Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys Issue 2

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* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive A

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Aaron Hammerstrom
(Cover A)
* Diana Skelly
(Cover B)
* Jack Lawrence
(Cover RI A)
	+ Leonardo Ito (Cover color- Cover RI)

### Pencils

Jack Lawrence

**Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys Issue 2** is the second issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys* miniseries published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

*From Sonic veterans Ian Flynn and Jack Lawrence comes "Smash & Grab," an exciting story jam-packed with bad guys and badniks!*
*Some of Sonic's worst enemies are back and badder than ever! Dr. Starline, Dr. Eggman's former-right hand, has brought together Mimic, Rough, Tumble, and Zavok and promised them even more incredible power... if they can stop fighting each other and start fighting badniks to get to it!*
## Featured stories

### Smash & Grab

#### Synopsis

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**Characters**:

* Badniks
	+ Cannon Flapper ***(First appearance)***
	+ Egg Pawn (multiple)
	+ Egg-Rex ***(First appearance)*** ***(only appearance)***
	+ Motobug (x2)
	+ Super Badnik
		- Egg Hammer
* Deadly Six ***(Mentioned)***
	+ Zavok
* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Starline
* Miles "Tails" Prower ***(Mentioned)***
* Mimic
* Orbot
* Rough the Skunk
* Sonic the Hedgehog ***(Mentioned)***
* Tumble the Skunk

**Locations**:

* Sonic's dimension
	+ Sonic's world
		- Dr. Starline's Repository

**Races and species**:

* Zeti

**Items**:

* Metal Virus ***(Mentioned)***
* Multi-Tool Heel Spurs
* Power Core (multiple) ***(First appearance)***
* Tricore ***(First appearance)***

**Techniques.**:

* Grand Stink Bomber Slam ***(First appearance)***
* Spin Attack
* Spin Dash ***(Mentioned)***
* Stink Bomber

**Misc.**:

* Eggman Empire
* Eggnet

#### Storyline

* Dr. Starline's newly formed alliance with Zavok, Mimic, Rough the Skunk and Tumble the Skunk attack one of Dr. Eggman's bases.
* Starline remembers in a flashback how he explained about the sought after Power Cores, and then outlined the plan of attack on the Eggnet Hub.

## Other features

* **Story so far**: "Story so far..." is a summary of the current plot-line for the comic.
* **Roll Call**: A quick reference guide to new readers about the characters. This issue provides data files on Dr. Starline, Zavok, Mimic, Rough and Tumble.
* **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. Only one page is featured in this issue. The pages before this showcase raw artwork of three of the variant covers for the issue.
* **Creator Corner**: Creator Corner is a section where one of the staff that works on the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series is interviewed. In this case, the section is dedicated to Jack Lawrence.
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## Preview pages

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## Trivia

* The Robotic T-Rex featured in this issue was designed by Aron Hammerstrom and was inspired by Redz, which appeared in the 2013 re-release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

## References

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