Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 237 is the two hundred thirty-seventh issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by Archie Comics.

Official solicitation[]

"Loyalty," Part One. Team Fighters links up with Grand Chief Lupe as they track down the Death Egg. As they deal with the ferocious Felidae Warriors and Dark Egg Legion, a mysterious figure tracks them. Meanwhile, in "Heart to Heart," Nicole and Mina finally confront each other!

Featured stories[]

Loyalty Part One: The Right to Rule[]

• Writer: Ian Flynn
• Pencils: Steven Butler
• Inks: Terry Austin
• Colors: Matt Herms
• Letters: John Workman
• Assistant Editor: Vincent Lovallo
• Editor/Exc. Director of Editorial: Paul Kaminski
• Editor-in-Chief: Victor Gorelick
• President: Mike Pellerito
• Special Thanks to: Anthony Gaccione & Cindy Chau at SEGA Licensing

Synopsis[]

Having arrived in Soumerca with the Death Egg Mark 2, Dr. Eggman, now targeting both the País Misterioso and the Wolf Pack Nation, is outraged to discover from Drago and Razorklaw that their base is behind schedule. Drago and Razorklaw claim that, due to the alliance between the wolves and the Felidae, they are two much for the DEL to handle, but Eggman furiously refuses to believe it with their weaponry and cybernetic enhancements. At that moment, however, Orbot and Cubot end the transmission in the middle of Eggman's rant to preserve their dwindling oxygen and supplies. Recalling that the Wolf Pack and Felidae are only at peace because of Sonic and Sally's efforts, Eggman questions Mecha Sally on how she would ruin the peace between the two. Mecha Sally states that the truce between the Felidae and the Wolf Pack is maintained by their leaders, and if they remove the leaders, the two tribes will turn on each other. While Eggman goes to refuel and restock the Death Egg, Mecha Sally successfully captures Lupe and Queen Hathor.

Later, Sonic, Tails, Amy, and T-Pup enter the Wolf Pack Nation to warn them of Eggman's coming and recruit Lupe to their cause. However, they come across Leeta, Lyco, and Lupe's children eavesdropping at a nearby window. The children explain Lupe's disappearance, and Lobo believes the Felidae are behind it and they are currently planning to go to war. Both Sonic and Tails are skeptical that the Felidae are behind it, and Leeta and Lyco admit that they don't believe it either, stating that the Felidae are not subtle and they would know if they were behind the kidnapping.

Amy and Tails quickly deduce that Eggman is responsible and reveal Sally's roboticization; both Leeta and Lyco are aghast that roboticization works again. Knowing that Lobo is too worried and grief-stricken to listen to reason and that the other pack chieftains are eager for any excuse to attack the Felidae, Team Fighters decides to go save Lupe themselves before the meeting between the chieftains is over. Leeta and Lyco agree to lead them to the Temple of Shazamazon, where Eggman's minions are hiding.

On their way, they witness Hathor (minus her queen robes) being pursued by a group of Dark Egg Legion soldiers led by Razorklaw. Just as they have her cornered, Sonic and co. spring into action and fight them off. When Hathor states that she is not the queen, but merely an emissary, Sonic, remembering that the Felidae queen is only the queen when she wears the robes, steps in and presents himself as an ambassador.

Hathor explains that she and Lupe had been captured by Eggman's robots; knowing that their respective tribes would most likely blame the other for their disappearances, Lupe nobly decided to help Hathor escape through an air vent to get help, while she remained behind to face possible roboticization. Hathor, however, was forced to leave her robes behind to do so.

At that moment, however, the group is confronted by a group of Felidae warriors, who are skeptical of Hathor's story. However, when Hathor reminds them that the wolves and Freedom Fighters are their allies and that she bears the queen's will, the Felidae agree to help, but it will be up to the wolves to listen.

Meanwhile, back at the Shazamazon Temple, Eggman remarks to a restrained Lupe that, even if his Roboticizer functioned, she would likely retain the Bem immunity to roboticization. Undaunted, Eggman decides to Legionize Lupe instead...

Appearances[]

Characters:

• Badnik Horde
  • Egg SWAT
  • SWATbot (mentioned)
• Cubot
• Dark Egg Legion
  • Drago Wolf
  • Razorklaw
• Dr. Eggman
• Dr. Quack (mentioned)
• Knothole Freedom Fighters
  • Amy Rose
  • Antoine D'Coolette
  • Miles "Tails" Prower
  • Rotor Walrus (mentioned)
  • Sally Acorn
    • Mecha Sally
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • T-Pup
• Orbot
• Queen Hathor
• Snively Robotnik
• Wolf Pack Nation
  • Aerial
  • Athena
  • Leeta Wolf
  • Lobo
  • Lupe Wolf
  • Lyco Wolf
  • Maria
  • Marcos

Locations:

• Prime Zone
  • Mobius
    • Northamer
      • Furville (mentioned)
      • New Mobotropolis (mentioned)
    • Soumerca
      • País Misterioso (mentioned)
      • Shazamazon Temple

Races and species:

• Mobian
  • Robian
• Overlander

Items:

• Blaster
• Death Egg Mark 2
• Piko Piko Hammer
• Roboticizer (mentioned)
• Sonic's sneakers
• World Roboticizer (mentioned)

Misc.:

• Hammer Attack
• Legionization
• Propeller Flying
• Roboticization
• Sole Thruster
• Sonic Spin

Trivia[]

• Despite them being published only 14 issues apart, this story shares its main title with an unrelated story from Sonic the Hedgehog #223. The reason for this similarity is unknown.
• In this story Lupe's Eyes are blue (as they were in the Sonic the Hedgehog television series) instead of their regular green color.
• Amy is shown wearing a feather that resembles the Warrior Feather from Sonic Adventure.

