For nearly 25 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 stop 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.
