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mostlysignssomeportents · 9 months

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SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules

Today (19 Aug), I'm appearing at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. I'm on a 2:30PM panel called "Return From Retirement," followed by a signing:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/festivalofbooks

It's a breathtaking fraud: SoCal Gas, the largest gas company in America, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby against our own survival:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article277266828.html

The criminal scheme is spelled out in eye-watering detail in a superb investigative report by Joe Rubin and Ari Plachta for the Sacramento Bee, which names the law firms and individual lawyers involved in the scam.

Here's the situation: SoCal Gas is California's private, regulated gas monopoly. They are allowed to lobby, but are legally required to charge their lobbying activities to their shareholders, and are prohibited from raising customer rates to pay for lobbying.

The company spent years secretly violating this rule, in the sleaziest way possible: working with corporate cartels like the California Restaurant Association and BizFed, the monopoly paid BigLaw white-shoe firms to procure people who posed as concerned citizens in order to oppose climate regulations that are essential to the state's very survival.

The bill topped $36 million – and it was illegally charged to its customers, the Californians whose immediate health and long-term survival these efforts opposed. SoCal Gas refuses to disclose the full extent of the spending, as do its lawyer-procurers, who cite legal confidentiality and a First Amendment right to secretly seek to influence policy in their refusal to disclose their profits from this illegal conduct.

The law firms involved are a who's-who of California's most prominent corporate fixers, including Reichman Jorgensen and Holland & Knight. The partners involved have a long rap sheet for anti-climate dirty tricking, most notably Jennifer Hernandez, notorious in climate justice history for an incident where activists claim she posed as one of them, infiltrating a campaign to force corporate despoilers to clean up their pollution in order to sabotage it, while secretly on a wealthy, prominent landowner's payroll.

Hernandez claims to care about the environment and says that her longstanding, corporate-funded, extensive campaigns and lawsuits against state environmental regulations are motivated by concern over their impact on working people. Her firm, Holland & Knight, denies serving SoCal Gas in opposing gas regulations, but it received $594k in ratepayer dollars, and submitted comments opposing the rules on its own behalf. Those comments were nearly identical to the comments submitted by SoCal Gas.

Hernandez also represents an obscure organization called The Two Hundred for Home Ownership in "a flurry of lawsuits" over California Air Resources Board rules on pollution, seeking to overturn the state's landmark climate change regulations.

Two Hundred for Home Ownership was founded by Robert Apodaca, who told the Bee that Hernandez's work for him is pro bono and not funded by SoCal Gas, but his entry into the fray occurred just as SoCalGas was founding an astroturf group called Californians for Fair and Balanced Energy (C4BES), which pretended to be an independent organization, disguising its relationship with SoCal Gas.

Apodaca is also founder of United Latinos Vote, an organization that had been largely dormant for seven years, not receiving any donations, until 2018, when the California Building Industry Association gave it $99k. The CBIA is a large-dollar recipient of donations from SoCal Gas, and its CEO insists that it was not acting on SoCal Gas's behalf when it made its unpredented donation to Apodaca.

The CBIA donation to United Latinos Vote was forerunner to a flood of corporate donations from the likes of Chevron, Marathon and Phillips 66. Shortly after receiving this cash, United Latinos Vote ran a full page ad in the LA Times, accusing the Sierra Club of pushing for anti-gas appliance rules that would harm working class Latino families.

This ad, in turn, featured prominently in advocacy by the SoCal Gas front group C4BES, funded with $29.1m in ratepayer money, which it then spent seeking to link clean appliance rules with anti-Latino racism. A quarter of California's carbon emissions come from home gas use.

SoCal Gas is regulated by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), which tolerated this mounting illegal conduct for many years, even as the company circulated internal memos as early as 2015 discussing its plans to oppose electrification in the state on the basis that it constituted "a significant risk to our business."

But last year, CPUC fined SoCal Gas $10m. Now, CPUC's Public Advocate office has filed a damning, extensive report on SoCal Gas's unlawful conduct, seeking $80m in rate cuts to compensate Californians for the funds misappropriated to protect the company's shareholder interests:

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M517/K407/517407314.PDF

Additionally, the Public Advocate is demanding $233m in fines for the company's refusal to allow investigators to audit its books and discover the full extent of the fraud.

