IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 48

*Previous Issue ←—→ Next Issue*

This article for a **comic** book issue, which has already been published, yet the article is **incomplete**.
Articles includes individual comic issues and the Annuals. Please help improve *IDW Sonic Hub* by expanding it.

* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Jonathan Gray (Cover A)
* Abby Bulmer (Cover B)
* Nathalie Fourdraine (Cover RI)

### Pencils

Aaron Hammerstrom

**IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 48** is the forty-eighth issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series published by IDW Publishing.

## Featured stories

### Hit the Pavement

* **Story**: Evan Stanley
* **Art**: Aaron Hammerstrom
* **Inks**: Matt Froese
* **Colors**: Reggie Graham
* **Letters**: Shawn Lee
* **Editors**: Riley Farmer, David Mariotte
* **Special thanks to**: Mai Kiyotaki, Michael Cisneros, Sandra Jo, Sonic Team, and everyone at Sega for their invaluable assistance

#### Synopsis

*The ROAD TO #50 continues here! Enjoy a TEN-ISSUE-LONG-ADVENTURE leading up to the EPIC SHOWDOWN in milestone issue #50.*
*The Chaotix are on the case! Central City has been turned upside-down by unmanageable traffic, and reports of lightning and water moving in odd ways have the city's emergency services scratching their heads. Is it a sewer-dwelling crocodile, a pair of unruly brothers, or something more sinister? Whatever it may be, Vector, Espio, and Charmy are sure to uncover the truth.*
#### Appearances

##### Characters

* Chaotix
	+ Vector the Crocodile
	+ Espio the Chameleon
	+ Charmy Bee
* Clutch the Opossum
* K-TBR 199.2
	+ Don the Rooster
	+ Nite the Owl
* Rough the Skunk
* Tumble the Skunk
* Restoration ***(Mentioned)***

##### Locations

* Sonic’s Dimension
	+ Sonic's World
		- Central City
		- Sunset City
		- White Park Zone ***(Mentioned)***

##### Misc

* Beat Monster
* Chaotix Detective Agency
* Stink Bomber ***(Mentioned)***
* Vector Breath ***(First appearance)***
* Smoke Bomb

### Continuity

* Nite the Owl, Don the Rooster and K-TBR 199.2 previously appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2020 story: "The Darkest Hour".

## 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 Vector, Espio, Charmy, Nite and Don.
* **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.

## Trivia

* An anthropormorphic bird mother and her child seen on page four are based on the ones seen on Cover A for Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 35 (which was also illustrated by Aaron Hammerstrom and colored by Reggie Graham)

## Gallery

### Preview Pages

Intro pagePage onePage twoPage threePage fourPage five

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Solicit`
2. ↑ SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #47 CVR B HAINES. Previews World (17 September 2021). Retrieved on 17 September 2021.
3. ↑ SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #47 CVR C 10 COPY FOURDRAINE. Previews World (17 September 2021). Retrieved on 17 September 2021.

*IDW Sonic Comics*