SEGA has teamed up with Ian Flynn to present the very first Sonic the Hedgehog encyclopaedia for the spiky blue hedgehog’s 30th anniversary which takes place next year. The feature-packed Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-Speed-ia features extensive lore and exhaustive detail of each game in Sonic’s ever-expanding universe. It is set to be 256 pages of Sonic goodness and costs $49.99. The item will be released on 1st June 2021. You can pre-order from Amazon here.
Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-Speed-ia
Celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th anniversary with a full-color hardcover historical retrospective that explores nearly every one of the blue speedster’s video game appearances!
Dive deep into the extensive lore and exhaustive detail of each game in Sonic’s ever-expanding universe–from the beloved SEGA Genesis to the most bleeding-edge video game consoles. This tome leaves no stone unturned, showcasing in-depth looks at the characters, settings, and stories from each exciting installment!
Dark Horse Books and SEGA present the Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-Speed-ia–a must-have volume for any fan of Sonic, young or old!
About the Author
Ian Flynn, also known by his Internet brand, the BumbleKing, is an American comic writer. He is currently the head writer for the IDW Publishing Sonic the Hedgehog comic series.
Flynn was previously the chief writer for the Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its various spin-offs. His tenure began in 2006 with Sonic the Hedgehog #160, and lasted until the comics’ cancellation in 2017. He has also written a couple of episodes for the second season of Sonic Boom, and a number of stories for the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series and its spin-offs.
I wonder how this will work sega pratically screwed up sonic lore after generations , heck even in forces they stated that classic sonic was from another dimension, which really doesn’t make any sense, won’t be buying it but I’m surprise to see how all the history and lore shape up
I think Generations was the last time the lore made any sense. The only weird thing was that Tails didn’t recognize Green Hill despite other games having it albeit not that often (at the time lol), but Generations was also translated by Pontac and Gaff. Nah I’d say that Forces has done the most damage purely because of the writing and lack of care for continuity. Generations was fine because it used time travel in weird but not completely destructive way and explained things away pretty well with it
There’s also the little matter of Eggman Nega.
And don’t get me started on Sonic 2006.
Nega is easy to explain actually. He’s Eggman’s descendant who time traveled and hopped over to a new dimension
I know, and that’s a huge stretch.
Did he just travel through time just to dimension hop?
Makes me wonder what Silver’s been doing doing the whole time when Blaze was dealing with Nega.
I think it’s likely Silver never met Nega in the future (unless that’s otherwise stated in Rivals, I never played that one). Nega likely honed in on Blaze because of Iblis and had no regard for Silver. After Sonic and Elise erased the events of 06, Blaze was still trapped in a new dimension with Iblis inside her, now having zero memory of Silver and Silver never having met Blaze up to that point. Then Rush happens
Like, I don’t think it’s a very clean timeline, but it’s still pretty easy to make sense of imo
Isn’t Blaze a born resident of what we call the Sol Dimension?
Also, let’s not try to weave Sonic 2006 into canon (due to the intended reboot, the development, the quality, the backlash, the continuity errors, and the big erase).
Yeah same here. The only thing i don’t like is SEGA is treating Classic Sonic as a character and some people knew he is going to be from another dissension in Sonic Forces.
Another dimension? I guess Tails and Knuckles pulled a Gohan where they can’t be old AND super. R.I.P. The encyclopedia probably wasn’t going to have Sally anyway.
SEGA did screw up Sonic time to time in the past, but at least they are going to make the series a bit well again by expanding the Sonic Universe.
The big problem we currently have is not being able to play the game boy advance and gamecube sonic games on Nintendo switch. Mario is getting 3 good games ported and Sonic team is goofing around with stupid memes. Sega doesn’t want my money. Team sonic racing will be my last sonic game on Nintendo switch and I’m glad I did not buy sonic mania because it does not let me play as shadow, cream, Amy and blaze without mods.