SoCal Gas is the nation's largest utility, but (incredibly), it's not the dirtiest. That prize goes to Ohio's FirstEnergy, which handed $60m in ratepayer dollars to state politicians in illegal bribes in exchange for coal and nuclear subsidies and cancellation of state climate rules. That scandal led to GOP speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder being sentenced to 20 years in prison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

There is something extraordinarily sleazy about using ratepayers' own money to lobby against their interests. SoCal Gas and its Big Law enablers have funneled millions in Californian's money into campaigns to poison us and boil us alive, and they did it while using workers and racialized people as human shields.

I'm kickstarting the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

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tailschannel · 1 year

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Here's your first look at IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 64

The 64th issue, written by Ian Flynn and Evan Stanley, with illustrations by Stanley and Aaron Hammerstrom, is "all about Silver the Hedgehog."

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First, he’s incredibly suspicious of the Diamond Cutters’ new member and he jumps to a conclusion that leads him to some hasty accusations. Awkwardness ensues. Then, Blaze comforts Silver as they bond over being away from home and in Sonic’s world.

Cover artwork

Cover A: Jack Lawrence and Reggie Graham

Cover B: Jennifer Hernandez

Retailer incentive cover: Nathalie Fourdraine

Issue 64 of IDW Sonic the Hedgehog was scheduled for a tentative release date of 23 August 2023.

#sonic the hedgehog #idw publishing #idw sonic #silver the hedgehog #ian flynn #evan stanley #aaron hammerstrom #jack lawrence #reggie graham #jennifer hernandez #nathalie fourdraine #solicit #sonic #sonic news

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idwsonicnews · 10 months

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Cool, sweet, and pink! All words that describe our absolute favorite hedgehog. That’s right, step aside, Sonic, and have no fear, Amy Rose is here! Ian Flynn, Aaron Hammerstrom, and Reggie Graham are back for another Classic Sonic special! And this time, Amy’s doing the saving! After Metal Sonic interrupts her picnic, Amy uses her Fortune Cards as a guide to free her friends and stop Dr. Eggman. Can she save the day and still get back in time for tea?!

Author: Ian Flynn

Artist: Aaron Hammerstrom

Colorist: Reggie Graham

Cover A: Aaron Hammerstrom

Cover B: Mauro Fonseca

1:10 Retailer Incentive Variant: Jennifer Hernandez

Tentative Release Date: September 13th 2023

#Sonic the Hedgehog #Amy Rose #IDW #IDW Publishing #IDW Sonic #Metal Sonic #Dr. Eggman #Ian Flynn #Aaron Hammerstrom #Reggie Graham #Mauro Fonseca #Jennifer Hernandez #solicit

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comparativetarot · 3 months

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Ten of Chalices. Art by Jennifer Hernandez, from the Moon Prism Tarot.

Happy Family Brimming with experiences, the Ten of Chalices is a card of emotional maturity and growth. This card acknowledges the building of a close-knit family— biological and/ or chosen family—by overcoming trials and growing into our individuality together. This is a time of familial connection and happiness. Usagi now leads a life surrounded by those she loves and trusts. They are all different and in those differences they are strong. They all deserve to relish in this moment of joy. Upright: The Ten of Chalices encourages the subject to embrace the abundance of family and friend connection. Those around you are harmonious and able to exercise emotional maturity. Now is a time to enjoy and look forward to get-togethers and moments of happiness. Seek out connection with those you love. Reversed: The Ten of Chalices warns that all may not be well in the family or friendships. Perhaps there is unresolved hurt. One member of the relationship may have gone astray. Or perhaps dysfunction has taken root and gone unresolved. Are there things in your relationships that need to be addressed and worked out? Or perhaps hurt in dynamics that cannot be fixed that you are choosing to ignore?

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robotnikholmescomicblog · 2 years

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EGGMAN BROUGHT METAL SONIC ON DECK JUST TO HUG HIM?!? 🥺🥺

#RHSB post #StH283 #Love the thought of Eggman being an embarassing dad that even Metal and Orbot aresurprised about xD #Eggman #Metal Sonic #Orbot #Ian Flynn #Jennifer Hernandez #Sonic #Archie comics

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digamma-f-wau · 1 year

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B covers for the first 4 issues of IDW Sonic (i.e. the covers done by the respective issue's interior artist) and said artists' variant covers for the 5th Anniversary Edition

#Sonic the Hedgehog #IDW Sonic #Miles Prower #Amy Rose #Knuckles the Echidna #Tangle the Lemur #Blaze the Cat #Lanolin the Sheep #Tracy Yardley #Adam Bryce Thomas #Jennifer Hernandez #Evan Stanley #Matt Herms #Reggie Graham #cover art

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cosmosrebellion · 3 months

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Rough and Tumble aren't the most interesting antagonists out there, but I do think "Jobber Villains" are important when you are trying to expand your story's world. Not every villain should be a world-ending threat, so having a few opportunist bullies our heroes get to knock around can be pretty fun if you know how to handle them.

