IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 19

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* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Ryan Jampole
(Cover A)
* Lamar Wells
(Cover B)
* Nathalie Fourdraine
(Retail Incentive Cover)

### Cover Colorist

* Reggie Graham
(Cover B)

## First Appearances

### Locations

* Sunset City
	+ Grand Gold Flicky Hotel

***IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 19*** is the nineteenth issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

*"Crisis City, Part 1"! Eggman's reign of terror continues! Sonic races to help Team Dark rescue civilians from a major city, but his own metal virus infection is getting worse! Outnumbered, how long can Sonic outrun the inevitable? And who else will fall? A major cornerstone of the metal virus saga! One of Sonic's most powerful allies falls victim to the disease, but who?*
## Featured stories

### Crisis City Part 1

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### Key Events

* Sonic rushes to Sunset City due to a request for aid by Rouge the bat (as seen in the previous issue).
* Sonic encounters and works with E-123 Omega
* Shadow gets infected by the metal virus and succumbs to become a zombot.
* E-123 Omega is repelling the zombots, while Rouge is at the Grand Flicky hotel co-ordinating with the militia and safeguarding the fleeing citizens. Shadow, meanwhile, is driving a large truck to transport the uninfected citizens out of the city.
* E123 Omega is surrounded by Zombots, and is taken heavy damage due to the Zombot shadow. Tauils rescues E-123 Omega's head.

#### Appearances

**Characters**:

* Badniks ***(Flashback)***
	+ Super Badniks ***(Flashback)***
		- Death Egg Robot ***(Flashback)***
* Charmy Bee ***(Mentioned)***
* Cheese ***(Mentioned)***
* Chocola ***(Mentioned)***
* Dr. Eggman ***(Mentioned)***
* Dr. Starline ***(Mentioned)***
* Restoration ***(Mentioned)***
	+ Amy Rose ***(Mentioned)***
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Team Dark
	+ E-123 Omega ***(First appearance)***
	+ Rouge the Bat
	+ Shadow the Hedgehog

**Races and species**:

* Flicky ***(Cameo)***
* Zombot

**Locations**:

* Sonic's dimension
	+ Sonic's world
		- Sunset City ***(First appearance)***
			* Grand Gold Flicky Hotel ***(First appearance)***
		- Windmill Village ***(Mentioned)***

**Items**:

* Metal Virus
* Rocket skates
* Wispons
	+ Burst Wispons (multiple)

**Misc.**:

* Chaos Spear
* Eggman War ***(Mentioned)***
* Spin Attack

#### Trivia

* The title of this story is named after the Action Stage from *Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)*.

## Other features

* **Story so far...**: "Story so far..." is a summary of the current plotline for the comic. It features a landscape drawing by Cream of various locations that have been established in the series and some that have yet to be introduced. The people and locations on the map that have been marked with a red X indicate that they have been affected by the Metal Virus.
* **Roll Call**: Roll Call acts as a quick reference guide to new readers about the characters. This issue provides data files on Sonic, Omega, Rouge and Shadow.
* **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. As a special treat this month, the Sonic Letter Squad is three pages long instead of just two pages long.
* ***Canto* #1 - Free Digital Ashcan**

## Gallery

### Cover artwork

Placeholder version of cover ARetail incentive cover

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY190590

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