IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 59

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* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Thomas Rothlisberger (cover A)
* Natalie Haines (cover B)
* Nathalie Fourdraine (cover RI)

### Colors

Matt Herms

**IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 59** is the fifty-ninth issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

*Androids everywhere! Three teams are trapped in Eggperial City, fighting wave after wave of androids. Sonic is speeding, Amy is smashing, Tails is flying. Shadow is punching, Omega is ripping, Rouge is…looting. But will it be enough? And has anyone seen Tangle?!*
## Featured stories

### Urbane Warfare, Part 3

#### Appearances

**Characters**:

* Amy Rose
* Badniks
	+ Blowfish Transporter
	+ Buzz Bomber
	+ Caterkiller ***(body part)***
	+ Egg Pawn ***(remains)***
	+ Shadow Androids
	+ Zoomer
* Cubot
* Diamond Cutters ***(Mentioned)***
* Doctor Eggman
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Orbot
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Shadow Androids
* Tangle the Lemur
* Team Dark
	+ E-123 Omega
	+ Rouge the Bat
	+ Shadow the Hedgehog

**Locations**:

* Sonic’s Dimension
	+ Sonic's World
		- Eggperial City

**Items**:

* Chaos Spear
* Giant Fake Chaos Emeralds
* Spatial-Displacement Trap ***(First appearance)***

**Misc**:

* Chaos Control

### Continuity

The Shadow Androids appeared as part of a recording where they eliminated the original Diamond Cutters.

## 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 Sonic, Tangle, Whisper, Lanolin, Amy, Tails, Silver, Blaze, Shadow, Rouge, E-123 Omega, and Dr. Eggman.
* **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 the variant covers for the issue.
* **Creator Corner**: Creator Corner features an interview with a staff member. In this issue, Natalie Haines is featured.

## Trivia

* This issue was initially scheduled for release on 29 March 2023, but was later pushed back to 12 April 2023, and later still pushed back again to 19 April 2023.

## Gallery

### Cover artwork

First version of cover A colors. Art by Thomas Rothlisberger. Colors by Min Ho Kim.Revised version of cover A colors. Art by Thomas Rothlisberger. Colors by Min Ho Kim.Cover A color thumbnails by Min Ho Kim.

### Preview Pages

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Sonic the Hedgehog #59 Cover A (Rothlisberger). Penguin Random House (23 December 2022). Retrieved on 23 December 2022.
2. ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #59 Variant B (Haines). Penguin Random House (23 December 2022). Retrieved on 23 December 2022.
3. ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #59 Variant RI (10) (Fourdraine). Penguin Random House (23 December 2022). Retrieved on 23 December 2022.

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