IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 31

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* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Tracy Yardley
(Cover A)
* Jonathan Gray
(Cover B)
* Nathalie Fourdraine
(Retail Incentive Cover)

## First Appearances

### Locations

* Dr. Starline's Repository
* Forest Hill
* Silver’s Future

**IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 31** is the thirty-first issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

*"It's all led to this... the thrilling two-part epilogue to the Metal Virus Saga. The world has changed. Heroes and villains plan for the future as reconstruction begins. But one hero remains missing..."*

### Recovery, Part 1

#### Synopsis

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#### Appearances

**Characters**:

* Babylon Rogues
	+ Jet the Hawk
	+ Storm the Albatross
	+ Wave the Swallow
* Badniks
	+ Egg Pawns (multiple)
* Big the Cat
* Blaze the Cat
* Chaotix
	+ Charmy Bee
	+ Espio the Chameleon
	+ Vector the Crocodile
* Chaotix Detective Agency
* Cheese
* Chocola
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cubot
* Deadly Six ***(Mentioned)***
	+ Zavok
* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Starline
* Gardon
* Gemerl
* Knuckles the Echidna ***(Mentioned)***
* Orbot
* Resistance ***(Mentioned)***
* Restoration
	+ Amy Rose
	+ Jewel the Beetle
	+ Miles "Tails" Prower
	+ Tangle the Lemur
	+ Whisper the Wolf
* Rough the Skunk
* Tumble the Skunk
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Team Dark
	+ E-123 Omega
	+ Rouge the Bat
	+ Shadow the Hedgehog

* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Wisps ***(Mentioned)***

**Locations**:

* Blaze's Dimension
	+ Blaze's world
		- Imperial Palace
* Silver's future
* Sonic's dimension
	+ Sonic's world
		- Dr. Starline's Repository ***(First appearance)***
		- Echo Mine
		- Forest Hill ***(First appearance)***
		- Restoration HQ
		- Seaside City
		- Spiral Hill Village
			* Mineral Museum

**Items**:

* Cacophonic Conch ***(Mentioned)***
* Fishing Rod
* Metal Virus ***(Mentioned)***
* Rocket skates

**Vehicles**:

* Faceship ***(Mentioned)***
* Giga Omega ***(First appearance)***

**Misc.**:

* Eggman Empire
* Sol Empire

## Other features

* **Story so far**: "Story so far" is a summary of the current plotline for the comic.
* **Roll Call**: Roll Call acts as a quick reference guide to new readers about the characters. This issue provides data files on Amy, Jewel, Tails, Tangle, Whisper, Dr. Eggman, Team Chaotix, Cream, Vanilla, Gemerl, Shadow, and Rouge.
* **Sonic Letters Squad**: Sonic Letters Squad is a section where the comic staff can post fan artwork and fan letters that have been sent in to them. The other pages showcase raw artwork of each of the variant covers for the issue.
* ***Canto & the Clockwork Fairies One-Shot* - Free Digital Ashcan**

## Trivia

* In Jon Gray's cover-art for this issue, has featured various wanted posters that included those of: Dr. Eggman, Rough and Tumble, Dr. Starline, a cameo of both John and Reggie Graham, and one for each of the Babylon Rogues.
	+ On Storm the Albatross' wanted poster, it has an easteregg reference to a Knothole Village, a reference to the location that was featured as the headquarters for the Freedom Fighters in both the SATAM Sonic the hedgehog cartoon and as well as the comic's predecessor, Archie Sonic the hedgehog. Whether or not it will expand upon that reference is unknown.
* Both covers of 31 and 32 can be combined to form a panorama.

## Gallery

Artwork-only covers

Early covers

## References

1. ↑ David Mariotte on Twitter. *Twitter* (1 September 2020). Retrieved on 1 September 2020.
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/jongraywb/status/1291175070321303553

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