Team Sonic Faces Its Biggest Threat Ever in Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla Crossover

Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends are astir to look the biggest menace of their lives, literally. IGN tin exclusively uncover Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla, a caller crossover miniseries that sees Godzilla dragged into Sonic's world. He's fast, but tin Sonic bash thing to halt this monolithic kaiju from rampaging done the Green Hill Zone? We're astir to find out.

Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla is written by Nick Marino (Godzilla Rivals) and drawn by Jack Lawrence (Sonic the Hedgehog), with colors by Reggie Graham. Check retired an exclusive preview of the screen creation to contented #1 successful the slideshow assemblage below, and past support speechmaking to larn much astir the bid from Marino and the editorial team.

Sonic and Godzilla are easy 2 of IDW's biggest licensed properties, particularly with IDW redoubling its absorption connected the Godzilla enactment implicit the past year. In that sense, it's not astonishing that the steadfast would question to bring the 2 together, and IDW Sonic Editorial reveals that they've been looking for ways to marque that hap for immoderate clip now.

"IDW is perpetually brainstorming caller imaginable crossovers, and we’ve ever been particularly excited astir the anticipation of bringing these 2 iconic licenses together," Sonic Editorial tells IGN. "This crossover successful peculiar is besides 1 that fans person been asking america for large and wide for years, truthful it’s been precocious up connected the database to effort to marque happen. Who wouldn’t privation to spot the Blue Blur vs the King of the Monsters, aft all? So this thought has really been connected the IDW team’s radar for a precise agelong time, but it wasn’t until the past twelvemonth oregon truthful that each the pieces fell into spot and we could get to enactment connected it! We’re fortunate to person specified a large originative squad to bring this communicative to life, and of course, this crossover would not person been imaginable without a tremendous magnitude of enactment from Sega and Toho!"

As mentioned above, Marino is nary alien to the Godzilla franchise, having antecedently penned the bid Godzilla Rivals. But that was a precise antithetic benignant of Godzilla story, and Marino explains what makes Sonix X Godzilla specified a unsocial penning experience.

"The main quality betwixt penning Godzilla and penning Sonic X Godzilla? HUMANS! Aside from Dr. Eggman (who, let's beryllium real, is simply a precise circumstantial benignant of human), SxG is populated solely by talking animals, kaiju, and robots," Marino says. "My erstwhile Godzilla enactment was acceptable successful Pittsburgh on my aged pizza transportation route. The struggle successful that communicative was each astir however the kaiju disrupted quality beingness successful that precise existent city, and my ain quality acquisition informed the narrative. SxG takes the Toho monsters to Sonic's world, a spot wherever sassy technicolor animals determination astatine blinding speeds. What does a pinkish hedgehog with a elephantine mallet deliberation erstwhile she sees an tremendous flying insectoid beast the size of a metropolis block? That's a wholly antithetic benignant of penning challenge."

We were besides funny what Godzilla movies oregon Sonic projects Marino drew inspiration from for this project. Suffice it to say, Sonic Adventure fans volition beryllium pleased.

"Sonic Adventure became a immense inspiration connected this task determination successful the second-ish twelvemonth of improvement (it's been a agelong ride!)," Marino says. "When you're dealing with elephantine monsters, you person to deliberation connected a bigger scale, and Station Square provided an unthinkable canvas for america to splatter with demolition and mayhem. My collaborators, Jack Lawrence and Reggie Graham, person risen to the challenge, depicting that peculiar metropolis with jaw-dropping detail.

Art by Jack Lawrence & Reggie Graham. (Image Credit: IDW/Sega/Toho)

Marino continues, "When it comes to the Toho broadside of things, I sought inspiration from immoderate of my fave flicks that diagnostic rotating battles betwixt aggregate kaiju similar Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., GMK: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and Godzilla vs. Megalon."

