Sonic the Comic #208

Reprinted stories

1. Sonic the Hedgehog · Mister Shifter #

   Rooftop-bound in New Tek City with Omni down and no Star Post home, Sonic snatches a bullet meant for a red-haired girl and meets Mister Shifter - radioactive meta-clay from the Black Zone. Hard as concrete one blow, soft as water the next, Shifter nearly pounds him flat until Sonic vibrates the clay thin and ties it lamp-to-lamp across the street. The girl never thanks him; she teleports to Citadel Robotnik as Agent X19 and names the missing hedgehog.

   First appeared in issue 87.

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.

   First appeared in issue 88.

3. Sonic's World · Future Shock, Part 2 #

   The older Sonic spins a future where a Candlewick Green drill incinerates Tails, Amy, Johnny and Shortfuse, leaving him years in chains until speed cracked the time barrier. The Freedom Fighters buy the warning; Sonic alone refuses the cave mission. Behind the dead-end wall waits Robotnik's Trooper ambush - and the whiskered twin tips his true allegiance.

   First appeared in issue 87.

4. Captain Plunder · Captain Plunder and the Spice Maidens, Part 5 #

   Akotek's statue curses whoever broke the seal — Plunder — with misfortune and calamity, then freezes again. Filch spells out Zorabel's trick: she brought him along precisely so he would take the curse. Loading the treasure, Plunder already trips, wears an urn and is buried under falling axes. Zorabel tows him in a rowboat for the ship's luck; he feels safe at last — until a vast white shark rises behind him.

   First appeared in issue 107.

5. Double Sonic · Zero Zone, Part 1 #

   Investigating missing people, Sonic is sucked through mid-air into Perfection — a tidy village of identical yellow blazers where names are banned and citizens answer only by number. He smashes a laser-eyed statue and a bouncing pink Guardian balloon, only to stick in its goo while the ground itself fists him unconscious. Citizen One orders him brought in for brainwashing. He wakes calling himself Citizen Seven.

   First appeared in issue 106.

Magazine features

• Graphic Zone

Issue details

Issue number

208

Date

30 May 2001

Barcode

977096930407508

Cover art

Richard Elson

Cover price

£1.40

Designer

Gary Knight

Managing Editor

Steve MacManus