IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 12

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* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Evan Stanley
(Cover A)
* Brigitte Dutreix
(Cover B)
* Nathalie Fourdraine
(Retailer Incentive Cover)

## First Appearances

### Items

* Chaos Emeralds
* Warp Topaz
* Metal Virus (on screen)

**IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 12** is the twelfth issue of IDW Publishing's Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series.

## Summary

### Official Solicitation

*"The Battle for Angel Island," Part Four. The thrilling conclusion to the Battle of Angel Island saga! As Sonic and his friends work to restore Angel Island, two questions remain: is Neo Metal Sonic truly defeated, and what other trouble is brewing?*
*The cap on IDW's first year of Sonic the Hedgehog adventures-and the lead-in to year two!*
*An old foe returns...*
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## Key Events

* Tails partially repairs Metal Sonic, at Sonic's request.
* Metal Sonic returns to Eggman.
* After Dr. Starline's failed attempts, Eggman's memories are restored upon touching the damaged Metal Sonic.
* Dr. Starline officially becomes Eggman's apprentice, and Rough and Tumble, his henchmen.
* Starline is revealed to have acquired the seven Chaos Emeralds, which he gives to Eggman.
* Knuckles resumes his guardianship of Angel Island, disbanding the Resistance in the process.
* Blaze decides to return to her home dimension after she's seen everyone else home.
* Silver decides to remain in Sonic's time, as he believes the future he escaped from hasn't been prevented yet.
* Eggman prepares to set his revenge plan into motion.

### Appearances

* Badniks
	+ Motobug
		- Motobud ***(First appearance)***
* Blaze the Cat
* Chaotix
	+ Charmy Bee
	+ Espio the Chameleon
	+ Vector the Crocodile
* Cubot
* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Starline
* Jackal Squad ***(Mentioned)***
* Resistance
	+ Amy Rose
	+ Knuckles the Echidna
	+ Miles "Tails" Prower
* Metal Sonic
	+ Neo Metal Sonic ***(Mentioned)***
		- Master Overlord ***(Mentioned)***
* Orbot
* Rouge the Bat
* Rough the Skunk
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Shadow the Hedgehog ***(Mentioned)***
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Tangle the Lemur
* Tumble the Skunk
* Whisper the Wolf

**Races and species**:

* Human

**Locations**:

* Blaze's world ***(Mentioned)***
* Silver's future ***(Mentioned)***
* Sonic's Dimension
	+ Sonic's world
		- Angel Island
			* Altar of Emerald
		- Final Egg
		- Resistance HQ ***(Mentioned)***
		- Windmill Village ***(Mentioned)***

**Items**:

* Chaos Emeralds ***(First appearance)***
* Master Emerald
* Metal Virus ***(First appearance)***
* Multi-Tool Heel Spurs
* Sol Emeralds ***(Mentioned)***
* Warp Topaz

**Vehicles**:

* Egg Fleet

**Misc.**:

* Eggman War ***(Mentioned)***

## Other features

* **Previously**: Previously is a summary of previous issues' key story moments. It features a page of relevant panels from the previous issue.
* **Roll Call**: Roll Call acts as a quick reference guide to new readers about the characters. This issue provides data files on Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, Tangle, Rouge, Blaze, Espio, Vector, Charmy, Whisper and Silver.
* **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. This edition has the fan letters omitted in favor of an interview with Evan Stanley.
* ***Team Sonic Racing One-shot* - Free Digital Ashcan**

## Background Information

* The issue was originally scheduled to release on December 19, 2018, but it was pushed back due to IDW's limited December release schedule.
	+ On January 2nd, 2019, Editor David Mariotte revealed on the Official IDW Sonic Group that due to a distributor processing mix-up, several of their planned releases for January 9th were pushed back a week including this issue.

## External Links

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 <ref>https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog?pub=IDW%20PUBLISHING

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