Obviously, these are 2 franchises with 2 precise chiseled ocular styles. How is the originative squad moving to harvester the 2 into 1 cohesive comic?

"Ultimately, it each comes down to Jack Lawrence's superb imaginativeness for this adventure," Marino says. He's unbelievable. I'm doing my champion to navigator up amusive scenarios for him to draw, and past I'm making definite my sheet counts permission capable country for him to decently play astir with the fantastic spectacle that this crossover deserves. I'm fascinated by the standard of life, however we comprehend lifeforms otherwise from bacteria to planet-wide ecosystems, from micro to macro. This peculiar quality operation allows maine to research that successful a amusive mode and it's been truly satisfying. I anticipation our readers hold that the extremity effect is simply a cohesive premix of these 2 ocular focuses -- tiny speedsters and monolithic monsters -- that delivers the champion of some worlds!"

Sonic Editorial adds, "Nick has done a large occupation establishing the code of the communicative close disconnected the bat and keeping successful caput the standard quality of our Sonic characters and Godzilla characters, which decidedly helps pass the art, but we besides person besides worked intimately with Toho to marque definite that Jack’s designs for the kaiju are staying existent to these beloved characters portion besides having a small spot of a Sonic-inspired flair to them. They’re entering into Sonic’s world, aft all, and we wanted to marque definite this crossover had a unsocial look that would marque these versions of the Godzilla monsters memorable."

Sonic X Godzilla specifically draws Godzilla into Sonic’s beingness alternatively than vice versa. We were funny if that premise held the champion storytelling imaginable for this crossover.

"With crossovers, determination tin beryllium a batch of tricky elements to equilibrium – we privation to make thing caller and caller but inactive recognizable and existent to some IPs," Sonic Editorial says. "Ultimately, arsenic we were coming up with ideas for what we could do, we landed connected Sonic’s satellite being invaded by kaiju. A kaiju conflict successful a metropolis is specified a classical touchpoint successful Godzilla media that we couldn’t walk that up, and Sonic’s satellite is truthful affluent and developed that we thought it would beryllium a batch of amusive to enactment locations that Sonic fans already cognize and emotion nether threat."

Sonic x Godzilla isn't conscionable astir pitting the Blue Bomber against the King of Monsters. There's a captious X-factor successful this communicative successful the signifier of Dr. Eggman, who sees an accidental amid the chaos.

"Dr. Eggman is smitten by 1 peculiar monster successful our communicative and it's not Godzilla!" Marino teases. "From the infinitesimal helium lays eyes connected it, Eggman conscionable knows that this monster volition supply untold caller possibilities for him. He's besides funny astir what lies connected the different broadside of that gaping dimensional fissure sitting retired successful the ocean..."

As Marino hints above, the screen creation supra suggests that much monsters than Godzilla whitethorn beryllium stomping done the Green Hill Zone successful this series. Marino promises fans the bid seeks to instrumentality afloat vantage of the possibilities offered by some franchises.

"Since my archetypal telephone with the Godzilla and Sonic editors successful the summertime of 2022, my extremity has been to instrumentality the assemblage connected an escapade crossed Sonic's world, from corners we sojourn often to locales we haven't seen before," Marino says. "The circumstantial settings person changed a batch arsenic the communicative has evolved, and it's each been for the better! My unthinkable editors, Thea Cheuk and Bixie Mathieu, person encouraged maine to play with immoderate fantastic existing settings and helped maine make my own.

Marino continues, "For example, Eggman needs a laboratory large capable for his kaiju-sized ambitions, right? Naturally, Knuckles volition beryllium joining successful connected the combat too, and I deliberation you tin conjecture what (or, rather, where!) that means. And for the aged schoolhouse gamers retired there, if you retrieve Amy's archetypal enactment signifier from Sonic Adventure, past you cognize that you're successful for immoderate incredibly amusing enactment successful Sonic X Godzilla."

Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla #1 volition beryllium released successful Summer 2026. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

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