Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 57

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| next = Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 58
|series = Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic series){{!}}Sonic the Hedgehog
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{{Infobox comic
|title = ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' #57
|image = StH57.jpg
|issue = 57
|date = 
*January 1998 {{C|release date}}
*April 1998 {{C|publication date}}
|issn= 10705090
|publisher = [[Archie Comics]]
|coverartist = 
*[[Patrick Spaziante]]
*[[Harvey Mercadoocasio]]
|writer = [[Karl Bollers]]
|pencils = [[Art Mawhinney]]
|inks = [[Jim Amash]]
|letters = [[Jeff Powell]]
|colors = Karl Bollers
|editor = [[J. Freddy Gabrie]]
|managingeditor = [[Victor Gorelick]]
|editorsupreme =
|editorinchief = [[Richard Goldwater]]
|other =
|firstappearances = 
|copublisher = [[Michael I. Silberkleit]]
}}
'''''Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 57''''' is the fifty-seventh issue of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic series)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic series published by [[Archie Comics]].

==Official solicitation==
===Back To Basics===
:''Witness the past unfold as Sonic and the Freedom Fighters reminisce about times gone by-- the joy, the sadness, the losses, and the victories!''

==Featured stories==
===Back To Basics===
* '''Writer & Colors: '''[[Karl Bollers]]
* '''Pencils: '''[[Art Mawhinney]]
* '''Inks: '''[[Jim Amash]]
* '''Letters: '''[[Jeff Powell]]
* '''Editor: '''[[J. Freddy Gabrie]]
* '''Managing Editor: '''[[Victor Gorelick]]
* '''Editor-in-Chief: '''[[Richard Goldwater]]
[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Sonic]] and [[Miles "Tails" Prower (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Tails]] pack in their quest to find [[Ixis Naugus]]. Before they leave, [[Rotor (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Rotor]] presents a device from [[Doctor Ivo Robotnik (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Robotnik]]'s old laboratory that supposedly lets the user look into the future. Sonic uses it and it projects a vision of [[Robotropolis (Archie)|Robotropolis]]. Sonic realizes that this was a glimpse of the past.

The device recounts of events that Robotnik had accomplished in the past, such as large factories and roboticizing citizens like [[Uncle Chuck (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Uncle Chuck]]. Sonic and [[Sally Acorn (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Sally]] escaped to [[Knothole Village (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Knothole]], where a secret base was held for [[Mobians]] that weren't captured. Some formed the [[Freedom Fighters (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Freedom Fighters]] that are famously known today.

Many of their adventures are recapped, such as battling the [[Krudzu]] and rescuing Sally from roboticization. Friends they've met along the way are also shown like [[Bunnie D'Coolette (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Bunnie]], [[Verti-Cal and Horizont-Al]]. Menacing badniks are also shown like the [[Universalamander]], the [[Termite-Nator]], [[Rexxon (Archie)|Rexxon]] and [[Scorpius (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Scorpius]].

Robotnik's other schemes that were shown included the attack of robotic comic book characters, shrinking the Freedom Fighters and unleashing [[Pseudo-Sonic]]. However, they met other people with their own agendas like Sally's needlebird, the [[Nerbs]], the [[Anti-Freedom Fighters]], Caveman Sonic, [[Cyril Eagle|Cyril]], [[Larry Lynx]] and [[Knuckles the Echidna (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Knuckles]].

More of Robotnik's contraptions are shown like the [[Robostorm]], the Beetlebot and the [[Magnabot]]. The time Robotnik tried to trap the Freedom Fighters and the time he tried to crash Sonic and Sally's fake wedding is shown. Sonic and the Freedom Fighters also encountered other enemies like [[King Gong]], a two-headed dragon and Roborobotnik.

The device projects Sonic's apparent death and Robotnik's troubles with [[E.V.E.|E.V.E]]. It also projects more clashes with deadly rivals such as the Anti-Freedom Fighters, [[Shard the Metal Sonic|Metal Sonic]], Knuckles, [[Snively Robotnik|Snively]] and [[Nack the Weasel (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Nack the Weasel]]. It recaps events like Sonic losing his memory, Uncle Chuck regaining free will, meetings with [[Geoffrey St. John]], finding [[Maximillian Acorn|King Acorn]], Sonic losing his powers and later fighting Knuckles once again but now as [[Mecha Sonic (Robian)|Mecha Sonic]]. Sonic remembers more hard times like being accused for treason, being aboard the [[Death Egg (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)|Death Egg]] and facing Robotnik's deadly endgame plan.

The device projects the defeat of Robotnik and peace reigning over [[Mobotropolis]] for a short while. Sonic still had to deal with alternate realities and foes like Ixis Naugus, [[Warlord Kodos]], [[Uma Arachnis]] and [[Mammoth Mogul]]. The device almost then told the future of what would happen to the gang but it began to wig out. Sonic threw it outside before its detonation.

On his way out, Sonic apologizes for not acknowledging his parents more often and reconciles with them. Sonic and Sally share a few words also. Sonic tells Sally attempt to know her father better and tells her not to change. He presents her with flowers to which Sally then kisses him on the head. Sonic and Tails take off, leaving Sally and Rotor to find the council member to replace the hedgehog.

==Other features==
*Sonic-Grams
*Sonic Fan Art

==Trivia==
*This issue primarily consists of flashback, chronicling the events of the comics up to this point.

==Gallery==
===Cover artwork===
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ArchieSonic57CoverSketch.jpeg|Front cover sketch
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===Preview pages===
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ArchieSonic57PreviewPage1.jpeg|Page one
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==External links==
*{{ME link|Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 57}}
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