#idw sonic #ian flynn #jennifer hernandez #sonic the hedgehog #knuckles the echidna #rough and tumble

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onedegreeofsoniccomics · 11 months

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My Little Pony: Legends of Magic #8: Retailer Incentive Cover

Art: Jennifer Hernandez

#IDW #IDW Publishing #My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #My Little Pony #IDW My Little Pony #MLP FiM #MLP #IDW MLP #Pinkie Pie #Applejack #Rarity #Fluttershy #Rainbow Dash #Twilight Sparkle #Spike #Jennifer Hernandez #2017 #Archie Sonic Contributor #IDW Sonic Contributor

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archiesonicforever · 10 months

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Three days until Archie Sonic Forever #1's release!

We have TWO announcements this time - an interview with Sonic writer/artist Tania del Rio, creator of Nicole's holographic form, and a Pro Art piece by her that blew us away -- with inks and colors by Jennifer Hernandez!

And you can read our #0 prologue issue here: https://archiesonicforever.com/comics/issue/0/page/0/

#archie sonic #sonic the hedgehog #archie sonic forever #nicole the holo lynx #Tania del Rio #Jennifer Hernandez

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kamenwriter · 8 months

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Lanolin (and Lanolin) by @chibijenhen

#lanolin the sheep #lanolin sheep #sonic the hedgehog #us acres #jennifer hernandez

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idwsonicmegareview · 1 month

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Sonic's world recovers from the Eggman War – Volume 1: Fallout! (#1-4)

I've been reading Sonic comic books since I was a tween. I remember picking up Sonic the Hedgehog #145 from my local comic shop because it had the tagline "Shadow returns... and Sonic doesn't stand a chance!" and I was obsessed with Shadow the Hedgehog as a kid.

I had no idea what was going on or who any of those characters were jumping into the Archie continuity so late but I knew one thing: I wanted to read more!

There's no better time than now to get into reading Sonic comics if you're a fan, like me! With the license passing from Archie to IDW Publishing in 2018, an entirely new continuity has begun and you can find trade paperbacks of every issue easily at big booksellers and comic shops alike. And what's even better is the new series is in the games' continuity so you have all the background you need if you're a gamer. Bare minimum, you just have to know what happened in Sonic Forces to know where we are in IDW Sonic.

Last time on Sonic Forces, Dr. Eggman nearly took over the world with one simple trick: a gemstone called the Phantom Ruby controlled by a mercenary who called himself Infinite. With the help of a brave Resistance fighter "Rookie" (who you get to create and customize in the game), Sonic and Classic Sonic were able to defeat Eggman and Infinite!

IDW Sonic picks up in the immediate aftermath of that conflict. With Infinite defeated and Eggman missing, the world is left to rebuild. In the absence of a leader, the doctor's badniks have begun to roam the countryside directionless but still dangerous.

My mega review of IDW Sonic begins with volume 1: Fallout! which collects issues 1 through 4 of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Story

Sonic arrives in a small town beset by badniks and super badniks. He bumps into none other than Tails and the two team up to save the town. Tails however is concerned that this band of badniks was more coordinated than usual and theorizes that someone must be behind this, but with the lack of evil speeches and knowing Eggman's flare for the dramatic he doubts it could be the doctor's doing.

Tails resolves to stay behind and help the town rebuild while Sonic runs to the next closest town to see if he can unravel this mystery.

Once there, Sonic teams up with Amy Rose to stop yet another badnik horde. She tries to convince him to return to the Resistance to help coordinate their next move, but Sonic believes he’ll be put to better use scouting ahead and helping more towns. He can cover more ground alone with his signature speed, of course.

With the help of Knuckles the Echidna, Sonic saves another town from a pair of bandits, the skunks Rough and Tumble.