Heart to Heart[]

• Writer: Ian Flynn
• Pencils: Tracy Yardley
• Inks: Terry Austin
• Colors: Matt Herms
• Letters: John Workman

Synopsis[]

Mina enters Freedom HQ, asking Nicole to speak with her. Mina begs Nicole to come back to the city, but Nicole, speaking through text on a monitor, states that Mina got exactly what she wanted, and that Nicole is now where she can no longer hurt anyone and vice versa. Upset, Mina insists that she never wanted things to turn out this way; she only wanted to inspire people and never intended for fear to take over the city, let alone turn the public against Nicole. However, Nicole still refuses to return to New Mobotropolis, believing that she has failed her friends. However, Mina reminds her that Rotor and Sonic, despite their own recent failings, are continuing to fight, and she wants nothing more than to set things right.

With that, Nicole materializes in the lab in her Mobian form, and forgives Mina for her mistakes, vowing to move forward, while Mina quickly starts making plans for a new concert to change the public's minds and get Nicole back into the city.

At that moment, Harvey Who, who had heard everything, enters, saying that he is glad to hear Nicole say that. After apologizing for eavesdropping, he explains that he needs Nicole's assistance for "a certain project of his."

Appearances[]

Characters:

• Harvey Who
• Ixis Naugus (mentioned)
• Knothole Freedom Fighters (mentioned)
  • Antoine D'Coolette (mentioned)
  • Bunnie D'Coolette (mentioned)
  • Miles "Tails" Prower
  • Nicole
  • Rotor Walrus (mentioned)
  • Sally Acorn (mentioned)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (mentioned)
• Mina Mongoose
• Rory Bear (flashback)
• Sasha Cat (flashback)
• Snaggle Tiger (flashback)
• Über-Bot (flashback)

Locations:

• Prime Zone
  • Mobius
    • Northamer
      • Great Forest
        • Great Wastes
          • Freedom HQ
            • Brain Trust Laboratory
      • New Mobotropolis (mentioned)

Races and species:

• Mobian

Off Panel[]

See also: Off Panel

• Script: Ian Flynn
• Pencils: Jonathan Gray
• Inks: Gary Martin
• Colors: Aleah Baker

Synopsis[]

Bunnie is walking through a forest with her bag missing her friends, but saying that she's excited to start a new adventure with her own subplot. She reaches a signpost, where Thrash, Mighty and Ray are saying in unison that "it gets old". Nearby, a sign points towards the bottom of a nearby tree, announcing "Merlin was here!"

Appearances[]

Characters:

• Bunnie D'Coolette
• Chaotix
  • Mighty the Armadillo
  • Ray the Flying Squirrel
• Merlin Prower (mentioned)
• Thrash the Tasmanian Devil

Races and species:

• Mobian
  • Tasmanian Devil

Quotes[]

Eggman: Hmph. This region would have already fallen to me if the original plan had worked. But the two warring nations found peace thanks to Sonic and... The princess. Oh-ho-ho! Tell me, my dear minion. How would you go about ruining the peace your fleshy self worked so hard to create?

Trivia[]

• Antoine was originally going to die in this issue, but this was scrapped due to fan outcry.^{[citation needed]}
• The original solicit for this issue said that there would be a mysterious figure tracking down Sonic, Tails and Amy. Ian Flynn had confirmed that the mystery figure was removed because they had to have two pages for the second story, thus cutting the main story down to 20 pages of the issue according to some posts he made in the preview discussions for the issue.^[1][2] A few days after the issue was released, the mysterious figure never appeared in the issue, he then said that the mysterious figure was Leeta and Lyco according to another post he made.^[3] It was originally meant to be Hershey, who was intended to be included in the roster of the Secret Freedom Fighters, but was replaced with Leeta and Lyco during development.^[4] Hershey might have been replaced most likely because of the fact she is a character owned by former main writer Ken Penders and because of the legal issues going on.

Gallery[]

Concept artwork[]

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Cover artwork[]

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Alternate cover sketch by Tracy Yardley. Second alternate cover sketch by Tracy Yardley. Front cover, raw.

Miscellaneous[]

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The Off Panel, raw. The Off Panel, raw and uncolored.

Preview pages[]

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Page one Page two Page three Page four Page five

References[]

External links[]

• Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 237 at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
• Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 237 at Sonic Retro