Sonic the Hedgehog #166

Part of Archie's double-milestone year — celebrating both the publisher's 65th anniversary and Sonic's own 15th — issue #166 kicks off "Mobius 25 Years Later: The Once and Future Kings," a storyline imagining Sonic's world a quarter-century down the road. Sanford Greene's cover brings that future into vivid focus, presenting an older, more regal Sonic and a brooding Shadow front and center, flanked by what appear to be Knuckles, Sally Acorn, and other familiar Mobians rendered with a grown-up gravitas. It's a compelling snapshot of beloved characters reimagined as "once and future kings," setting the stage for Ian Flynn and Romy Chacon's story with real intrigue.