Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 258


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Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 258 is the two hundredth and fifty-eighth issue of the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Official Solicitation
The Shattered World Crisis continues! 'The Chase' Part One: Uncle Chuck and Professor Pickle - captured by the nefarious Dr. Eggman! It's up to Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to secure the precious kidnapped cargo from the Egg Train! But they're going to be in for the surprise of their lives when they discover that there are more than just badniks guarding it - can Sonic handle the deadly, mysterious E-107 Theta? Featuring a special CGI 'Return of Princess Sally' variant cover by Rafa Knight!

Background Information

 * The variant cover is a parody of Issue 231's cover.
 * The main cover is drawn by Tyson Hesse, artist of webcomic Boxer Hockey.
 * Hesse stated that an earlier version of the cover featured several obscure Archie Sonic characters appearing in the red stream behind Sonic, but were edited out per Archie's request, due to several of said characters no longer being allowed for use. Hesse is apparently unable to share the original version due to legal reasons. It's implied in one of his posts that one of the characters that appeared on the original art was Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg.
 * The main cover features (from front to back): Sonic, Uncle Chuck, Tails, Metal Sonic v3.0, Sally, Rotor, Amy, Shadow, Silver, Bunnie, Antoine, Knuckles, Vector, Espio, Charmy, Ixis Naugus, and NICOLE.
 * The main cover marks the first appearance of Knuckles in the post-Super Genesis Wave era.
 * According to Jon Gray and Ian Flynn, the solicitation is slightly wrong and E-107 is not set to appear, with his role instead being filled by E-106 Eta.