Finally, Sonic makes his way to Spiral Hill Village, home of Tangle the Lemur, the first original character of the IDW cast. Tangle is a ring-tailed lemur capable of using her tail to fight as well as pulling and launching herself all over the place. She’d been defending her home for a while from the directionless badnik hordes, but this more organized bunch is another story.

Sonic begins to help but then another ally from his past arrives: Blaze the Cat. Sonic informs her she’s several months late to help with the Eggman War, but she might be just in time to help with this new problem. The trio dispatch the horde in short order, as you might expect.

All the while, we see a shadowed figure in Eggman’s old command chair watching Sonic and Co. from a distance. His menacing dialogue is clear — there is someone pulling the badniks’ strings, but who and why?

Presentation

Artwork

All of the artists in what we’re calling part 1 are returning artists from Archie Comics’ Sonic series, though most of them are new to me as their tenures started after I stopped reading Archie.

Tracy Yardley is one of the longest-serving artists for Archie Sonic and having him return to illustrate the debut issue of IDW Sonic was no coincidence. Yardley’s art style perfectly fits Sonic and his mastery of these characters’ likenesses is essential to establishing the authority of the new series.

While having Yardley, in the beginning, was comforting, he’s eventually phased out in favor of newer artists like Evan Stanley and Adam Bryce Thomas, whose work has absolutely blown me away.

When I first opened up issue 4 and saw this spread of Sonic outside Tangle’s village (above) I was completely blown away by the level of detail Adam Bryce Thomas was bringing to the table.

Evan Stanley’s art has quickly become my absolute favorite for this series, to the point that I wish the games and TV shows would start using her art as a reference. The stylized colorful eyes, the shapes of the characters’ features and their expressiveness adds a youthfulness to everything and highlights Sonic’s appeal to children.

Out of this part, the only artist I didn’t like was Jennifer Hernandez in issue 3. While Yardley’s art is functional and familiar, Stanley’s is cute and vibrant, and Thomas’ art was breathtaking, Hernandez’s is just a little too simplistic and chibi for my taste. It doesn’t fit into the other three art styles in this arc and it honestly clashes.

The highlight of her issue however was the introduction of Rough and Tumble, whose character designs really shine through. They immediately present like past hoodlums in the Sonic series like Fang, Bark and Bean and they help make Sonic's world feel "lived in."

Characters and Writing

Continuing the trend of relying on the old guard of the Archie days, Ian Flynn is the head writer of the new Sonic comics and I couldn’t be happier.

Ian Flynn is by far the best writer for Sonic across all mediums. His grasp of these characters is rock-solid and you can tell he does his best to push the development of these characters as far as he’s allowed to with Sega’s strict guidelines because he genuinely wants the best for this series.

The new characters introduced in these first four issues are immediately endearing. In terms of named characters we have Tangle, Rough, and Tumble.

The best part of Tangle is that she fits in like a game character. She's not just a random humanoid animal, she has a game mechanic with her stretchy tail and you can easily imagine her as a playable character someday. Plus her bubbly personality somehow both fits in with Sonic’s colorful crew while also standing out.

World-Building

The world of Sonic that we got in Sonic Forces was different than what we’ve seen in the past, but the IDW team had to make it work as if the games have one continuous continuity. For example, in Sonic Adventure (1999), we see that Sonic lives in a world populated by humans in metropolitan cities like Station Square. In Sonic Forces, the world is primarily populated by anthropomorphic animals and Eggman seems to be the only human.

We see in the IDW comics that the animal population lives in small villages spread across a beautiful, undisturbed landscape. To me, this fits into older Sonic games’ focus on the nature vs. humanity theme with natural areas like Green Hill Zone in sharp contrast to the industrial Scrap Brain Zone. It does, however, make Sonic’s world look very small and simplistic compared to what we’ve seen in the past. In future issues, we’ll see that the animals also live in their own metropolitan areas, though this clashes with the environmentalism we see in Part 1.

I also enjoy how Sonic is shown to be a celebrity figure in his own world. After saving the world so many times, he would obviously be a hero in whatever cultures exist on his earth, but beyond that we see animals talk about getting his autograph.

The Verdict

Overall, IDW Sonic starts strong and cements itself as the definitive Sonic comic book experience. I would never recommend a casual fan start with the previous Archie book when IDW exists.

