. Knuckles shears the robot's head from its body with a hurled stone; a tremor then dumps Zachary and the husk over the edge into the clouds. Staying with his home, Knuckles hauls the still-charged Guardian head into the Emerald Chamber, restores the Island's lift, and vows that next time his people return he will ask harder questions.
First appeared in issue 68.
Tails · Flip Side, Part 1 #
Overlooked and misnamed by fans, Tails seeks Doctor Sorders' confidence hypnosis and emerges as an over-cool fox. In the Greenfield Zone, Alf Bandstand's around-the-Zones balloon is punctured by its woodpecker co-pilot. Cool Tails refuses to fly lest he ruffle his fur, leaving Sonic desperate to snap him back before the balloonists die.
First appeared in issue 103.
Sonic's World · Cybernik Strikes Back, Part 4 #
Metamorphia delivers captive Tekno to Robotnik and boasts that Shortfuse died with his own bomb, then has to admit the blast also levelled the Chemical Plant factory, enraging the dictator. Underwater, Shortfuse's oxygen runs low until his jet boots free him and he races for the Citadel. Robotnik strips Metamorphia's shape-shifting and orders her processed into a Badnik just as a Trooper reports the Cybernik is already attacking the fortress.
First appeared in issue 66.
Magazine features
- Graphic Zone
- Data Zone
- Pin-up
Issue details
- Issue number
- 188
- Date
- 23 August 2000
- Barcode
- 977096930406888
- Cover art
- Richard Elson
- Cover price
- £1.35
- Designer
- Gary Knight
- Managing Editor
- Steve MacManus