The collaboration between DC Comics and the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise was first teased on Batman Day on September 21, 2024, with a short animation featuring Shadow the Hedgehog as Batman. It was fully announced during the Sonic Central broadcast on September 24, 2024. The collaboration was to start with the DC X Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, accompanied by merchandise, and last into 2026. Ian Flynn, the head writer of the Archie and IDWSonic comics, was announced as the writer of the series.[2][3] The artist of the series, Adam Bryce Thomas, is also a regular artist of the Sonic comics.[4]
Darkseid and his Apokoliptian forces have entered Sonic the Hedgehog's universe, seeking the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds, for which he shatters the Master Emerald, the gem neutralizing their power. Sonic and the rest of his friends (Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog and Silver the Hedgehog) battle Darkseid's armies with eventual help from the Justice League (consisting of the Flash, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and John Stewart of the Green LanternCorps), who have been hunting Darkseid after he launched the Ragna Rock, a mobile satellite which can cross dimensions; they assume that he is looking for worlds and powers outside their multiverse as fuel for his conquests. Sonic and his friends agree to work with the League, with each of them pairing up with a League member. Sonic and Flash speed off to find and confront Darkseid, only to discover he has already found the blue Chaos Emerald.
Sonic and Flash briefly clash against Darkseid, before he exits. DeSaad explains to his master that it seems the Emeralds may be trying to hide from Father Box. Darkseid orders his army to swift through the world, and put the Emerald he currently has into the Dimensional Engine. The two teams of heroes fight off the invading Apokoliptians, as Darkseid starts to put the Emerald into the Dimensional Engine, warping space and time itself. Dr. Eggman arrives and starts to fight off the Ragna Rock. The two teams fight Darkseid as the Dimensional Engine begins to destabilize. Time and space breaks, and Cyborg sends Sonic's group through the boom tube. Sonic and his friends meet Mister Terrific, to whom they beg to reopen the boom tube. Mister Terrific then reveals that there are no dimensional coordinates to the target, as their Earth itself was apparently destroyed along with the League and Darkseid.
In reality, their universe and the League are still alive after Flash recovers the red Emerald from Darkseid, and Cyborg uses one of his wormholes to warp himself and the League onto Sonic’s Earth, as they learn the planet is destabilized thanks to Darkseid’s Dimensional Engine. The League decide to find the other Emeralds and protect the people of the planet as they do so. At the Water Palace, Wonder Woman helps Blaze the Cat protect a Chaos Emerald from Female FuriesStompa and Mad Harriet and their Parademons. Between Westopolis and Central City, Batman retrieves an Emerald from Metal Sonic. At the Lava Mountain Castle, in Lost Hex, Flash frees the Deadly Six from Baron Vermin's control, and retrieves the Emerald he found. Amid the Egg Fleet, Superman effortlessly stops Eggman and retrieves the Emerald in his possession. In the Luminous Forest's Mystic Jungle, Green Lantern neutralizes Granny Goodness and stops her from draining the Wisps while also acquiring the Emerald they were protecting. At Tails' lab, Cyborg details the plan: they will send the Emeralds into their universe so Sonic and his friends can use them to open the portal.
At the same time, Sonic and his friends become motivated with protecting the League's world while wearing their costumes; Sonic wearing the Flash's costume, Tails wearing an armor resembling Cyborg's components, Amy wearing a Wonder Woman dress, Knuckles wearing a Superman costume, Silver donning the Green Lantern Ring, and Shadow donning a Batman suit. For the next days, they settle to battle and defeat the rampaging supervillains, including Sinestro, Gorilla Grodd, Lex Luthor, the Joker, the Reverse-Flash, and Brother Blood while finding the other Chaos Emeralds. After gathering in the Hall of Justice, the group discover that their universe was not destroyed; just hidden in a pocket dimension which Mister Terrific could not trace. With Mister Terrific's help, Sonic and his friends open a dimensional portal to return to their world, and reunite with the League.
As the Ragna Rock exits the dimension it was trapped in, Cyborg and Tails build a device similar to the one which sent the Emeralds to the League's universe, with which they plan to use their six Emeralds' frequency to resonate with the one in Darkseid's possession. Breaking through the Ragna Rock, the teams confront Darkseid, with Sonic and Flash recovering the last Emerald as others hold Darkseid off. Darkseid attempts to kill Sonic and Flash with his Omega Beams, only for the former to absorb the other six, and transform into Super Sonic, helping turn the tide of the fight. Cyborg's and Tails's device is given enough power to commence their plan, as Flash uses Speed Force energy to power it up. Darkseid attempts to tear reality apart with a shroud of darkness, but is foiled by the powered-up device, which restores reality back to normal, sending both teams back to their universes, and reverting everything chronologically to before Darkseid's invasion. As Shadow and Silver check on the restored city, and Knuckles continues guarding the rebuilt Master Emerald, Sonic continues his picnic with Tails and Amy in Never Lake, while hoping that he and his friends will meet the Justice League again.
Elsewhere, Eggman has entered the League's universe and formed an alliance with Luthor, as they both conspire to bring their enemies to their knees with a new Death Egg Robot made of LexCorp technology.
Reception
Matthew Aguilar of ComicBook.com gave the first issue a score of 4.5/5, praising the art and the in-character execution of the crossover aspect.[5] David Harth of ComicBook.com commended the issue's choice to have Batman and Shadow bond over their tragic pasts, given the characters' similarities.[6]
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