The creative team is exceptionally talented and making great efforts to put out the absolute best book possible for fans and children alike. You could easily pick up issue 1 with no prior knowledge of the Sonic series and not be lost at all, while at the same time, dedicated fans have plenty to chew on.

Next time we'll be reading Sonic the Hedgehog vol. 2 "The Fate of Dr. Eggman" which collects issues #5-8. If you'd like to read along, pick up a copy for yourself and I'll see you next time!

#IDW #IDW Sonic #sonic the hedgehog #mega review #IDW comics #Ian Flynn #Tracy Yardley #Adam Bryce Thomas #Evan Stanley #Jennifer Hernandez

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wellnessuniverse · 5 months

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Jennifer Hernandez: Bodybuilder and Fitness Inspiration

#wellnesuniverse.ft #fitness #bodybuilding #Jennifer Hernandez #wellnessuniverse.fit

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tailschannel · 10 months

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IDW celebrates Amy Rose's 30th Anniversary with brand new one-shot issue

Here's your first look at Amy Rose's 30th Anniversary, the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog one-shot issue from IDW Publishing coming this autumn.

"Cool, sweet, and pink! All words that describe our absolute favorite hedgehog," read the official description.

That’s right, step aside, Sonic, and have no fear, Amy Rose is here! Ian Flynn, Aaron Hammerstrom, and Reggie Graham are back for another Classic Sonic special! And this time, Amy’s doing the saving! After Metal Sonic interrupts her picnic, Amy uses her Fortune Cards as a guide to free her friends and stop Doctor Eggman. Can she save the day and still get back in time for tea?!

Author: Ian Flynn

Illustrator: Aaron Hammerstrom

Cover A: Aaron Hammerstrom

Cover B: Mauro Fonseca

Retailer incentive cover: Jennifer Hernandez

#idw sonic the hedgehog #idw sonic #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #Sonic the Hedgehog #Amy Rose #idw publishing #reggie graham #ian flynn #jennifer hernandez #mauro fonseca #aaron hammerstrom #solicit #sonic news

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idwsonicnews · 1 year

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Solicitation for Sonic the Hedgehog #64

This issue is all about Silver the Hedgehog! First, he’s incredibly suspicious of the Diamond Cutters' new member and he jumps to a conclusion that leads him to some hasty accusations. Awkwardness ensues. Then, Blaze comforts Silver as they bond over being away from home and in Sonic’s world.

Authors: Ian Flynn & Evan Stanley

Artists: Mauro Fonseca & Evan Stanley

Cover A: Jack Lawrence (with Reggie Graham)

Cover B: Jennifer Hernandez

1:10 Retailer Incentive Variant: Nathalie Fourdraine

Tentative Release Date: August 23rd 2023

#Sonic the Hedgehog #IDW Publishing #IDW Sonic #Silver the Hedgehog #Ian Flynn #Evan Stanley #Mauro Fonseca #Jack Lawrence #Reggie Graham #Jennifer Hernandez #Nathalie Fourdraine #solicit

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graphicpolicy · 1 year

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IDW Publishing celebrates the fifth anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog #1

IDW Publishing celebrates the fifth anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog #1 #comics #comicbooks #sonicthehedgehog

With all the speed of the world’s fastest hedgehog, five fantastic years of friendship, adventure, and chili dogs have flown by, and IDW Publishing will celebrate a half-decade—and its massive accomplishment of over one million collections sold—in April with the Sonic The Hedgehog #1 Fifth Anniversary Edition! An expanded reissue of the classic IDW first issue, the Fifth Anniversary Edition gets…

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#adam bryce thomas #comic books #Comics #evan stanley #ian flynn #idw publishing #jennifer hernandez #jon gray #matt herms #sonic the hedgehog #tracy yardley #tyson hesse

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robotnikholmescomicblog · 1 year

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Part three of the pirate Chaotix story is here! I’ll be totally frank, I remember very little of the events occurring in the tail-end of this saga, but maybe I’ll find some diamonds in the rough?

The dectectives in their pirate getup make for a fun main cover, but I whole-heartedly adore the One Piece-inspired variant drawn by Hernandez!

#RHSB post #SU93 #I know literally nothing about One Piece and its cheating cause Sonic and co. don't appear in this arc BUT its cute!#Vector #Charmy Bee #Espio #Sonic #Tails #Knuckles #Sally #Princess Undina #Tracy Yardley!#Jennifer Hernandez #Archie comic

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