Archie Sonic Comics Mini-Series

Archie Comics Mini-Series

There were so many different Archie Comics Sonic related Mini-Series that they need their own page!
Some of these may be harder to collect, so look carefully in order to complete your Sonic items collection. Anything that ran more than 1 issue with a somewhat continuous arc, regardless of whether it became ongoing, is shown here.

Time to go hardcore and complete your comic collection?
Then you can't miss these mini-series comics, even though Sonic is not in all of them. Out of these, the Princess Sally ones are probably the most difficult to get in original form. The Knuckles miniseries was so popular, that it led to him getting his own comic.

Sonic Quest interior art is farily consistent

This is the Sonic Quest mini-series. It featured a story vaguely along the lines of Sonic 3, wherein Robotnik tried to sink the Floating Island by using the Death Egg. Knuckles, Sonic and the Chaotix had to try and stop him.

The art consistency and story-arc were pretty good on this series. It wasn't anything to blow the fans away, but it was solid enough to sell well. It is not particularly rare to find, and is a good addition to the collection if you like Archie Sonic comics.

The Princess Sally Miniseries. Ironically, an Archie-Cannon character was the first to get their own mini-series spun off of the Sonic books.

It might not be surprising though, as the Princess was a well designed and charismatic character that drew in fans. It was her ability to out-shine Sonic himself, that frightented some!

The art in all 3 books was nice and consistent. There weren't any horrible scenes, badly done pannels, or atrocious character design. If you enjoy the style, all 3 books will impress. They really appear as a nice effort with a witty enough plot and good planning all around.

The main "Mystery Point" was their only faux-pas, in that it involved a fake Sally in a purple vest. The purple vest looked like another of their Inking Errors, which were fairly common, and so was dismissed rather then "Cleverly caught onto" as they had intented for fans to do.

Because it's not Sonic, it's not easy to get a hold of this mini-series. Expect high prices where you do find it.

Tails was the next to get a mini-series, but he didn't fare nearly as well. If only the interior art was as good as the covers...!

Manak and Mawhinny were the main interior pencillers, and their sloppy, scratchy style was generally unappealing. The comics were also streight-foreward, with no real intellectual plot points or mystery to keep anyone engaged.

It didn't help his cause that Tails was portrayed as a somewhat-bratty babyish character who had a huge ego, and would regularly fantasize himself as an ugly super-hero-type. Also: TAILS IS NOT BROWN. My scans aren't bad, it is just that Archie is still insisting that Tails is not orange.

Horrible interior art offends Tails fans

Tails is mostly supported by the "Downunda Freedom Fighters" The main villain is "Croc-Bot" who has stolen Crocodile Dundee's hat. He unleashes various annoying plans such as giant sheep robots and flying Dingoes, before failing to overthrow Robotnik. Tails also encounters the Ancient Walkers, which are dinosaurs in African-Theme masks. The echidna on the cover is Athair, an ancestor in the complex Knuckles line.

Why they went with the whole "This is Austraila and we are going to make fun of it" theme is unknown. (note: opera house base)

Naturally, with this sub-par showing, Tails did not get any rave reviews or hopes to continue his series. Was it fair Sally got most of the talent and ideas, and Tails did not? No, but that's the way history goes.

Knuckles fared the best with his mini-series comics. He had 2, each with 3 issues, that led him to a regular series.

Again, consistent art and a fairly good plotline helped him along. He also had a strong enough personality, and the support of Sega fans who thought Knuckles was cool.

Early Knuckles comic interior art with Archie Ant and Enerjak

The Knuckles storylines could also easily be crossed over into Sonic's, and vice-versa for extra interaction. The Chaotix also brought in fans to support the series.

Keep in mind though, that the book had NO official history of Echidna society to go on, when it was created. Therefore, the continuity is 100% original, and has nothing to do with anything else. This created a monsterous and highly complex storyline with multiple family trees, units of badguys including Enerjak (pictured), the Dark Legion, Mammoth Mogul, and Dingoes.

Any fan who liked to follow this type of storyline would probably benifit from collecting the Knuckles mini-series and short run of regular series.

Note: Archie still believes that all emeralds are always green, even chaos emeralds. They never played a Sonic game, and are running on the assumption that it is just like Earth emeralds. Why hasn't anyone told them, after all these years?

It is now confirmed that the series will continue another 3 issues, in the coming months. It appears support (unsurprisingly) is good for the books so far, so expect more great Sonic content to collect!

The latest mini-series is for Sonic X. 4 issues long, it is about to wrap up with the 4th. As you can see, most of the art is more consistent then in the regular books, and tries to keep on model with the show.

No "Archie" characters are featured, meaning you can jump right in. The stories seem appropriate to the way the show is handled.

Rumor confirmed! There will now be issues 5, 6 and 7 of the Sonic X comic series. Look out for the ads in issue #4, and how to order!

What will the next Mini-Series be?