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Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 193 is the one hundred ninety-third issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by Archie Comics.
Official solicitation
- “Otherside Part One”: Good comes face-to-face with evil… and it’s just like looking in a mirror as Sonic and the Freedom Fighters square off against their evil doppelgangers from another world! With King Scourge (the evil anti-Sonic from another dimension) and the Suppression Squad controlling Freedom HQ, Sonic and Amy are sent across time and space to Moebius… the Anti-Mobius, that is! They run into some familiar faces in this topsy-turvy world, but who is friend and who is foe? And back home, what sinister scheme is Miles hatching?
Featured stories
Otherside Part One: How the Other Half Lives
- Writer: Ian Flynn
- Pencils: Tracy Yardley
- Inks: Jim Amash
- Colors: Josh Ray
- Letters: Teresa Davidson
- Editor/Managing Editor: Mike Pellerito
- Editor-In-Chief: Victor Gorelick
- Special Thanks to: Kristen Parcell & Cindy Chau at SEGA Licensing
Sonic and Amy are waiting for Rotor and Tails to finish the new Star Posts for him to carry out his "punishment". Sally greets them before going and asks them if they remember the plan, which they do; "Head over to Scourge's home zone and find a way to reverse his invasion" and cause him any problems if possible. Rotor and Tails say the Star Posts are ready but they do not know which part of Moebius the portal will drop the duo. Sonic and Amy then jump into the portal into decorated corridor overlooking a forest. Expecting more by the way Rotor put it, Sonic is surprised by his surroundings. However, a robot suddenly attacks the duo, and manages to subdue them both by using the spellbinder waves and riot foam built into its arms. Just then, Dr. Ivo Kintobor comes in and tells "Buns" that they are from the Prime Zone and are not their enemies. Buns then apologizes and Sonic tells Dr. Kintobor that Scourge has invaded their zone and that he and Amy have come here to find something to stop their invasion. Apologizing for this, Kintobor asks if they can continue their discussion outside in the Grand Forest.
Back on Mobius, Sally is nervously pacing, worried over the safety of her friends. NICOLE then appears in front of them saying Miles of the Suppression Squad is outside the city. Sally tells NICOLE to tell Bunnie Rabbot and her husband Antoine to meet her and Tails outside the city. NICOLE then starts to reassure Rotor, but he says he understands and that Sonic and Amy are going to need a way home. The four members of the Knothole Freedom Fighters confront Miles who reveals that he is there under the pretense of bombing their city, which he does not intend, but instead wishes to forge an alliance due to them holding a trump card in Sonic.
Back on Moebius, Dr. Kintobor has taken the honor of introducing Amy to his world and tells him that he runs the hospital tower they came from that protects people from King Scourge's tyranny thanks to its invisible force field. After Sonic inquires about what Dr. Kintobor knows about Scouge's latest plot, he reveals that they stole his experimental Globe Posts that he needed to search for new medical techniques in other zones in order to cure Buns of her NIDS so she would no longer need to be inside the Omega Care unit. Sonic then asks if he knows of anything they could use to stop Scourge and Amy suggests he could make more Care Units, but he refuses saying that he named it "Omega" because it was a last resort and had not even planned on giving it non-lethal weapons until Buns requested them. Buns then suggests they could get to "you-know-who", but Dr. Kintobor says that she is far too dangerous. Amy then pleads with Kintobor to tell them who they are talking about, and he then tells her about Rosy the Rascal, the Anti-Amy, a crazed Mobian who stalks Scourge relentlessly.
Back at New Mobotropolis, Miles reveals that the Suppression Squad hates Scourge more than the Freedom Fighters do and want him defeated after he used them as his back-up while conquering the planet and forced them to make themselves more than just the "evil twins" of the Freedom Fighters like he had. Sally agrees to the alliance after NICOLE confirms his story despite the protests of Tails, and Miles tells Sally his plan.
Back at Kintobor's tower, Sonic, Amy and Buns get ready to set off to Castle Acorn where Rosy is likely to be. After Kintobor attempts to delay their leave out of worry, they head out to the castle. When they reach it and get inside, a shadowy figure is seen running, and suddenly singing is heard. Buns tracks the source of the singing to the throne room and the trio rush into it and find Rosy sitting on the throne. Rosy then reveals that Scourge always ignored her attacks when she was little and how she used a Magic Ring to make herself older like Amy did, and Sonic believes that there must have been some kind of side-effect. Rosy then says there was. She says that it broke her brain "allll to pieces!" so now she breaks everything else and then takes out her mallet and attacks all three of them.
Sonic Unleashed!
- Writer: Ian Flynn
- Pencils: Tracy Yardley
- Inks: Jim Amash
- Colors: Josh Ray
- Letters: Stingray Grafik Wurks
- Editor/Managing Editor: Mike Pellerito
- Editor-In-Chief: Victor Gorelick
- Special Thanks to: Kristen Parcell & Cindy Chau at SEGA Licensing
In another time, another place, Super Sonic is confronting Dr. Eggman in his space station, having just decimated the doctor's entire Space Armada. Eggman pleas to Sonic, acknowledging his defeat, but the hedgehog figured out so much and walks away, telling him he would see him again during his next scheme. Eggman then presses a button and activates his machine that traps Sonic in an energy field, which slips away the Chaos Emeralds from Sonic, thus turning Sonic back to normal and sucks the power out of the Emeralds while Sonic is affected by the drained energy. Dr. Eggman then activates his cannon which splits the world apart. Eggman gloats at Sonic, but turns around, only to find Sonic undergoing a transformation into a Werehog. Dr. Eggman becomes scared and opens the gate, sending Sonic and the drained Chaos Emeralds plummeting down to the planet.
Back on the planet, Sonic has landed in a green field and wakes up, wondering just what happened and asking himself many questions. As the sun comes up and Sonic notices that he is transforming back into his regular self, Sonic is ready to go out and find Eggman for some answers...
Quotes
- Sonic: I though this was a solo mission.
- Sally: You'll need back-up on a hostile world we know little about. Besides, Amy's been dying for more time with you.
- Sonic: You're cruel.
- Dr. Ivo Kintobor: This is your first time in our zone, isn't it, Ms. Rose?
- Amy Rose: Yes sir, it is.
- Dr. Kintobor: Then allow me to introduce you to my world. I am Dr. Ivo Kintobor. I run the hospital tower we just came from. It houses force-field generator I use to protect the Grand Forest and all the Moebians who fear King Scourge's tyranny.
- Amy: Wow, I can't even see the field.
- Dr. Kintobor: Good! You're not supposed to.
Trivia
- This issue marks the second overall appearance of Anti-Knuckles and his first appearance since Sonic the Hedgehog #44.
- Rosy the Rascal's outfit is the same at the original one worn by Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog #25.
- This issue features the comic tie-in to the videogame Sonic Unleashed.
- This issue mistakenly credits Patrick Spaziante with the cover art in the list of credits.
- The song sung by Rosy in Castle Acorn is a parody of "Pop Goes The Weasel".
- Patch D'Coolette's patch is shown on the wrong eye in a flashback.
- In the United Kingdom, "Sonic Unleashed" was printed in All About... #73.
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External links
- Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 193 at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.