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![]() Did you hear? Sonic the Hedgehog got picked up by comic book publisher IDW. That means it’s only a matter of time until the furry blue runner’s first really weird. Sonic Leaves Archie Comics, Bringing an End to One of the Longest Continuous Series Ever. For nearly 2. 5 years, Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog has spindash- ed into history books as one of the longest running American comics that’s never been relaunched. That record is about to come to a screeching halt, as Sega and Archie are ending their publishing contract. The writing has been on the wall for the Sonic comics for a few months now, with fans murmuring at a potential cancelation when the series and several spinoffs suddenly had upcoming issues canceled, and never returned to Archie Comics’ solicits. The news became official this evening in a brief statement posted to the official Sonic the Hedgehog twitter account: Although Sega’s partnership with Archie Comics is over—presumably meaning that most of the giant, elaborate canon developed in those books is over, too—the company stresses that Sonic as a character is not leaving comics altogether. It wouldn’t be totally surprising to get an announcement about a new publisher for Sonic, given that we’ve just begun the San Diego Comic- Con. The Sonic series might not live up to the legacy or length of a series like DC’s Detective Comics, which has been around in various forms since the 1. Archie before it was rebooted a few years ago. But Sonic held on to its strangely arcane title as one of the longest running monthly American comics around due to the fact the main Sonic series ran continuously for nearly 2. That’s a feat normally only achieved by the biggest superhero comics by Marvel and DC, and the fact that Sonic hasn’t had a majorly successful (or particularly well- received) video game for many of those 2.
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